Tesco BOGOF gone mad!! [CLOSED]

Dave_G_5 · 13 April 2005 at 9:29AM

Called in at my local Tesco last night, just to pick up a couple of things including garlic bread. Noticed that their Finest Pizza garlic bread was on bogof (normally £1.99 each) so got 2 of those. When I got to the till my total bill came to 1p!! Unfortunately they noticed this was wrong and called a supervisor over to sort it out, though she admitted they couldn't override the till.

So, don't know if this will work in all the stores, but it was happening in the Newton Aycliffe store. If you buy 2, total price should be £1.99 with the bogof, but the till was refunding 3 at a time!! So if you bought them with a trolley full of shopping I doubt they will notice and you will save quite a bit on your shopping bill, especially if you picked up 4!!

8383 · 13 April 2005 at 2:32PM

I can tell you this works in all Tesco stores nationwide!

What it does is if the marked price is £1 and you buy two it added that up and takes away the price that it should be at buy one get one free which means in the above case you pay 1p.

If you find that the item is less than half price Tesco can end up oweing you money!

Addy · 13 April 2005 at 3:57PM

But the OP didn't say that it was reduced, which is what I think you're saying 8383. Also, Tesco have amended their system now so that BOGOFs on reduced items will still go through - but at the reduced price. Multibuys (2 or 3 for £x) don't work any more on reduced items, unless the reduction is not enough to bring it down to the £x - eg. I bought 2 bags of satsumas, originally £1.69 ea, 2 for £2. They were reduced to £1.08 each, and the till deducted another 8p, so that I was still getting the two for £2 but no additional reduction. (Clever software I say - probably saving Tesco a fortune - is this where their £2bn profit's come from? lol).

redfox · 13 April 2005 at 4:01PM

Addy wrote:

They were reduced to £1.08 each, and the till deducted another 8p, so that I was still getting the two for £2 but no additional reduction. (Clever software I say - probably saving Tesco a fortune - is this where their £2bn profit's come from? lol).

so you paid the same, ultimately, for close to sell by date items as you would for current (don't know how else to put it!) items :eek:

No incentive to take their reduced stuff off their hands then, is there.... :rolleyes:

bylromarha · 13 April 2005 at 4:28PM

I pointed this out to someone in store a few months ago and was told to go and buy the "current" (in date, redfox?) stuff if it concerned me that much.

redfox · 13 April 2005 at 4:35PM

bylromarha wrote:

"current" (in date, redfox?)

ah that was what I should have said, thankyou!

not overly impressed with the attitude you encountered at Tesco's though, it must be said....

Addy · 13 April 2005 at 4:56PM

redfox wrote:

so you paid the same, ultimately, for close to sell by date items as you would for current (don't know how else to put it!) items :eek:

No incentive to take their reduced stuff off their hands then, is there.... :rolleyes:

None at all!! I was most dischuffed....esp as up to then it had worked, ie the till would have taken off £1.38 for the two. Still works in Sainsburys though

8383 · 13 April 2005 at 5:43PM

Addy wrote:

But the OP didn't say that it was reduced, which is what I think you're saying 8383. Also, Tesco have amended their system now so that BOGOFs on reduced items will still go through - but at the reduced price.

If the items are buy one get one free like the OP's offer was then you will get them at 1p. I working in Tesco and in stock control and deal with this on a daily basis and thats how I know. Tesco headoffice were supposed to have changed this ages ago after numerous complaints from Tesco stores but nothing has been done about it as of yet,

So if you spot a reduced item that is BOGOF and the reduced price is below half price then tesco will end up oweing you money.

Thats the only reason the OP got the items at 1p! they were reduced.

8383 · 13 April 2005 at 5:47PM

bylromarha wrote:

I pointed this out to someone in store a few months ago and was told to go and buy the "current" (in date, redfox?) stuff if it concerned me that much.

I get people complaining at me all the time if something isn't reduced enough! I had one lady who started screaming at me because I wouldn't reduced bread down to 10p (It was already reduced to 29p)

So now if they ask me to reduce something and are rude about it I just put it down by a couple of pence.

newskiller · 14 April 2005 at 7:54AM

So to sum up, In Tesco, if you buy reduced items that are:

1. BOGOF you will be refunded the full standard price if you buy 2.

2. If buy 2 for £2 it will now only reduce the price to £2 rather than apply a reduction based on the standard price as it used to do.

What about Buy 2 save £1 type offers, I assume you would still get a £1 reduction.

Addy · 14 April 2005 at 8:05AM

newskiller wrote:

So to sum up, In Tesco, if you buy reduced items that are:

1. BOGOF you will be refunded the full standard price if you buy 2.

Not in the store I use, there it's only the reduced price. From what 8383 says though, it may work in other stores

newskiller wrote:

2. If buy 2 for £2 it will now only reduce the price to £2 rather than apply a reduction based on the standard price as it used to do.

That was what I found, yes.

newskiller wrote:

What about Buy 2 save £1 type offers, I assume you would still get a £1 reduction.

Not sure about this one, don't recall Tesco doing this exact offer, it's usually multibuys, ie the 2 for £2.

I've noticed they now have special reduced stickers, with barcodes which scan - which presumably have the new information. Previously they had yellow stickers whichout barcodes and used the original barcodes which had the reduction information still encoded, and manually input the reduced value . Very occasionally they still use these non-barcode stickers - and in this case any original reductions still apply.

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