Equal rights at Tesco?

vyle

Mk14:37 wrote: »

Sorry, but this is total BS! If you think Mr T has any interest in fairness for their customers then they've managed to pull the wool over your eyes, well and truly!

Don't bring Mr T into this, he's just minding his own business, pitying fools.

Kez1983

I had a bit of a rant about this quite a while ago - mine was clipboards if I remember rightly! (I was buying 12 - uni work!)

I was pointed to a sign on customer services that did actually say that there was a limit of 10 items and anything more had to be specially ordered!

It was about 6am, there was only one till on and about 5 people behind me. After the rather rude assistant has shouted "youve got loads of these - have you left any on the shelves" or something like (there was about 50 more on shelf, not in short supply!!) and informed me I could only buy 10 not 12, I very calmly stood and laid
them all out on the till pondering which colours to put back!:rotfl: After a few minutes the supervisor ran over and told the cashier just to put the 12 through so she could serve the other customers!!

Someone did point out when I vented how does it relate to bottles of wine when they offer a 5% discount for buying 12 bottles! (dont know if they still do this, I dont drink the stuff!)

Never thought about it applying to Jammie Dodgers tho!!!:D

VfM4meplse

pulliptears wrote: »

It seems reasonable to assume that most people won't join a consumer forum until such a time they need advice.

Isn't that how many of us former lurkers were persuaded to join? And before you know it, posting becomes an addiction....

Please put me out of my misery - why so many Jammy Dodgers? From memory, it is 8/pack, that's 160 cups of tea!! (or 2 nights in front of the TV lol ).

lolseh

It can't apply to reduced things because I often come out with more than 10 bags of the same salad and don't get told off! But no I don't have a salad addiction.. Just alot of guinea pigs and the staff are used to my madness

967stuart

visidigi wrote: »

this is more of a rant that a consumer rights issue.

and to answer your question - tesco have the choice to sell to you or not, they could even ban you if they wish...its not about your rights to buy...indeed its not about the specific product (your post is trying to make light of the fact its happened over jammie dodgers)....its about being fair to all consumers.

Put the shoe on the other foot, you really really want to buy something which is on offer, you go into store tobuy it, the shelf is empty and the person in front of you at checkout has 20 packs of the product you wanted...would you consider this fair? I would bet a jammie dodger on the fact you would complain to the store manager about it...

Besides...its not unusual to be known if you shop there every day - especially spending £100 a time...

Get a grip you idiot.

fluffnutter

'Equal rights' is a bit of a provocative description, eliciting, as it does, images of gender, or race, or disability. Surely this is just about good old-fashioned 'fairness' or even boring old 'good business sense'? Lots of offers state 'one per household' so as to maximise the number of separate transactions of people taking up this offer and spending money on other more profitable items whilst they're at it.

Or maybe Andrea just wanted to keep all those Jammie Dodgers for herself. But you know what? Who cares?

Wids

I think the answer here is shopping online, you can buy as many offers as you wish (which is as it should be) without the slightest frown or moralistic sneer from your mouse.

It's not up to individual shoppers to be concerned about whether Tesco's stock levels suffice for the next customer, I mean how would someone buying the last item on a shelf know whether there isn't 100 others available in the stock room to be brought out. Tesco is in the business of calculating potential demand, if an offer is put on a popular product with a long shelf life, you can expect people to want to bulk buy it. If Tesco puts up an offer and people find it enticing enough to stock up, then wants to limit the offer, they should be forced to advertise a maximum purchase quantity instead of making prudent shoppers feel guilty.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

I went into Tesco today and could not buy any Jammie dodgers because they had sold out as they were on special offer.

where is my compo? Or did the fatty OP take them all?

SandC

Why aren't those new toffee dodgers on offer I wonder? Surely they have not overtaken jammie dodgers already, meaning that the jam filled variety need to be on special?

Personally I would like to thank the OP for buying so many packets. He is doing a service to those of us who can't be trusted with special offers on biscuits that we don't need and wouldn't have even thought about if they hadn't been cheap. :T

DCFC79

The threads a windup, the OP hasnt been back since saturday