Tesco aaaaaargh!

garret1

Tesco are driving me nuts. i now feel when I am doing my shopping that I am being fleeced and spend my whole time double checking and comparing prices:mad:
1.Value products are often found to be dearer than own brand

2. Prices jump up overnight, eg value oj from 57p to 73p

3. pricing on SEL inconsistent, ie per 100g, per kilo etc

4. bogofs are surely inflated. saw tesco butcher's choice sausages today £2.78 bogof for 10. yet tesco butcher's choice 8 pack sausages are £1.39

Is it just me getting old and grumpy? I'll be shaking my fist at people next:o

ben500

garret1 wrote:

Tesco are driving me nuts. i now feel when I am doing my shopping that I am being fleeced and spend my whole time double checking and comparing prices:mad:
1.Value products are often found to be dearer than own brand

2. Prices jump up overnight, eg value oj from 57p to 73p

3. pricing on SEL inconsistent, ie per 100g, per kilo etc

4. bogofs are surely inflated. saw tesco butcher's choice sausages today £2.78 bogof for 10. yet tesco butcher's choice 8 pack sausages are £1.39

Is it just me getting old and grumpy? I'll be shaking my fist at people next:o

This is not native to Tesco all the supermarkets deploy such practices to confuse the shopper, it just becomes easier to stuff the gear in the boot and head for home, too many obstacles in your way to keep an efficient memory of what was bought and how much paid. Tesco have just developed it to the nth degree by flooding you with so much information you don't challenge any of it because you secretely know its all bull!!!! anyway.

garret1

Thanks Ben. Have been lurking on the misprices thread and listening to your wise words but can't find any r and rs. phoned HO re above, but not holding my breath.....

whatamess_2

3. pricing on SEL inconsistent, ie per 100g, per kilo etc

Thats the one thing that drives me NUTS end up standing there converting it to check price.
Asda do the same.:eek:

Messy

zappomatic

garret1 wrote:

4. bogofs are surely inflated. saw tesco butcher's choice sausages today £2.78 bogof for 10. yet tesco butcher's choice 8 pack sausages are £1.39

They seem to have a few wines sold at a ridiculously inflated price, just so they can put them on special offer every few weeks to make people think they're getting a bargain. For example, they sell a wine called Cuvee Prestige which mysteriously is sometimes priced at £6.99 - no way is it a seven quid bottle of wine! At the moment it seems to be £3.99, but mysteriously it's sometimes "half price" at £3.49. They also seem to buy in products just to offer them on BOGOF, for example a brand of bacon they don't normally stock and that nobody has heard of.

I agree that most supermarekts do this do this to some degree, but Tesco are definitely the worst culprits and the most blatant perpetrators.

ben500

garret1 wrote:

Thanks Ben. Have been lurking on the misprices thread and listening to your wise words but can't find any r and rs. phoned HO re above, but not holding my breath.....

Try the cooked sliced prepacked meats there's a bonanza on them at the moment whole shelfulls all over the country. There's going to be some serious robbing going on this weekend, this kind of weather just the kind of product to make a killing on black profit, everyone loves a sandwich in this weather, is it by accident or by design that these products all happen to be overpriced just at the height of their popularity, another good time to keep an eye out is Easter its definately fleece the punter time then.

garret1

ben500 wrote:

is it by accident or by design that these products all happen to be overpriced just at the height of their popularity, another good time to keep an eye out is Easter its definately fleece the punter time then.

Yes I find it very strange that chicken drumsticks which I buy CHEAPLY all year become expensive in bbq weather.:mad:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

hi..i have also noticed with a larger that i love called orangiboom....its normally round the £2.99 mark in the local independant/spar shops but in the supermarkets when they got it....its £4.99 for a week or two and then its on bogof..and then strangely enough once the bogof has finished its gone from the shelves....

IvanOpinion

This is common to more than just the grocery sector. These guys all employ high cost marketing departments to find new and inventive ways of making the gullible, naive and stupid public buy more products .. that is their job. The publics job is to mature and be careful so that they are not taken in by weasle words, bright yellow stickers and words like 'BOGOF' ... sometimes the pbulic wins sometimes the supermarket wins .. think of it as a competition, it is more fun

Ivan

garret1

It's still disgusting. i ran my own shop for 3 years and couldn't bear to fleece people. Mind you I didn't make much money :rolleyes: but at least i slept with a clear conscience:D

IvanOpinion

garret1 wrote:

It's still disgusting. i ran my own shop for 3 years and couldn't bear to fleece people. Mind you I didn't make much money :rolleyes: but at least i slept with a clear conscience:D

Now you know why Tescos is so successful ... can I assume you could not be compared to Arkwright and the missus to nurse Gladys Emmanuel

I don;t think it is a case of deliberate fleecing. Some of it is down pure marketing hype, some is down to lazy disinterested staff, some down to poor management and checking procedures and some down to pure and simple mistakes. I think when you carry that many lines you have to expect some mistakes. Sometimes a buyer strikes a deal with a supplier for X-thousand pallets of something at a very special price, could even be a line they don't normally stock, on the shelf it goes, into peoples stomachs it goes, never to be seen again (apart from a short appearance in the the old porcelain).

Are we better off with or without supermarkets .. maybe one for another thread ?

Ivan