tesco's big price drop!

merlin68

I was forced into Tesco last night as hubby was home to late to take me to Aldi's. It was dreadful empty shelves, no customers. And I kid you not a bag of 18 crisps was £4.32 I get similar in Aldi's for £1.50.
All I could afford in there wes the value carp.
Aldi's normal range is cheaper than Tesco value.

AlwaysSmiling

I've just got home to find a letter presumably to all clubcard users, basically stating that in order to bring down the price of food to its customers, they have had to revoke back to only giving 1 point per £1. I laughed so much as I had earlier read this article:

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Tesco-Reveals-Worst-skynews-1348199174.html?x=0

Now its one thing to make out like Tesco's are "helping" their customers but another to think their stupid!!

I shopped at Tesco's before for certain items which I probably could get elsewhere, but now the decline of the reusable bag points (in Wales) and only 1 point per £1, I think i'll stick with Lidl.

wingates

Anyone noticed that you only get 1 point now for every £2 spent on petrol.

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harz99 wrote: »

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

well if I spent a fiver in Aldi's on Fruit and veg I would have more than enough to last me for a fortnight.I love oranges and bananas from Sainsbobs because they last longer than any others and usually whatever the 'special offers' are in Aldi's (especially the veggies I will buy there. I rarely buy F&V in Tescos the tomatoes are like bullets and the cucumbers go slimy very quickly.Their fruit and veg seem to be vastly overpriced especially for stuff in season half a dozen apples at this time of the year shouldn't cost £1.50:eek: I have a tesco metro about two minutes from my house and a HUGE tesco's a mile away and yet I do my utmost not to buy much in there .This week they had County Life butter on a bogoff for £2.68 and its the 'lighter version so I have bought 2 kilos of it and that will last me virually to Christmas so it was worth buying.Their cheese seems to have virtually doubled in price along with a lot of other stuff I think after this mornings news about their falling sales folk have woken up to the fact that thier promises aren't worth the paper their written on.Their CEO said that the reason things had slowed down was that petrol prices had stopped folk buying so much stuff I don't think so I think that people have woken up at last to the fact that they are part of rip-off britain and we are voting with our feet.Even their stuff when reduced at the end of the day isn't worth having

OrkneyStar

harz99 wrote: »

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.

Um, us (2 adults and 4 yr old), most weeks, be it in Tesco or Lidl or the Coop (the only supermarkets we have).
I buy:
oranges or clementines or something else orangey
apples
bananas
kiwis
sometimes grapes (depends on price)
sometimes blueberries (but not so much now they are getting expensive)
sometimes plums (depends on whether or not we got grapes!).

I agree the coupon sounds misleading though.

borderlakland

JackieO wrote: »

harz99 wrote: »

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

well if I spent a fiver in Aldi's on Fruit and veg I would have more than enough to last me for a fortnight.I love oranges and bananas from Sainsbobs because they last longer than any others and usually whatever the 'special offers' are in Aldi's (especially the veggies I will buy there. I rarely buy F&V in Tescos the tomatoes are like bullets and the cucumbers go slimy very quickly.Their fruit and veg seem to be vastly overpriced especially for stuff in season half a dozen apples at this time of the year shouldn't cost £1.50:eek:

i got apples and pears from local farm shop today, even though the apples were small i got approx 18/20 apples and 4 huge ripe pears for £2
sure beats putting money in tesco tills and supports a local business..
oh and they tasted far better as well

OrkneyStar

borderlakland wrote: »

JackieO wrote: »

i got apples and pears from local farm shop today, even though the apples were small i got approx 18/20 apples and 4 huge ripe pears for £2
sure beats putting money in tesco tills and supports a local business..
oh and they tasted far better as well

Shame us islanders don't have such options....it is local butcher/grocer, Lidl, Tesco or Coop for us. I do support the local shops but they charge about 30p for one apple :~).
I'll say it again, we don't all have Aldi, we don't all have markets, we can't all shop around.

SHIPSHAPE

wingates wrote: »

Anyone noticed that you only get 1 point now for every £2 spent on petrol.

Yes, which is one reason I stopped buying fuel at Tesco. However, to be fair, they did advertise this for quite a while.

Unlike Morrisons who recently cut thiers by a third seemingly without any notice whatsoever.

I just don't bother now and buy from ASDA who have no gimmicky card and are almost always the cheapest anyway.

OrkneyStar

SHIPSHAPE wrote: »

Yes, which is one reason I stopped buying fuel at Tesco. However, to be fair, they did advertise this for quite a while.

Unlike Morrisons who recently cut thiers by a third seemingly without any notice whatsoever.

I just don't bother now and buy from ASDA who have no gimmicky card and are almost always the cheapest anyway.

LOL, we also don't have supermarket petrol, we have local fuel stations where the prices are crazy, I have stopped looking now it is so expensive!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

havent shopped in mr T in yonks.. and after reding so much about hte price drop i went to have a nose today.... and i totally agree with everyone its a load of tosh.... flip it has gone really expensive.....

the nearest one to us ( not for long though a mr T extra is opiening up soon) has a farmfoods, Lidl, pound stretcher and now a Home bargins very close to it, soooooooooooo i think that T will really feel the pinch... good.... I say..... about time they had a bit of their own medicine and now they know how the small independant businesses feels like....( well a fraction of it anyway)