Tesco's introduce rationing !

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Desperate_Housewife wrote: »

I think people should be allowed to buy what and how much they want, law of free market economics, or we will vote with our feet.

They don't mind us buying more when its a BOGOF then? Half the time people don't need 2 of something but only 1 and then end up eating/drinking more because they 'saved' money, either that or it rotted away in the fridge.

I like to try and see through the marketting ploys, of course what they are selling cheap is a loss leader so they want to restrict it to only a few per customer. I will go through the tills more than once to get round this as I know what I want to buy and won't have the supermarkets dictate to me otherwise.

That's a really good point, it is obviously loss leaders that they want to minimise. I wonder if you're only allowed ten bananas. I agree with you 100%

CG19a

Desperate_Housewife wrote: »

They don't mind us buying more when its a BOGOF then?

The difference with a BOGOF is that its on promotion so we expect to sell more and as such try to order what we think we will sell, which we aren't sometimes successful at.

There are good offers where we restrict it to maintain availability for all customers. While restricting the purchase might annoy 1 customer, there will be 10 customers annoyed if we didn't have any left to sell. We aren't trying to be difficult, we are just trying to stop you from complaining about the time when you went to get an offer and there was none left.

CG19a

Promotions aren't always a loss leader for the supermarket. Have you ever noticed that Asda, Morrisions and Tesco can all have the same, or a similar offer on at the same time? Its usually a manufacturer at that time who is providing the offer not the supermarket. The manufacturer supplies the stock cheaper than normal, so the supermarket then decided will I make it half price or BOGOF. This isn't how all promotions work, but it does apply to some of them.

oldMcDonald

I understand why promotions are rationed, and to be honest I have no problem with that. Neither do I use the supermarket as a cash and carry. I have seven people to feed and am unable to go to the supermarket easily due to my being a full time carer, so I find it much easier to get a delivery once every week or two - I just find ASDAs policy of 6 tins of certain items really useless for my circumstances.

I hadn't thought about the items being loss leaders......that may explain why they are limited

jb66

1 customer complains when they cant buy 16 tins of sweetcorn or 16 customers complain when they cant buy 1 tin of swetcorn.

Its avalability for everyone(not just your family). Like was said before its not a cash and carry.

wannabe_sybil

A long time ago I used to have a delivery once per three months. There was a lot delivered then! There was never any hint of rationing, and that was in the bad old days when I went to Tescos.

I think in the credit crunch the battle between consumer and supermarket is getting fiercer and they are less likely to allow bulk buying of loss leaders. However it may be possible to look for different options such as eg getting bigger tins and storing some (bigger tin is not always better value regrettably).

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

CG19a wrote: »

The difference with a BOGOF is that its on promotion so we expect to sell more and as such try to order what we think we will sell, which we aren't sometimes successful at.

There are good offers where we restrict it to maintain availability for all customers. While restricting the purchase might annoy 1 customer, there will be 10 customers annoyed if we didn't have any left to sell. We aren't trying to be difficult, we are just trying to stop you from complaining about the time when you went to get an offer and there was none left.

Quite a big goal that, to try and stop customers from complaining! My view is that shops have goods to sell, they sell at a certain price, when that item is out of stock then thats it all gone! No point complaining, I just buy what I want and when and don't need companies to tell me otherwise.

BOGOF or otherwise, if goods are priced competitively, they will sell.

jb66

Tesco dont use BOGOF anymore as it may offend, they prefer to use BOGAF

Buy one get another free, seen it on my .com delivery

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

jb66 wrote: »

1 customer complains when they cant buy 16 tins of sweetcorn or 16 customers complain when they cant buy 1 tin of swetcorn.

Its avalability for everyone(not just your family). Like was said before its not a cash and carry.

'everyone' may not need sweetcorn though so the retailer would be the first to complain if they were stuck with a consignment of them!

Some people rely on reduced prices, whoopsies etc as they are on cruelly low food budgets, its wrong to penalise or blame customers for trying to shop intelligently.

Also wrong is the cynical way supermarkets target customers to buy things (they don't need). Just look at the amount of advertising, the way supermarkets are set out with fresh bread smells piping around the store, all the rubbish at the front of the shop and the stuff you need at the back so you have to walk all the way round, the amount of agencies (such as lightspeed) that conduct consumer surveys so they can target us even more.

When I buy 20 tins of beans at a reduced price, its not because I am suffering from an attack of affluenza but because I will eat them and it makes sense for me to buy them at that price this month because next month they will be more. I am using the same principle that stock market workers use, wait until the stock is at a certain price then buy a lot as the price will invariably go up. I get a better return on my money than if I had put it in the bank.

This site is about beating them at their own game and this is what I am doing, if they want to sell things to me then I'll buy what and how much I want, not what they say I can buy.

Quote from Martin ''It's about cutting bills not cutting back and being a sassy consumer. Companies try to screw us for profits. MoneySaving shows you how to (legally) screw them back."

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

DrScotsman wrote: »

Anyone got a source? In training we were told it isn't the law, and if you made a mistake it wouldn't matter - not to mention I'm sure they'd have programmed an alert to come up if it was the law. That said, my Sainsbury's wasn't entirely good with training, with the older checkout staff being really out of date on it.

And if Costco isn't a proper pharmacy then explain the 100s of tablets my mum bought

http://www.pjonline.com/news/society_calls_for_changes_to_law_on_sale_of_paracetamol