Tesco's introduce rationing !

Dr_DiNg_DoNg

Its a supermarket not a cash and carry!

twentypenceoff

i heard somewhere, may even have been in these threads, that one of the supermarkets stopped someone from buying three large tine of quality streets when there was an offer on them, made them buy one only

Loonytoons

Like someone's already said, Tesco have had this policy for years but it is at the checkout operators discretion as to when it is enforced. It is so products are available to all customers and also to stop reselling, mainly on special offer items. An everyday product like baked beans or dog food would usually be allowed if it was like this case, 16 cans. I think you have probably just been unlucky and it may be fine next time. Altenatively you can always make an order to pick up at customer services so you know you won't have any problems and also you'll know that they have the stock you require although i appreciate you don't always know when you want to buy something!

Spotty_Pup

Haven't experienced this with bulk buying per say, but have when buying offers! For example, I recently moved house and as a favour, my mum drove me to Tescos to stock up on various foods and such. Saw they had an offer on energy saving lightbulbs - Something like 10p each but you could only buy 4. So I got four, mum got four for her own house and because we were talking to each other at the check outs (we both had a full weeks shopping with us, and the 4 bulbs each on our own shopping), we were stopped from buying all 8 because it breached the company policy! Checkour manager was EXTREMELY rude even when I went as far as producing ID with my address on it to prove that I was a seperate household to my mother!

justevi

Sorry but if that had happened to me shopping with my daughter and we had been refused the lightbulbs I would have sent for the manager. I would have then kicked up a stink for all to hear then told him to stick his shopping and left his staff to put it all back on the shelves.
I do think generally we put up with too much rudeness and bad service in this country. I would have accepted limits placed on my shopping but to place same limits on 2 seperate households is totally unfair and would have made me see red.

VoucherMan

Tesco encourage bulk buying sometimes.
T's fresh fruit juice used to be 2 for £1.50
Now the offer's been changed to 4 for £3.00

I don't have room for 4 cartons of juice in the fridge!

scope

If they tell you you can only buy X of an item just put a "next customer" sign down and ask them to do it 2 transactions.. Seriously, dont worry about it. Play them at their own game.

ceridwen

<cough> It is a good point made earlier that supermarkets arent "cash and carries"...so perhaps it would be best for those wishing to buy bulk stocks of things to go to "cash and carries"....solve the problem in one fell swoop.

From the point of view of other customers - we all need to know that:
- the item we require will be in stock when we go to get it. Personally I find it annoying when something isnt there when required...as it sometimes means an extra trip back to the shop/or to another shop specially and I sometimes find it difficult to find the time for shopping in the first place.

- we all get a fair chance at getting special offer prices - rather than finding that just one or two previous customers have "copped the lot" for themselves. Saves a bout of temper at other peoples selfishness:D

So - yep - I agree with the supermarkets having a policy on this.:T

powershopper

OOOh supermarkets sometimes make me so angry...................what is the difference between my money and anyone elses?

DrScotsman

oldMcDonald wrote: »

I'm going to have to see if Sainsburys allow larger shops

At my Sainsbury's there is no such policy, and it's a smaller one (in which there's more likely to be such policy?). In any case there is no such feature on the tills to recognise this or anything, so if it turns out yours DOES have such a policy, just spread identical items throughout your conveyor belt instead of lumping them together, you'll be fine (this also can work to break the maximum of 2 for Paracetemol/Ibuprofen, although I made sure to keep in my head how many I'd passed through )

Once in Tesco the lady gave me the impression that the tills didn't allow it, so after she got authorisation I had my item on my receipt as 10x and 2x. But recently my girlfriend bought 12x of an item just fine, so I imagine the lady who served me just split it up....I dunno, until she got authorisation I guess? (Well that was presumptuous, it was a 3 for £2 multibuy offer, no way I'd buy 10 )