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

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

To be honest ( hides behind shelter hail of bullets) Waitrose is where I prefer to shop. They have their prices, almost so what. Please don't turn into Tesco!

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

I went to Tesco for years before deciding to break and try Waitrose Ocado instead. Now I am going to try to use online Asda for some items, and if Aldli and Lidl have uses mix em in as well!

jenniewb

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver wrote: »

@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.

You speak about it as if its a lifestyle choice (moneysaving) for many of us, its the only option: a week at Waitrose and I'd not be able to eat for the rest of the month! Its not so much about saving money, its about trying to ensure you have enough money to pay for things like the gas/lekkie bill and rent.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

biglugs wrote: »

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.

We now have another tesco open up last week within spitting distance of the co-op and 2 independant petrol stations... I havent been to the new tesco, and i never will, if i can help it..I find it is easier and alot quicker to nip into the co-op, and the same with buying my fuel... yes it slightly more expensive, but its convienient and also trying to keep local businesses going, most of tesco's profits go off shore, where a local business, the majority of the profits and the money gnerated will stay local. they will also use local companies for parts and other work they need, where the likes of tesco etc, use national companies
We need to be supporting our local independant shops and businesses, as if they if go then the likes of tesco will rip us off even more as they know they have wiped out alot of the competition....

My butcher has better quality meat... and not much diff in price....my baker has far superior bread....at about the same price per loaf.....our fruit and veg sellers.... prices vary, but still on par with the supermarkets... and seem to have a better taste..my pet food is deff cheaper with the local animal feed store and he delivers free every week..local chemist has some great offers on shampoo, bubble bath, toothpaste etc...


Basically the likes of tesco has got us into a habbit and brainwashed us over the years that, just because they have most things under one roof, its cheaper..... basically you are paying higher prices to be lazy ....ooppps i mean for the convienience sp?

Its getting to the point over the last few weeks even the media have heard our moans and groans about supermarket offers/price drops etc and telling people who wernt as savvy and as switched on to what they are doing....

I really hope more and more people start walking away from the big 4 they are more damaging than people truely think

dooby30

I queried their prices as they advertised a 26" LCD TV as a "price drop" at £199 but the price crossed out was already £199!!! The 32" next to it was actually cheaper!!!

I had already seen this error picked up on Watchdog a few weeks ago but when i queried it they just removed the price and told me it was an error!!! How many people didn't notice that and just bought it???

Well done Tesco!!:T

valk_scot

Oxford_Davey wrote: »

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. .

TBH I despair that people would actually need a calculator or app to compare price per kilo with price per 100g. And price per pound isn't that difficult to compare roughly either, surely? What happened to using mental arithmetic?

shoushou

I have yet to see the difference in my shopping! unless you count increases in price as part of this campaign.

I buy the sushi, small tuna one, for lunch occassionally it used to be £1 this time last year, went up to £1.20/£1.30 then back down again. went to get it again today and it's reached.. £1.60!!!!! THAT'S INSANE! made worse by the fact that it used to have tuna in almost every piece now only 2 had fish in them all the rest had carrots and similar veggies! so basically u are getting MUCH MUCH less for A LOT more!

it's the same with avacados... and a lot of the items i deem 'essential'! readlly disappointed. Problem is Tesco have a monopoly in my area 4 (2 large 2 express) within under a mile of my house.

jenniewb

valk_scot wrote: »

TBH I despair that people would actually need a calculator or app to compare price per kilo with price per 100g. And price per pound isn't that difficult to compare roughly either, surely? What happened to using mental arithmetic?

Better yet, ignore the labels price per kilo as IMO its often wrong anyway.

Use a rough estimation using your head or a mobile. Don't use your shopping trip to zone out, use as much effort when spending your money (ie working out how much value your getting) as you do earning that same money. It makes sense not to throw it away by not thinking thoroughly enough if you work so hard to earn it.

VoucherMan

valk_scot wrote: »

TBH I despair that people would actually need a calculator or app to compare price per kilo with price per 100g. And price per pound isn't that difficult to compare roughly either, surely? What happened to using mental arithmetic?

I thought the same but after visiting the parents at Christmas it seems my mother, who has always converted grammes to ounces for all her cooking, did not know that a kg is 10 x 100g (1000g).

I don't know whether it's an age thing or just a refusal to accept the metric system (she would much prefer that we went back to £sd) but when supermarket prices came up in conversation she seemed quite surprised that a kg (£/kg) was ten times as much as £/100g!

Lynsey

Tesco trading update tomorrow apparently??
Will their shares drop again in price?? They crashed last time!!
Have they sorted their issues out?? I wouldn't have thought so!!

Lynsey