are tesco giving money away ?

andy-pandy_6

you know these things and still buy it !, the reduced stuff in our local tescos is always obscure products I would rather spend more and eat what I want to rather than the products with the special labels.

provo

andy-pandy wrote:

you know these things and still buy it !, the reduced stuff in our local tescos is always obscure products I would rather spend more and eat what I want to rather than the products with the special labels.

if you buy from a shop, and really new what happened to a lot of the food you would starve to death rather than eat it. :eek:

pinkonion

Nelski wrote:

Asda do some something similar. Example today (and offer until 13/3 for anyone interested) 2 bottles of Pepsi Max for £2 pretty good anyway however they have Pepsi Max Twist on offer at 98p. Being a Pepsi drinker I bought 6 bottles (to last a month honest!)
Till receipt 98p x 6 Mulitbuy saving 1.92
Therefore making it 66p a bottle!
bargain I think

I usually go to Tesco but after reading this I went to my local ASDA (Coatbridge) instead. The Max Twist was priced as £1.32 and I thought oh dear - the buy 2 bottles for £2 signs were beside the full sugar Pepsi.

I thought oh well and bought 2 bottles thinking I'd at least insist on the £2 if I was overcharged. Lo and behold I did get them for 98p less the discount = 66p.

I went back tonight and cleared their shelves- 14 bottles. As usual when I buy offers I put 1 on the conveyor and told the checkout lady how many I had. If I'd been dishonest I could easily have slipped several normal Pepsi Max bottles in too (or been very dishonest and given a smaller number of bottles - they never check!)

Lillibet_2

My local Tesco last night : Chinese meels £2.99 each BOGOF, reduced to £1.50 each. They went through at BOGOF at the reduced £1.50 price, however 75p per ready Chinese meal was fine with me!

bylromarha

Shops have been doing these BOGOF reduced products for years...having worked at Tesco 10+ years ago (argh!!!!! I'm old!!!!!!) I used to get frustrated that I couldn't hop off the till myself to go and take advantage of some of the bargains other people were passing through my till.

However, the use of the reduced barcode now stops it happening so much. I grumped in Asda a few months ago as I paid more for 2 reduced pizzas than I would of done had the pizzas been full price, as they were on offer full price. I could tell customer service woman was pleased that she'd caught a bargain hunter out!

Have to say my best one was buying a newspaper which contained a £2.50 money off voucher (was the launch day of Femidom...). Truck load of 30p newspapers, ripped out the vouchers and bought loads of stuff in tesco and used the coupons to pay for them. This was in the days before they limited coupon use. Those were the days my friend...

lipidicman

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

But hey - reduced and BOGOF is still good, just not AS GOOD!

This works in Sainsbury's as stated, and I have done it in Waitrose and Somerfield (ie 2xreduced price - full price = negative).

I havent tried Tesco, good info about the barcodes

I know our Safeway compact (not converted to Morrisons, but sells their stuff) has a sign that says 'offers dont apply to reduced goods', but sometimes their reductions are great (like £3.50 chicken fillets to £1)

I hate 'shopping !!!!!!' - oh I've noticed! I like bargains, but I dont mind sharing. The worst are staff who reduce things by 10p so no one is interested, then you see them at the til with everything reduced to 10p. I saw one guy with twenty blocks of cheese - he must have been planning to sell them on, or he had a friend with a food business because you cant freeze cheeze! I was so close to complaining

Has anyone ever tried getting a negative bill by buying these deals in isolation- what would they do? They cant have their tils over - they get accused of short changing customers. What would they do? I've always been scared to see in case it alerts the management to the megadeals I get! The closest I have come is £1.25 for promo Shredded Wheat - 50p for buying 2x reduced oranges = 85p. The cashier looked very confused, checked the receipt, shrugged and said '85p please' in a ver
y unsure voice!

Darren21

lipidicman wrote:

But hey - reduced and BOGOF is still good, just not AS GOOD!

This works in Sainsbury's as stated, and I have done it in Waitrose and Somerfield (ie 2xreduced price - full price = negative).

I havent tried Tesco, good info about the barcodes

I know our Safeway compact (not converted to Morrisons, but sells their stuff) has a sign that says 'offers dont apply to reduced goods', but sometimes their reductions are great (like £3.50 chicken fillets to £1)

I hate 'shopping !!!!!!' - oh I've noticed! I like bargains, but I dont mind sharing. The worst are staff who reduce things by 10p so no one is interested, then you see them at the til with everything reduced to 10p. I saw one guy with twenty blocks of cheese - he must have been planning to sell them on, or he had a friend with a food business because you cant freeze cheeze! I was so close to complaining

Has anyone ever tried getting a negative bill by buying these deals in isolation- what would they do? They cant have their tils over - they get accused of short changing customers. What would they do? I've always been scared to see in case it alerts the management to the megadeals I get! The closest I have come is £1.25 for promo Shredded Wheat - 50p for buying 2x reduced oranges = 85p. The cashier looked very confused, checked the receipt, shrugged and said '85p please' in a ver
y unsure voice!

Most stores would manually correct it if it ended up they owed you money so best not to do this! However my gf used to work at Waitrose and they were told to just pay it out if came to negative so she paid someone £3.50 once for loads and loads of stuff!!

lipidicman

Waitrose pay out? I thought it must have happened! LOL

needmoney

provo wrote:

if you buy from a shop, and really new what happened to a lot of the food you would starve to death rather than eat it. :eek:

We would love you to tell us what you know provo come on please do.

provo

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