returning fruit

naf123

Hi,

Sometimes when I buy fruit from a supermarket, it tastes so bad, I have to chuck it away,

After having discarded a very mushy tasteless box of blueberries I noticed on the label where it says

"We are happy to refund or replace any Tesco Product which falls below the high standard you expect. Just ask any member of staff. This does not affect your statutory rights"

Does it mean I can now buy expensive fruits and if its not tasty I just can give it back?

What are your experiences?

mynameistallulah

They might give you a discretionary refund a few times, but if they catch on to what you are doing they'll quickly stop - and indeed, possibly ban you from the store!

Guardsman

Give it to the birds

alistair.long

"We are happy to refund or replace any Tesco Product which falls below the high standard you expect. Just ask any member of staff. This does not affect your statutory rights"

This means that you can buy a very expensive piece and give it back and say "its not to my standard" and nothing else. And they have to refund or replace.

If they refuse call Tesco customer service explaining "We are happy to refund or replace any Tesco Product which falls below the high standard you expect. Just ask any member of staff. This does not affect your statutory rights"
and they will call the managers to give you a refund or exchange.

Forwandert

naf123 wrote: »

Hi,

Sometimes when I buy fruit from a supermarket, it tastes so bad, I have to chuck it away,

After having discarded a very mushy tasteless box of blueberries I noticed on the label where it says

"We are happy to refund or replace any Tesco Product which falls below the high standard you expect. Just ask any member of staff. This does not affect your statutory rights"

Does it mean I can now buy expensive fruits and if its not tasty I just can give it back?

What are your experiences?

It covers things like quality. ie damaged, bruised, rotten on the inside of fruits and veg usually. Although I always let CS refund for tasteless fruits also as it was a quality issue and they could be wasted for any quality reason. (Not at Tesco though at a different supermarket) I can't see why you would have any issue returning although one little tip don't eat half first that won't get you a refund.

I got called to several complaints the most memorable was a deep filled quiche where someone returned a 1 inch section of crust as they had eaten the rest but said you could quite clearly see on this small section of crust how the quiche wasn't deep filled so they required a refund under the quality assurance policy. Also a guy that drank 3/4 of a 70cl bottle of brandy then returned it the next morning still drunk requesting a replacement as it tasted funny. Both didn't achieve refunds/replacements for quality.

Hintza

Well if you bought in season and didn't buy the stuff that is forced and flown thousands of miles then it shouldn't be tasteless.

Do it once too often and Tesco might decide they don't require you as a customer any more.

Sambucus_Nigra

You could always save up the money from 5 punnets and buy a blueberry bush of your own.

naf123

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

You could always save up the money from 5 punnets and buy a blueberry bush of your own.

can you please elaborate.... :-)

Sambucus_Nigra

naf123 wrote: »

can you please elaborate.... :-)

In what way? You take the money you would spend on buying blueberries, and spend it on a blueberry plant. This will give you fresh blueberries next year, which will taste fantastic.

pulliptears

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

In what way? You take the money you would spend on buying blueberries, and spend it on a blueberry plant. This will give you fresh blueberries next year, which will taste fantastic.

But Tesco have Smurf Blueberries, you just can't grow Smurf Blueberries! (I'm a marketers dream hehe)

Doubt a blueberry bush would grow in my garden as its sandstone so the soil is poor. Nice idea though.

shaun_from_Africa

You take the money you would spend on buying blueberries, and spend it on a blueberry plant.

Just don't do what I have done.

I like spicy food but I object paying £1-£2 for a small handfull of chillies from my local supermarket, (no market or Indian store near me) so earlier this year I decided to try growing some of my own.
I bought 6 seedlings from a local nursery (3 Scotch Bonnet and 3 "Green Gusto") and also 4 different varieties from an online seller.
I purchased so many because going by my previous growing escapades, I only expected 1 or 2 to survive.

How wrong I was.
I now have a conservatory full of very large, heavily laden chilli plants and probably have enough of a crop to take care of half of the chilliheads in Surrey.