are tesco giving money away ?

provo

some tesco stores scan the reductions in to the computer but bread cakes and fruit+veg also some fish is not barcode reduced just a yellow label applied,so the computer has no idea,and the checkout staff just push it through.

safesound

Lillibet wrote:

I thought Tesco had recently introduced software which prevented getting the buy 1 get 1 half price bargins when reduced? I know Morrisons have signs up saying when items are reduced no other special offers will apply.

Iceland have just started to do the same thing as we enter the reduced price and then scan the barcode. If the price is reduced then BOGOFs dont apply anymore (not sure about the 2 for X etc as sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt, it seems to depend what brand it is). I thought it was because they are having money troubles and/or because of the buy out but obviously not.

coolio_2

LilacLillie wrote:

I get so many of these reduced bargains, that I had to buy a keyring calculator..................my brain isn't quick enough to do the math before its grabbed from the shelf!
Sainsbury's at the moment, are selling fresh salmon £5.99 a pkt, get 2nd pkt for 99p.
Tonight they were reduced to £2.49 a pkt, so I got 2 pkts, thinking it would be £3.48. The store is miles away and I don't drive.
When I got home, I noticed that I'd been charged the full £5.99 + 99p. No bargain there, I only bought it to put in the freezer at that price
So I rang the store and spoke to customer service, she told me her name and said to take the receipt back next time, for a full refund.
Luckily I am back that way tomorrow, so will do it then, otherwise I'd have ended up never going back, as its out of my way.
LL

ALWAYS check your receipt when still in the store. Tesco, if they overcharge, give you a full refund.

Sainsburys used to do the same and I read about a family who took full advantage of this. Each week they would notice a few things overcharged and get them free. Next time they would go in, they would buy that item again, if still overcharged they would then fill their trollies and get it all discounted. I guess they gave the store fair warning. They would donate about £1k worth of stuff to charities each month.

Sainsburys then invited them to show them their mistakes, they found a fe whundred misprices in each store. A week later less than 5% were fixed, and they took advantage again, they then got barred.

At Tesco, I would probably get a refund for the one, then get someone else to go and buy 5. I once told my mum to get 5 crates of beer that I knew was going through at the wrong price.

Subhuman_2

Recently bought some of the Bisc&s with the Mars, Twix and Milky Way toppings, 3 for 2 at 94p, but reduced to 30p a pack. 3 x 30p = 90p - 94p = 4p credit. Picked up 18 pack in total.

And bought a lot of stuff ridiculously cheap the night that asda were doing the stock check. loads for 9p each - skate wings, ham on the bone, roasting potatoes, tomato and basil dip. Came to about £5 instead of £15 by the time we'd finished

filigree_2

I find that if you are lucky enough to find some special offer that means you get food for pennies, it's a good idea to disguise the fact. If you go through the till with 20 packs of cornish pasties and get charged 20p, the assistant will call for a supervisor and you are in for a world of arguing the toss. Mix your bargain goodies amongst the other stuff so the reductions aren't too obvious.

Keep your eyes peeled for reductions on goods with reward points (clubcard points too). If something is reduced to 50p and has 100 Nectar points, it is effectively free.

Sainsbury's once messed up and offered 400 points (= £2) per pack of cake mix, which only cost about £1.25 so they really were paying me to take it away! I stripped the shelves bare, as you can imagine. I had to make a VERY firm stand and insist on getting my points added because they didn't like it. I made hundreds of fairy cakes and sold them at the PTA bake sale, so we all benefitted from the bargain

Remember, if you find something with today's sell by date on it you can ask to have it reduced. Sainsbury's are pretty good about this.

provo

filigree wrote:

I find that if you are lucky enough to find some special offer that means you get food for pennies, it's a good idea to disguise the fact. If you go through the till with 20 packs of cornish pasties and get charged 20p, the assistant will call for a supervisor and you are in for a world of arguing the toss. Mix your bargain goodies amongst the other stuff so the reductions aren't too obvious.

Keep your eyes peeled for reductions on goods with reward points (clubcard points too). If something is reduced to 50p and has 100 Nectar points, it is effectively free.

Sainsbury's once messed up and offered 400 points (= £2) per pack of cake mix, which only cost about £1.25 so they really were paying me to take it away! I stripped the shelves bare, as you can imagine. I had to make a VERY firm stand and insist on getting my points added because they didn't like it. I made hundreds of fairy cakes and sold them at the PTA bake sale, so we all benefitted from the bargain

Remember, if you find something with today's sell by date on it you can ask to have it reduced. Sainsbury's are pretty good about this.

your right dont think it would work with 20 loaves at 10pence down from 70pence on buy one get one free.its just about being realistic

charlotte3

This is a great loophole. I hope they don't catch on to it any time soon. Thanks for this one!

beaker141

katskorner wrote:

I have noticed that tesco seems to have changed the way it calculates these discounts.

If something is say Buy 2 for £3 and then both items are reduced from £2 each to £1 each you would expect it to be £1 for both:

Item 1 £1
Item 2 £1
Deduct £1 (till programmed to do this)
Cost £1

However we have found that we got charged £2 - £1 each item. When we queried it they said that as it was reduced you were getting it cheaper than the £3 for the two so the discount does not apply anymore.

Also if things ar BOGOF and reduced - they give you one free by deducting the reduced price - not the full price....

Didn't used to work like this. Now I don't save hardly anything.

Does anybody know the legality of this ? Surely if a sign were to say buy one get on free, then if the reduced yellow barcode showed £1, you should pay £2 for both. There is never an asterix on the BOGOF stating it is full price only. Is it just x for £y pounds that the system is being clever on ? BOGOF should be just that regardless of the price.

I used to work at Tesco in my youth on the dreaded Bread section ! Staff have it easy now with all these barcode printers, I recall starting at 5pm reducing stock, writing out little yellow labels by hand, recording in a book the product, how many reduced and by what and total loss. When the store closed at 8pm (the old days) I had only got 3/4 of the way through the section !!! My hand used to be in agony !

Interestingly our store had an anomoly on pitta bread offers. It was along the lines of buy 2 get 3rd free, say standard price was 50p, our store had an "area reduction" where they may be reduced in price for local competition to 35p, but the discount was still set to 50p, so buy 3 packs of pitta bread for 3*35p - 50p = 55p. The real fun then started when we had to reduce them, we were careful we didnt give them away, but it worked out you got 3 packs of pitta bread for 1p. My manager used to order loads because of the way multisavers were accounted for, the cost was a promotional cost bourne by head office, but the sales were credited to the store.

It was amazing how these managers get really excited about sales figures - they used to go and check every hour what the days takings had been so far - like it matters !

Our local Altrincham store is terrible - my wife picks up an average of an error per week and occasionally they get a bit funny about refunding the error. Frozen peas were double scanned but she didnt notice for a couple of weeks, then they refused to resolve the issue - had to get on the phone and give them earache until they relented. Would understannd if it was high value items where we were drying to scam them, but frozen peas at 1.50 ! It has since happened again with the peas !!!

andy-pandy_6

filigree wrote:

Remember, if you find something with today's sell by date on it you can ask to have it reduced. Sainsbury's are pretty good about this.

If the product has best before on most retailers have a policy of reducing before that date as they dont sell them after that although it is still legal to do so if the food is still safe !, however if it is a use by(more volatile products) then it can still be sold on the day of the "use by " but it is illegal after that date . The quality of some reduced to clear products must be in doubt as they have already had a fair time on the shelf , I know people then freeze them and of course defrost them later !!!

more info here

http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/asksam/foodlabels/asksamlabelterms/#A220019

not such bargains if you end up with food poisoning ?

provo

andy-pandy wrote:

If the product has best before on most retailers have a policy of reducing before that date as they dont sell them after that although it is still legal to do so if the food is still safe !, however if it is a use by(more volatile products) then it can still be sold on the day of the "use by " but it is illegal after that date . The quality of some reduced to clear products must be in doubt as they have already had a fair time on the shelf , I know people then freeze them and of course defrost them later !!!

more info here

http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/asksam/foodlabels/asksamlabelterms/#A220019

not such bargains if you end up with food poisoning ?

food poisoning from bakery products ?
if the shop has a butchery counter the meat that is 2 days old is trimmed and cellophane wrapped and a date put on that makes the meat 2 days younger than it should be.

what about the animal feed chicken that was being sold in tesco ect ?
it was green to start with but not after trimming bleaching and washed,most people that eat chicken in the uk were eating that stuff.
do you belive buying on the sell buy date will make that much difference ?