tesco's big price drop!

elsie1969

I am looking further and further into why to NOT buy this weeks 'Real Food Deal'

The leek pack is double the size you need, and almost twice the price of buying loose ones.... what you need for the receipe would cost 60p loose.

You can get enough single cream for 52p for 150ml, if you get the bigger pot would half end up going to waste?

Puff pastry may be tricky to make and worth buying, but there isn't much that is easier to make than shortcrust pastry!

....... Stop trying to con us Mr T..... Please can we have a sensible Real Food receipe again next week! :mad:

elsie1969

elsie1969 wrote: »

I am looking further and further into why to NOT buy this weeks 'Real Food Deal'

The leek pack is double the size you need, and almost twice the price of buying loose ones.... what you need for the receipe would cost 60p loose.

You can get enough single cream for 52p for 150ml, if you get the bigger pot would half end up going to waste?

Puff pastry may be tricky to make and worth buying, but there isn't much that is easier to make than shortcrust pastry!

....... Stop trying to con us Mr T..... Please can we have a sensible Real Food receipe again next week! :mad:

and forgot to mention again here that I have 2 years worth of mustard from last weeks deal! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Obukit

Confirming what we all knew, that Tesco's "Price Drop" is a scam...

The_Grocer wrote:

Tesco’s 33 basket is £1.34 more expensive than last week

Tesco slashed the price of 3,000 items earlier this week but you wouldn't know it from this week's Grocer 33 pricing survey !results.

Despite the 'Big Price Drop' activity, incorporating £500m of price cuts which rolled out across all the chain's store formats on Monday, Tesco's overall price of £58.37 was actually £1.34 more expensive than if the shop had been carried out a week earlier.

And the UK's biggest retailer was only the third-cheapest supermarket for the 33 items on our shopping list, coming in £4.67 more expensive than Asda and 79p dearer than Sainsbury's.

The Grocer 33 is made up of a weighted mix of 33 branded and own-label products across the major grocery categories and !included items such as cheese, bread, potatoes, rice, meat, beer and pasta sauce.

I bet Asda's PR team must be absolutely loving it, Tescos seem intent on repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot. First DTD withdrawn, now a price drop where prices actually rise instead.

harz99

May be of help - the booklet promoting the big price drop has coupons towards the back pages, so don't bin without looking at it if one drops through your door.

Secondly, same coupons - one is for £1 off £5 spend on fruit, however the picture shows fruit AND veg; my local Tesco accepted my argument that this was misleading and manually entered the £1 off my fruit and veg. After all how many people spend £5 a time on fruit alone.

HTH.

saxonrosecliff

I've just come back from Tesco - only bought two things as I use it as my corner shop now and get most things elsewhere. There was lots of moaning going on - price drop items not being cheaper, it costing more to buy large bits of cheese than it does to buy two small pieces adding up to the same amount, lots of prices gone up since last week (presumably to cover the price drop things that are actually cheaper).

Plus they had moved lots of things around so lots of people couldn't find what they were looking for.

Hardly customer care at its finest!

mymerrywidow

harz99 wrote: »

After all how many people spend £5 a time on fruit alone.

HTH.

i do. but not at tesco. i go to the markets. i only shop at tesco when its either free or very cheap.

beachie

This made me laugh.

For a long time, possibly years this always £1. About a 6 months ago it went up to £1.25 but now it's back at £1 under the Big Price Crunch.

Great that it is a £1 again but I wonder if it will be back at £1.25 again in a couple of months when this has died down.

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=261327911

Makeandsave

beachie wrote: »

This made me laugh.

For a long time, possibly years this always £1. About a 6 months ago it went up to £1.25 but now it's back at £1 under the Big Price Crunch.

Great that it is a £1 again but I wonder if it will be back at £1.25 again in a couple of months when this has died down.

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=261327911

Yes this was £1 (not bad), Went to Morrisons Sunday and got same stuff from there and saved £9. Tescos is NOT cheap and might lose me has a customer.

happy_lass

Tesco's ????? MY AR SE !!!!!!!:rotfl::rotfl:

rising_from_the_ashes

Makeandsave wrote: »

Tescos is NOT cheap and might lose me has a customer.

TBH I've never found it cheap and for that reason, I rarely shop there.... don't think that will be changing in the near future either!

Did a price comparison on my Mr A bill this morning and I was surprised to see that Wait*rose came out best after Mr A, with Mr M's a close 2nd. Wasn't at all surprised to see that the most expensive place would've been Mr T's.