Tesco fiddling the 'bargains'

keith99_2

fourbytwo wrote: »

.....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.....!

I used to work for one of the major supermarkets and whenever one of them said they were reducing, say up to 1000 prices, there would be a few high profile reductions and the rest would be on slow selling lines, mostly in the toileteries area and only by a few pence. The reason for this? Toileteries and the health and beauty departments in general have by far the biggest profit margin than any other department, so it is costing them very little because those lines do not generate massive sales like foodstuffs.

zorber

keith99 wrote: »

I was in Tesco Tues 4th Jan and they had 12 packs of 500ml highland spring water at half price, on the SEL it said offer ends 18/01. Went in on 06/01 and it was back up to normal price. I know it is subject to availability but after a couple of day? surely the buyers know the stock situation.
Another thing is petrol. They always used to be the cheapest where i am, first to reduce last to put up, now its the opposite.
On new years eve they put the price up by 1p then new years day another 1p for the duty rise. On 03/01 they put it up again by 1p then the next day another 3p for the VAT rise. The 2 x 1p rises were just blatant profiterring, the local ESSO in the area was 2p a litre cheaper after the tax and duty rises, purely because they didnt put on the extra 1p rip off rises.
I know refuse to buy petrol there.

The issues raised in this thread are best practiced by Tescos, You all need to vote with your feet and stop shopping with them.

The problem is they have been allowed to expand and expand and now you cannot help but drive past a tescos no matter where you are going to.
The drew loyalty by continually boasting they had the cheapest peices on food and fuel. But they recently let this slip and have started to boost prices. why? well the customer still believes the advertising that tescos are cheapest even when they are now not.

My local tescos is 3p a litre more expensive on fuel then the local sainsburys unfortunately not every one check or shops around so for the hundred that do notice and change there shopping habits thousands more dont and they pull in better profit margins because of this.

To Keith99, whilst i hate defending Tescos fuel prices ramped up in December and i think we had a 10p increase in cost during this time, they may well have just been passing these on. It all depends on what their stratergy is, eg they could maintain a minimum % profit per litre. I know the forecourts i deal with on some days we have been making 0.5p per litre where our target is 3p per litre. And to put this into prospective Tescos look to make an average of around 30% margin on your weekly grocery shop. If the same margin was applied to fuel then the cost to fill up would be another 40p per litre than what it is now.

juno

I went to Asda yesterday, and noticed big boxes of washing powder at the entrance for £3. I needed washing powder but didn't want to carry it with me whilst I looked at the clothes so decided to pick one up later. Wandered round the store a bit and decided to pick one up from the washing powder aisle. There, I couldn't see any of the £3 boxes but there were boxes twice the size for £5.

So the heavily promoted one at the front was not the best deal.

Catslovelycats

hi Keith99
My local tesco is also not the cheapest for petrol locally anymore
strange
they always have been

merlin68

Tesco organic cheese, normally 1.75 now 1.95 or 2 for £3. Value garlic bread one 37p or twin pack 82. Cheaper to buy two singles.

Rainy-Days

You are right Merlin and this is just on a few numerous examples that Tesco and the others get up to. Think Anne Robinson did a stint on this on Watchdog about sizes, weights and offers in November 2010.

The trouble is that not everybody has the time to stand and check and they work on that premise because they know it's a case of get in there and out again. You just have to cross check which I am doing allot more of now

kelloggs36

I regularly buy children's packed lunch drinks Capri Sun. In my local Sainsbury's they were doing a 'special offer' of buy a pack of 10 for something like £2.49 whilst a packet of 5 were only £1 - hence I bought 2 packs of 5. Their 1kg of spaghetti has a large label on it implying that it is a good deal, but buying 2 packs of 500g is much cheaper! You have to be very careful.

kerri_gt

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

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.

Along the same lines...people often assume Value/Basics/Smart Price are always cheaper - but be careful to check the price per gram / ml etc etc because it isn't always the case.

I've also noticed that items that are the same, say pasta for example, will have some priced a X per kg, and some at X per 100g making it harder to do an easy price comparison while shopping.

TheDoolallyDilly

SurfBowlSC wrote: »

They're being incredibly crafty with their online grocery shopping too in order to avoid more expensive substituting of items.
We've noticed on MANY occassions recently that items don't get delivered. When my wife goes back to check the order the items have been removed by Tesco themselves, with no notification.
We normally place the order on a Tuesday, for delivery on a Friday, but my wife now has to check on a daily basis to see what Tesco have removed from it!

I've noticed this, too, drives me nuts. I had my shopping delivered this morning, and several items weren't delivered. I had amended my shopping a couple of days ago, but forgot to thoroughly check the email confirming the amendments - if you scroll down, after the item you have added is another table with 'items removed' and these are removed by Tesco, not by you I also ordered some cotton wool pads, after deciding the offer in Boots wasn't a good deal - they were 56p for 100 in Tesco. Apart from the price went up between when I ordered and when it was delivered, so I paid £1 :mad:

I know they say you can check when your shopping arrives, and if any item is more expensive then you can hand it back, but my delivery note is three pages long - I don't think the driver would hang about while I went through it with a fine tooth comb !! I've just gone through the whole list now, and in all I have spent over £1 more than I thought because of random price rises between ordering and delivery.

And two 500g bags of Tesco porridge oats are often cheaper than one 1kg bag - it's like a maths lesson, doing the shopping :rotfl:

snowqueen555

All the morrisons and LIDLs, ASDAs are nowhere near me, its a big shame