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Tesco have run out of Easter Eggs 2 weeks before Easter

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  • meer53
    meer53 Posts: 10,217 Forumite
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    codemonkey


    I,m also in pain , and struggling to drive /ride


    look at
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    it hurts when you laugh:j

    I'll have your easter eggs, there's no way you can manage to eat one :D
  • Pincher
    Pincher Posts: 6,552 Forumite
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    codemonkey wrote: »
    Sigh. This part of the forum is called Praise, Vent & Warnings. This is a vent. It's a pretty minor vent, which is why I didn't post it in a "Life threatening emergencies" forum.



    I didn't even know this venting forum existed.


    It will save so much on therapy bills, not that the NHS has any budget for consumer rage.


    They need to lift the expletive censoring for this part of the forum, so I can have a really good rant, nay, unleash a torrent of abuse.
  • Just back fro my local Tesco. Easter Eggs stacked aplenty at the front door and floor to ceiling in the seasonal section. Thousands of them!
  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 35,765 Forumite
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    Just back fro my local Tesco. Easter Eggs stacked aplenty at the front door and floor to ceiling in the seasonal section. Thousands of them!

    Same in my local Tesco Extra.
  • k3lvc
    k3lvc Posts: 4,174 Forumite
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    Availability is all down to the objectives of Tesco HO/Store Manager/Manufacturers. On Easter Monday Easter Eggs are generally worth 30%-40% of their original price so woe betide the Store Manager/Buyer that has excess stock available that they've paid full price for. The risk now at 'Easter-13days' is do you order more (maybe on a 72hr lead time) and risk wiping out your profit for the season by being left with stock or do you just bank your profit and try and clear the slower sellers you have left

    If anyone has any more scientific aproach to this please let me know - I've been trying to perfect if for 20+yrs
  • enfield_freddy
    enfield_freddy Posts: 6,147 Forumite
    k3lvc wrote: »
    Availability is all down to the objectives of Tesco HO/Store Manager/Manufacturers. On Easter Monday Easter Eggs are generally worth 30%-40% of their original price so woe betide the Store Manager/Buyer that has excess stock available that they've paid full price for. The risk now at 'Easter-13days' is do you order more (maybe on a 72hr lead time) and risk wiping out your profit for the season by being left with stock or do you just bank your profit and try and clear the slower sellers you have left

    If anyone has any more scientific aproach to this please let me know - I've been trying to perfect if for 20+yrs


    as a person that has 124 boxes of hotpants sat in the corner of the unit


    "tell me about it"
  • geerex
    geerex Posts: 785 Forumite
    edited 23 March 2015 at 7:22PM
    k3lvc wrote: »
    Availability is all down to the objectives of Tesco HO/Store Manager/Manufacturers. On Easter Monday Easter Eggs are generally worth 30%-40% of their original price so woe betide the Store Manager/Buyer that has excess stock available that they've paid full price for. The risk now at 'Easter-13days' is do you order more (maybe on a 72hr lead time) and risk wiping out your profit for the season by being left with stock or do you just bank your profit and try and clear the slower sellers you have left

    If anyone has any more scientific aproach to this please let me know - I've been trying to perfect if for 20+yrs

    Although, you would think they'd have historic sales data, and thus be able to forecast stock requirements with a fair degree of accuracy... Or failing that (if its a new store etc), use data from another store of a similar size/turnover/customer demographic.
  • enfield_freddy
    enfield_freddy Posts: 6,147 Forumite
    or more simply , bad management , stuff emm , sell them a mars bar!
  • k3lvc
    k3lvc Posts: 4,174 Forumite
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    geerex wrote: »
    Although, you would think they'd have historic sales data, and thus be able to forecast stock requirements with a fair degree of accuracy... Or failing that (if its a new store etc), use data from another store of a similar size/turnover/customer demographic.

    For tins of beans it works, for seasonal product based solely on emotion and price it tends to work less. Price deflation and health awareness have led to a decrease in the size of the category which is no longer a profit driver in itself but a price driver to encourage people into the stores.

    As a question to the OP - despite there being no Easter Eggs available did you still spend in the store ??
  • JReacher1
    JReacher1 Posts: 4,661 Forumite
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    Tesco had a deal on last week. The £3 eggs were only £1.50. It was massively popular and I saw a couple in my local Tesco fill up two shopping trollys with them.

    I would guess this deal was as popular in every Tesco so I am not surprised that some Tesco stores are short of stock.

    I am sure they will get some more in before Easter.
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