Tesco Biggest Offer Ever

gentleorange · 21 February 2011 at 12:30AM

I wonder if that means this week will be rather expensive to shop at Tesco, as they may be hiking a lot of prices in order to drop them again for their amazing offers. What a palaver:D I was just about to book a delivery for Friday, now I'm not sure...

celebrate · 21 February 2011 at 10:42AM

Are they allowed to do this? I thought by law sale items had to sold at their original price for at least 28 days or something, or does this not apply to offers/promotions?

Angela · 21 February 2011 at 12:31PM

Been shopping this morning and noticed the 2kg soft spread had gone up another 40p
Looking forward to see what will be going on next week

spakkker · 21 February 2011 at 1:10PM

It's simple - when you see a big price hike -do not buy.
Tesclos would rip your heart out if there was money in it for them.
I always check the price of anything I buy and people who can't see that tesclos is a rip need to go to that famous spectacle shop.

rabidbun · 21 February 2011 at 2:24PM

With a bit of luck there'll be an actual offer somewhere in there! *is probably far too optimistic for her own good*

alexlyne · 21 February 2011 at 2:37PM

celebrate wrote: »

Are they allowed to do this? I thought by law sale items had to sold at their original price for at least 28 days or something

I always thought that, but then read somewhere that they can display a reduced price for as long in time as they offered the high price. So a week high followed by a week low would be OK. Mind you, there must be more to it than that otherwise it would be much more prevalent than it is now.

socks_uk · 21 February 2011 at 3:00PM

How much money do you think Tesco might lose if we all now waited until next week to buy anything from them waiting for these 'offers' to happen? I definitely won't be shopping there until next week but that's more to do with being skint buying all the 3 for 2 pet food offers! Payday a week today!

phillo365 · 21 February 2011 at 3:45PM

I think the clue to the offer is in socks-uk response. "Payday a week today" . The supermarkets are getting clever at targetting specials and newspaper coupons when customers have more disposable income available ie around payday. I think most people are paid around the 28th or at the end of the month which obviously is the same day this month.