Tesco Discussion Chat & Grabbits 11+ Xmas/New Year Edition

Dizzy_Ditzy

3Dogs wrote: »

Just a little run down of reservations and outstanding pics for the HCSC:

no 10 - QPR10 - med cert still valid - hope you can get out there soon petal
no 15 - Locarr - come on, we are all waiting for the posing pic Bonnie Lad
no 28 - NKLK
no 46 - Tinyshoes
no 47 - SaverSavvy123
no 52 - Laura Cello
no 53 - Lauralou83
no 56 - Celebrate
no 62 - Grumpys1daughter
no 65 - Queen of Cheap - still waiting for that 'something special' hun
no 70 - Winjackie
no 72 - Fudge2

A gentle reminder that a link to Happy Chappy's Simple Guide to downloading and posting pics can be found in the first post fo this thread, so no excuses

Oh go on, here's the link, just to make it even easier:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=48281985&postcount=273

i dont think i'm allowed in cos there was only one thing on my clip strip, even though it was a new 4p find

locarr

For lunch today locarr is having chicken fajitas!!:D

Locarr Jnr had a ham mayo wrap and Miss locarr had a cheese wrap!:rotfl:

Mrs Locarr is out xmas shopping!;)

Jamc4659

Winjackie wrote: »

I bought satsumas from my local Tesco and agree that they are extremely sour..... I am persevering with mine though, I find one segment of satsuma followed by one square of DM does the trick

Princesswoo and Jamc4659 - your cakes look absolutely fantastic!! What a wonderful talent you both have

Anyway, FINALLY caught up again since around 11.30 last night..... you lot can talk for England!! :rotfl:

Have a good day everyone

Thanks:D

The Clementines I get from asda are ALWAYS sour so I stopped buying them. They almost put my kids off eating all together. I got my last few lots from Lidls and they were lovely. Most of my veg I get from there as it is always gorgeous and cheap. Even their British potatoes at 79p per 2.5 kilos makes gorgeous fluffy mash ( which I freeeze plain and are perfect for roasties.

But the trick with oranges, Clementines, satsumas is to smell them. If they they don't smell sweet they will taste rank. If they don't smell at all....you are taking chances...they could be o.k but will never be awesome. I always sniff them. I know I look a fool, but I have long since stop caring what others think of me...and to be honest I would rather look a fool and have nice satsumas or Clementines then to not bother and waste my money on horrible ones.

Laura_Cello

Photo to officially earn my saved place! :j:j

MrsBartolozzi

mymerrywidow wrote: »

ohhhhhh news girl/boys.



the 3 for 2 aint coing off ANY ole paso. so i got 3 wraps and 3 taco shells free. she needed promting about the policy though. not as good as given money to take them away but at least we aint giving tesco money for them.

How do you get them free?

DTD would make them 3 for 1, but unless the SA did her sums wrong they shouldn't be free.

eg £1 each. Paid £3 instead of £2. overcharge = £1 DTD = £2. total paid = £1.

sandybov

Thank you MR T its been a pleasure sampling all your stuff for FREE:p
Well thats boxing day and new years eve sorted.. turkey and duck next week please :D:D

karlie88

Jamc4659 wrote: »

Thanks:D

The Clementines I get from asda are ALWAYS sour so I stopped buying them. They almost put my kids off eating all together. I got my last few lots from Lidls and they were lovely. Most of my veg I get from there as it is always gorgeous and cheap. Even their British potatoes at 79p per 2.5 kilos makes gorgeous fluffy mash ( which I freeeze plain and are perfect for roasties.

But the trick with oranges, Clementines, satsumas is to smell them. If they they don't smell sweet they will taste rank. If they don't smell at all....you are taking chances...they could be o.k but will never be awesome. I always sniff them. I know I look a fool, but I have long since stop caring what others think of me...and to be honest I would rather look a fool and have nice satsumas or Clementines then to not bother and waste my money on horrible ones.

i completely agree with what you're saying.

i've got a question to ask; does anyone pick and taste a grape before buying a bag?

karlie88

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

How do you get them free?

DTD would make them 3 for 1, but unless the SA did her sums wrong they shouldn't be free.

eg £1 each. Paid £3 instead of £2. overcharge = £1 DTD = £2. total paid = £1.

maybe MMW bought 9 which is why he/she got 6 for free?

kasylia

Prawns 5601 not working/full price, or maybe I'm looking at the wrong ones?

artha

tek-monkey wrote: »

I work in IT, and I would not only have lost my job but would be unable to get another comparable one if I'd not only let this glitch happen, but made it even worse when trying to fix it! Lots of things really don't add up about Tesco glitches, and why its nearly always Tesco it happens to.

1) Any manager not aware of a MASSIVE increase in sales of a certain item, nor a massive decrease in the average price paid per item, should not be a store manager. Also, aren't they on performance related bonuses? If so they are shafting themselves, unless these glitches don't count for some reason?

2) The individual stores don't usually remove the products, yet on some glitches the staff are there immediately moving stock off the shelves to stop you buying it. Makes me think the real mistakes are the ones they pull, like the 80% discount on the professional knives last year, and the OEP one was not so accidental.

3)I often hear that head office can't update the computers til x o'clock, yet no systems shut down for this to happen. The tills don't stop working, everything carries on as normal, so the operational ability of the shop is not linked to the update. Therefore it can happen at any time, they can fix the glitches whenever they want. The main issue would be pushing new prices out before SELs are ready, therefore leaving a few DTD issues, but these would cost less than the glitch in most cases.
Plus if the system was designed not to allow small updates like a single price change, then they failed to specify a proper system. This is actually more likely than you'd think, most IT projects fail because the customer doesn't know exactly how they want something to work, and the developers have to meet the criteria set regardless of how wrong it seems. You should always have a technical person from both sides present when setting functionality criteria.

4)Head office will be here, on HUKD and anywhere else they can think of. They know what we are doing, and they allow it to happen. I can't help thinking that, overall, what we take from them is less than the additional business they get from glitchers? People on here are more savvy, and are out to get things for free, but others I have told have just thought 'Oh, free mexican food' and bought a few items along with their weekly shop. If they weren't going to Tesco originally, then Tesco are making some extra profit and more importantly getting in a new customer who may return.

I'm going to stop now, but you can see it all seems a bit wrong? But it also went on longer than I thought I need a bacon sammich! Possibly a fry up in a tortilla

Oh, and that cake earlier rocked!

Phew, long post but well reasoned. As I've previously posted, there at times seems to be method in some of the apparent madness. If it was poor system design or incompetent individuals then I think a company the size of Tesco would have sorted out these problems and not let it go on for at least the six years that I know about.

It could be that with so many offers/offer changes/price changes that it would be inevitable that some errors occur. But ASDA et al probably have similar levels of change and probably similar IT platforms for pricing, why only Tesco? They didn't get to be as big as they are without being smart and ruthless. Perhaps their business models and analysis show that a bit of a loss can be more than counterbalanced by increased turnover and time being spent on more profitable areas?

I believe the current glitch has been running since the beginning of the week but only gained prominece in the last two days.

Guess we'll never really know how Tesco works. Some might say who cares!:rotfl: