Is everyone obsessed with Tesco?

blondynurse

mademoiselle wrote: »

As Tesco is a multi-billion pound business, based almost COMPLETELY on manipulating food prices, overcharging for essentials, thus pulling the wool over the customer's eyes and extracting the maximum in profit - you know what occurs to me?

(Being a cynical thing). Tesco probably have analysts that can calculate to the last tin of beans, what we are going to buy. Their computerised projections will be the ultimate in sophistication. There should be no surprises for them. So why the glitches - and why so many, all of a sudden?

I think they are deliberate. I think Tesco are doing it on purpose. Because, for each 'quick! grabbit!' post that is made here, hundreds if not thousands of MSE'ers are rushing off to Tesco to find the bargain.

MOST WILL NOT. You see yourself on here, how many people are disappointed. But what they WILL do, while they are on the premises, is buy other things.

And so Tesco wins again. They are extracting profit from even the most money conscious of us. The biter is bit!

On an associated point: You know, when I saw the posts on here from the handful of people who have managed to pick up dozens, even hundreds, of cheap cereal, pasta etc through the glitches, or through adroit use of coupons, it did occur to me to think: "Is that going too far? do these people have too much nerve?"

You know what? Try as I might, I cannot find it in myself to condemn them. I say, "good luck to you!". Because their tiny 'win' against Tesco is like a drop in the ocean of the massive profits. So keep on doing it, people! :T

love your post and totally agree, i don't buy anything from tesco's thats not a bargain, we are living on glitches, and i get all my meat from whats reduced by 70% off at about 9pm at night. We have never eaten so well lol
take care and thanks for your insight mademoiselle x

jakeh44

I remember..........when I was a lad that my mum used to send us to the Ice-age section of Tesco to buy frozen-dodo when there was Tesco mis-pricing. Even back then Tesco were up to their tricks. Ok it took 4 weeks for word to get round in those days but we used to demolish Tesco for the mis-priced articles.

I remember once buying a mammoth woolly coat. The CEL (Cave edge label) was wrong . You should have seen the trouts face when I asked for double the difference. Ah those were the days.

sinw

i love tesco when they got great offers and hate them wen they a pain in the butt - i'd say love hate relationship here...

mymerrywidow

flowmeter wrote: »

Perhaps people could give their thoughts...

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3499161

leave things as they are, we have a thread called tesco misprices, peolpe can put all the tesco things in there.

moonshine

mademoiselle wrote: »

I think they are deliberate. I think Tesco are doing it on purpose. Because, for each 'quick! grabbit!' post that is made here, hundreds if not thousands of MSE'ers are rushing off to Tesco to find the bargain.

add to that all the free advertising they are getting (with practically every other thread in Grabbit mentioning Tesco in the title these days)

This sort of advertising would usually cost them dear but they are getting massive daily exposure without spending anything! Losing a few items to people because of a glitch is pretty small fry compared to the gain they make from all the free advertising.

Cold and calculated by the Tesco machine I would say and it seems to be working as we are taken in

sandybrag

sirbrainy wrote: »

Some of us made quite a few £thousand profit on DTD :whistle::whistle::whistle::whistle::whistle:

Maybe so and quite rightly - but for each of you there will be thousands of others that didnt

flowmeter

mymerrywidow wrote: »

leave things as they are, we have a thread called tesco misprices, peolpe can put all the tesco things in there.

They could but...they don't.

We have a Groceries & food shopping board - does everyone know about it or use it? Nope

moonshine

mymerrywidow wrote: »

leave things as they are, we have a thread called tesco misprices, peolpe can put all the tesco things in there.

but they don't seem to be doing that unfortunately. For example posted here today and yesterday are these that should have been in the misprices thread https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3500347 and https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3500021 but they've started new threads for them

nikkilala_2

moonshine wrote: »

but they don't seem to be doing that unfortunately. For example posted here today and yesterday are these that should have been in the misprices thread https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3500347 and https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3500021 but they've started new threads for them

Which is why I've just bumped the misprice thread again;)

miss_edith

moonshine wrote: »

Cold and calculated by the Tesco machine I would say and it seems to be working as we are taken in

Not all of us are! I skim over everything that mentions Tesco in the title as I refuse to set foot in there.

I live in a small market town with a Waitrose and Co-op on the high street. The whole town is furious that the council are planning on allowing 2 of the big four chains to open on our outskirts and inevitably destroy our town centre.
A lot of people want to live a Tesco-free life! :mad: