Tesco fiddling the 'bargains'

fourbytwo

Never took shopping too seriously until wife passed away, and I had to shop mainly myself.
The obvious 'Cabal' between the big Supermarkets, makes any claims of 'bargain shopping' very dubious.
Recent examples of what Tesco get up to in Glasgow......
Lurpak Butter on sale at £2.53 for 500 gsm, on the Tuesday...price increases on the Wednesday to £2.80, then offered as a "special deal' the same day for £2.00...SAVING 80P.....
Recent very bad weather in Glasgow....Tesco Car De-Icer on sale on the Friday for £2.00.
Heavy snow falls and most people are caught out, shoppers get to local Tesco and find the same item, on the same shelf, only this time its £2.50.
Local people tending to buy the cheap (but very good) budget Cooked Ham slices at 65p, but people NOT buying the dearer meats.
Stocks of the cooked ham suddenly run-out for almost a week, people forced to buy the more expensive cuts.
Just as suddenly the cheaper Ham returns, this time at 78p with a big range of cheap cuts from all the other types of meat and turkey...simply to encourage people to buy it...after a few weeks the same thing happens, and Tesco manage to get rid of a lot of the expensive range of meats.

Its about time there was a 'Consumer-Lead and Organised' Review Panel that can produce a range of prices for necessatities from the 'big four'.....NOT PRODUCING A COMPARITIVE LIST OF LUXURY ITEMS, then stating that "over 1000 items reduced".
When we realise that from the 1000 items claimed to be cheaper.....most are either luxury or specialist items that MOST SHOPPERS would not buy anyway.........
Time to smell what some of these retailers are shovelling.....!

viv0147

I use Lidl and top up in Morrisons much better prices than Tesco

Enterprise_1701C

This has been going on for years. Prices go up and down like yoyos but it is fairly certain that if there is a big price rise then a "special offer" is just around the corner, and then the price will not go down to where it was before.

Also watch out for strange variations in prices between big and small quantities of the same product. People assume it is always cheaper to buy a larger amount of something, this is not necessarily the case, and it is necessary to compare the prices each time you buy.

On the whole, it is best to assume that the supermarket or shop is out to get the most money out of the customer that they can, out task is to avoid that happening.

kippers

I use 'my supermarket' http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/ to help check where the food is cheapest that i buy...it's time consuming but helps my purse

wornoutmumoftwo

Disney apple prices are up and down like a yoyo - I'm sure they think we're daft, and I'm convinced the hula hoop multi pack sizes have shrunk.

brettcta

welcome to the MSE forum fourbytwo, sorry about your loss.

you've made a very good point for your 2nd post on here, usually it's a shower of clowns ranting and raving and wanting to know how to get compensation from tesco because a kid in the car park with a patch over his lazy eye looked at them funny.

more like this plz

kthnxbai

geordie_joe

brettcta wrote: »

with a patch over his lazy eye

You don't put patches over lazy eyes, if you did they would have no work to do and get even lazier.

What you do is put the patch over the other eye and make the lazy eye do all the work.

brettcta

i put a patch over my son's lazy eye. we didn't have any of the normal ones, so i stuck one of my wife's nicorette patches on instead. worked a treat, although he's been acting a little strange of late, get's snappy if he hasn't got his nicorette eye patch on. his eye is like new.

scottishminnie

fourbytwo wrote: »

Local people tending to buy the cheap (but very good) budget Cooked Ham slices at 65p, but people NOT buying the dearer meats.
Stocks of the cooked ham suddenly run-out for almost a week, people forced to buy the more expensive cuts.

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That's certainly the case in Tesco Cumbernauld and they don't even deny it. About eighteen months ago now I was looking for a certain brand of apples and the shelf was empty so I asked a sale assistant if they had any more - she said they did and would get some from stock.

Some minutes later she came back and rather shame faced informed me that the supervisor told her she couldn't bring any out "until the piles of xx variety had been sold". She was clearly embarrased and I was less than happy and asked to see the supervisor. He was adamant, wouldn't budge and stated they could choose what and when to sell.It reminded me of a parent lecturing their child that they could have no dessert until they'd finished their main course.

Well on the evening in question they were left with a trolley of shopping and I went off to Asda where I got exactly what I wanted. Tesco have had very little of my business since, only when I want a specific bargain and have satisfied myself that it is a bargain.

I don't doubt for one moment that Tesco do this deliberately. It's also worth keeping a close eye on their special offers - just before Christmas they had an offer on butter -cant remember which but the shelf was stocked to bursting with say kerrygold when the offer (and the label underneath) was for countrylife - people were taking several packs obviously thinking it was the offer but it wasn't. I don't believe that was a mistake either.

Rightly or wrongly I go in with the attitude that they are out to screw me and check everything with a fine toothcomb. Sad that it's come to that but I take the view it's my hard earned money and I'm not throwing it away.

Purse_String

Yes I've noticed that for a while now at Mr T's. An offer was on for cat food pouches but didn't include senior cat's. The boxes were all pushed together on the shelf. Luckly I checked the shelf label and have noticed this practise too many times for this to be a co-incidence. I rarely go in now (my vote with your feet thing) unless really stuck. That was 3 years ago.

valk_scot

scottishminnie wrote: »

Rightly or wrongly I go in with the attitude that they are out to screw me and check everything with a fine toothcomb.

Yup, me too. Caveat Emptor! The supermarkets aren't there as a public service...they're there to make as much money as possible out of us and very good at it they are too. The only defence is to be canny and double check everything.

Having said that the staff in my local Tesco are very pleasent, they're always quick to apologise and rectify mistakes and they do have some very good bargains if you keep your eyes open.