AWARENESS : MRP has become a JOKE for most packaged/branded GROCERY items - SWIGGY instamart, Blinkit, ZEPTO

what can be done in these case? 

1) Flipkart smart buy, amazon solimo. Effectively all in house brands. Flipkart grocery has gone one step ahead and have special agreements with brands to supply them products with higher mrp so they can show more discount. Even famous brands have inflated mrp on flipkart grocery when compared to other e-commerce portals. 

On the other hand there are some brands which are currently selling on half the mrp because of market conditions making mrp irrelevant. For e.g. Most honey brands, fruit juice brands. Almost always available at 50% off. 

2) No solution because no possible way of defining a suitable mrp. One way is to become like developed countries where mrp is not followed. But that's not suitable for our country due to negligible consumer awareness. 

@Mayur_Pune

I have been a vigilant customer where i am regularly updated by changes in rate of prices of grocery items.

How do you achieve such an humongous task on a regular basis?? Any tips/tricks/hacks.....

Correct, MRP is mostly a joke. I compare selling price with local shop/vendors. If its cheap, then I buy. Like rice and atta are cheap in flipkart, milk is cheaper in instamart using swiggy gv. But egg is too costly everywhere online, so I purchase eggs from local vendors.

jiomart is good ,i use it mostly its gives good price which is mostly cheaper than kerana store 

Fire Faultt Smartwatch - 

MRP 20,000

Discount - 95% . 

Selling Price= 1000

Fortune 1 litre Mustard oil on Flipkart and Flipkart Grocery MRPs are Rs 379 & Rs 160 respectively.

Lena ho lo.. nahi to aage badho

Himalaya 200gm facewash comes at MRP of 250 with 50gm free facewash of MRP rs80

But online, no freebies and MRP is 299

Same in horlicks over MRP 

Nycil, no free product

There is too many products 

Kaliyug mein jitna bhi dimaag bacha hai 4g 5g radiation se, use istemaal kao... solution mil jayega... I order online tooo and mostly matches with local kirana incl delivery, for 80% items, rest Ibuy locally...

It's same everywhere in stores or supermarket or online.

Companies found a loophole and now they are doing this. Few brands who started this trend are unibic, mcvities, parle... Others followed them.

Now it is hard, sometimes pricing for commodities like shampoo has different mrp. I saw once that 1l having less mrp than 650ml of head & shoulders being manufacturd just one month apart. People don't have time to see all that so companies are playing with people's mind.

Foolish  customers   are  happy  with it  as they  get  upto  95  % Discount  .

Its not  the brands  , but online sellers   who are  whipping them to print Mrp  or there products  will not be sold by them . Say Thanks to Flipkart and Amazon to demand from  brands for diluted quality and inflated Mrp for sake of showing deep discounts  to its foolish customers and convenience  seekers . Others sellers also followed  knowing that customers are idiots and will themselves justify it as convinence

I have bought Jamun from local vendor @ Rs. 80 for 250gm, later when tried to buy the same fruit on Zepto it was showing @ Rs. 160 for 250gm😮

They doubled the price and same tactics in Banana and other fruits, they are selling at almost double the price.

Now I have switched to packaged items only and local vendor for fruits.

This is happening in departmental stores also not only online. Even Dmart sells the products in discount. There is nothing wrong in it. The customer should be smart enough to know if its a bargain or not.

If i am buying anything from Swiggy or Zepto I check the same product in dmart online. That way i know how much extra i am paying.

Compare and then purchase.. Thats all we can do I guess..

Mera desh badal raha hai😄😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Is desh mein aise bhi log hai 

Jo mrp aur discount ke chakkar mein 100 ke maal 500 mein le jaate hai, ye bol ke ki bahut discount mil raha hai. Are wo discount kahan se dega aur gobernent bhi ispe kahan dhyan deti hai

Let's example 

Many products like horlicks, himalaya, dabur, nycil, sensodyne, maggi, are comes with freebies or additional offer in local market with MRP equal or less than Ecom and with more benifit 

But people buy on eCommerce because of mrp is listed at too much high and hug discount but final amount is always more than the local market

Example horlicks 450gm available in Market at MRP 209 but on Amazon or 1mg, its 229

Mera desh badal raha hai😄😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Is desh mein aise bhi log hai 

Jo mrp aur discount ke chakkar mein 100 ke maal 500 mein le jaate hai, ye bol ke ki bahut discount mil raha hai. Are wo discount kahan se dega aur gobernent bhi ispe kahan dhyan deti hai

Let's example 

Many products like horlicks, himalaya, dabur, nycil, sensodyne, maggi, are comes with freebies or additional offer in local market with MRP equal or less than Ecom and with more benifit 

But people buy on eCommerce because of mrp is listed at too much high and hug discount but final amount is always more than the local market

Example horlicks 450gm available in Market at MRP 209 but on Amazon or 1mg, its 229

First, use common sense ( a person should know whether a product is worth the price or not). Next, compare online and offline prices. And finally, make use of price comparison websites and price trackers before making a decision.

Other side of coin. 

Customer bargains even if you say correct price. So no option as a trader/ manufacturer  to me  - to tell inflated price and print inflated price . 

Are you ready to buy at printed mrp without bargaining and asking discount? If yes then only I can print correct price. But this not going happen for sure. 

@sherlock Yes and these local kirana shop thugs try to shove random products down your throat in order to get more commission. You ask for Dettol and he will try to trick you by giving some Bandar-Chaap soap instead and telling you "sab ek jaisa hota hai, 5 Rs sasta hai".  

If you ask for Amul Paneer he will try to fool you by giving local synthetic Paneer to make more profit margin. Furthermore, the majority of them coerce you into giving cash and will never provide you a bill so they can make BLACK money. 😆

E commerce had burnt lots of money and increase dependency, now they are moving towards profits, just think about the cost of Hired IT employees who earned multiple times compare to other class. Such class can afford to purchase products even at inflated price as they do prefer over time instead of money. But lower middle class, who has started buying online, definately it will be back to grocery store / super market like D Mart, etc. to save some bucks as they prefer to save money over time. Again, the class which has never started buying online, who will again avoid trying to purchase online as they already much known with the actual prices of the products. I believe this is bubble, one day it will definitely burst, Even after so many years,  these companies are still running a loss.

Talking about inflated MRP by newly launched brands, which we are well aware of by watching shark tank india.

I don't even see the % of discount. I only check the actual price and what other sellers r selling for.

Can't government start a portal related to MRP of packaged products?

Or if there is any such official portal for it ?

These can be really handy and useful for all. Atleast all Ecom sites will then required to have same MRP of product.

I live in Bengaluru and always visit local wholesale store for grocery and veggies/fruits. Except for items like Paneer, all are cheaper at local store. Since I'm regular, I get fresh veg/fruits and store guy knows to make sure, I comeback every time I need any product. I rarely order nowadays...