Tesco Value snobbery??

MissPin

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat wrote: »

Do wish they'd build a Lidl in Cambridge - got an Aldi which isn't always on the most convenient side of the city for me. But why get a German supermarket when we could have yet another vastly overpriced designer clothes shop :rolleyes:

Hi, can you tell me where the Aldi is in Cambridge? I didn't even know there was one!! :rolleyes:

Uniscots97

tim_n wrote: »

Value products are a bit of a joke - it's like perfumes that are sold at prices more expensive than the finest champagne (or even printer ink!!!) that are produced in factories such as those owned by lever (maker of Cif etc).

Can you imagine value 'gucci' perfume?

Having just popped out to the local Mr T at lunch to pick up a few items, I was annoyed to find a complete lack of value products and something I hadn't really noticed before - different stores stock different value products. My local one doesn't do value scampi, nor does it do value cream cleaner (the whole reason I popped in in the first place!). But the local one to work is different to the local one at home. At work value cherry tomatoes are 22p a box. At home Mr T charges 44p for exactly the same product. I'm not sure how that works to be honest... The stores are only 20 miles from each other.

Tim, a friend who works for Tesco told me they 'grade' the area according to what the average income is. The Tesco across from my work has some Value lines (funnily enough no Value scampi, no Value dishwasher tablets but it does have the Value cleaner), a lot of Polish goods and the rest is there own normal brand. In the Tesco closest to where I live (about 15 miles away), they stock mostly Value items and a mix of Tesco normal brand and named brands. Yet a few miles further the Tesco there stocks hardly any Value and mostly their top of the range so I guess these areas are weighed up according to the areas wages. Tesco do say if they don't stock a product in a store that you'd like to see then put a comment in the comments box and they may start stocking that item.

moanymoany

There was a time when we had three young women in the house and the number of toilet rolls we went through :eek:

So, I bought value - number of rolls used dropped considerably. However, their purchase of tissues went up! lol

moanymoany

There was a time when we had three young women in the house and the number of toilet rolls we went through :eek:

So, I bought value - number of rolls used dropped considerably. However, their purchase of tissues went up! lol

mum2many

daphne~sparkle wrote: »

Great thread :T
A valid point to make to those who will not eat Value goods is that there is NO Tesco Stripy factory producing all the Stripy goods. Where are Stripy goods are produced? - in the same factories as named brands.
Producing own label products are how named brands manage to keep their factories running all year round. Products have different packaging but in most cases the same or very similar products.
Like others I am selective about the things I buy and there are certain things I wouldnt buy - value meat or eggs. But as a reformed part time label/MOC snob I am amazed at the savings I am making by trying value products and using MOC's. I dont often compromise on Toileteries but as a Bootser I get most of them for next to nothing anyway. I have also started collecting Tesco Points and am using the SB vouchers so toileteries a plenty here!
I do decant some things for ease of use and admit to puting my lidls coffee in a Kenco jar (not one person has noticed!) but on the whole I am extremely proud of my bargains and the money I have saved thanks to this wonderful site! :T
DS X

which lidl coffee do you buy, tried loads of cheap brands and always end up back with either kenco rappor(or really rich if on offer). dont like red mountain either, bought a big jar and thinkit tastes cheap and nasty but dh likes it

tim_n

unixgirluk wrote: »

Tim, a friend who works for Tesco told me they 'grade' the area according to what the average income is. The Tesco across from my work has some Value lines (funnily enough no Value scampi, no Value dishwasher tablets but it does have the Value cleaner), a lot of Polish goods and the rest is there own normal brand. In the Tesco closest to where I live (about 15 miles away), they stock mostly Value items and a mix of Tesco normal brand and named brands. Yet a few miles further the Tesco there stocks hardly any Value and mostly their top of the range so I guess these areas are weighed up according to the areas wages. Tesco do say if they don't stock a product in a store that you'd like to see then put a comment in the comments box and they may start stocking that item.

I don't usually buy cleaner at all - we generally make our own, but a couple of days ago my fiance dropped tumeric onto the white plastic and everything I try with tumeric doesn't work - but cream cleaner generally shifts it! A bottle therefore lasts about two years

Trow

Wally? Good on him for re-using his carrier bags - there aren't enough people that do that! And to be honest, (I don't know about Harrods bags as I have never been), but Markies bags tend to outlast the average supermaket carrier bag, they are great for reusing. And Am I not right in saying that Aldi and Lidl charge for bags, so he is actually moneysaving by bringing his own!

OK, there might be some snob value there - but better that than using once then binning carrier bags all the time!

Olliebeak wrote: »

My ex-next-door-neighbour used to keep a couple of Harrods carrier bags in the glove compartment of his car - specially for hiding his Aldi/Lidl shopping in. Same guy used to take his M&S bags to the market when clothes shopping. What a Wally!

Uniscots97

tim_n wrote: »

I don't usually buy cleaner at all - we generally make our own, but a couple of days ago my fiance dropped tumeric onto the white plastic and everything I try with tumeric doesn't work - but cream cleaner generally shifts it! A bottle therefore lasts about two years

Tumeric is so hard to shift. Think last time I spilt some it was eye make up remover that took it out :eek:

lightisfading

moanymoany wrote: »

I have a feeling that it will not be too long before more and more people are going to have these items in their shopping baskets and tricky kids and oh's are going to have to lump it.

I think it's already started... our Asda is sold out of value pasta EVERY time we go in :mad:

Ben84

I have some of those big Lidl bags with the huge bright yellow and red Lidl logo on them. I go shopping all over the city centre with them every Saturday, even M&S. :rotfl:

I live in a very wealthy area. In fact, we were a few years ago determined to be the city with the highest income per person in the UK. There are no Lidl or Aldi type stores anywhere, the bags stand out a mile away. I wasn't actually aware of this, or even thought people noticed bags at first. I don't notice or care where other people shop.

I like my Lidl bags for good practical reasons, they do make shopping so much easier, but then I realised people do notice them, so I kept them as a protest against brand names and grocery store snobbery. People do comment, sometimes quite negatively, but a number of people have actually said that they like Lidl. Other shopping bags don't create any obvious responses, and I've never had people start a conversation with me over a Sainsburys or M&S bag.