tesco's big price drop!

castleton

The Quality Street at Tescos is £3.50. Last night I read a post that Said the leaflets on the tills had a £1.00 token off but that some stores had run out. Just to say that their are plenty left in the Leeds city center store. Hope this helps someone.

mervyn67

I really am surprised that so many of you seem surprised at this move,and I think Sainsburys (with their "price perception" ads) are adding their bit, (where did the feed 4 for £50 go?).
The mse site has always been of the opinion that ALL supermarkets are out to remove you from you money as easily as possible.
I am fortunately now retired and where I am we have 2 ASDA,1Sainsburys,1 Morrisons,2 LIDL.1 ALDI.1 Waitrose, and due to get a nice new Tesco shortly
In the 5 mile radius from home there are also several "pound" shops and a Wilkinsons and a Savers (part of Kingfisher/Superdrug lot).
If I see something in any of them that is stupidly highly priced it does not get in my basket.
If I see anything that is stupidly lowly priced. it does.
We all have that option to a degree!

alex21

DigForVictory wrote: »

I thought I was being clever getting the big tubs of chocolates at a fiver each & gradually preparing for Christmas. Today I see they're £4.50.
Oh Cobblers. Yes, a price cut. Just on something I don't buy often & have already got. :mad:

I used the £1 voucher in the Big Price drop leaflet at the entrance today on Quality Street so got for £3.50. On my way to do it again (only 1 per transaction) I saw a middle aged couple about to pay for 6 tins. So I tapped him on the shoulder and they went to get the coupon when I explained. Last seen he was at customer services paying for about the 9th tin as they had to be done individually. They were buying for grandkids and could not have been more delighted or appreciative. Gave me a warm glow to think I was costing Tesco some money!!:rotfl:

watchingthepennies_2

I agree, this whole price drop is rubbish. I didn't have to look for long until I found something on my receipt which is dishonest. Bought an aubergine this week, at the new price of 67p - down from 75p they say. A healthy reduction you would think, yet I only paid 67p last week as well!

zenseeker

watchingthepennies wrote: »

IBought an aubergine this week, at the new price of 67p - down from 75p they say. A healthy reduction you would think, yet I only paid 67p last week as well!

Well obviously they were 75p before last week then.

jenniewb

watchingthepennies wrote: »

I agree, this whole price drop is rubbish. I didn't have to look for long until I found something on my receipt which is dishonest. Bought an aubergine this week, at the new price of 67p - down from 75p they say. A healthy reduction you would think, yet I only paid 67p last week as well!

Seen this on many items I buy, some have even gone up and still state they are price reductions! The price drop has only affected one of the items I buy: the cherry tomatos (finest), which are a specialty, down 10p (though used to be 2 for £3 so really again no price reduction). So I lose out. I can tell you know I spend more then £10 a week (even so would have been 20 clubcard points= 20p, now becomes 10p on my clubcard).

Think its all a marketing ploy, Tescos lost their place at the top and tried to market their way back again, the prices have not gone down enough to counter-themselves interms of sales, there will be a larger profit and this will be spent on their marketing.

Clowance

saw a number of sels saying something like: 3.67 crossed through - now 3.67! (this was on the red grapes but there were others)! Oh and they had a big yellow sign saying 20% off!

LadyDee

My nearest Supermarket is Tesco x2 (3 if you count Home). Yes, I live in Tescoland. I am absolutely sick & tired of pouring more and more of my pension into the hands of Tesco, and have already stopped buying petrol from them - they are not the cheapest around here but are often the same price as the other petrol stations locally - so I now buy from anybody other than T's.

I am fortunate in that being retired I have the time to shop around a bit. OK, it's not by any means convenient but I feel I'm doing my bit for the anti-Tesco movement. Now if I run out of something then I make do until I'm passing one of the other supermarkets rather than just pop down the road to Tesco (unless of course it really is cheaper!).

A friend told me a couple of days ago that Tescos were reducing all their prices and was quite excited about it. I directed her to this thread.

lindseykim13

mervyn67 wrote: »

I really am surprised that so many of you seem surprised at this move,and I think Sainsburys (with their "price perception" ads) are adding their bit, (where did the feed 4 for £50 go?).
The mse site has always been of the opinion that ALL supermarkets are out to remove you from you money as easily as possible.
I am fortunately now retired and where I am we have 2 ASDA,1Sainsburys,1 Morrisons,2 LIDL.1 ALDI.1 Waitrose, and due to get a nice new Tesco shortly
In the 5 mile radius from home there are also several "pound" shops and a Wilkinsons and a Savers (part of Kingfisher/Superdrug lot).
If I see something in any of them that is stupidly highly priced it does not get in my basket.
If I see anything that is stupidly lowly priced. it does.
We all have that option to a degree!

I was just reading your list of stores and thought that sounds like my town, with the new tesco being built etc then saw your location on the side lol and it is the same!! So hi

Digital09

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.

Fantastic post!:T

I agree, shop around, buy the 'best' bits from each shop (be it local shop/market or big supermarket) and don't get fooled by the marketing.