Tesco Maybe Stopping Using Coupons!!!!

artydoll

Just came back from mr Ts, young lad accepted 42 coupons ,mostly small ones,I ended up paying 1 penny for my shopping , had £8 toiletries,£8 health stuff ,loads of other groceries,Not clamping down at the mo, just pick your SA carefully.

WELSH-DRAGON_2

I have also been tescoing today, further affield after completing a mystery shopping job at the end of the job, I had to reveal I was a mystery shopper, poor chap looked stunned and I think he was wondering whether it was an april fools joke. (He knew it wasn't when I handed him a letter confirming it)

Anyway, I managed to bag some new quits, new h&b vouchers and saved £20 off my shopping using vouchers. He also gave me 50 school vouchers even though I hadn't spent that amount. It can be just a case of picking the right chap or chapess

Welshy x

dervish

artydoll wrote: »

Just came back from mr Ts, young lad accepted 42 coupons ,mostly small ones,I ended up paying 1 penny for my shopping , had £8 toiletries,£8 health stuff ,loads of other groceries,Not clamping down at the mo, just pick your SA carefully.

Selfish, selfish, selfish!!!!! :mad:

Its this sort of abuse that makes Tesco clamp down and ruin it for the majority who do not go stupid!!!!!!

For goodness sake use some common sense...

neosi

dervish wrote: »

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"For goodness sake use some "coupon" sense" :rotfl: :rotfl:

oldbill1969

Coupon-mad wrote: »

oldbill, when you are next looking at this thread, what Easter Eggs did your OH buy? We'd all like to know I am sure, even though they are no longer free...

Toblerone £4.99 each or 2 for £8

vellum

artydoll wrote: »

Just came back from mr Ts, young lad accepted 42 coupons ,mostly small ones,I ended up paying 1 penny for my shopping , had £8 toiletries,£8 health stuff ,loads of other groceries,Not clamping down at the mo, just pick your SA carefully.

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oh gosh, please don't do this, please don't treat mr. t as if they are stupid, if mr. t is stupid, they won't be the no.1. there are many newbies like myself who just begin to learn and save, we really don't want any policies to be changed.

Miss_Money

dervish wrote: »

Selfish, selfish, selfish!!!!! :mad:

Its this sort of abuse that makes Tesco clamp down and ruin it for the majority who do not go stupid!!!!!!

For goodness sake use some common sense...

no its not selfish. My tescos policy is one coupon per item and thats what i do. I very often pay not alot for my shopping. Other tescos are different, alot dont like coupons, but some do! it all depends on the shop. Please dont be calling other users of coupons selfish when they are entitled to use, as tesco accepted them. Lets all be nice to one another as i dont like to see fights start :beer: like other people have said before if your coupons arent accepted one week just put them back in your pocket and use the next.
Persoanlly i have only ever had one rejection in about a year, but thats because i stick to one tesco and one cashier. I dont bother with the other large one as thier policy is NO coupons.

dervish

^ You are wrong.

IT IS SELFISH to people to go pver the top and abuse the coupon principle.

This will see EVERYONE suffering. Doing something for yourself in the knowledge that others may suffer is SELFISH!!!

Coupon-mad

dervish wrote: »

^ You are wrong.

IT IS SELFISH to people to go pver the top and abuse the coupon principle.

This will see EVERYONE suffering. Doing something for yourself in the knowledge that others may suffer is SELFISH!!!

I think there is a world of difference in what coupons are being used, I didn't think the post was selfish. If someone uses Tesco's own coupons, then these have already been accounted for within the marketing section that issued them. Bear in mind that MOST shoppers don't use coupons like we do, so the store's overall profit from H&B items will easily cover the H&B coupons accepted from a few customers like us.

If the customer pays completely in redeemable, genuine in-date manufacturers' coupons this is also not a problem IMHO, if the SA has accepted them. Tesco gets more back from the manufacturer for these than face-value so they do not lose out, and the manufacturers' marketing Dept has already costed for their use (in the non-MSE world, most coupons get thrown away so the percentage actually used is low).

The post I thought was out of order was the person a couple of months ago who thought it was OK to offer a load of Somerfield vouchers at Tesco (from memory it was over £100 - worth!).

That's the only warning I would give, PLEASE don't offer a load of Somerfield/Asda/Sainsburys coupons from their magazines, Tesco cannot redeem these and this behaviour could affect coupon-acceptance. And please don't anyone say 'but my Tesco has a sign outside saying it accepts Sainsbury's vouchers'...they mean the '£x off £xx spend' ones, not the magazine ones (have a close look at the banner).

Coupon-mad-rant over! :rotfl:

marymilkmaid

Totally agree coupon-mad. Ive never used any somerfied/ asda etc I just couldnt do it.


BTW If anyone is short on coupons Ive just bought some £2 off £8 spend off e-bay not too expensive.
Ive still not seen any of the new h&b coupons anywhere. im only really after the money off parts not the 50 pointers