Getting a kick out of Sainsbury's Brand Matching...

Donegal_Paul

Meadows wrote: »

£14.46 higher than other supermarkets, Not sure I would be :j.
Sounds to me like you would be better shopping elsewhere if your shopping is costing that much more when you shop there, and they have you right where they want you - a returning customer to get the difference back!

As I've already said though, I am still saving the same as if I went to Tescos, but more, as Im not spending the time and petrol getting there and back.

Plus, the vouchers are used on my sub £20 shops and on items that are the same price as competitors eg perishables hence being a returning customer for those isn't a problem.

In fact those 5 vouchers don't simply represent a saving of £14.46, as they are cost neutral really as I'd have saved the same if driving to Tesco, other than 2 facts.

1. each of those shopping vouchers represents a £2 saving in petrol so that's £10 more in my pocket.

2. Brand match also works against asda so some of that voucher is against them not just Tesco. This is particularly pertinent as to have gotten the saving by going to Asda is a 28mile round trip for me, a cost of £7 in petrol.

So, if I can get savings prices locally without using anywhere near as much petrol, then it's simply like getting savings from miles away on my doorstep

I'm failing to see the downside.

Donegal_Paul

thatguy1 wrote: »

Those saying Sainsbury's is more expensive... the other day I handed someone a piece of paper telling them their shopping was nearly £20 cheaper than Tesco & Asda.

I handed out quite a few more that day that were £9/£10 cheaper than Tesco & Asda.

I'd well believe it!

e.g. RIchmond sausages are £1.75 cheaper than Tescos,
walkers sensations are 99p cheaper, doritos cool are 98p cheaper, Walls cart d'or ice cream £1.69 cheaper, persil small and mightly 54 washes is currently £5 cheaper :eek:

I mean there's £10.49 saving already and that's only taken me 7 minutes to find those :beer:

Donegal_Paul

maman wrote: »

I've started using Sainsbury's lately BUT only after I've been to Aldi's and bought all the things on my list that are cheaper than in Sainsbury's or Tesco's.

I do get the occasional voucher (infuriates me that it only lasts a week). I find many special offers are for junk food so I'm not sure how much of those I'd buy.

Thank you for raising it, I'll take a look at mysupermarket.

You should definitely check it out, todays saving of 7ish quid was on 2 items only, ie washing powder and the tomatoes, I made up to the 20 quid on items I needed that were no cheaper elsewhere, ie own make coffee, own make cat food, and a tub of butter at 90p instead of 1.80 so nothing there that were junk food or treats, all standard month in month out shopping.

System

sainsburys is very expensive period

fatboy77

A cousin who had a Sainsbury's superstore on her doorstep was doing exactly the same - buying items which were substantially cheaper at Tesco or Asda, and receiving high (£8+) value brand match coupons on a weekly (if not more) basis.

Any products bought at Sainsbury's which were cheaper, she paid for in a separate transaction - often using the brand match coupon she had received only minutes before in her first transaction.

Over a year she probably received brand match coupons totalling close to £1,000.

A couple of weeks ago she was stopped by a security guard when she tried to enter the store. A senior manager came running over and informed her she was no longer welcome to shop at the store and was banned. She was furious and demanded to know why and was eventually told her shopping habits/transactions had been monitored for some time and she was not the sort of customer the company wanted shopping in their store's as she was abusing the goodwill of the brand match system.

Edwardia

I really hope that the new grocers ombudsman or whatever the title is, will look at the whole brand matching thing.

You can buy some brands and there is a big differential across stores eg Heinz soups and Weetabix to name two and then look on mysupermarket for a brand and find that it's identical in ASDA, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Ocado and Waitrose. And that's not fixed ???

So Tesco puts a price up and all the other stores follow suit, whether they need to or not because they are brand matching to Tesco. Another smelly rat ?

MavisTheMaven

You know you're doing something right with your moneysaving when you get banned for it!

ms_night_ryder

LOL at being banned.

Paul you are right I never buy bread flour, I also nowadays never spend £20 a week on shopping let alone in 1 shop, unless of course I have £15 worth of coupons.

A._Badger

The brand matching scam has been the perfect excuse for the major supermarkets to massively hike the prices of own-brand products.


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Each to there own, but i got 2x brand marked washing powder reduced because of damage for half price,which was £4 on offer anyway. I also get reduced meat, poultry, fish, fruit, dairy products, veg, bread.. i could go on. I bought 3 x bottles of blossom hill wine from Mr. A. and also got a voucher for £1.50 off (not a price match) and therefore paid £2.83 a bottle. I shop at A**i and HBs before i go to any of the big 4. Even if your saving petrol, your still spending the money back in Mr. S where you dont get a choice of other offers which may be in other stores. Your only giving them the money back by buying more products . But if it saves you £2 in petrol is that offset against higher brand prices. Most of the big 4 are all the same in there price matches, they just have them on offer at different times, its like a loop.