Tesco misprices discussion area part 6

TBeckett100

keep an eye on the pork chops.

i got 8 yesterday night, mispriced KG.

Problem is i have to find another tesco tonight to buy stuff to eat with the free chops and before I know it, I am going to be getting more meat.

Off to henley on thames tonight. The R&R refunds back on the credit card means that I dont have to pay the minimum payment anymore, no more late fees cos i forget.

wunderbar.:j

MyUserNamesTaken

mcdonag wrote:

I'm getting slightly p***** off with 'Hey Dude', quite frankly. Has he not got anything else to do apart from taking the p*** out of my posts. I think he may be a bit jealous of my success this month for some reason. Got a chip on his shoulder, I think. Obviously he was bullied at school due to an undersized penis, and this is his only means of payback.

For all you doubters out there, here are the addresses of some of the Tescos in my immediate area:

Not in an particular order.

1. EAST DEREHAM
Kingston Road
Norfolk

2. WATTON
3 Thetford Road
Watton
Norfolk

3. TAVERHAM NORWICH EXPRESS
Fakenham Road
Taverham
Norfolk

4. FAKENHAM (just opened this week - RDWARR)
Oak Street
Fakenham
Norfolk

5. HETHERSETT EXPRESS
11-13 Great Melton Road
Hethersett
Norfolk

6. EARLHAM ROAD NORWICH EXPRESS
Earlham Road
Earlham
Norfolk

7. MAGDALEN ROAD NORWICH EXPRESS
40a Magdalen Road
Norfolk

8. NORWICH METRO
5 Guildhall Hill
Norfolk

9. PLUMSTEAD ROAD NORWICH EXPRESS
197 Plumstead Road
Norfolk

10. GROVE ROAD NORWICH EXPRESS
79 Grove Road
Norfolk

11. WROXHM ROAD NORWCH EXPRESS
201 Wroxham Road
Norfolk

12. NORWICH HARFORD BRIDGE
Ipswich Road
Norfolk

13. NORWICH
Blue Boar Lane
Sprowston
Norfolk

14. GAYWOOD KINGS LYNN
ST. Faiths Drive
Gaywood
Norfolk

15. KING'S LYNN
Hardwick Road
Norfolk

16. WOOTTON ROAD KINGS LYNN EXPRESS
301 Wootton Road
Kings Lynn
Norfolk

17. SOUTH WOTTON KINGS LYNN EXPRESS
84 St Augustines Way
South Wotton
Norfolk

18. DOWNHAM MARKET
London Road
Norfolk

19. HUNSTANTON
Southend Road
Norfolk

20. DISS
Victoria Road
Diss
Norfolk

21. THETFORD
Kilverstone
Norfolk

22. NORWICH ROAD THETFORD EXPRESS
8 Norwich Road
Norfolk

23. GREAT YARMOUTH
Pasteur Road
Southtown
Norfolk

24. CAISTER
Yarmouth Road
Caister
Norfolk

25. BELTON YARMOUTH EXPRESS
8 Bell Lane
Belton
Norfolk

26. STALHAM
Old Market Road
Norfolk

27. ACRES WAY NORWICH EXPRESS
Acres Way
Thorpe Mariott
Norfolk

These are the ones in Norfolk I go to all the time and can be verified on the Tesco's store locator, if you can be bothered. You may say that some are more than 30 minutes away from central Norwich and don't count as my immediate area.

Fair enough, but may I remind you that I live only 20 minutes away from Suffolk and that has about 25+ tesco's as well.

As my job requires me to go all over the country, I think I will have my cake AND eat it!!!

P.S.

Monday 13th December 1965 at 4:45pm was the first episode of Jackanory, so if you both remember this episode, then that puts you both well over 40 years old, and quite frankly, people of your age are generally more intelligent and worldly wise than to be bullying someone over the internet every time they write a helpful post to someone else. Unless you are both telling lies? Which is exactly what you accuse me of. And I have now proved myself not to be a liar.

Go pick on someone else, will ya? I'm bored with you now.

Over to you, hey dudey, dude, dude.

P.P.S. Wikipedia, interestingly suggests that the word 'dude' is slang and originally came from a term that meant a camel's penis.:laugh:

Say's it all really.

I have deliberately posted this early in the morning so that loads of people can read what an utter and complete 'DUDE' you are.:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

RDWARR - You should know better!!

Oh, I wouldn't say those stores are in your immediate area. Living in East Anglia, and visiting those stores as part of my job, I can tell you that the stores you've listed are quite spread out. Anyone who lives in this part of the country knows how far apart those stores are. (Kings Lynn from Yarmouth is a 2 hour drive and Dereham from Lynn is an hour's drive, for example.) You've mentioned the Norfolk stores, but failed to mention 4 stores 10 miles away from Yarmouth. If you truly do visit those stores, you'd also have included another 4 stores.

Personally, I think you're full of it. Grabbing a list of stores in a county is easy. Proving you go there is a completely different matter. You say you live 20 minutes away from Suffolk, then go on about how many Tescos there are there. Well, from the top end of Suffolk, it takes over an hour to drive to Ipswich (A12). Bury St. Edmunds is 1 hour 20 minute drive from the East coast. I'd love to know how you can say those stores are also in your immediate area. There are 4 in North Suffolk (Beccles, Lowestoft 1, Lowestoft 2, Oulton Broad Express). After that, you've got to go to Bury or Ipswich (if you're sticking to Suffolk stores) - both considerable drives, esp. if you're coming from Norfolk. Above all else in your list, the fact that you call Dereham's store "East Dereham" shows how rarely you go there. Anyone who uses that store calls it Dereham. Incidentally, there aren't many Marks and Spencers in East Anglia, either (I also visit M&S as part of my job).

Here's a question for you: If you visit those stores regularly, list which ones have Marquees.

TBeckett100

back to subject mince SEL 1.94 pack 2.22. Got 3 packs.

R&R Henley no probs at all.

ben500

Christmas is better for r&r but not for the obvious reasons of price fluctuation and staff turnover, more due to the fact that the cs counters are busier and cannot afford to spend the time winding you up before paying up and often just because generally people are more ameniable at that time of year.

davodedthomas

MyUserNamesTaken wrote:

Oh, I wouldn't say those stores are in your immediate area. Living in East Anglia, and visiting those stores as part of my job, I can tell you that the stores you've listed are quite spread out. Anyone who lives in this part of the country knows how far apart those stores are. (Kings Lynn from Yarmouth is a 2 hour drive and Dereham from Lynn is an hour's drive, for example.) You've mentioned the Norfolk stores, but failed to mention 4 stores 10 miles away from Yarmouth. If you truly do visit those stores, you'd also have included another 4 stores.

Personally, I think you're full of it. Grabbing a list of stores in a county is easy. Proving you go there is a completely different matter. You say you live 20 minutes away from Suffolk, then go on about how many Tescos there are there. Well, from the top end of Suffolk, it takes over an hour to drive to Ipswich (A12). Bury St. Edmunds is 1 hour 20 minute drive from the East coast. I'd love to know how you can say those stores are also in your immediate area. There are 4 in North Suffolk (Beccles, Lowestoft 1, Lowestoft 2, Oulton Broad Express). After that, you've got to go to Bury or Ipswich (if you're sticking to Suffolk stores) - both considerable drives, esp. if you're coming from Norfolk. Above all else in your list, the fact that you call Dereham's store "East Dereham" shows how rarely you go there. Anyone who uses that store calls it Dereham. Incidentally, there aren't many Marks and Spencers in East Anglia, either (I also visit M&S as part of my job).

Here's a question for you: If you visit those stores regularly, list which ones have Marquees.

What would be the point of lying? I don't think he is 'full of it' as you make out. Jesus, give the man some slack! I myself don't find it difficult to find products to get 100s of quids worth of RnRs. He obviously is classifying his local area as something different to your own classification. And the list is off the tesco website, I think he was just trying to make a point that there are many Tesco stores in that area. Now, please, just drop the whole mcdonag hate stuff.

And no-one cares who calls Dereham store East Dereham or whatever, and who cares about how many Marks and Spencers there are in East Anglia. I don't anyway.

Mcdonag, good on ya for your posts, I enjoy reading them and have no reason to believe that you would lie about RnRing....there would just be no logic to it.

Hey_Dude

davodedthomas wrote:

What would be the point of lying? I don't think he is 'full of it' as you make out. Jesus, give the man some slack! I myself don't find it difficult to find products to get 100s of quids worth of RnRs. He obviously is classifying his local area as something different to your own classification. And the list is off the tesco website, I think he was just trying to make a point that there are many Tesco stores in that area. Now, please, just drop the whole mcdonag hate stuff.

And no-one cares who calls Dereham store East Dereham or whatever, and who cares about how many Marks and Spencers there are in East Anglia. I don't anyway.

Mcdonag, good on ya for your posts, I enjoy reading them and have no reason to believe that you would lie about RnRing....there would just be no logic to it.

I feel a sense of responsibility for this bad feeling and ongoing debate - as I kicked it off can I ask you Dudes to Cease & Desist from any further comment.

Mcdonag and I have sort of shaken hands in this puclic forum - let's just judge him/her by future postings.

Take her easy,

Duder

lostnfound

Nearly had an R&R on scottish mince beef priced £2.22 on packet and £1.92 on shelf,picked up 2 with shopping,went to checkoudt paid for items went to cs after havin a ciggie,after eventually getting served told the nice lady that im pretty sure that i was over charged on the mince as the sel said £1.92 an i got charged £2.22,cs lady goes off takes absolutly ages,15 mins exactly and prompty comes back with the correct sel ticket for the mince an tries to tell me it was the correct price,i said funny that,it was £1.92 15 mins ago must have been changed just now as it a freshly printed label.Promptly to me hard lines.Shouldav went with the old moo,ill no next time.

TBeckett100

always do a last check the prices aint been changed, pay and then cs asap

notasdaftasilook

Constantine wrote:

Its attached to the refund reciept, so that when the Duty Manager gets round to signing off the days refunds (usually just as they are trying to walk out the door :rolleyes: ), the CS staff can show that they gave the cash to a real person rather than their best mate Colin (no offence intended or implied to any Colins who may read this). Not foolproof by any means but a (fairly) standard procudure with many retailers to try and keep the refunders on the straight & narrow

So why dont all the stores ask for it ? Or is this something else that's done ' at the managers discretion ' .
:rolleyes:

cosmicDolphin

tbw wrote:

Yesterday I bought around £12 of normal shopping including 2 smallish packs of Italian cheese (which was overpriced by around £4 /kg). The CS woman muttered darkly about 'you've had a refund on meat before' and also commented on this to a colleague in the cheese aisle when we went down to check the SEL. She very grudgingly gave me a refund but then said that if I noticed a wrong price then I should take the stuff to CS BEFORE I went through the checkout. I said that I couldn't really tell what I was going to be charged before I'd actually paid for it - sometimes the price at the till is discounted and is lower than the pack price and sometimes stuff (like bananas) doesn't have anything other than a label on the boxes. She had to agree with that but remained very grudging about it.

I have had quite a few R & R's from this shop - nothing excessive though, just small quantities that any 'normal' customer would buy in their usual shopping such as a couple of packs mince/chops or a single joint or 1kg bananas. And I don't bother with differences of just a couple of pence. So although they may well remember I've had free stuff before I don't think they can reasonably accuse me of taking the p*** out of their system. This shop is pretty poor at getting the right prices and I would say that they are overcharging customers on a big scale.

I bought cheese yesterday afternoon but was in the same shop earlier in the day doing a big 'shop' for my work. I noticed the cheese then (but didn't buy any) and there were about 24 packs in the chiller. When I bought some later in the day, there were only about 9 packs left - so some customers have parobably paid a very high price unnecessarily.

I don't quite know how to play this one - I obviously don't want to get banned but equally, I use this shop a lot as it is my local and, if I get overcharged I don't think they are being reasonable in expecting me not to go and complain just because I've complained before. How do others handle it - even big shops only have a limited number of CS staff and its inevitable that the same half dozen staff will recognise you as having had a previous 'bargain'. Next time I'm overcharged am I pushing my luck if I make it clear that I take exception to their suggestion that I am doing something wrong - I feel its me thats the offended party if I've been overcharged and its Tesco that are wrong if they try to make out that I'm at fault for expecting them to put the matter right. I know that any shop can ban anyone at any time but, if this woman did get me banned would I have fair grounds for appealing against it ?

Any advice would be appreciated.

You should wear a hat or a wig or dark glassess, or dress in clothes of the opposite gender to what you normally do.....make it fun and try not to get the same CS person each time. Get your partner to do it for you or someone you know, and if your store is 24hr then go in the middle of the night when the night shift are in.