Tesco/Asda pricechecker finds here.......

eccles-cake

whamfanuk wrote: »

tunas now £2.99 in tesco

thanks for the heads -up!

princes still showing as 5.39 online, but john west is 2.99; was it in store that the princes price had changed?

whamfanuk

eccles-cake wrote: »

thanks for the heads -up!

princes still showing as 5.39 online, but john west is 2.99; was it in store that the princes price had changed?

instore around 3pm today :money:

tara747

ajk1982 wrote: »

Here's an idea, James Hall who is the Retail Editor of the Daily Telegraph recently wrote an article on how Tesco were making this big promise to DTD. I can't post links to this article unfortunately.

I wonder if there were enough people on here who sent a message to him on his Twitter would he write a little expose on Tesco to show how they have actually squirmed and twisted this through constant changes to T&C and have changed this promotion into the farce it now is.

This is James Hall's Twitter.
twitter.com / JamesFHall

I'm sure a bit of shaming publicity may ignite a fire under Tesco them to put it back to what they actually claimed to do under the original design.

Just a thought

Brilliant thought!!!! I'm not on Twitter, anyone here a member and able to contact this guy? We need to keep at them to either change back to the original T&Cs OR put up massive signs saying that DTD is limited to £20 per voucher!

Although for sheer impact, the tabloids are usually more (ahem) to the point in these cases!!!! They tend not to mince their words. :cool:

Margoriglick

bargainmaiden wrote: »

different computers, different stores.. ..halarious!!!:rotfl:

I think its most funny, from an overall cash layout of £240 i have goods that came to the ludicrous amount of nearly £700 in Tesco. So yes i think its hilarious.
Happy Days :beer:
Probably more like £400 as the £700 was in Tesco money which is totally different to the rest of the country isnt it.

quoia

waterstar wrote: »

Hi Quoia

had read your post previously when i waded through all the background........ excellent analysis.

I suspect that Tesco started off trying to offer a competing system to Asda which "would be easier to understand" as for many the calculation of Asda pricecheck "10% cheaper" rebate is quite complicated......... see http://www.asdapriceguarantee.co.uk/Compare-Prices/Promotion-Details.aspx

Both T & A undoubtedly ran tests to see what would be outcome of actual shops by customers at Tesco, but Tesco might have failed to see that those actual shops would be influenced by purchases of special offers so most often ending up cheaper at Tesco.

As Quoia said in earlier post, there seem to be no steps that Tesco can take to amend T&C that "focussed DTD shopping" cannot work around. The only thing Tesco can fall back on is their "catch all" of rejecting vouchers which are "abusing the spirit of the Price Check scheme".

But at that point, if there is not transparency on the scheme, well then the ASA may well be down on Tesco.

I'm guessing this TOTALLY FLAWED "New Marketing Strategy" of a DTD "refund" probably came about because of TWO reasons.

FIRSTLY, in trying to fight ASDA's INDEPENDENTLY AWARDED title of "The Cheapest Supermarket Of The Year" for the past umpteen years running (somthing like 9 or is it even 13?) ....
... and the VERY SUCCESSFUL recent campaigns (ALSO INDEPENDENTLY JUDGED) of ASDA having "this week" 9223 products cheaper than Tesco (Tesco ONLY having 1495 cheaper than Asda), with similar comparisons for Morrisons & Sainsburys, ...

... TESCO INVENTED (a while ago) the "totally spurious" concept of the "cheaper average shopping basket"

I admit I'm guessing here, but I bet some marketing guy at Tesco, charged with countering the adverts and coming up with a similar "But actually we REALLY are cheaper than ASDA" campaign, tried to "discredit" ASDA's claims and came up with "Don't believe Asda if you are a Mr/Mrs Average shopper"

Conceptually it's that ASDA "MIGHT" have 2 or 3 or 5 times the NUMBER of cheaper products than the NUMBER that Tesco has cheaper than ASDA .... BUT .... "MOST" of those "cheaper" products at ASDA are ones you either NEVER BUY or ONLY VERY RARELY ....
.... whereas Tesco's "smaller limited range" of cheaper products are the ones you buy every week and you'll find in everybody's basket/trolley time and time again.

So DESPITE ASDA having "9223 products cheaper than Tesco"
and
Tesco ONLY having 1495 cheaper than ASDA .....

... Tesco advertised .... This week "2 million shopping baskets 'COST LESS' at Tesco than ASDA", ONLY 50,000 'Shopping Baskets' cost less at ASDA than Tesco."



ASDA then says, "Whilst we believe we are the cheapest - IF WE GET IT WRONG - we will beat our competitors price, as determined by mysupermarket.com, by 10%

Furthermore because "we believe we are cheaper not by just a few pence but by a considerable margin, even IF WE ARE RIGHT AND ARE CHEAPER, we will still refund money UNTIL WE ARE 10% CHEAPER!


At this point TESCO executives obviously nearly choked to death on their breakfast cornflakes ...

... and shortly afterwards, WITHOUT GENUINE, TRUE ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH the misconceived "DTD if we are not the cheapest" was born in "retaliation" :rotfl:


Oh, I said was there TWO reasons

THEY HAD WATCHED AND BELIEVED THEIR OWN ADVERTS :rotfl:

"This week "2 million shopping baskets 'COST LESS' at Tesco than ASDA", ONLY 50,000 'Shopping Baskets' cost less at ASDA than Tesco."

They really believed their own MARKETING HYPE.

IF it was TRUE, how could DTD cost them anything but a "minimal amount" ....
.... which would be totally offset by all the floods of new customers and extra sales by everyone deserting ASDA (and presumably elsewhere)

Afterall, TESCO on this basis MUST be cheaper. Just have to be. No questions asked !!

They are probably very surprised that ASDA's up and down the land are not devoid of customers and that there isn't tumbleweed blowing about instead

IDIOTS :rotfl:

brand8

has anyone had dtd on the rump steak

J20BABY

tara747 wrote: »

:eek: and :rotfl:

You'll laugh about it tomorrow, I promise!

I know it's not as important as the DTD excitement, but have you told OH that your pg yet? And all this adrenaline can't be doing the baby any good lol! :rotfl:

Yes told him finally thanks for asking

toonbaz

whamfanuk wrote: »

instore around 3pm today :money:

princes tuna still £5.39 instore for me at 8pm tonight

Margoriglick

jillyjacks wrote: »

No wonder tesco are losing customers to asda if this is the attitiude of their staff.......pity your bosses can't see the way you are talking on here...is this the way you speak to customers in your store???

I think this may be Sue the gremlin supervisor, i had the honour of meeting her the other night. I can assure you it was not a pleasure :eek::eek:

tara747

So, just checking - who's still on for this DTD challenge????