Tesco - check your receipts !

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I always look at the reduced sections and special offers before doing the rest of my shopping in Tesco, and initially looked at the receipt afterwards to see how much I'd saved. It was then I discovered that not all the offers had been put through at the offer price. Fortunately I live near the store and was able to return promptly to get the reduction validated and refunded. No doubt, the computer hadn't been told, so everyone was being overcharged. I extrapolated this to per store/per year (there wasn't much on the tv that night), and the resultant overcharge would thus have amounted to c£6 million !
And I do wish they would provide all price comparisons for similar products in the same format. Some are per 100g, some per 1kg, some are per 1000g. Not misleading - yah boo!!
The missus hates food shopping, and I'm happy to oblige. I go in the evenings when there no screaming kids (don't worry, I was one too), and enjoy seeking real value for money - but look at those receipts!
And I do wish they would provide all price comparisons for similar products in the same format. Some are per 100g, some per 1kg, some are per 1000g. Not misleading - yah boo!!
The missus hates food shopping, and I'm happy to oblige. I go in the evenings when there no screaming kids (don't worry, I was one too), and enjoy seeking real value for money - but look at those receipts!
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Pricing, including the price per unit, is covered by the Price Marking Order 2004. It's enforced by Trading Standards. Infringement is a criminal offence.
PS. Beware of returning promptly to supermarkets to sort out errors like this. If they have a ANPR camera monitored car park, and a "no return within ... hours" condition, you could find yourself with a private parking ticket in the post. They're not legally enforceable, but it's a hassle you can do without.
It's a real disgrace in my opinion, because how many busy people just accept the price, maybe they have kids nagging them etc and they leave. Maybe they check at home but how many will bother to get back in car and return to the store to quibble over a couple of pounds?? The Supermarkets must make a fortune out of it....
It's their policy to give you back double the overcharge, but you'd think it came from the manager's back pocket the way they try to shirk out of it sometimes!
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Empty till point??? which Tesco you shop at - I'm going there
no matter how little they overcharge ..say 1p? multiply that by 1 million so that at least £100000 a day they are stealing from us - we would go to prison for that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so next time oh says its only 1p - remind them of this
I have a trolley and put a basket in the trolley....normal no offers go in the trolley and so called "deals " go in the basket.
At the checkout the deals go first....and since starting doing this 6 shopping trips ago only ONCE has there been no rip off.
The reason I have a basket is it makes it easier as all the "deals" are at the top of the receipt...or in a block at the bottom.
The new "catch me quick" I spotted this week was "Just Cook" Beef or Chicken in a foil container....shelf lable announced "Buy two, one half price" what it dosen't say is "Buy two the SAME". Choose one of each and they are both full price!.
As has been mentioned here it's not just Tesco either....maybe MSE could start a campaign where Martin can get a name in the headoffice of each of the big six and address where we could point out which branches are lacking in theit pricing policy.
This should flag up how rampant this problem is (and profitable it is) and really if people got together in a place such as here maybe a mass report to trading standards could be made through MSE.
As it is blantantly illegal....whether it is accidental or not.