Tesco Yellow Sticker/Reductions - Customer behaviour vent!

bingo_bango

Blimey...glad we don't get this where I am, or at least I don't see or hear of it.

So is this a new measurement of living in broken Britain then?

Reverbe

we dont tend to get it at ours due to the nature of what they reduce and also the fact that nothing is reduced by much and 98% is stll way over £1.

Plus they tend to use the reduced section to stock excess full priced stock so most fo what you see in there is full price at £3 or more.

FatAndy

OrkneyStar wrote: »

Coop can be better but it is hit or miss and I tend to shop earlier in the day now I have a toddler in tow!

I used to love it in the old days when Co-op actually paid you money to take their whoopsies off there hands. Shame they changed their system.

AfterDark

I don't even get near the reduced fridge in my local Tesco, Theres always a mob of vultures, I'm always shocked to them pushing and shoving each other. I wonder how the stores pick who will be doing that... short straw... who was in late

y5d

We call it the 'Pauper's banquet' - not that there seem to be so many good reductions these days.

emmell

I once saw a trolley full of reduced mushrooms at the end of an aisle in Tescos, so I thought I'll have a couple of them. I picked two out and a chap with a Polish type accent came running up and, in a broken English type of way, told me I had stolen them out of his trolley.
I just thought the staff had collected them to take to the reduced section.
ML.

raebhoop

ranger1066 wrote: »

I used to work at Tesco for a few years and had the misfortune of doing the final reductions on Christmas Eve Things were being reduced by 90%. It was unbelievable how rude and savage people can be. I had a huge crowd around me, grabbing stuff out of my hands before i even put them down.

It is a small store, so i had to check all items in the fruit and veg, chilled, and bakery areas for stuff going out of date whilst the store is closed for christmas.

I had a crowd of people litterally encircling me whilst i was moving around the store, bashing into me and also poking and shoving me asking me to reduce things they picked up, even things like baked beans that have very long shelf lifes. I really wanted to tell them to F*** off and get a life, but unfortunately i needed the money so could not afford to loose the job.

It was honestly the worst experience in my working life.

Please let me know where a tesco shop closes without the threat of a suicide bomber...I didn't think the greedy sods closed....ever.

inca_2

I've seen people swap the stickers on things before also to put them on full price products, I'm hoping that they don't just get away with this?! I hate seeing the way the people bark at the staff doing reductions. I have to say that at our Tesco the staff are all really lovely and chatty, haven't yet seen a sullen face on a checkout person so makes me even more mad when I see them getting treated like c*** by some customers. Our Asda is the same too, always friendly faces, Morrisons on the other hand.......

Storck

raebhoop wrote: »

Please let me know where a tesco shop closes without the threat of a suicide bomber...I didn't think the greedy sods closed....ever.

All the superstores and extras are shut for at least two days a year, Christmas and Easter, but it isn't by choice. Legally they have to shut. :j:j:j:j

Doesn't mean all the staff get the days off though. :(

inca_2

Off topic I know but referring to the posts about stores closing I'm sure supermarkets also used to be shut on boxing day and maybe even new year's day (although not certain about the latter) but now they seem to open. Surely it wouldn't hurt to allow the staff to have an extra day off after Christmas with their families? There cannot be anything that urgent needed that you can't wait til the day after boxing day to buy it. I used to work in a coffee shop a good few years ago and I remember that in my first year there I worked on boxing day and we actually ended up closing early because the shops were all shut, buses weren't running and the only other places open were the pubs, the city centre was a ghost town. Now however the stores are pretty much all open for the sales, should have stayed cloesd IMO, they will still make the money from the sales, the madness would just begin a day later.