Tesco Value snobbery??

Lewie

I saw some folk shopping at Aldi.
They went to their car boot and loaded all the shopping into Tesco bags.
I suppose they were putting on a show for the neighbours.
Seems a bit shallow to me but, whatever!

Trow

Lewie wrote: »

I saw some folk shopping at Aldi.
They went to their car boot and loaded all the shopping into Tesco bags.
I suppose they were putting on a show for the neighbours.
Seems a bit shallow to me but, whatever!

Why is the automatic assumption that the bags are for show?

Aldi charge for bags, to try and encourage reusing bags - I have a variety of bags that I reuse no matter what shop I am in - its what we all should be doing!

MrsE_2

Trow wrote: »

Why is the automatic assumption that the bags are for show?

Aldi charge for bags, to try and encourage reusing bags - I have a variety of bags that I reuse no matter what shop I am in - its what we all should be doing!

Yeah I take my Tesco hessian bags into Waitrose & M&S (& Sainsbury & Adsa too).

Lewie

Why is the automatic assumption that the bags are for show?

Like I said, that is what I SUPPOSED (my opinion). See the first post of this thread, it is about snobbery.

Aldi charge for bags, to try and encourage reusing bags.

Why the automatic assumption that they charge to encourage the reusing of bags?
It is a charge to keep costs low, like stacking the goods on the shelves in the original cartons.

its what we all should be doing!

Why??

frugalpam

Went to Tesco's earlier on today to get the ingredients to bake some biscuits and a cake. I bought 'Value' products - and it worked out so much cheaper (esp the raisins and sultanas). As someone mentioned in an earlier post, all the value ingredients were on the lower or bottom shelves And I also noticed that these shelves needed re-stocking.

I don't care who sees that I buy value stuff. My only ''treat'' is buying decent loo rolls

bevrob

mumoffour77 wrote: »

Hi bevrob....I just started on the boards too....and went to tesco last nite too!!
also to asda and lidl!!
lidl have a bogof on 2ltrs of milk @£1.19 so i got 8 litres!! neeless to say we need it!! Bread in asda was reduced to 10p, with tomorrows date on it!! chicken was the same as was beef briskit....gonna have to search for some recpies for that one!!
I am a student, with 4 children, 2 of whom have asd and n extremley ill hubby who has been in hospital for the best part of 3 yers!!
I hope you fair well on the boards....they can be very helpful!!:)

thanks so much, must call at lidi tomorrow, we go through a lot of milk. Work bought sandwiches today so had these for lunch and had frozen leftovers for tea tonite. No spend day today, so feeling a bit virtuous. The less you spend the less i want to spend. I must say this thread is about snobbery and i must say i still decant the value shampoo into another bottle. Sofar husband or kids havent noticed, value doggie food however will remain on shelf as our jack russel sleeps at the bottom of our bed and just lets say really cheap gives her wind:o bev x

bevrob

hannoja wrote: »

Welcome to the site Bev :hello:

Yes, DH is (darling/dear I believe) husband

Be sure to keep having a good nose around the site as and when you get time: I'm constantly finding new 'resourse bars', stickies, tools and other useful stuff! :shocked:

thanks for welcoming me to the site, i knew you lot would be friendly!
it will take me a while to find my way around, so ignore me if i dont post for a while,it maybe because i've opened another thread and cant remember where i was. ! On the subject of tesco snobbery, by september my trolly will be awash with blue and white labels. Tried tesco value tomato soup other day, fussy snobby daughter (16) liked it. I didn tell her it was value though. ha ha

hannoja

If someone wanted to 'show off', they probably wouldn't use my Tesco bags; they'd get Ocado/Waitrose or 'Sainsbugs' (Sarah Kennedy: yes, I'm getting on a bit now ).

They probably did what I sometimes do and forget to take their bags into the store and only realised when they were loading the contents of their trolley onto the checkout thinggy

A lot of the stuff these supermarkets sell is the same inside; it just gets their individual nasty cheapo labels stuck on it so you think it's from them. My OH is always telling me that, and when I was comparing Asda and Tesco cheapie stuff today, like baked beans, tinned toms., etc.. and finding that they were the same price for the same amount I thought that he's probably right.

/ramble

hannoja

Oh yeah, raisins, currants and sultanas!! I spent too much time comparing prices between Tesco and Asda today (going to the trouble of doing the same shop (pretty much) on both, and also on mysupermarket.co.uk (Tesco)! :rotfl: and got a couple of cheapie bags from Asda and the other from Tesco. My youngest eats these like they're going out of fashion! - OH used to grumble about it when he was still in nappies: err, little one, not OH!! :laugh:

As for sandwiches.......... there's a programme about them on Monday (Dispatches: Sandwiches Unwrapped) Gotta watch it: looks scary! :eek:

Kadeeae

phizzimum wrote: »

this comment is a bit confusing...
do you mean that you are not allowed to substitute value goods if they have ordered a more expensive item?

That's what I took it to mean, that if they ordered a block of cheddar (expensive/branded stuff) and all that was available in the store at the time was value blocks, they were forbidden to substitute the value cheddar.