tesco have announced price drop has failed

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

At least us shoppers can see the deception first hand seeing as they operate a vastly variable pricing scheme on all their products, lengthening the use by dates on less popular items that are harder to shift.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

I also aim for the reductions and or discounts on favoured items. Mr T Finest Macaroni Cheese is divine. Trouble is whenever I like an item the price goes up. I used to buy Finest Fresh Lemonade but when it went up to almost £2.50 I thought 'They are taking the !!!!' and stopped buying it. ( I am the quintessential Fresh Lemon Fanatic). I am extremely skeptical about Mr T claims that 'every little helps' when all I see is that 'every little helps their shareholders, top brass'and not the man on the street who is being increasingly put on in terms of financial pressure by the various Capitalist all and sundry he is forced to deal with.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Who is the ombusman or overseer of supermarkets?

is it worth people complaining to them about the so called price drop and the way tesco ( and other supermarkets) are increasing and decreasing prices in a very erractic way etc...

I was having a conversation with hubby last night ( well i was talking and he was listening, i think...lol..)

years ago... you knew how much things were going to be week in week out when you went shopping...

I could remember my mother giving me a shopping list with the exact money that the things would come too...

lets say it was a tin of beans for 10p then that tine of beans would be the same price for months and months.... not 10p this week, then 22p the next, then down to 15p the next...

This is one good thing about local shops, prices might be a bit higher ( some things are also alot cheaper than the supermarkets) but the prices dont yoyo like the supermarkets, allways more or less the same price week in week out.

But i would def be interested in complaining about mr t's blatantly trying to confuse the customer about offers and prices etc..

Lynsey

COOLTRIKERCHICK, it's not just Tesco though, there will be very few stores/shops not trying to create an "illusion". I agree about the "Old Days" things hardly moved, there used to be uproar when the fish and chip shops put up chips by a penny or so because they were using new poatoes!!!
Remember MFI, always had a "Sale" on, one of the biggest rip-off merchants and look where they ended up. Carpet Right, have they ever had a day when a "sale" hasn't been on??
We have a carpet retailer close to where we live who has had a "Sale" on since the 90's at least and it's still on now and never been off!!! His prices are generally £1 psm or more during the constant "Sale" than other shops normal prices!!! It was said by a carpet fitter that he's making a fortune "ripping of people for ages".
Officers Club, 70% off - so bad it was actually funny...............and the list goes on.
It works for them, it's marketing and manipulation. Take a £1 item, double it, put it on offer at "half-price" and customers think they are getting a bargain, they think they've put one over the retailer. Same price, but I bet they sell more when advertised at "half-price", than the normal price??
It's sites like this, MSE, which can now bring all these rip-offs to the fore, we no longer have to gossip in the back lanes moaning about chips going up a penny. Sites like MSE and it's members can and do educate and highlight issues, and bargains of course.
People power really can make or break a company...........sadly in Britain though we don't or didn't have much people power ............ maybe and hopefully times are changing these last few years.

Off my "soap box", got breakfasts and coffee to make. This morning I'm doing large coffee's for the same price as a small one and 2 half slices of toast for the price of a full slice.

Lynsey

2010

Is it any surprise that their sales have fallen when they try to say that the Christmas turkey was price cut by 50% from £50 to £25.
Even at £25 it was overpriced.
Do they really think the shopping public are turkeys?

What great solution to falling sales has the CEO come up with?
Well he`s seen Sainsburys have done well mainly through their high street "local shops" and he`s announced that`s what Tesco will concentrate on in the future instead of the big out of town hypermarkets.
Makes you wonder why these top bosses are paid so much for doing and thinking so little.

gailey_2

thor wrote: »

I heard someone high up in tescos getting a grilling on radio 5live in the morning. I think it could have been off the bbc news as most of what you have paraphrased sounds awfully familiar. The guy was trying his best to refuse the blindingly obvious which was that they had made a massive b*llsup. The interview did appear to miss out what most of us have been complaining about though as there was no questions to him about they way prices are manipulated to make it look like there have been cuts. I almost threw the radio out of the window when the beeb presenter took it at face value that tesco had implemented half a billion pounds worth of cuts:mad:

Find the bbc news quite poor these days.
Missed jeff randel on sky but he usually gives them a grilling!

I dont think the bosses at tesco still have any idea? The old boss terry leeehey worked his way from bottom and was a scouser.

Think they so pushed expansion uk and international that they took their the ball and became lazy and complacent and not considered facts that matter

price
size-lot of their stores just too big weekly shop would take forever.
customer service.

I did some shopping online last year but not with tesco.
I chose waitrose as over £50 its free delivery and lot of their essential range better vale and quality than tesco and they dont charge me any more for subs and the drivers lovley.Did have few issues with bill and rang customer service and they were great.

The way they say essentials is its not a value range as such its a list of everyday staples kept at low prices.
They pricematch tesco on few things and have some good offers too make it a place not to be overlooked.

Quality and service just as important to me as price!

My freind used tesco delivery few times.
she ordered a cheapy pregancy test
was subbed for expensive brand and charged the extra
when she complained to driver he said she should have been more careful!

Yesterday was on the great reduced hunt as was 7pm thourght maybe worth a try hitting tesco if they that unpopular bargains too be had.
Yes im cynical but if you ignore their price drop products and just buy offers and reduced can milk them as they milk the customer!

1st when in tesco express-linked to garage was very busy but thats because only corner shop around that area.
There were few reductions but nothing amazing!
got some bakery items and cheap bottle of wine.
I diod get 6pack coke as half price £1.42.

moved onto tesco metro up high street that was fairly quiet.
annoyingly their 8packs cokes on offer there at £1.92.
But im sure the packs a multipack and said 2free cans so effectivly a 6pack so why not charge £1.42 ?

got some on offer cheese.special k and babybels at 79p as never seen them cheaper!

The fed reductions they did have truly rubbish was 7pm and lady reduced that days sandwiches to £1.45 and £1.70.
hubby went co-op next and got reduced sandwich for 70p not exactly huge market for sandwiches in suberban high street in evening!
No common sense I suspect they waste quite a lot as so stingy here I know some people get superbargains there but never seen it here even on xmas eve. The staff ignore the customers in the metro and security guard looks at everyone like they on the rob!

Thinking back to when I was akid yes the prices were more static which made it easier to budget think my nan be horrified now if she was about she was regular tesco shopper.

Politically its not an issue as government allow us to be fleeced by energy companies, banks why not supermarkets dont think their is specific ombusdmen. But lets face it every time politician is asked how much everyday items are they dont know.

I loved it when hugh fearnly winingstall bugged them about chickens and fish and brought shares in them. maybe his next project could be good value food in recessional times.

Lynsey never ever costed up my toast and coffee as buy coffee on offer or cheap and breads nearly always reduced at a gues including milk and sugar 2slices bread and large coffee 2p for toast maybe 5p for coffee definatly under 10p!

Good to know they rising finest range not just value lines!
with value they know there is now downshift and most customers will have no price but to pay the difference.

gallygirl

tesco have announced price drop has failed

No !!!! Sherlock :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I remember the coupon bashing days:D:D

Bring back DTD Tesco's, that'll bring us all back. I've never [STRIKE]got so much stuff for free [/STRIKE] spent as much in Tesco's as I did then

fletch3163

My thing with Tesco is the underhand tactics sometimes employed. I once "bought into" the display deal on M&M sweeties at whatever price. I got to checkout and was charged full price. So sure was I, off I went to PROVE em wrong only to find the display was the wrong SIZE of the same product. It might have been a mistake, but it wasn't. I have seen it since, and not just in Tesco of late. Underhand tactics indeed and definite case of "biting the hand that feeds you". Had it not been for the fact I bought so many sweetie packets I might never have noticed.

Also, have you noticed it's not the price of the thing that's large on the display but the SAVING? I have seen plenty of people fall for that. It says SAVE £1.85, not COST £1.85!!

Lynsey

Off topic, sorry, but a funny marketing trick I saw on TV many, many years ago (think Esther Rantzen programme) was when a Guy got caught out promoting continental quilts as "crushed down". This was when continentel quilts/duvets were starting to get fashionable.
Anyway, they caught up with him with the cameras etc, and asked why he was promoting these quilts as "crushed down", when they weren't. He went round to the back of his car, I think a Jag and opened his boot. "There" he said, "They are crushed down in the back of my boot"!!!!:rotfl:
A play on words??

Lynsey

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Many years ago back in the 1950s I can remember my mu saying when a large loaf (no sliced in those days)went up from 11d to 11.1/2d 'If the price ever reaches a shilling a loaf there will be riots in the streets.I believe a large loaf now is around thirty bob (£1.40-50)I bet my old Mum is spinning bless her.In those days you bought eggs singly in the local dairy and the prices were one penny halfpenny,two pence and twopence halfpenny .The really large ones were two pence three farthings I only remember as we kept chickens and now and again if they went off-lay mum would send me to the local express dairyies to buy two or three eggs if she was baking and would always moan about how expensive they were :)When Sainsburys opened their first supermarket in Lewisham they would sell eggs in plastic cartons of three at a time as people often only bought what they needed that day.Few folk had fridges and definitely no freezers.so shopping was a major pastime for most housewives almost daily.An eagle eye was kept on which shop charged what so often the prices would stay fairly stable