MSE News: Revealed: The true extent of Tesco's 'Big Price Drop'

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

Bet Mr T as well as other Corporate Big Shots have Representatives here but I am beginning to suspect that Unions and other Left Wing Organisations are NOT represented here.
This means they can access our posts without using data mining which I suspect they would[also] use.
I am suspicious of Voucher shopping because it means Retailers have us by short and curlies and can manipulate our behavour.*still trying to suss out Martin and this site*

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

I will happily use Vouchers etc to save money but am skeptical about a Voucher Led approach which looks inherently choice depriving and IMHO CHOICE is a key component of good shopping.

Swiftkidd

zorgan wrote: »

I hear Tesco are going to be selling cars soon?

what on earth is happening to our supermarkets, they are becoming too big. the local butcher / fish monger / baker is going out of business because of these guys.

http://www.tescocars.com/

So true, then it amazes me how people moan at immigrant's or the people who claim benefits (Which isn't me cause I've been bloody kicked off just after 6months). Then people are out their cheering without realizing it's our own people getting shafted. fueled by propaganda from the media they never once speak off all the unclaimed benefits a large number off people pass up on. though obviously they send us jumping through hoops just for a penny.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver wrote: »

I will happily use Vouchers etc to save money but am skeptical about a Voucher Led approach which looks inherently choice depriving and IMHO CHOICE is a key component of good shopping.

I never mess around with vouchers as I see it as 'childs play' insulting to say the least. They only use it to manipulate the consumer further by data mining what every one buys.

Giant corporations from around the world swoop in & bleed our 'community's' outright dry. Though I can't sympathize with local businesses cause their all to happy to rip us off to. The only benefit I see coming from all this is to be an Anti consumer.. not buying crap we don't need. :cool:

Edit: wow didn't realize you had already described what I had.. maybe I saw it subconsciously but yar so true. I only do 'topcashback' for online purchases since it's just using their search engine to purchase stuff.

I think Martin's ok but he only focuses on the best price.. not value or service so reps & corporations could easily manipulate their prices etc just to appear on here. Value to me should be main focus. Not £2 broadband which in effect is a rip off cause it's on a 500/Kbps stream capped at 1GB month with crappy service.

lcm136

0n 14/11/11 I bought Tesco yogurts@89p for 6
on 6/12/11 they are £1.12 - presumably to pay for the headline price cuts.

biglugs

Swiftkidd wrote: »

So true, then it amazes me how people moan at immigrant's or the people who claim benefits (Which isn't me cause I've been bloody kicked off just after 6months). Then people are out their cheering without realizing it's our own people getting shafted. fueled by propaganda from the media they never once speak off all the unclaimed benefits a large number off people pass up on. though obviously they send us jumping through hoops just for a penny.



I never mess around with vouchers as I see it as 'childs play' insulting to say the least. They only use it to manipulate the consumer further by data mining what every one buys.

Giant corporations from around the world swoop in & bleed our 'community's' outright dry. Though I can't sympathize with local businesses cause their all to happy to rip us off to. The only benefit I see coming from all this is to be an Anti consumer.. not buying crap we don't need. :cool:

Edit: wow didn't realize you had already described what I had.. maybe I saw it subconsciously but yar so true. I only do 'topcashback' for online purchases since it's just using their search engine to purchase stuff.

I think Martin's ok but he only focuses on the best price.. not value or service so reps & corporations could easily manipulate their prices etc just to appear on here. Value to me should be main focus. Not £2 broadband which in effect is a rip off cause it's on a 500/Kbps stream capped at 1GB month with crappy service.

Wow! What a rant. So just about everybody is to blame for everything?
Big corporations like Tesco might be bad (that's a contentious point at the best of times) but personally I don't have the time to go to five different shops during working hours and paying more for my shopping than I do at Tesco. Don't forget that "putting local shopkeepers out of business" actually means "giving poorer customers access to cheaper prices".
We have a local small Co-op and a big Tesco and I can happily state that in almost every case the Co-op is more expensive than Tesco.

tmusic409

Tesco have tried to hide price rises behind 2 for 1 offers. They treat customers like idiots, unfortunately we have no other major supermarket to use. One example: 4l milk was £1.25 or 2 for £2.00; the price then changed to £1.49 and an offer of 3 for £3.00. Under the price drop offer the new price was £1.25 with no multiple offer. The price drop cost me an extra 75p on 3 - is this legal?

A second example was Comfort Vapouresse which was £1 and jumped up in price with a 2 for £2.00 offer.

The best offer though was this week: Kellogs cereal pots 97p each or 3 for £4.00!! I had to explain to 2 members of staff that this wasn't a good offer - maths is perhaps not a strong point.

matthewh

Tescos milk just before price drop, was on 3 x 4pt for £3, I.e £1 per 4 pints. Sainsburys was the same.

Price drop started, the 3 for offer was removed and each 4 pt was £1.30 something, I.e a rise of over 30%

It is now £1.16, so 16% higher - and I thought the price drop was to cover the essentials!

There must be collusion between the supermarkets as the price fluctuates on milk so much, but is ALWAYS the same price in tescos and sainsburys

bsk

biglugs wrote: »

Don't forget that "putting local shopkeepers out of business" actually means "giving poorer customers access to cheaper prices".

Absolute rubbish. I'd classify our household on the "poorer" end of the scale and we get much better value for money at a higher quality for many (not all) things from the local independent traders on and around our high street.

Our greengrocers, for instance, are at least half the price of the lowest supermarkets and the produce is way fresher. Bread is better, more varied, and often, at the end of the day, half price or two for one. Etc, etc.

When the supermarkets drive all independent competition away and there is no choice but to use them we will have to accept whatever price they charge, "poor" or not.

Oxford_Davey

I'm really getting the hump over how Tesco (and probably other supermarkets too?) deliberately try to bamboozle us on prices. I was buying some mushrooms on Tuesday, and as there were so many different size packs to choose from, I tried to go by the small-print on the price labels on the shelf edge that tell you the price per kilo. Wouldn't you know it, some labels told you the price per kilo, the next one told you the price per 100g and then the next one told you the price per pound (lb). There's no way most people have the time to stand there with a calculator or smart phone app, figuring out what's actually the cheapest between THREE different price/weight descriptions. This was just on the mushrooms! I then started to see that they're pulling the same stunt on potatoes, onions, apples etc. What a stinking con this is. There's no reason why they can't just do all there labels as price per kilo, other than they're deliberately trying to confuse customers as to which version of a product is actually the cheapest. I've noticed that multipacks of some things (like beans) which used to be the cheapest way to buy them, are now more expensive than if you buy the same amount of tins loose. Same swizz with their microwave meals, (chicken curry in this instance)... If you buy it from the chilled refrigerator it costs one price, but the exact same product in the freezer is cheaper? The Big Price Con more like. We're being extra careful about what we buy now, and our weekly shopping bill seems to be about a tenner more than before. Mind you, hardly surprising when you see that a lot of things you buy, seem to be going up not by just a few pence, but by 20/30p or more most weeks.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

@Swiftkid I think a degree of skepticism and questions are needed with a site like this. Great if we end up moneysaving! but the degree to which we can be subject to corporate datamining, information gleaning astonishes me.
Moneysaving per se is such a key activity that I sense Big Business is fighting back in a most vicious level.