Sick of being stitched up by Tesco

hertzyabazas

jethroUK

If your still planning on taking photos or filming inside Tesco you'd better be very sly about it.
If you've not obtained permission from them (and it's unlikely they'd grant you it for your reasons) and you're spotted you'll be asked to delete the images and if you refuse expect to be asked to leave and barred from the shop.

OlliesDad

JethroUK wrote: »

2/ FB pies definately cost Tesco the exact same - they just bought more of the popular fillings to gain a price break to enable a promotion

Just to be pedantic i would like to point out that statement is contradicting itself.. If Tesco bought more to gain a price break, that would mean they did not cost the same.

JethroUK

OlliesDad wrote: »

Just to be pedantic i would like to point out that statement is contradicting itself.. If Tesco bought more to gain a price break, that would mean they did not cost the same.

How do you work that out?

Tescos buy 1 million FB Pies to get a price break so they can run a promotion

800,000 Steak & Kidney (best seller)
50,000 chicken
50,000 steak an onion
50,000 radish and giraffe
50,000 Kipper & walnut

Tesco offer huuuuuuuuuuge stock of steak & kidney at £1 and all others at regular price of £2

What's not to get?

JethroUK

hertzyabazas wrote: »

jethroUK

If your still planning on taking photos or filming inside Tesco you'd better be very sly about it.
If you've not obtained permission from them (and it's unlikely they'd grant you it for your reasons) and you're spotted you'll be asked to delete the images and if you refuse expect to be asked to leave and barred from the shop.

I'm pretty happy with Tesco response to this - i wont be taking photos but i'll see if they are as good as there word - To be honest - i did think they might ban me from the store anyway (if you dont like us get stuffed approach) so quite pleasantly surprise by their concern

aldredd

JethroUK wrote: »

I'm pretty happy with Tesco response to this - i wont be taking photos but i'll see if they are as good as there word - To be honest - i did think they might ban me from the store anyway (if you dont like us get stuffed approach) so quite pleasantly surprise by their concern

It does come as a surprise to some people (not pointing you out in particular) but most big companies do not set out to deceive / mis-represent / rip you off - mistakes do happen when you sell 40,000 products across 2,500 stores - with staff often stretched - and will me more than willing to listen, and (sometimes!) act on any genuine complaint / concern.

That said, pretty certain there are companies out there that do set out to deceive! (Furniture companies spring to mind!)

unholyangel

Here's one i found the other day in Asda.

Lots of products in the same freezer/fridges as any 2 for £3.....go through as £2 each at till....reason? The 2 products I picked up (that were right next to each other in the fridge) are not part of the same offer.

Nowhere does the offer state (just making up the products to give you an example) 2 x beef burger for £3, it literally does say any 2 for £3.

However asda said that was their mistake, gave me the 2 for £3 and also £2 on a gift card :T so technically i got 2 for £1!

unholyangel

aldredd wrote: »

It does come as a surprise to some people (not pointing you out in particular) but most big companies do not set out to deceive / mis-represent / rip you off - mistakes do happen when you sell 40,000 products across 2,500 stores - with staff often stretched - and will me more than willing to listen, and (sometimes!) act on any genuine complaint / concern.

That said, pretty certain there are companies out there that do set out to deceive! (Furniture companies spring to mind!)

Not quite sure about that one. Well perhaps not the rip you off part, but they do want you to part with as much money as possible. The whole layout of supermarkets are designed to make you spend more than you intended to.

I remember when I was a kid (going back maybe about 20 years) that you used to be able to buy milk and bread right next to the entrance! Now, its usually in the corner furtherest away from the door.....the reason? So you have to walk past all their other stuff in the hopes that something will catch your eye. With my asda as big as it is....what used to take 5 minutes, now takes 20 minimum (and thats with no queue at checkout). Their "special offers" are usually at the end of the aisle why? Because pretty much everyone will go past the end of the aisle even if they don't go down the aisle.

And if you really need proof that they are deliberately trying to "mis-represent"......get to know the products you regularly buy very well.....if there is a price hike, I guarantee you there will be a "special" offer on within a few weeks. The reason? So they can fool the consumer into thinking its a great bargain.

We had it with fruit juice not long ago....79p. Price went up to 99p and oh would you look at that......2 weeks later its on offer....2 for £1.50.

baza52

JethroUK wrote: »

How do you work that out?

Tescos buy 1 million FB Pies to get a price break so they can run a promotion

800,000 Steak & Kidney (best seller)
50,000 chicken
50,000 steak an onion
50,000 radish and giraffe
50,000 Kipper & walnut

Tesco offer huuuuuuuuuuge stock of steak & kidney at £1 and all others at regular price of £2

What's not to get?

Do you think tesco would pay the same price for each flavour? why?
If steak n kidney account for 80% of total sales why would they not be cheaper than the others?

Imagine this,
Manufacturer says to tesco, buy 1 million FB steak n kidney pies and you can have them for x discount.
Would it be wrong for tesco to sell them at the same price as the other fillings? moraly yes.
Would it be wrong for them to sell them cheaper than the other fillings? NO

whats to not understand?

WelshBluebird

aldredd wrote: »

It does come as a surprise to some people (not pointing you out in particular) but most big companies do not set out to deceive / mis-represent / rip you off

Oh come on. Sometimes they do. And that is obvious.
The whole issue about sizings was on watchdog recently (where buying several smaller sizes is cheaper than buying one larger size).
The whole issue about offers that has been brought up recently too (where supermarkets will increase the price of something for a few week so they can then put it on "sale" at the original price".
Both practices are clearly trying to deceive and rip off customers.

aldredd

WelshBluebird wrote: »

Oh come on. Sometimes they do. And that is obvious.
The whole issue about sizings was on watchdog recently (where buying several smaller sizes is cheaper than buying one larger size).

But that isn't deceitful - it's economics - if more of the 'middle' size gets sold, then they'll get a better cost price for it than the bigger size, and so can sell it cheaper.

The exception of course is when they do claim that the larger pack is cheaper, when it's not - this is where Sainsbury's in particular got into trouble with their 'Bigger Pack Better Value' flashing. But even then, the people setting out the prices wouldn't have set out to price it more than the smaller packs. They probably started off cheaper, then perhaps decided to drop the price of the smaller pack to price match a competitor and forgot about the other pack.