1p finds at Tesco thread

Howdy all,

I had the unfortunate pleasure of working on farm that is our beloved and much discussed supermarket for many years in none other than it's Price Integrity department. The tricks that HQ pull in terms of pricing boggles the mind and drives the guys who work at putting all the price tickets out right up the wall!

Now to the point: 1p bargains, in theory shouldn't exist, because HQ says that anything that's reduced to a penny is classed as "Clear as you go" stock and shouldn't be sold to the general public. Instead, what the store is supposed to do is remove all affected goods from sale, add up how many they have left and claim for store credit from HQ. Nice little number. So what happens with the stuff? Well, if the store manager is an !!!!, then it all ends up in the compactor (I've seen this happen and it sickens me), or it gets given to the store social club as raffle prizes (ok, I understand that) or it simply gets given to staff (after all, the store has claimed its money back on it, right?).

Mostly, 1p bargains will be found after major events, notably, Valentines Day, Pancake Day, Easter, Passover, Summer gardening, Back to School, Halloween, Diwali, Eid, Channukah, Christmas, Hogmanay, New Year, Burns' Night.

Also, as someone else mentioned above, look out for Clipstrips. These are often found dangling off the shelves, getting in your way and obstructing the item that you're looking for. The price tickets on these are hardly ever checked and often than not, are simply forgotten about. In fact, there are boxes of them lurking in a corner of every warehouse of every store our "beloved" supermarket.

Be warned with what's left of Christmas stock, though. If your local store hasn't taken it off the shelves, they will soon to make way for Easter eggs (like they haven't done that already) and Passover.

Good luck, forumites! Godspeed and never be afraid to give the "bully" a piece of your mind, and when they question you or tell you that you can't have it, remind them that "Every Little Helps!"

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loobylou232 wrote: »

Oh an ex in-mate! Would you by any chance be able to tell me if it is possible that my store has altered their computers to not allow 1p items through as my last two finds - Harry's nuts and Princess stockings scanned as withdrawn from sale on the ss tills as did the stagg chilli a while back. Thanks in advance, I'd love to know!

My local too!
andrex handy pack not on file
Dead heads not on file
Doormans nuts not on file
lindt balls not on file

recently everytime i have been like woohoo a penny find it has scanned with a message of barcode not on file. this is the Brad*ord great horton store.

maybe they have orders from HQ to sell off the overstock?

Nearly didn't go down the seasonal aisle last night. Glad I changed my mind - nice little lp haul included cadbury's tree decorations, one Mr. Men advent calendar, 2 thomas tank advent calanders and best of all Thortons father chrismas. Also got national trust christmas pudding for 50p. These all just looked like they had been dumped on the shelf. Thank you Mr. T - I would still like some points coupons with my mailing though.

Carriannelouise wrote: »

My local too!
andrex handy pack not on file
Dead heads not on file
Doormans nuts not on file
lindt balls not on file

recently everytime i have been like woohoo a penny find it has scanned with a message of barcode not on file. this is the Brad*ord great horton store.

The guys in FMC/Price Integrity (or anyone who knows how) can go into the system (Product Maintenance screen) and delete EANs at any time. So the answer to your question is "yes". I used to delete EANs on clothing that we hadn't stocked for years (5+ year old).

Also, FMC/P.I. can also delete the EAN by setting the amount of labels produced for that particular EAN to "0" (zero), which would also render it as "Not On File" when you go to scan it.

The tricks I could tell you about FMC.;)