Tesco misprice discussion area part 11

Constantine

N20Y1D wrote:

Just wondering if anyone can give me some advice here, spotted what im sure is a misprice on "Tesco British beef fillet joint" the sel price per kg is lower than the actual product label. however the sel item label doesnt totally match that of the product, it reads "luxury beef 1/2 fillet" ive attached a picture of the item/shelf


just wondered if people thought i would get an rnr on this.

thanks in advance

:whistle:

Does the first 6 digits on the SEL match those on the item barcode? If so, then they are the same item.

MyUserNamesTaken

georgiac wrote:

Hi MUNT - Try http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=59365

It seems to be the start of things.

The Duder hasn't aged much since post #6!!!!!

Wow, Ben was as intense then as he is now, great reading.

Thanks for that, Georgiac. Unfortunately, that's for misprices only. It's not the discussion thread. I think Redfox separated the two threads after that one, in fact.

EDIT: Found the threads. My God, has it really been a year since Tesco !!!!!!ed up the prices on the PCs? Wow...time flies.

Here's the post about the member of staff who was sacked:

a member of staff in our store was dimissed for gross misconduct this week over the overcharge policy. He bought 2 crates of budweiser beer on his break for a party that night - which is perfectly acceptable (were allowed to shop in our breaks)... he then genuinely realised afterwards that hed been overcharged so went to get his refund (while still on his break) - as per company policy...

Now why was he dismissed?.. Because the manager believes he purposely KNEW he was going to be overcharged for it and therefore get it for "free"... which is "purposely defrauding the company"! :rolleyes:

If this is how they treat their staff over the policy! Well... :rolleyes:

kondormid

_other_thread wrote:

Excuse my apparent ignorance...I'm new...

Do you know when you go to the till that you're in for a freebie - is it simply a case of having a hunch (due to mismatching tickets) and then finding an instore scanner to check what price something is coming up as? (I can't see how else people are arriving at the checkout with more than one toaster, or a trolley load of lamb!!)

Its several things. Put it this way, I could go without seeing these websites ever and still hit them. Mr T has a lot of stores and a lot of prices being changed all the time, lets be honest it is to do with maximising profits (always). One thing that will amaze you is how different certain prices are in different supermarkets, you become like a walking price list. You get a knack for testing new pricing errors, I can remember when I used to have to look after british standards at a factory where i once worked. They had a knack for finding faults we did not know about to the extent that you could more or less give them a selection of products and they would find the only one that didn't conform first time. It is a mystery how they do it, and I suppose if you plonked some R&Rers in your store with no info about the current R&Rs the staff would not have a clue how we found some of them because, to be honest, some of them have nothing to do with yellow tickets and are just hunch based.

However, it is true that you can find some looking at dates, offers with products excluded (usually badley worded aka dolmio) by most of the range containing yellow lables and one or two not. I think most would agree misprices tend to happen around BOGOF type deals and also extra free type deals and 2 for x.00.

Yes, when i shop for day to day things I stop, look around the shelves, looking for possibles and yes i have found one or three this way.

Why staff are incapable of doing the same is beyond me.

PS, Constantine cost me 2 quid on sunday afternoon.

Constantine

kondormid wrote:

PS, Constantine cost me 2 quid on sunday afternoon.

How did I manage that?

joshtbh

anyone know if the discount comes off on the 2 for £25 offer on PS2 games atm?

wlfc1

joshtbh wrote:

anyone know if the discount comes off on the 2 for £25 offer on PS2 games atm?

Its an expired offer, so no discount.........an easy r&r

joshtbh

ok cheers wlfc, thanks for the advice.

dorajar

joshtbh wrote:

anyone know if the discount comes off on the 2 for £25 offer on PS2 games atm?

I saw these tonight but it looks like a new offer as they were just putting them out and the yellow SEL expires sometome in Dec 06 so didn't try it

wlfc1

OK, new one

BOGOF on Walt Disney titles * selected titles (doesn't say what the selected titles are) but as far as I could see all the boxes had labels saying buy one get one free.

Spotted that "The chronicles of narnia "had a white SEL, so I took chance that the discount wouldn't kick in.hey presto I was charged for both.

The chronicles of narnia AND The Incredibles r&r no arguments

go get em

kondormid

How did I manage that?

It was a horse, running at 2.45 on sunday. Saw the name on the screen thought it has to be, 2nd fave 7-1 and guess what! not even in the first 4