POSSIBLE tesco bargain - any bottle of wine for 9pounds?

xellieqx

Jesus, you lot are insatiable. I'd imagine those signs will have been changed today after all this nonsense.

ThinkingOfLinking

Why are you reading this thread, then, if we're all insatiable? Why are you even on MONEYSAVINGEXPERT.com? There's a big clue in the name...and if we were doing anything that wrong, illegal or immoral, do you not think that Martin and the team would clamp down on it by removing posts/threads and warning/banning members? If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all, and if it offends you, either ignore it or report it.

decembers_spawn

I think the attitude that some have taken here is deplorable.

I thought this was a friendly forum?

garyepw

boots_with_the_fur wrote: »

Have to say I totally agree with CG19a on this one, what people fail to understand is that stores rely on promotions to come in on budget, if we fail to do this then we don't get the good results that Tesco want. Yes it is down to Stock Control to order in the promotional stock but its not as simple as saying ok this product is £1 this week, we want 50 cases of it, we only order in what we think we will sell and that is based on the sales history of the product. When lines are on promotion, the normal amount will come in and then additional stock is ordered.

Stock levels work both ways, too much of the stock and we have to reduce it so it gets sold, or worse if this is missed then it goes through as waste, the other side of the coin is that not enough stock is ordered in, its recorded as a 'gap' and we get lost sales i.e. if we had of had the stock we would of sold it...Most lines cannot be judged, like for example the new Pizzas we have on promotion for a £1 at the moment, they are a new line we cannot judge how well we think the product is going to sell until we have sales figures for it, most fresh food has a limited shelf life and we do not know what the date of the stock is going to be before it comes in.

Tesco actually pay more attention to promotions than normal lines due to the fact that that is where the sales are going to come in, its what people are going to go out of there way to come into Tesco and buy so why would we intentionally have less of it? A lot of pressure is enforced on staff and managers to ensure that the promotional areas look good, pulled forward and are full up...Have you ever considered the fact that many Tesco stores are actually 24 hours and sadly enough people are greedy with the promotions...Watch as the Don Simon orange juice comes back this week, six in a case and people will clear the shelves of it!

I think its actually quite sad that so many people see it as a challenge to rip off Tesco and its always the people that are the 1st to moan when they've been short changed of a maximum 11p when the Fresh Juices were not going through as 3 for £4 as advertised! Its common sense that you cannot expect to get a Tesco Finest three course meal and ANY bottle of wine for £9, ok so the label says different and I am on the same wavelength as CG19a with the genuine customer attitude, a lot of people on here seem to have read up on their 'rights' and think that Tesco owe them everything...Believe it or not every Tesco has their 'regulars' and staff aren't as stupid as you may think, yes we see thousands of people everyday but believe me people that may as well have a timeshare in the Customer Service queue do stand out!

I say well done to CG19a for speaking up, I don't see how they are in the wrong to say it could provide some entertainment, after all some of you have seen this as an opportunity as a day out arguing at Tesco and refusing to leave without your £15 bottle of wine you seem to think you are entitled to, I don't see how that wouldn't be funny? All I can say about this is I'm sure causing a scene over a bottle of wine won't get yourself known! If it was a problem with the tills allowing any bottle of wine to go through with this meal deal then I could understand but that's not the case, in actual fact it can be seen as an attempt to defraud! It actually makes me laugh to read people saying they are ready for an argument with the staff and then have the general consensus to be Tesco and their managers treat their staff like c**p, I have three words for people like that...Pot, Kettle, Black?

The point you seem to be misssing. or avoiding, is that Tesco have advertised a promotion stating 'any' bottle of wine and have not specified a price limit. Now this may well be a mistake, and I would totally agree with your comments concerning the regulars in the Customer Service queue. However for me the issue is that despite being a Tesco Manager, and I would presume he/she is reasonably well paid for that, CG19a chose to use this error as a means to get entertainment from customers. Now whether they are being greedy, taking the you know what, or making a genuine error, surely the correct response as a manager woudl have been to say this is obviously a mistake and I need to inform the people I work for. If nothing else he would be saving a lot of his staff the hassle of the 'I want' brigade.

Yes it is obviously an error. I live less than a mile from our Tesco's and I would not dream of running up there demanding my bottle of Montrachet 1978. However if as the original post states the signs say 'any bottle' then without any advertised limit I cannot see how Tesco's could refuse if challenged.

Bottom line, Tesco's sort your promotions out. I know you run thousands per year but when this was at the planning stage did no-one really say 'Hang about, do we really mean any bottle ?'. Secondly, if you're a manager of any company, large or small, then I believe it to be highly inappropriate to announce the fact you look forward to an arguement with a customer, and that you'd find it entertaining. As a regional manager I'd certainly be taking any of my local manager's to task for using my company name to advertsie that attitude on a forum used by many of my customers.

xellieqx

Because I'm fascinated by the furore this has caused.

With regards to your 'moneysaving' comment, I'm not sure how many people are actually saving anything on this offer. I'm sure if this website was called 'falseeconomyexpert.com', in this instance, most of you would be quite at home.

I'm sure Martin and the team would interject if people were doing anything wrong, illegal or immoral, yes, but this isn't anything I mentioned, I just said folk were insatiable. Which they are.
With regards to your last sentence, I don't think what I said was particularly horrible... in fact, yours was much more damning!

GoingGrey

As someone who used to be a regular back in the RnR days, I find it highly amusing to see the same old arguments being repeated on here. Outraged moral gaurdians, a pet "manager" or two letting off steam, the newbies asking what it's all about. I met a manager like the one above during the "free Xbox days" His face was a picture when H/o told him to refund me !!

However the funniest thing off all is this : Tesco are STILL overcharging Joe Public.

Lynsey

Anyway...................
..............anyone been in today and how is it now worded, if still available??

Lynsey

uk1

I must be the most stupid person here - but I'm still puzzled as to how Tesco managers can claim that they made an "obvious mistake"?!

Surely someone in the extensive chain between originating the idea, floating it through management, printing the signs, proof reading, sending them to the stores and the posting of the finished notice in the store must have recognised the "obvious mistake".

I don't believe a word of it.

It's designed and intended to get people in at any cost and let local management deal with the unruly customers who are nasty enough to want to take up the full offer. Another sure sign of Tesco losing their way.

ThinkingOfLinking

I'm not nasty...actually I have my eye on a £7.99 bottle of wine, unlike some who seem to think champagne qualifies which most definitely doesn't and takes the mickey too far.

steffi104

dottylotty wrote: »

And it also says a lot for the type of customers we have to put up with, with regards to the posts on these boards! I see this is another of those "friendly" posts that are becoming more and more frequent round here!

The way your posts reads, and so many others you all seem to think that Tesco DELIBERATELY sets out to rip everyone off!! Honestly they dont, and for those of you that think they do then whats it like to live such a paranoid life?!
And why even shop there in the 1st place!?!?! Tesco is a company like any other trying to make a profit, and no I dont agree with the ways they go about it sometimes, and yes they have put others out of business. But they do employ thousands of people.
It just really riles me the way people set out to spot mistakes and rush around to get their dtd. Has it ever occured to anyone that its REAL people that have to put new SEL's on the shelf every day, change POS, offers etc.
Its not always easy, and sometimes it can lead to staff being reprimanded, and ultimately in disciplinary and even dismissal every time a customer comes in for refunds because the correct SEL isnt on display?
Just a thought :rolleyes: .........

I'm sorry but Tesco make a lot of money & if they can't spend some of it on training their staff properly then they deserve to lose out when they mess up. Perhaps they would get better motivated staff if they treated/paid them better. Everyone has responsibilities in their jobs that have repercussions if they sc**w up. Anyway from what I can gather this isn't a store staff related mistake it is whoever had the signs made up. As far as I can see it is a deliberate attempt to get people to buy wine that isn't in the deal and then hope that they won't kick up a fuss but just pay for it.