Tesco money off - hilarious!

Felicity

I know this wont apply to everybody but thought I would share it with you as I found it hilarious!

Our local Tesco Express (the only Tesco within 10 miles) will only accept 1 voucher (which they examine THOROUGHLY IN DETAIL) per shop. The assistants are particularly stroppy and just love telling me 'the rules' and making coupons shoppers life a misery in general.

ANYWAY the competition has encroached on their turf - they just had a new M&S foodstore open up next door and when I went there today, Tescos were doing a MASSIVE promotion and they have kicked all the stroppy assistants out onto the street to GIVE AWAY vouchers!!! The assistants were REALLY embarassed to be canvassing shoppers and not behind their cosy tills dishing out 'the rules'.

The vouchers were for £3 off a £10 spend and £4 off a £15 spend. Not bad at all! Strangely enough, when I asked for a couple of the leaflets, they handed me a massive pile, presume they wanted to get rid of them and get back to their tills!

I went and split my shopping up into £10 lots and handed over a £3 voucher PLUS another voucher for each shop which they accepted!

Long live competition!

Vindiesel

Well done Felicity!

RAMBLER

A heart warming anecdote;)

djl

good for you Tesco can afford it :beer: :beer:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

go girl......keep the flag flying for us voucherholics..........

WELSH-DRAGON_2

During my financial analysis course we looked at Company accounts and discussed Tesco. Apparently, some of their suppliers now have to wait 10 months for payment ......... as Tesco are so large they dictate what they will do. We also looked at a farmer who was selling cauliflowers to Tesco, when Tescos did a Bogof offer, the farmer was told to supply twice as much for the same price again it was a case of do it or we will take our business elsewhere. The point I am making ..................

Tescos are getting too big for their boots and well if we can shave a couple of quid off our bills then I say to OP you go for it girl !!

Welshy x

beanz_2

Ohh revenge tastes good in tesco!!

clarejoanne

My local Tesco Express wouldn't accept Luncheon Vouchers which the big stores will. Why? I think Tesco have a cheek, putting Express Stores up and then charging more than in the main stores. One of the staff is particularly obnoxious - just holding her hand out and saying 'card!' no please or thank you!

The_Old_Bag

WELSH-DRAGON wrote:

During my financial analysis course we looked at Company accounts and discussed Tesco. Apparently, some of their suppliers now have to wait 10 months for payment ......... as Tesco are so large they dictate what they will do. We also looked at a farmer who was selling cauliflowers to Tesco, when Tescos did a Bogof offer, the farmer was told to supply twice as much for the same price again it was a case of do it or we will take our business elsewhere. The point I am making ..................

Tescos are getting too big for their boots and well if we can shave a couple of quid off our bills then I say to OP you go for it girl !!

Welshy x

I must admit that I think this might be the way ALL the major food retailers operate. A work colleague told me a while back that when stores do BOGOF/half price etc they only pay the supplier HALF what they should. ie it is not a 'loss leader' for the supermarket as such, they do not bear any LOSS themselves - heaven forbid, it is the supplier that bears the financial loss of the stores marketing policy.
As you say Welshy, smaller suppliers and farmers would be desperate to get a guarenteed buyer for their product/produce, and so would be happy to tie themselves into contracts with the big stores, but then get paid much less than they expected if Their store is in a price war with a competitor. I try and buy british ( meat, fruit, veg etc) but wonder if it would be better if I used local greengrocer and butcher, and just use stores for other goods.
I would like to think Mr T/Asda do not make a fortune from me. I have the time and inclination to visit ALL stores regularly, and often come out with trolley full on BOGOFs, reductions and R&R's ( plus using coupons etc). But wonder how much of my bargin hunting harms the producers/farmers rather than the big stores - they are getting their obscene profits from somewhere

WELSH-DRAGON_2

Too true - I try to go to the farmers markets that are held locally and we grow our own veg too, which is not only cheaper but seems to taste that bit nicer when it has been nurtured from a seedling.

My mum has high cholesterol and was told to try to buy all her meat produce from a local butcher rather than say Tescos because the meat cuts are leaner and far less fatter. Maybe Mr T isn't as great as we thought ie, lots of misprices, small suppliers going under because they cannot compete and goods that are Ok standard but are produced for a much wider market.

I read the Grocer magazine each week in work (have a subscription) and that is a good read, for example by Christmas Tesco are hoping to have a mail order catalogue very similar to Argos and Asda are opening an estate agency where people can look at house details after doing their weekly shop.

They are indeed taking over everything

Welshy x

chloejane_2

i did this too, sales assistants not to happy mind you, managed to put shopping through at £15.55p for the £4 off a £15 shop lol, thinking it might be the same store we have been shopping in!