Tesco misprice discussion area part 17

FloFlo

Never mind, just have to stick to free toiletries for the forseeable courtesy of all the different tesco coupons. Oh and points £700 worth of deals this quarter, I'll still be shopping there when the policy changes. It will be quite a relief, I don't r&r locally anymore but still spot quite a few and it will stop me be tempted to r&r them. Hopefully the change will cheer up the miserable CSAs and DMs.

ginjim

leadhead wrote:

Ginjim mate, your other home isnt doing you any good, you were never aggresive like that when you posted regularly on here.........That place gets me down as well mind!!

as for start afresh
from my reckoning its the start of the new financial year for tescos even though i'm sure constantine or spa said it started in april same as the tax year( strange)
as for being aggresive i dont think i actually was i just queried why a poster who has never posted before decided to post something like that. it has been said before and people have complained of goading and baiting
i do enjoy being part of both worlds and as a man i don 't think i;ll ever change

Hizz

Tesco are also due to introduce new security measures to keep R&R's back from Customer Services desks

FloFlo

Hizz wrote:

Tesco are also due to introduce new security measures to holdback R&R's from Customer Services desks

They introduced that in my local store the last time I tried to r&r an xbox.:mad: Hence the reason I no longer r&r locally.;)

lagroove

I have been quite sucessful in my short R and R campaign, but cant help noticing that they seem to be on the ball alot more as there are very few posts on the misprice threads these days, I have only just started to look for out of date sels but noticed that even though the sel is out of date it does not always scan and the old price is there a reason for that? Is there a time scale after the sel runs out before the price changes?

rombomb

For the first time, I now believe the rumours that R&R is ending in 2 weeks time. Constantine and the new Tesco manager wifey who mentioned week 52 as being the end have convinced me.

However, since the New Year I've only had 1 or 2 misprices, 1 being accidental. I think Mr T has cleaned his act up big style.

No worries, back to Asda and Morrisons for my shop.

Odd_Fellow

spa2k wrote:

Sorry to say this but your post quoted above is total and complete tosh.

I started a thread on the http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=276739 a while ago and comments showed that actually far from being Tesco who has supposedly destroyed the high street the actual people at fault (if there is any fault - personally i think it is natural progression) are actually the general consumer.....they are the people who make the choice to pay 27p for a pint of milk and not 50p?? from the milkman or any of the thousands of products you can pull out of a hat as a comparison.

Also interesting that you target only Tesco and no other large retailer...how about dixons killing off the electrical retailers or halfords destroying the local cycle shops....not such easy targets perhaps?

You're right about the consumer - I can't argue that fact. But the matter stands.

IF I could afford to set up shop selling Milk for 2p a pint, cornflakes at 30p and all manner of other goods we buy on a daily basis, I would be able to entice plenty of people away from the high street, the corner shop, out of town stores etc. Indeed, if I had the money to CONVINCE people that I was cheaper than I actually was though HUGE marketing budgets, I could probabaly achieve it without selling at stupid prices.

The point is that I could potentially damage/change the retail sector as we've come to know it. The evidence is there for all to see if you just look at how the Internet has and is changing the face of retailing in this and other countries.

I single out Tesco as it's been the most aggressive (and successful) of these businesses. It's not alone as you point out.

Consumers (like everyone on here) are, by and large, looking for the best deal. Considering the consequences of their actions is not paramount in their minds when paying £1.11 for a 4 pint carton of milk as opposed to £1.25 in my village co-op or £1.66 in the 24hour petrol station on the A149.

However, like Global Warming, the realisation that these big businesses have changed (and arguably damaged) our high streets and communities, is beginning to dawn on us. In mosy high streets, grocery shopping is now almost impossible. Taking the global warming issue further, we could equally lay blame at Tesco's door (and others) because almost now without exception, we have to DRVIE to these places to do our shopping where once we'd have got on the bus or even walked.

I don't think we need anecdotal evidence to support this, but I'm sure there's plenty available.

I also single out Tesco becuase, unlike Halfords, Currys, Dixons, TK Max and such, we don't need one on every third street corner. Having a corner shop though is godsend, but increasingly, it's a corner Tesco Metro. Certainly, this is a success for Tesco, there's no argument. But it's also a massive negative for the community as choice and variety have gone and small local businesses who were once valuable members of the community have gone too.

The next argument is what the likes of Tesco have done to our farming industry.

Odd_Fellow

rombomb wrote:

For the first time, I now believe the rumours that R&R is ending in 2 weeks time. Constantine and the new Tesco manager wifey who mentioned week 52 as being the end have convinced me.

However, since the New Year I've only had 1 or 2 misprices, 1 being accidental. I think Mr T has cleaned his act up big style.

No worries, back to Asda and Morrisons for my shop.

I'd like to stop shopping in these stores altogether. I buy all my fruit an veg from farm shops now and will revert back to my local village butcher for meat once this policy ends.

There seem to be fewer misprices, but it does go in waves anyway. The point is that if Tesco had sharpened up it's practices (if indeed it wasn't sharp practice in the first place), a policy change would have been totally unnecessary.

munygrabr

Aw come on guys.. keep it light;) ...R&R chat in here lol:beer:

leadhead

Odd_Fellow wrote:

The next argument is what the likes of Tesco have done to our farming industry.

Hopefully not on this thread though, where it will be deleted by the mods for being off-topic.........here's the link to Spa's thread

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....html?t=276739