Tesco/Asda Pricechecker finds here (Thread 2)

sirbrainy

zorber wrote: »

Your figures are wrong they are quoting 1 in 5000 customers, You then divide number of (millions) of customer transactions per week that happen. That gives you the number of vouchers that they are claiming are being redeemed and this figure was quoted for people claiming over £20 in vouchers, i quess there will be many more claiming vouchers less than £20

Your stating that they only get 10000 customer transactions per store and i expext they get far more (x10)

That would be 100,000 customer transactions x 2500 stores = 250,000,000 transactions per week.

Steady on, old chap

HopePray

music_luv wrote: »

In Scotland too! In Aberdeen. What's 60miles north of Elgin? Inverness?

North is up the way, Inverness is west, and its over 100 miles away from Abdn.

tara747

stebiz wrote: »

Well if you were going to do that, you may as well have used your own clubcard in the first place. The two cards will be linked. Just bin 'em. I know how tempting it must be. I feel the same myself. Bt it isn't worth it.

How will they be linked???

celebrate wrote: »

people who are doing several shops a day are you going into different stores or risking going to same store?

I go to a nearby store before work, then a city centre Metro at lunchtime, back to the nearby store on the way home (usually different SAs in the evening)... and to Tesco Extra when I can persuade OH to drive me. :rotfl:

terryw wrote: »

My Dear Martin,,

My apologies for troubling you, but I understand that you (or the kind posters to your organ) will offer advice on matters of the heart as well as pure financial affairs.

Might I start by telling you a little about myself? I am an educated sort of chap in the mid-autumn of my life and I would dearly like to meet a kindred spirit of the opposite sex with whom I can share my later years. It is of paramount importance that any such lady has the same interests as myself.

I lead a simple life. Four times a day I visit a small delicatessen owned by a Mr Jack Cohen. He is a delightful chap and employs staff of the highest calibre. Until recently, I have been purchasing goods to the value of £100 on each visit, but (for reasons that I shall not go into here) I have recently reduced this expenditure to £20 per visit.

My food needs are, as I indicated, very simple. For breakfast, perhaps a few cornflakes: lunch is usually beans with a Pukka chicken pie, but for my evening dinner I will have, perhaps, a rack of lamb washed down with a rather naughty chardonnay and a few bottle of Magner's fine cider. Naturally, I finish with a Cornetto. Obviously, I quaff a few cans of the life-blood of life (an elixir called Guinness!) throughout the day. Such is the life of a bachelor gay!

But enough of my life, and on with my problem.

On my last few visits to Mr Cohen's fine store, I am aware that I keep seeing a younger lady. I say "younger" but she may not be so much younger, as female friends have advised that there is a superb product manufactured by a concern named "Olay" which rids the female members of wrinkles, and which, incidentally, is sold at a far cheaper price by a competitor of Mr Cohen.

This young lady is a joy to behold, but I have not yet plucked up the courage to speak to her. If I am looking at the section of the store which deals in McCain Oven chips......she is there. If I am choosing some Iams cat-food for my dear !!!!!, she is there. Even if I move to the Pantene hair shampoo section, she is there. This may be simple coincidence, but I have my doubts


I am not sure if she is perhaps a little shy and wishing to know me better and become "acquainted" (shall we say!) and follows me around the store on the off-chance that we might speak to each other. Or perhaps she is one of these "stalkers" that I have read about in the tabloid newspapers.


I can think of no other reasons why I keep seeing this lady in Mr Cohen's establishment. I hasten to add, that when I have looked into the lady's shopping basket, her contents are identical to mine which shows that we are indeed kindred spirits.

To sum up......is the lady interested or me, or is it just the fine aroma of the Old Spice deodorant which I liberally spray about myself, having had the good fortune to acquire the same in large quantities at a more-than-fair price, the details of which I need not go into here.

Thank you for reading this.

Your kind advices are requested.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:T:T:T:T:T

Brilliant.

stebiz

My guess is that each till is only seeing 1 or 2 vouchers a day. The young lady who served me today at about 2pm had been on since 10am and had not seen one all day. In fact she had no idea what it was.

However in the larger scheme of things, Tesco work on a very low profit margin (circa 1%) and the huge profits are made by volume. If I was to take a £100 voucher from them, this would often mean them having to sell on average £10,000 worth of goods to get this back.

lalamb

cloey wrote: »

I totally agree with you. I get terrified when using the vouchers. But i don't see the wrong in getting a little back, i've only claimed arounf £30 back in vouchers, i only just started but i wouldn't crazily go out of t&cs.
Part of me wants to go crazy with it, i worked with co-op last year and got a good paying job and i jsut got settled and tesco bought our store and i lost my job. Screw them

Sorry about your job.

The thing is I'm all about getting what you can when you can, BUT, this isn't a glitch where you have to grab as much as you can when you can....this is a promotion which could go on for a while if people are sensible. I don't think Mr T thought this through very well but it is what it is and they would look like idiots if they stopped it now, so it will go on until a time comes when Mr T says enough is enough. Of course that could be tomorrow, or it could run for another month. The only way it will continue is if the majority of people who use it, do so in a sensible manner.

stebiz

tara747 wrote: »

How will they be linked???

Because when you phone up or merge the temp card online, all the info moves over to the other card.

XXSCOTSLASSXX

HopePray wrote: »

North is up the way, Inverness is west, and its over 100 miles away from Abdn.

erm inverness was north of Aberdeen and Elgin last time i checked and it is on the east.... same side as Aberdeen lol

sirbrainy

stebiz wrote: »

My guess is that each till is only seeing 1 or 2 vouchers a day. The young lady who served me today at about 2pm had been on since 10am and had not seen one all day. In fact she had no idea what it was.

However in the larger scheme of things, Tesco work on a very low profit margin (circa 1%) and the huge profits are made by volume. If I was to take a £100 voucher from them, this would often mean them having to sell on average £10,000 worth of goods to get this back.

I think you're thinking of net margin. Gross margin is far higher. On many things (middle ranking FMCG) they retail they make over 40% gross margin.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

ok i think i might have found one , well comparing on the website..

tetley teabags, 160 ( 500g)

mr t £ 3.88 or 2 for £6/ A £2.00

so in theory if i go to mr t tomorrow and buy one pack of these teabags i should get a voucher for £3.76? yes

dawnie1972

In my store yesterday they said they'd had people that had used the voucher WITHOUT presenting a receipt - i asked how this could happen and she stated that "the correct information had not been escalated to the till staff" and this was the reason they are tightening up on it now. Communication - that's the key.