Tesco & coupons

superkev

yer self service is the future for MSE'ers, at the mo... saved about £4 on a £18 shop, SO embarassing when the female voice shouts out coupon though. The assistant kept coming over to double check my coupons were in properly as if I would take them back.......the cheek of it...huh.

Strepsy

superkev wrote:

yer self service is the future for MSE'ers, at the mo... saved about £4 on a £18 shop, SO embarassing when the female voice shouts out coupon though. The assistant kept coming over to double check my coupons were in properly as if I would take them back.......the cheek of it...huh.

I find I have to give them a poke sometimes. lol

superkev

the coupons or the assistants steph?:D

WELSH-DRAGON_2

I disagree - I hate self-scanners

Find yourself a nice pleasant young male cashier and away you go - several of the male cashiers at my local store love telling me what they've been upto whilst they scan my vouchers.

Welshy x

superkev

must be your charm welshy.... the old bags hate me. ha

Coupon-mad

Just a thought, which coupons did you have aleex?

Don't forget that if you have coupons with a Tesco logo on then they will not scan unless you buy the product. Also if your coupons were from another Supermarket's magazine then the cashier was (sadly) right to refuse them (but other Tesco cashiers won't!).

I have also had book vouchers - like the one in today's Daily Mail - refused sometimes by certain cashiers. I just use them the next day at the same store, with a different cashier (male).

Finally you may just be unlucky with that store. There is a store near me that was having a crackdown last year and took just ONE coupon no matter how much you spent. This Summer this was relaxed and it now seems to take at least 3 or more, depending on the cashier.

I went to my fave cashier today and split my shopping into 2 lots, bought the Daily Mail and 2 other bits in the first transaction, spent £10 and handed over £4 in coupons. Then I frantically tore out the £3.50 coupon from the Mail while he scanned the rest of my shopping, added it to the pile and got £10.50 off a £17 spend (included a mis-scanning Asda WKD one). Nice saving, then noticed a misprice so off I went and got £5.50 R&R'd for good measure!

I went on to get 17 copies of the Mail today, see Newspaper thread for details. This is the sort of coupon to get, if cashiers will take them!

youngie

some staff are very jobsworth I was 1p over the10% limit and the cashier wouldn't take it ,next visit same store different cashier took all the coupons I had

WELSH-DRAGON_2

Yes youngie, it is swings and roundabouts, I never expect any of my vouchers to be scanned because there are some that will point blank refuse to let me use them.

Welshy x

CharleneUK

Al_Mac wrote:

Didn't anybody answer me:o

The computer may accept anything BUT each Tesco store seems to have a policy on how much coupons they take e.g. 10% of your bill, one per transaction only etc.

It's hit and miss. I have chosen a few SA's that I go to all the time.

nicks8890

Hi ya

I have 3 main Tesco stores within driving distance - two of them Tesco Extras. One of the Extras takes no coupons whatsoever (unless product is purchased). The other Extra will take just one non-purchased coupon per transaction (and sometimes not even that). The smaller branch takes one or sometimes two if you present them, and is consistent in this, never having had one refused there in the past.

Like eveyone says, it's very much down to local management. Some of the cashier's excuses for not taking them have ranged from 'we took too many last week so we're not taking any this week' to 'we haven't taken these for the last 3 months' - when my partner was 3 tills down at the same time using one!!