Tonight With Trevor McDonald...

mark_steps

Spendless wrote:

They had the 2 for 1 offer ending in the middle of the trading day.

I was appalled that they changed an offer in the middle of a working day and told the woman to write to HO to complain.

Another thing i dislike about Tescos is with regard to their staff. There is a Tescos nearby and whenever they advertise jobs the hours you are there for and the hiours they say the contract is for never seemed to work out - then i realised they do not pay their staff for tea-breaks (i don't mean a lunch time i mean a coffee break). Not since i was a Saturday girl long ago have i come across a company that does this.

Hiya! I work for TESCO and as i have done so before it would appear that on this occasion the Point Of Sale for the product had been up longer than it should have. So if this offer ended 14 May and it was still up on 15 May, it can be taken down at any time Regardless. Sorry...

Yeah tea-breaks are a bummer! We cant even leave early and say class it as a t-break as they say before the end of a shift - generally 5 and 9 thats when the peak rate of customers come in...

Smiley_Mum

littlemissfrugal wrote:

i know i'm slightly biased but don't you think with whats just happened to Rover a once great british company we maybe ought to applaud Tesco being successful after all we don't get much else right do we! And by the way smiley mum rebel against tesco if you must but question the quality of the products you buy and remember its a foreign company.

There is advantages and disadvantages to wherever you shop and after seeing the Tonight programme and having my eyes opened to their practices I choose to be more selective about where I buy my grocceries. Yes, Tesco are successful; yes Tesco have made £2 billion profit, but at what cost. Have a look at this -

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/brief...sco_exposed.pdf

http://northtonight.grampiantv.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=6365

From what I have looked at on the internet they are all as bad as one another, just that we haven't had it drawn to our attention yet.

I've yet to have a problem with Lidl fruit and veg etc or any of their products. On the other hand, there have been several occasions where I have had to return Tesco products due to them spoiling within days of purchase. At the end of the day, it's a matter of choice.

LSmith4285

Personally I am just happy to go to Tesco and get everything under one roof. I do not have the time to trail around some manky rainy market with a bunch of chavs (maybe thats just the markets around here).

As said above Tesco generally get better quality produce which lasts longer.

Time is money and by the time you've searched everywhere for the best deal you'd be better saving time and money buying at Tesco. Instead of trailing around markets and shops for a few hours to do an extra hours overtime at work and just buy it at Tesco

Don't we all realise the marketing techniques of the different shops? This just highlights the industry as a whole and not just tesco. It is also a bit insulting to think we need to be shown this on TV, don't we all know what they do and their clever use of the English language to make everything seem like the best deal ever?

Unfortunately this show was a typical points scoring exercise just like we get from Watchdog every week.

Spendless

mark_steps wrote:

Hiya! I work for TESCO and as i have done so before it would appear that on this occasion the Point Of Sale for the product had been up longer than it should have. So if this offer ended 14 May and it was still up on 15 May, it can be taken down at any time Regardless. Sorry...

It wasn't me that picked up the Easter egg so i can't comment with any certainty but from what the women at the next till was saying that wasn't what she meant.

She meant a promotion finished at 1pm (for example).So she picked it up prior to 1pm but it was after 1pm when she got to checkout.

Perhaps you can explain if this is likely or if i've misunderstood the womans complaint.

Edinburghlass_2

I have to agree with Lsmith in that my time is money to me, Tesco is as local as any shop can be for me. Not the luxury of a market, let alone a farmers' market but i do support a local butcher as his meat is good and steak pies are to die for.

I seldom by anything electrical elsewhere as I keep a close eye on what I might be looking for and wait until tesco have half priced and then half priced again, same with clothes and have had many a bargain this way :dance:

lipidicman

LSmith4285 wrote:

Don't we all realise the marketing techniques of the different shops? This just highlights the industry as a whole and not just tesco. It is also a bit insulting to think we need to be shown this on TV, don't we all know what they do and their clever use of the English language to make everything seem like the best deal ever?

Unfortunately this show was a typical points scoring exercise just like we get from Watchdog every week.

I completely agree with you if the 'we' means 'MSE'ers. But I reckon a lot of people dont realise this* - and if they watch the show and learn then all well and good - if only Martin was allowed to plug his website! Also the show certainly could have been more informative and less 'points scoring'

* I regularly see people buying bogof items, but only picking up one. And when I told one person they said 'i only really want one!' What? you couldnt freeze it/give it to a friend/neighbour. Another person was like 'oh, thats a bonus - i hadn't noticed' (the almost foot-wide sign!) Not everyone shops smart - and the supermarkets make their money from them.

darbooka

If you're a Tesco ClubCard or BabyClub member and get a mailing with printed non-food vouchers - for example, I recently received mailed vouchers for money off clothing if you buy a minimum amount worth of clothes - I've found this 3 step approach to savings-shangrilla:
Step one: You can buy the clothes along with your other items.
Step two: On another day, take the clothes back with your receipt and recieve refund for the full price of the clothes.
Step three: Enjoy the fact that defacto the discount offered for the clothing has now been applied to the rest of your shop.

In essence this is morally fine. They offer a discount for a purchase and you've complied. Their desire to bolster sales and move stock on particular product line has been satisfied. There's nothing to say you can't change your mind. Heck you might even have really considered keeping the items when you got home - or even while they've stayed in the boot awaiting their return to the store. So enjoy with no hard feelings.
You've earned it! :rotfl:

Lisa-Lou_3

I'm a working Mum of two and regularly shop in super markets, however nothing suprised me on Tonight with Trevor, as to how super markets make us think we are having a bargain when in fact we are paying more. I've just read Shopped by Joanna Blythman ,who also appeared on the show and to be honest not only is it frightening as to what my family and I are eating but it is also frightening that I am contributing to the mercenary tactics employed to reduce the price that super markets pay their suppliers. Many of whom having voiced their concerns at the ridiculous prices super markets are prepared to pay them have found themselves blacklisted by super market purchasers and have consequently gone out of business.
I'm not one for soap boxes but if anything has made me want to make a concerted effort to alter my shopping habits this book has.

P's have we all forgotten that fruits and vegetables normally grow in different sizes and shapes? Have a look next time your shopping in the supermarket they are all the same size!



1. Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
~Joanna Blythman
Perennial
Paperback - February 7, 2005
ISBN: 0007158041

gravitytolls

if you have time, it is always better to shop in your local butchers, greengrocers, newsagents, chemists etc.

Not only do you ensure their survival, you get to know people, and the shopping can become a social event.

How many elderly people; or young mums etc.; only get to have a natter whilst shopping.

Not to mention each being experienced in their own fields, much more so than in a supermarket.

How many of us have a milkman nowadays? We do, but we didn't for a long time. I like knowing that I don't need to panic if we're running low, as we'll be having a delivery. I can leave a note for extra if I need to.

However we only get milk delivered every other day, due to ther decline in customers.
How many times have we read about milkmen finding a customer in need of medical attention, unable to call for help?

We allow supermarkets to fulfill our every need at our peril; our society will be a poorer place without diversity and human contact generated from smaller shops.

One thought though - if councils were to provide better and cheaper parking provisions in our towns, maybe more of us would use them.