MSE News: Tesco slashes Clubcard points to finance price drop

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richardw wrote: »

Green peppers are reduced

"Green Peppers Each Class 1

Was £0.70 Now £0.63 valid from 25/9/2011 until 24/10/2011"

10% off, but only until 24th Oct, this is just for one month only.

In ASDA they have loose peppers 2 for £1. Another Tesco con.

wannabehermit

I know this is off topic but...

WestonDave wrote: »

I suspect its getting absolutely hammered by Asda's 10% cheaper guarantee - now is not the economic climate to be seen as complacently more expensive than your major rival. Once I discovered mysupermarket and realised that Asda was roughly 10% cheaper, Tesco got the boot (albeit that cheekily I still use a Tesco credit card so gather Tesco points on my Asda shopping!). £5 or £6 a week in grocery savings dwarfs anything I can save on clubcard points.

Just out of interest do you always shop on Asda at mysupermarket? We have found that whichever supermarket you shop on is always the cheapest. e.g. if we shop with Tesco that usually comes out about £5 - £10 cheaper than Asda and Sainsburys, if we shop on Asda it comes out the same against Tesco & Sainsburys and if we shop at Sainsburys it comes out a few £ cheaper than the other two.

We found that the substitutions are quite often not what we would substitute for, e.g. Asda own brand pasta sauce - 89p, mysupermarket substitutes for Bertolli in Sainsburys which is £2.55 instead of their own brand and a similar priced one in Tesco (the one we buy from them is 75p). We've found this on things like veg it doesn't substitute like for like, e.g. bananas will change to fair trade or organic which are obviously dearer than normal bog standard bananas. Cold meats are another example that we find don't substitute well.

We now do the shopping on say Tesco, then check the substitions in Asda and Sainsburys and change them to what we would use. The real price difference between them is usually a matter of pence but 99% of the time Asda is the dearest of the 3 (for the things we buy). The only time it came out cheaper recently was when they had an offer on nappies that the others didn't so I ordered from there. The delivery arrived and nappies were out of stock meaning that my shopping ended up dearer than if I'd got it from the other 2 and I still had to go out to Tesco to buy nappies anyway (no asda in walking distance).

JulieGeorgiana

richardw wrote: »

Green peppers are reduced

"Green Peppers Each Class 1

Was £0.70 Now £0.63 valid from 25/9/2011 until 24/10/2011"

10% off, but only until 24th Oct, this is just for one month only.

Nearly everything is 'reduced' for a limited time only...!

I thought this was a permanent price drop... not just a big gimmick!

I wrote them a complaint and told them I would follow it up by spending my money at Sainsbury's!

xmaslolly76

iviv wrote: »

Lets face it, Tesco have 30.7% of the market, and they have that many people shopping there for a reason. Because they are the best option available for them.

Not really people dont shop there becasue its the best option alot shop there because its their only option. We have no less than 12 different Tesco branches within less than 5 mile radious compared to 5 asdas, 2 morribobs and 4 sainsburys. if you dont have a car then a family shop at the latter three mentioned supermarkets can prove increasingly difficult yet tescos is never more than walking distance away from someone round here.

miserablesod

richardw wrote: »

Green peppers are reduced

"Green Peppers Each Class 1

Was £0.70 Now £0.63 QUOTE]

Lidl have peppers loose @39p

Just popped into Lidl this morning after the school run, just topick up some fruit. Got bananas, a loose pepper,leeks,1kg carrots,and some grapes and milk Total £5.25
Tesco price would have been £7.15

Just a shy off £2 cheaper

poshparrot

I popped into my local tesco express this morning and a lot of items are reduced. However a lot of multibuys are gone. For example, 4 pints of milk are now £1.25 but they used to be £1.49 or 3 for £3 so the consumer is worse off.

feijoa

Anyone know what will be happening to Tesco petrol and diesel 5p-off per litre vouchers, now that the so-called price-drop campaign has started? I didn't see any mention of fuel saving on the Tesco website this morning, which suggests that it's been pulled! Particularly annoying if Tesco quietly drop this promo, as in recent weeks it's been possible to use a maximum of 3 vouchers, saving 15p per litre. Filled up with fuel last Friday (at 15p per litre off) plus several fuel containers, to see me through lawn-mowing for this season and, with any luck, some of next year as well.

crackersannie

Hm. Last week Raspberries £2.25, or 2 for £3, Strawberries £1.99 or 2 for £3. Today Raspberries £1.80, Strawberries £1.59. If buying single packs, a saving of 85p, but if buying 2 of each pack it costs 78p more! Why didn't they keep the multibuy option for those that like to buy more, so that people still save? Surely, if they were making a profit on the multibuy prices, when without the multibuy prices the cost would have been £8.48, they can make a profit by selling them with the multibuy now? Sorry for the rant, just feel really hacked off by this. I know supermarkets are always trying to con us into thinking they have the best prices, why don't they prove it?

jjones3415

Some good points by people here, i also liked the 5p off fuel vouchers (being a private hire driver i could save £9 a fill up) and i also agree with the comments about mysupermarket.

I find there is no supermarket (including lidl etc) that is cheapest for everything and that if you have the time then its best to buy certain products from each supermarket, although in reality this isnt really an option for most busy households.

Regarding the new price drop i'm quite pleased they have stopped some of these multibuy deals. 3x 4 pints of milk, i would never get through and my freezers not that big (and you can buy tesco creamfields milk for £1 for 4pints) 2x soft fruits they go off before i can eat them all, i understand everyones situation is different so whats good for me may be bad for someone else.

gollum007

As far as I know (Staff), it's not a limited time only. The dates on the labels are a legal thing, and not necessarily when the price will change (I see plenty of labels changed for both higher and lower prices well before the date. Normally it'll be somewhere ~1 week before the date on the label when it gets changed)

The staff literature states that the saving will be 'more' than the average customer collects in double points. They seem to be working on the base assumption that customers spend thier vouchers on instore shopping when recieved, hence the savings are more than the lost value of points.
Obviously this doesn't apply to those of us here who spend the vouchers on deals etc, but that's the reasoning behind it, and as far as I can really go.

-Gollum