Using Coupons: Unethical, Immoral?

serpico786

This is just an opinion... but i think its unethical and immoral that we're using coupons in supermarkets and not buying the products... using codes is different as at least we're giving them our custom, albeit at a reduced cost.

but here the supermarkets are the real winners ... and the manufacturers suffer as they have to reimburse the coupon value regardless... no wonder Tesco mostly accept these vouchers... they have no morals.. just look at their profits!

isnt this therefore theft and fraud? clearly we're obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception.

Or am i taking things way too seriously?

reehsetin

i would say its tescos doing the fraud, they are claiming the money from the manufacturer wrongly, yes so are we but tescos get rembursed for what we do, no one remburses the manufacturer
and yeah tescos doesnt have morals - but it works so why should they change, everyones loving the cheap goods and theyre loving our custom
manufacturer does get the advantage of the advertising tho

taxiphil

Using coupons against products you haven't bought is nothing new - some of us have been doing it since the 1970s.

You'll have a job convincing me that diddling the odd 50p out of huge billionaire multinational corporations like Nestlé and Unilever is immoral. If you think they're "suffering" through coupon fraud I suggest you have a look at their profits.

carla224

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pondie1

no one is doing anything wrong i dont think,i thought the shops were reimbursed by the companies and most of them are making plenty of money!!!!!!!!!!

weaver

To be honest the whole issue boils down to this -

The manufacturer would not issue the coupons in the first place if they were not expecting the coupon to be used. Therefore if the manufacturer issues say a million 50p coupons they should expect a million coupons to be used. otherwise dont issue them in the first place.

There can be no come back on Tesco or the consumer as neither are doing anything wrong ( remember for every person who uses a coupon there are hundreds who dont use one )

madnis7

Ethics and Morals are a personal thing. So, thanks for sharing that with us. As long as you're not judging, that's fine.

RAMBLER

I agree with the two people I've thanked for their opinion.

Would also like to add that I feel like a winner if I can save a bit off my shopping. Ok its not 30 billion pounds, but every penny counts.

blossom30

serpico786 wrote:

This is just an opinion... but i think its unethical and immoral that we're using coupons in supermarkets and not buying the products... using codes is different as at least we're giving them our custom, albeit at a reduced cost.

but here the supermarkets are the real winners ... and the manufacturers suffer as they have to reimburse the coupon value regardless... no wonder Tesco mostly accept these vouchers... they have no morals.. just look at their profits!

isnt this therefore theft and fraud? clearly we're obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception.

Or am i taking things way too seriously?

Hi serpico, I've asked myself the same thing about it and decided that someone else in the store will buy the product and not get the discount just like I will buy something and someone else will have a coupon for it . It all balances out the law of karma or something like that.shrewdal

stebiz

Sorry but my attitude is my family comes first. What ever little I can do to make their life better I will. If that means using a coupon (or a number of them) and therefore I can afford better meat/fruit etc, and in return the shareholders of large multi national companies make a few hundred pound less out of me per year - tough. These companies make far too much money as it is. Morals are CEO's of large companies getting 600k plus a year in wages and me scraping enough to live by even though I and my wife both work.

Stebiz :beer:

djl

stebiz wrote:

Sorry but my attitude is my family comes first. What ever little I can do to make their life better I will. If that means using a coupon (or a number of them) and therefore I can afford better meat/fruit etc, and in return the shareholders of large multi national companies make a few hundred pound less out of mr per year - tough. These companies make far too much money as it is. Morals are CEO's of large companies getting 600k plus a year in wages and me scraping enough to live by even though I and my wife by work.

Stebiz :beer:

to right i agree :beer: