tesco's big price drop!

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All the big supermarkets are in business to make money make no mistake about that, and make money they will if we fall for their 'marketing scams'. At the moment with everyone tightening their belts because of rising food costs We are all not only trying to save money, but cut back on buying superfluous stuff.This send shivers of panic into the board rooms of the big companies. Far too long they have herded us like sheep through their stores, and happily relieved us of our cash at the tills,like a benevolent highway robber.
Today things have changed not only because of this site but because folk are at last waking up to the fact that rising food costs are not just through the state of the world, but the fact that the bigger the company the more they have to make for their shareholders.There has been a retaliatory backlash from the general public, and we are not a dippy customers that we used to be .With price comparison sites and more folk becoming computer savvy we now can pick and choose where to spend our hard earned cash.The big book companies have discovered this awhile ago with folk now buying more and more of their stuff, after checking a comparison site for the best deals .All the media and newspaper hoo-ha about 'The Big Price Drop' rather like Camerons 'Big Society' effort will have about the same effect .
When shopping, take your pen and paper and buy what you need, not what the shops advertising tell you need.If its overpriced, then don't buy it there look for a cheaper alternative.The great british housewife is a lot of things but stupid she is not.What irritates me is their idea that as a shopper I am somewhat dimmer than one of their low watt bulbs.
I'm not I have been shopping for alomost 60 years and have seen all the scams come and go This new one will go the way of the rest as there is an old saying that you can only fool some of the people some of the time, but by using your noddle they won't fool you, believe me.So search for the best price on your computer before you go to the shops if you can.After all this is one of the greatest advantages that you have that was never around previously, the ability to find stuff whether its a washing machine ,a CD, or a couple of bags of food at the best possible price to suit your budget . I shop between my local butcher (because he does very good local sourced meat, my local fishmonger for the same reason) Wilkinsons for cleaning bits, the farm shop for fruit and veg or the greengrocers also local to me, and as for the supermarkets these I list what I need and go on a comparison website between the big ones to see which has the best offer.With Sainsburys I get nectar points, and with tescos I get their points, but its not the points that get my custom its the prices, and none of the big shops will get a tanner if I can get it somewhere elseThe nearest Lidl is 9 miles away so its not often they get a look-in but I do uses Tesco,Sainsburys ,Aldi's and now and again Morrisons ,but only if they have a really good offer on.
Company loyalty means nowt to me its a case of making the pound in my pocket do the best work and get me the best value.Ignore all the 'every little helps' nonsence it only helps the company not you.Don't let the big four treat you as a sheep we are rational human beings and as such should be respected by the companies and not treated as though we were slightly 'ditsy ladies' who shop for hubbys tea' It's patronising and disrespectful.

renegade

kevin.nicholls wrote: »

Just purchased a snack 100g cornish pasty from Tesco Extra.

Last week 50p

This week price dropped to, er, 51p ....

Ticket on the shelf says down from 56p. Don't know when it was 56p, but it wasn't any time recently!

How on earth do they get away with it.

Because people like you keep buying them!

gallygirl

Have just opened a new box of Finish DW tablets. Reckon I still have around 18 months worth left.

Around a year's worth of fabric conditioner & 9 months liquid detergent.

A year's instant coffee.

A holiday's worth of suntan lotion.

A few other things still kicking about.

Just wondering how those with the garage stocks were getting on.

Those were the days

COOLTRIKERCHICK

JackieO wrote: »

All the big supermarkets are in business to make money make no mistake about that, and make money they will if we fall for their 'marketing scams'. At the moment with everyone tightening their belts because of rising food costs We are all not only trying to save money, but cut back on buying superfluous stuff.This send shivers of panic into the board rooms of the big companies. Far too long they have herded us like sheep through their stores, and happily relieved us of our cash at the tills,like a benevolent highway robber.
Today things have changed not only because of this site but because folk are at last waking up to the fact that rising food costs are not just through the state of the world, but the fact that the bigger the company the more they have to make for their shareholders.There has been a retaliatory backlash from the general public, and we are not a dippy customers that we used to be .With price comparison sites and more folk becoming computer savvy we now can pick and choose where to spend our hard earned cash.The big book companies have discovered this awhile ago with folk now buying more and more of their stuff, after checking a comparison site for the best deals .All the media and newspaper hoo-ha about 'The Big Price Drop' rather like Camerons 'Big Society' effort will have about the same effect .
When shopping, take your pen and paper and buy what you need, not what the shops advertising tell you need.If its overpriced, then don't buy it there look for a cheaper alternative.The great british housewife is a lot of things but stupid she is not.What irritates me is their idea that as a shopper I am somewhat dimmer than one of their low watt bulbs.
I'm not I have been shopping for alomost 60 years and have seen all the scams come and go This new one will go the way of the rest as there is an old saying that you can only fool some of the people some of the time, but by using your noddle they won't fool you, believe me.So search for the best price on your computer before you go to the shops if you can.After all this is one of the greatest advantages that you have that was never around previously, the ability to find stuff whether its a washing machine ,a CD, or a couple of bags of food at the best possible price to suit your budget . I shop between my local butcher (because he does very good local sourced meat, my local fishmonger for the same reason) Wilkinsons for cleaning bits, the farm shop for fruit and veg or the greengrocers also local to me, and as for the supermarkets these I list what I need and go on a comparison website between the big ones to see which has the best offer.With Sainsburys I get nectar points, and with tescos I get their points, but its not the points that get my custom its the prices, and none of the big shops will get a tanner if I can get it somewhere elseThe nearest Lidl is 9 miles away so its not often they get a look-in but I do uses Tesco,Sainsburys ,Aldi's and now and again Morrisons ,but only if they have a really good offer on.
Company loyalty means nowt to me its a case of making the pound in my pocket do the best work and get me the best value.Ignore all the 'every little helps' nonsence it only helps the company not you.Don't let the big four treat you as a sheep we are rational human beings and as such should be respected by the companies and not treated as though we were slightly 'ditsy ladies' who shop for hubbys tea' It's patronising and disrespectful.

fantastically put:T:T:T

I think you should be on the tv, and the radio, and have your own newpaper column...i love reading your posts.....

I havent shopped in Mr t in ages, was temped by the quality street yesturday,

used to have an asda home delivery for a few weeks, this helped me get back on track with meal planning etc..

now i am back to using local independants and farmfoods,

Also i have a booker card, and have been checking out the prices of some store cupboard basics.

so will be buying a tray of happy shopper beans, chopped toms, ( which works out 24p a tin)and a a case of 15 bags of 1kg sugar, which works out at 75p each, unless i can find it cheaper elsewhere, and stock up on it

gunsandbanjos

JackieO wrote: »

All the big supermarkets are in business to make money make no mistake about that, and make money they will if we fall for their 'marketing scams'.

At the moment with everyone tightening their belts because of rising food costs We are all not only trying to save money, but cut back on buying superfluous stuff.

This send shivers of panic into the board rooms of the big companies. Far too long they have herded us like sheep through their stores, and happily relieved us of our cash at the tills,like a benevolent highway robber.

Today things have changed not only because of this site but because folk are at last waking up to the fact that rising food costs are not just through the state of the world, but the fact that the bigger the company the more they have to make for their shareholders.

There has been a retaliatory backlash from the general public, and we are not a dippy customers that we used to be .With price comparison sites and more folk becoming computer savvy we now can pick and choose where to spend our hard earned cash.The big book companies have discovered this awhile ago with folk now buying more and more of their stuff, after checking a comparison site for the best deals .
All the media and newspaper hoo-ha about 'The Big Price Drop' rather like Camerons 'Big Society' effort will have about the same effect .


When shopping, take your pen and paper and buy what you need, not what the shops advertising tell you need.If its overpriced, then don't buy it there look for a cheaper alternative.The great british housewife is a lot of things but stupid she is not.What irritates me is their idea that as a shopper I am somewhat dimmer than one of their low watt bulbs.


I'm not I have been shopping for alomost 60 years and have seen all the scams come and go This new one will go the way of the rest as there is an old saying that you can only fool some of the people some of the time, but by using your noddle they won't fool you, believe me.So search for the best price on your computer before you go to the shops if you can.

After all this is one of the greatest advantages that you have that was never around previously, the ability to find stuff whether its a washing machine ,a CD, or a couple of bags of food at the best possible price to suit your budget .
I shop between my local butcher (because he does very good local sourced meat, my local fishmonger for the same reason) Wilkinsons for cleaning bits, the farm shop for fruit and veg or the greengrocers also local to me, and as for the supermarkets these I list what I need and go on a comparison website between the big ones to see which has the best offer.

With Sainsburys I get nectar points, and with tescos I get their points, but its not the points that get my custom its the prices, and none of the big shops will get a tanner if I can get it somewhere elseThe nearest Lidl is 9 miles away so its not often they get a look-in but I do uses Tesco,Sainsburys ,Aldi's and now and again Morrisons ,but only if they have a really good offer on.

Company loyalty means nowt to me its a case of making the pound in my pocket do the best work and get me the best value.

Ignore all the 'every little helps' nonsence it only helps the company not you.Don't let the big four treat you as a sheep we are rational human beings and as such should be respected by the companies and not treated as though we were slightly 'ditsy ladies' who shop for hubbys tea' It's patronising and disrespectful.

Hope you dont mind i broke your post up a little as i couldnt read it without my eyes going funny:o

[Deleted User]

Sorry for that gunsandbanjos but I do get a bit carried away when having a rant about the supermarkets.As a fully-paid up member of the 'Grumpy Old Woman's' league they do get my ire up a bit I'm usually quite a placid old duck as a rule but being patronised by a company that thinks because you are:
A. a women
B. getting on a bit (in my case quite a bit :))
that they can come up with this moronic marketing drivel and we will swallow it hook,line and sinker .

Oh boy have they got a shock coming as reading online what's been written I think we have all wised up to their tricks.

'Power to the people' and use your purse and your feet to vote which way you want supermarkets to behave.maybe ,just maybe one of their 18 year-old 'suits' may read our comments and take them to heart. I live in hope anyway

Miroslav

It's a shame that the supermarket literally 2 minutes from me is Tesco and not another.

That said, my mailing has a voucher worth £2.50 in clubcard points, so later i'm going to go in and find the cheapest item and hand over the voucher and come November i'm in profit

Last week they raised the price of Quality Street/Roses from £5 to £10 and this week it's better than half price at £4.50. I don't personally buy the items but the way they promote is terrible. I realise this is still cheaper than last week, but better than half price...erm...

I note some of the other posters price observations and i'm not surprised. At least Morrisons and Iceland will now get more of my money.

penny_pinch

Maybe those people who shop online (who can look at some of their previous orders) and those who keep receipts of items regularly purchased in Tesco can check to see which prices have REALLY dropped!! and by how much! the whole thing is a BIG CON.Watch out Mr T...there are many disillusioned shoppers out there,we are NOT STUPID!!

Lip_Stick

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Hope you dont mind i broke your post up a little as i couldnt read it without my eyes going funny:o

Guess you're not into reading books then?

gunsandbanjos

Lip_Stick wrote: »

Guess you're not into reading books then?

Love reading books, always got 2 or 3 on the go at once, just find big blocks of text on the screen with no paragraphs a bit of a nightmare to read;)