Tesco Price Drop "Con"

[Greenback]

There ar e lot of things that can be said against Tesco, from their aggressive store building programme to their food labelling policies.

In my experience, the quality of the meat, fruit and veg and bread at Tesco is not as good as elsewhere. That is subjective, but on it's own it's enough to ensure I shop at other stores.

There's more to it than helpful staff, which I can't disagree with regarding Tesco.

 

[Lampshade]

Tesco: £1.99 for a pack of bacon, 2 packs for £4.

Just one 'offer' I can recall at the moment.

 

[Greenback]

Tesco: £1.99 for a pack of bacon, 2 packs for £4.

Just one 'offer' I can recall at the moment.

What a bargain - if they were a TOC there would be a 30 page thread on it!

 

[DavidBrown]

Tesco: £1.99 for a pack of bacon, 2 packs for £4.

Just one 'offer' I can recall at the moment.

It always annoys me when people point offers like this out, whilst completely ignoring the £2.25 pack of bacon on the same offer which makes it a perfectly valid (if not ground breaking) offer.

 

[Butts]

I have this afternoon set foot in a Poundland (Alloa) for the first time in my life

I have to admit to being like a "kid in a toyshop"

Is it normal experience to go around the store buying everything in sight because it is a pound or less

I came out bagged up with Toblerones, Maltesers, Monster Munch, Ambrosia Custard (2 £1) et al ....

I must say what they supply (branded products) seems to be extremely cheap in relation to Tesco but obviously not a "weekly shop venue".

Can't wait for my next visit

 

[snail]

I've not found Booths to be posh, just that they don't have the price advantage of being a national chain, so have to make up for it in other areas. The meat counter is rather good though, as is their fresh sandwiches

Their choice of bottled beer is very good too! Anywhere that stocks Coniston Old Man is worth shopping at IMO.

For non-food Home Bargains is worth a look - limited range but very competitively priced. Things like cup a soups and biscuits are half the price of Sainsbury and Tesco at times!

 

[Butts]

Their choice of bottled beer is very good too! Anywhere that stocks Coniston Old Man is worth shopping at IMO.

For non-food Home Bargains is worth a look - limited range but very competitively priced. Things like cup a soups and biscuits are half the price of Sainsbury and Tesco at times!

And just think Tesco probably pay less for any item sold by HB that they stock so imagine their margin

 

[Lampshade]

Their choice of bottled beer is very good too! Anywhere that stocks Coniston Old Man is worth shopping at IMO.

Prefer Dark Lord myself

 

[jon0844]

Another thing I hate is stupid supermarket snobbery, "I shop at Waitrose therefore I am posh". :roll:

I shop at Waitrose to self-scan and walk out with my bags packed as I walked around. I don't feel posh, and I do sometimes feel poor, but my goodness - do I prefer it to queuing at Tesco, especially at a Tesco Extra where I've rarely been when all the tills are in operation - and they scrapped the 'one in front' service ages ago. I hate queues and admit I'll pay a premium to avoid them.
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It always annoys me when people point offers like this out, whilst completely ignoring the £2.25 pack of bacon on the same offer which makes it a perfectly valid (if not ground breaking) offer.

They have been photographed with offers on one single product, and then there's the single packs with an offer that is worse than a multi-pack.

Indeed, the Guardian journalist was told off (threatened with arrest) recently for being in a store to write down such offers for a consumer column. Tesco has since apologised and said it's fine for us all to go in with notepads and write stuff down - even spinning it to suggest that we can do it, but won't find anything that's more expensive than elsewhere.

All of these price promises rely on trusting that if they say they're cheapest, they must be. Few people test them, and those that do find themselves in trouble (like being restricted on the claims they can make). It gets worse online as they remove price comparisons completely once they're no longer cheaper.

For all the money spent by each supermarket to monitor prices and then try and claim to be cheapest, I do wonder if it wouldn't be better to scrap the lot and just let each one set its own prices and you do your own checking, or just pay up (which is what most people do anyway). Would probably save more money in the long run! I never feel like the supermarkets are in real competition with each other, but just agreeing to compete in the least way possible to get around accusations of running things like a cartel.

 

[WestCoast]

I shop at Waitrose to self-scan and walk out with my bags packed as I walked around. I don't feel posh, and I do sometimes feel poor, but my goodness - do I prefer it to queuing at Tesco, especially at a Tesco Extra where I've rarely been when all the tills are in operation - and they scrapped the 'one in front' service ages ago. I hate queues and admit I'll pay a premium to avoid them.

Fair enough, I was more pointing out some of the drivel you read in 'certain papers' about how your social class dictates your supermarket, and how you must conform to this.:roll: Plus, some of the sheer snobbery you encounter about these things.

Personally, I very much dislike paying more than I have to for the same or similar items. I care very little about the 'shopping experience', instead the products, price and quality are more important. I don't mind a little bit of queuing either, and you can shop at at 2am in the morning in certain supermarkets if you really want t avoid the crowds!

 

[jon0844]

I used to shop overnight at Tesco, until they made it self-checkout only. Hard to do a trolley load of shopping and then have to scan it all, and pack it all, on your own (to the annoyance of anyone else who shopped late).

I still shop every now and then at Tesco, Sainsbury's and Aldi. Sometimes it's just to have a look at other shops and their deals or exclusives. Waitrose is a lot smaller than others, but I have to admit that I do find the staff on a whole different level in terms of professionalism. I'd love to see other businesses (not just retail) with such high standards as it would benefit us all!

Snobbery is inevitable I suppose. You can certainly see posh people (from their dress, as if they just came from a country home) in there, and I bet they do it only to make a statement. They probably don't even want to self-scan as it's beneath them to do anything on their own.

 

[richw]

Tesco was forced to adjust their price guarantee thing like Asda do, where you enter your receipt details and it compares prices to the major supermarkets, as they realised their prices were not cheaper and they were having to give vouchers of quite considerable amounts to a majority of customers!

 

[red circle]

Or better still, support your local butcher for the meat, and just use the supermarket for everything else

I do exactly that,while the first cost is slightly more than the supermarket you save by not having to boil off half a pint of water when browning beef mince and everything else does not shrivel up and remains the same size
after cooking.Bread comes from the Bakers and eggs come from the farm up the road,oh and tobacco comes from the newsagents.

 

[Greenback]

The farm eggs we get are fantastic. We try and get the local bakery bread whenver we can, but sometimes they have sold out by the time we can get there.

Baiscally, I agree that using local supplier for groceries is usually better than any supermarket.

 

[Butts]

I've just returned from the Falkirk Branch where I was diddled on a 2 Walls Sausage Rolls for £1.50 (charged £1 each).

On pointing this out to Customer Services I received a refund of twice the cock up - ie £1.00.

The notice on the shelf was ten days out of date according to the member of staff who checked - the SR's were not

Didn't they used to give you the product free and a refund when this happened at one time ?

 

[Greenback]

I've just returned from the Falkirk Branch where I was diddled on a 2 Walls Sausage Rolls for £1.50 (charged £1 each).

On pointing this out to Customer Services I received a refund of twice the cock up - ie £1.00.

The notice on the shelf was ten days out of date according to the member of staff who checked - the SR's were not

Didn't they used to give you the product free and a refund when this happened at one time ?

I wonder how many people bought them and didn't even realise they had been overcharged?

 

[causton]

Didn't they used to give you the product free and a refund when this happened at one time ?

At Asda they still do IIRC - and last time I returned something I got the money back, a replacement AND a £2 gift card!

 

[Yew]

I have this afternoon set foot in a Poundland (Alloa) for the first time in my life

I have to admit to being like a "kid in a toyshop"

Is it normal experience to go around the store buying everything in sight because it is a pound or less

I came out bagged up with Toblerones, Maltesers, Monster Munch, Ambrosia Custard (2 £1) et al ....

I must say what they supply (branded products) seems to be extremely cheap in relation to Tesco but obviously not a "weekly shop venue".

Can't wait for my next visit

It's awesome isnt it, massive Slabs of chocolate, tools, toothpaste, food, everything really, for a quid. Also I just passed a hst

 

[Greenback]

I do a lot of Christmas shopping in Poundland and Home Bargains.

 

[Butts]

I do a lot of Christmas shopping in Poundland and Home Bargains.

Not for Mrs Greenback I hope

Looks like it would be handy for stocking fillers.

 

[Greenback]

Not for Mrs Greenback I hope

Looks like it would be handy for stocking fillers.

I usually buy her a 'joke' present from there. Although sometimes she has difficulty in working out which one is the joke! She actually thought the car vacuum cleaner from Halfords was a joke, rather than the £1 perfume from Poundland!

I'll never understand women!

 

[185]

Confusing misleading pricing?

TESCO & ATOC
You've never seen them in the same place have you?
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I'll never understand women!

This made me giggle.

Lisa http://lisa.nationalrail.co.uk/NRE/bot.htm?isJSEnabled=1

Irene http://82.223.168.29/renfe2/index.jsp

Stuff Lisa. You wouldn't mess with Irene wouldya?

 

[Trog]

We get our shopping delivered from the ASDA in the next town, considerably cheaper than buying it from the Tesco’s within walking distance.

Our shop is made even cheaper as they are totally incompetent. So we get loads of stuff we did not ask or pay for, which being food stuffs they can not take back for resale. This once included three bottles of spirits, although one of them was such a naff brand it took me days to find someone even to give it away to. Mechanically processed chicken shapes in batter from Mr and Mrs Chav's order is sadly more common. The other saving is that they always ignore the fact that Mrs Trog marks the order no substitutes, so we just ring up and ask them to deduct these unwanted items from the bill.

The downside is that as a delivery customer you get all the dented tins, bruised fruit and near date food. This is all thrown into a van and stacked with no regard to what the heavy items are doing to the more delicate ones below. For example we once had a bunch of grapes that consisted entirely of loose fruit, they must have poured the grapes into the bag out of the bottom of a display box. So what you eat when is dictated by the date and state of what arrives, rather than your own choice.

But I suppose you get what you pay for, and it balances with the freebies that are the other side of the coin.

 

[jon0844]

The last orders we made over the net were with Ocado and the service was excellent. No doubt helped by the fact the driver can leave the depot and be at our front door in under 60 seconds!

 

[GearJammer]

Can't say i use the big super markets, no need to, i live in Portchester and despite having big super markets less than a 10 minute drive away we have pretty much everything we need in the village/town precinct, we got a Veg shop, butcher, bakery, we also have a modest sized Co-op (but don't really go in there to much) we have a Superdrug and an Iceland plus the cheapy pound shop, theres everything i need, theres also a independant car assesory shop, an independant D.I.Y shop, card shop, pub, cafe, newsagent, a few charity shops, an independant furniture shop 2x banks, a pet shop......... and the cherry on the cake, a very well stocked Model shop.

For a little precinct it has everything you could really want.

(Oh i forgot 2x independant florists)

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Went to Tesco today; I did notice a lot of my regular items had been reduced but also they have not in fact abolished BOGOFs even though the publicity implied this; there are however no BOGOFs on the newly discounted items.

However, the loss leaders have been re-priced up to what looks like normal market value; the 10p body wash bottles are now 30p, the 18p bubble bath ( no I don't use it; the wife and kids do! ) is now 40p and the 20p shampoo is now 62p.

 

[Mojo]

Just found this article on This Is Money

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...ite-pledge-making-cuts.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

 

[Smudger105e]

Just found this article on This Is Money

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...ite-pledge-making-cuts.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

But bear in mind this at the bottom of the page...

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