Tesco Price Inequality - Over 3 times dearer in Liverpool Extra ??

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Tescos are in business to make money and if by stocking a more expensive item they make more profit then thats what they will do There is little anyone can do about it but vote with their feet.My DD recently owing to growing bills and lesser wages now has to shop more in Icelands than she used to for basic stuff.Once she used to shop online at Tescos and spent in excess of £150 plus per week (she has a family of four growing boys plus herself and husband) she has managed to cut back quite a bit by buying basic stuff from icelands and now spends around £100.00 per week.She just had to as it made economical sense to save £50.00 odd per week.So tesco's have stopped selling your 17p lemeonade Its hardly worth getting stressed about it if as you say you have a car just drive to the one a mile up the road and save yourself 40p a bottle In fact buy 10 bottles and save £4.00 more than enough to cover the cost of 2 miles worth of petrol i think.I live in a small village where there is a metro store They often only store the highr priced food stuffs but if I drive up to the mega store I can buy what I want and its only a mile up the road .I shop in all of the stores now and don't just stick to tescos .I use Asda,Morrisons,Sainsburys,and Aldi's but what I do is look up the prices in the store of what I want then buy it from there so I can save quite a bit by shopping around.Be a canny shopper All stores are there to make money from us the public that is why they are in business they are not a nationalised concern they just want your cash and if you pays your money, you takes your pick Its called free choice

Middy

OP

This conversation is boring.GET OVER IT!

Felix_the_Foccer

Middy wrote: »

OP

This conversation is boring.GET OVER IT!

I see you couldn't answer my points then Middy. That's a bit of a limp reply ... Back of the class!

Or, if on the other hand, you have genuinely forgotten my points to you, I will copy them below:

Middy wrote: »

The store I work in is fairly small - there are two larger stores within 5 miles of it - one of them about 3.5 times larger and other 6 times larger. When we discontinue a line - customers moan about it and we state on the stock availability program 'Its available at A & B' Some customers don't understand the concept that we are a small store. Our walls aren't made from elastic. If there is a particular product that you want in the store, go to customer services or phone the careline and do a product request. I have suggested 3 lines myself and they are now in store.

Please run that concept by me again, but remembering we are talking about the largest Tesco Extra store in Liverpool.

Middy wrote: »

OP you are pathetic. Get a bloody life! Other supermarket chains do their value range. Moan to bloody Tesco - not us! There is more to life than cheapo lemonade. If your whole life is completely torn apart because a certain large store doesn't stock this product, then that is your problem. You got to accept situations and adapt.

To say my life's been torn apart is somewhat of an exaggeration don't you think?

You say "Moan to Tesco - not us!"

All I've done is highlight the matter (on a specific supermarket related forum on a Moneysaving website) as blatant Tesco profiteering at the expense of local customers (who want lemonade), forcing them to buy the one that's over three times the price.

Have you thought of nipping onto the Bank Charges Forum and asking posters there to complain to the banks instead of barking on here? No? Thought not.

Why not have a read of Martin's specific page about 'Downshifting' where he states .....

"Try dropping one brand on everything. Then see if you can tell the difference. If not, stick with the cheaper one."

That is, of course, unless you shop at the Park Road Extra store.

He also has a Youtube Video re Saving Money by Buying Lower Brands.

Middy wrote: »

The store I work in is fairly small

I do hope your store stocks the 17p lemonade, and that you think of me and give a little smile
as you walk past it.

Middy

OP

Be bloody grateful that you live in a country where you can get safe, clean water to drink and a choice of where to go to buy your goods. Many people in this world have no access to food and clean water.

Felix_the_Foccer

Middy wrote: »

OP

Be bloody grateful that you live in a country where you can get safe, clean water to drink and a choice of where to go to buy your goods. Many people in this world have no access to food and clean water.

Would that be your best corporate Tesco response, or one you've rustled up yourself?

Either way, it's still the back of the class for you!

Please, just have a little teensy weensy try at answering my points?

That's twice now you've tried to dodge them, instead coming back with both ill thought out and irrelevant replies to this thread.

BitterAndTwisted

I think people have offered you a number of explanations of why the supermarket isn't stocking the precise item you want to buy but you seem completely disinterested in paying any attention to them.

You have a choice: take it up with the supermarket, buy an alternative product or go to a branch which does sell it at the price you're willing to pay.

All this fuss about a completely non-essential purchase. I'd have a tiny bit of sympathy for you if it truly was an essential or if you hadn't been so utterly rude to people on this thread.

Edwardia

I was trying to do an Internet shop at Waitrose this morning. The site stores all the products I have bought this year and there are 91. Suddenly today, 10 of the 91 are no longer being stocked by the large branch I use.

The only other Waitrose store anywhere me is 45 mins away and unlike OP I don't drive which is why I have the shopping delivered (free delivery). The other store wouldn't deliver me and is far smaller than the one I use.

Some of the items are from the essentials range, most aren't. They include the larger packs of own-brand dog food for older dogs, the own-brand wholewheat mixer, Perard soupe de poissons (I think only Waitrose and Ocado sell it in UK) and Taittinger champagne.

I am wondering whether supermarkets are cutting back on the number of products they carry to sell only the most profitable in each store ?

Middy

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I think people have offered you a number of explanations of why the supermarket isn't stocking the precise item you want to buy but you seem completely disinterested in paying any attention to them.

You have a choice: take it up with the supermarket, buy an alternative product or go to a branch which does sell it at the price you're willing to pay.

All this fuss about a completely non-essential purchase. I'd have a tiny bit of sympathy for you if it truly was an essential or if you hadn't been so utterly rude to people on this thread.

OP, I would totally understood if the large Tesco in question stopped selling things like milk, eggs, bread or bananas - 95% of shopping transactions in supermarkets has at least one of these purchased.

You need to clean up your attitude otherwise, we may ban you.

Felix_the_Foccer

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

All this fuss about a completely non-essential purchase. I'd have a tiny bit of sympathy for you if it truly was an essential or if you hadn't been so utterly rude to people on this thread.

Thanks for your reply. I don't believe I have been "utterly rude to people on this thread".

If you're referring to my posts to Middy (who is a Tesco employee) I apologise.

Above again, Middy has replied for a third time (whilst still avoiding answering my points), but this time he appears to be suggesting the largest tesco Extra stores should only really have to stock Milk, Eggs and Bananas?

As as for his/her earlier post about living in a country where I can get food and water to drink, I fail to see the relavance of that ? If you haven't got a decent answer to a point, I guess you could post that 'living in a country thing' on each thread on this entire forum?

What I was originally talking about was a very large Tesco Extra store blatantly changing their stock control policy by NOT stocking an advertised 'Everyday Value' Brand and, in essence, forcing local customers with no private transport, to pay over three times as much for a 2L bottle of lemonade, etc.

pingu

jemb wrote: »

Tap water is free? (ducks)

antrobus wrote: »

Not if you're on a meter.:)

not free either way:eek:

can't believe some of the threads on this site usually don't bother reading but im bored been off work due to an illness but thank God i am going back to work on monday:)and no prizes for guessing where i work:D

just to add some people do need to get a life!