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Slowhand

My shopping is consistantly less expensive at Asda compared to Tesco. Do I think !!!!!! Tesco? No I shop at Asda.

Slowhand

barbiedoll wrote: »

I've been getting £5 vouchers at Morrisons for the last couple of weeks, they just give them to you at the till with your receipt. I can't understand how Asda are so popular in this country, making customers queue up three times just for a £5 voucher is insulting at best. It's not like they're particularly cheap there now, there's never enough staff to man the checkouts, their stores are badly laid out and often dirty and/or untidy and most of their staff look like they've lost the will to live.

Shop elsewhere!

Morrisons and Tesco are more expensive than Asda. You don't have to queue up 3 times for the voucher.

johnnyboyrebel

Hern wrote: »

If Asda nationwide is actually running this £5-off-on-£40-then-go-through-lots-of-hoops-to-get your-meagre-discount, then it's taking the p*ss out of its UK customers.

To be fair, a £5 discount from a £40 shop is actually a good discount bearing in mind they don't have to give you anything! (No, I don't work for Asda thank God - used to many years ago and the 'cult' feeling of it all can be read in other posts.... ) Is the OP saying once his shopping is put through the till he then gets the voucher and can use it off that shopping bill there and then? If so I have never seen it work like this. Sure, you pay then get your voucher to use the next time.

johnnyboyrebel

Hern wrote: »

Asda needs to wake up and smell the, er, Tesco. We received a book of £10 (not £5) off vouchers on a £40 spend, each voucher dated on a week by week basis. We're midway through this £10 voucher promotion, and now have two left: "£10 off when you spend £40 or more" at the store named on the voucher (our local store) valid from 22/10/2012 to 28/10/2012, and ditto valid from 29/10/2012 to 04/11/2012.

We spent £42 on a Tesco shopping trip last week and when we handed that week's voucher to the cashier, she reduced the bill to £32. Tomorrow, or maybe the day after, I need some more gin (!), food, and a couple of bottles of wine, so it might be nearer £50 but with the voucher, will be less than £40.

If Asda nationwide is actually running this £5-off-on-£40-then-go-through-lots-of-hoops-to-get your-meagre-discount, then it's taking the p*ss out of its UK customers. Its Walmart parent would never get away with that kind of thing in the US.

We're not Asda customers, never have been (we actually buy more from Lidl because we don't particularly like our local Tesco store) but if I'd been treated the way Asda customers seem to have been on here, I'd be wanting to find out from Asda just !!!!!! it thinks it's playing at.

However. . .rather than wasting time on writing to a store manager in any locality, assuming one is bothered enough about an issue to actually write, then a letter for publication in the local newspaper is the way to go. It's am-az-ing, the sensitivity that the big-name supermarkets have to the issue of 'local' brand loyalty. They have huge PR departments who constantly bang on about how "Foundations equal Local", and that when disgruntled customers start, very publicly, chipping away at those foundations, well. . . It gets kinda serious.

The 'Raffle Ticket Supermarket': yeah, I can see Walmart being overjoyed at the way its UK operation is running. And a measly fiver off when Tesco is offering a tenner? Sheesh.

You seem to feel the same way about Walmart as I do (ie. they are total scumbags) so if you get chance watch this documentary, it is quite disturbing from the way they treat their staff to their total illegal activities http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wal-Mart-High-Cost-Price/dp/B000FTJ74G/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1350844818&sr=8-4 Its on netflix too if you have that

Hern

Slowhand wrote: »

My shopping is consistantly less expensive at Asda compared to Tesco. Do I think !!!!!! Tesco? No I shop at Asda.

Er, how do you. . . know. . . that Tesco is. . . consistently. . . . more expensive than Asda. . . when you seem to be saying, you only shop at Asda??

I don't *know* that Lidl is *consistently* cheaper than Tesco, but I've a feeling it could well be, albeit we actually shop there because our Tesco is a grotty dump. However, whenever Mrs H and I have decided that, for a masochistic change, we'll shop at Asda, we find some stuff cheaper there than Tesco, some the same, and some more expensive, depending on what offers and promotions are taking place.

Something about swings and roundabouts, I believe?

meer53

I've got my receipt to get my £5 voucher next time i go to Asda. They have a CSA at the door with an Ipad who can print the vouchers off if you can't print at home. No big deal.

I do my shopping at Aldi but called in to Asda to get my daughter some school trousers and ended up with loads of other stuff. As you do.

If they want to give me £5 for nothing i'm not going to argue, i'm sure i'll be spending more than £40 on a shop before the offer expires. I might just buy £40 worth of wine !

johnnyboyrebel

Maybe I should pay more notice to prices, I can honestly say wherever I go to shop I choose whatever I want, it goes in the trolley and it is paid for. Sure sometimes I may notice the total slightly higher than other places but I don't really care. Shopping to me is a total chore, I don't have the time to even notice prices. I want to get in and out again ASAP LOL

madmayo

Mupette wrote: »

well there was something in the newspaper a few weeks back of how customers were abusing the system, but your probably not interested, just ring asda and ask them,

ring them and wait in another queue?? no thanks ... thats why i have emailed them!

Slowhand

madmayo wrote: »

you used to pay then get your voucher for next shop.. not the rigmarol of queuing again twice!!

Where is this queuing 3 times coming from? You put through your shopping as normal. Go online and check the Asda price guarantee...then you print the voucher. Next time you shop you hand over the voucher and get £5 off. No extra queuing!

Mupette

Slowhand wrote: »

Where is this queuing 3 times coming from? You put through your shopping as normal. Go online and check the Asda price guarantee...then you print the voucher. Next time you shop you hand over the voucher and get £5 off. No extra queuing!

they complain about those without internet and printer
advise has been given that instore the same can be done