What I found out about Tesco

xHannahx

I've noticed a lot of value products are not available online.
I avoid Tesco if I can as they are so expensive. We did a monthly shop in lidl costing £109, put all items into my supermarket to compare cost elsewhere. Asda would have been about same as lidl. Tesco though showed as £160.

Nada666

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Thank you for that.

I have found that the Tesco in area I recently moved to doesn't even stock some basic food items, like sundried tomatoes in a packet or a choice of organic everyday cheeses. They didn't even have something as basic as organic double cream to start with.

Must get a friend lined-up to help get them up to scratch.

Don't you just hate it when you simply can't tell whether or not someone is being sarcastic?

robin58

This thread makes me think evil thoughts.

What would happen if we all went into Tesco to request food that they used to do but not now.

What kind of outcome/mess could we cause.:D

Sorry, I am pure evil.:eek:

Edwardia

Nada666 wrote: »

Don't you just hate it when you simply can't tell whether or not someone is being sarcastic?

Wanting to save money on your shopping doesn't oblige you to eat nothing but yellow stickered and everyday/basics ranges.

juno

robin58 wrote: »

This thread makes me think evil thoughts.

What would happen if we all went into Tesco to request food that they used to do but not now.

What kind of outcome/mess could we cause.:D

Sorry, I am pure evil.:eek:

This is why the policy won't actually be that just 2 people need to request it.

Stock comes in cases, which are decided by manufacturers etc. If a store wants to order that item, they have to have it in whole cases. So if a case has 12 items, Tesco will need to know that they can sell most of that case before the best before date.

If only two people ask for it, they have two people who are likely to buy it. So that's got rid of two items. If it's something like gravy granules, it will last a long time, but then also isn't an every day kind of purchase. So those two people might only buy one pot every few months. They have to then think that they will be likely to sell the others, because if they have to be reduced or go out of date they won't make any profit.

There's also the loss of sales of other products that will have to be removed for the new item to go on the shelf. If they have to remove a row of a better selling product in order for it to fit - bearing in mind that shelves are a certain size, and that they can't just put the gravy granules in with the bananas because that's where they have room - they will need to know they can make up for the loss of sales of the old product in sales of the new product. They also might have an agreement with another manufacturer, because some manufacturers can pay more for certain shelf space ( top and bottom shelves are bad, because "eye level is buy level") and this can extend to agrements over exactly how many rows and where they are placed. So even if this store wanted to override that they may not be able to.

So yeah, I'd be very surprised if the policy was actually for two people to request it and the product comes back. It might be a minimum of two people and the store will consider it, but they're going to consider other factors as well. They want to keep the OP happy, but is the extra sale of a 40p pot of gravy granules worth the other hassles?

ampersand

EV packs of 4 double-length toilet rolls @ £1.95 have disappeared.

Ditto, 500gm EV plain yogurt @ 45p.

Ditto, EV packs of oranges, from all but one Branch [previously stocked at all]

BUT, yeast is still free from the bakery :-)

xHannahx

Could find today EV chocolate mousses or fromage frais, was told that store didn't stock them but told me another local store did, but wasn't worth the effort to go to another store.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Thank you for that.

I have found that the Tesco in area I recently moved to doesn't even stock some basic food items, like sundried tomatoes in a packet or a choice of organic everyday cheeses. They didn't even have something as basic as organic double cream to start with.

Must get a friend lined-up to help get them up to scratch.

I wouldn't call these basic items...

BogsDollox

Sorry but you were mis-informed, that might be the policy for items that are ranged in other tesco stores, but most of the items mentioned in this thread have been discontinued throughout the company.


They're attempting to reduce the number of lines stocked, and offer a better price on items which remain.

robin58

BogsDollox wrote: »

Sorry but you were mis-informed, that might be the policy for items that are ranged in other tesco stores, but most of the items mentioned in this thread have been discontinued throughout the company.


They're attempting to reduce the number of lines stocked, and offer a better price on items which remain.[/QUOTE]

That quote made me laugh! Tesco can't beat Asda on prices and they have a bigger product base on their shelf's.

Also if they are discontinued stock, how are the shops able to get new stock?