Tesco - Misleading or not?

Azari

Cycrow wrote: »

and why would staff know without checking ?

Who said they should?

there are 1000's of products instore, are you expecting staff to know, from memory, every price and every offer in store ?

Of course not.

Try reading the thread and see if you can manage to understand the point actually being made.

Cycrow

I can understand the point fine.

The labels list the products that are on part of the offer, if you read the labels then you can usually tell what product are part of the offer on that label.

the picture is difficult to read, but you can still see it lists different products on the 2 labels, so clearly they are not part of the same offer

Azari

Cycrow wrote: »

I can understand the point fine.

And yet you demonstrate quite clearly that you don't.

I highlighted the part: 'They will go and check if they don't know.'

If they need to go and check, then it's evidently not obvious to them - otherwise they would answer without the need to check.

The labels list the products that are on part of the offer, if you read the labels then you can usually tell what product are part of the offer on that label.

the picture is difficult to read, but you can still see it lists different products on the 2 labels, so clearly they are not part of the same offer

Yes, no one is disputing this.

My point, which you jumped on without understanding it, was that it is not, as several people are making out, 'obvious'. You do actually need to check.

It catches people out because the incorrectly infer a rule from the way many other offers are arranged whereby you have a number of disparate products all on a 3 for 2 or by x for £y that are grouped by physical proximity.

Cycrow

Azari wrote: »

And yet you demonstrate quite clearly that you don't.

I highlighted the part: 'They will go and check if they don't know.'

If they need to go and check, then it's evidently not obvious to them - otherwise they would answer without the need to check.

and like i said without checking, how are they supposed to know ?
if you go upto a staff member and ask about a price, they wont know without checking the label.
you seem to be assuming that the staff member can see the label when you ask them. There was no mention of them even being on the same asile.

so when you say they need to go and check, could easily mean they need to go and check the label to see what it says.

afterall, most of the time, there wont be a staff member next to the product that you can ask, so you usually have to go elsewhere to find someone to ask

Azari

Cycrow wrote: »

and like i said without checking, how are they supposed to know ?
if you go upto a staff member and ask about a price, they wont know without checking the label.
you seem to be assuming that the staff member can see the label when you ask them. There was no mention of them even being on the same asile.

so when you say they need to go and check, could easily mean they need to go and check the label to see what it says.

God, it's like banging your head against a brick wall!

Can you not get it into your head that you are just reinforcing what I said?

Staff that work with these products and offers all the time need to go and check the label!

That's perfectly reasonable but refutes the assertion made by several posters that "it's obvious".

It's not obvious - you need to check.

Cycrow

yes they have to check the label because they cant memorise every product and every price in the store.

it doesn't mean its not obvious just that they dont remember everything.

the store i used to work in had 1000's of products on offer, and these offers changed weekly. Its simply not possibe for them to remember every individual product that goes with each offer

so of course they have to go and check the label to see what the offer is.

are you also going to argue that prices for each product is not obvious because you have to read the label to find out ?

Azari

Cycrow wrote: »

yes they have to check the label because they cant memorise every product and every price in the store.

it doesn't mean its not obvious just that they dont remember everything.

the store i used to work in had 1000's of products on offer, and these offers changed weekly. Its simply not possibe for them to remember every individual product that goes with each offer

so of course they have to go and check the label to see what the offer is.

You seem to be struggling with the meaning of the word: 'obvious'.

In my world, if you ask a member of staff and they answer without checking anything, then the answer is 'obvious' to them. If they need to check something, then the answer is clearly not 'obvious'.

If you believe that the answer is obvious, even though they need to check up to find out what it is, can you give us an example of how an answer would not be obvious? And how do you draw the distinction?

are you also going to argue that prices for each product is not obvious because you have to read the label to find out ?

Of course.

If you go into a pound shop, it's obvious what everything costs.

Otherwise it's not 'obvious' without reading the price label. If the label is missing you have no way of knowing how much something costs so how can it possibly be 'obvious'?

Money-Saving-King

Azari wrote: »

Staff that work with these products and offers all the time need to go and check the label!

Surely if they need to go and check the label then the label must be clear with that's on promotion & just means the staff cannot fully remember the exact list of products included in one of thousands of new promotions?

Cycrow

But your original point was that its unclear and that the fact staff dont know the prices proves your point.

but if all they need to do is read the label, that is there for the purpose of the customers, then it cant be that unclear

Azari

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

Surely if they need to go and check the label then the label must be clear ...?

That has to be one of the weirdest pieces of logic I have ever seen.

If you need to check something that implies that the first place you check is 'clear'?

I can see absolutely no logical reason why one thing follows from the other.