Tesco - No longer a customer

mufi

geerex wrote: »

Its not even about planning ahead.... Unless i take the day off, midweek daytime slots are no good, nor are mid/late evening due to various other commitments. So, I'm left with weekend slots which are invariably more expensive. Supply/demand, fair enough, but if they REALLY wanted my custom they could mitigate it with a free delivery or some such.

Don't know if you got one, but about three months ago Tesco sent me a coupon for a year's delivery for £30 (full price is £60, IIRC, which isn't bad either). Bargain; the only condition is minimum spend of £25, so in theory one could have a daily delivery provided the spend was reached.


BTW, according to my local Tesco Manager, the actual cost of each delivery is £15. Having recently encountered a home delivery vehicle in the middle of the North York Moors, about 20 miles from the nearest main road and 40-odd miles from the nearest Tesco, that seems pretty believable.

geerex

mufi wrote: »

Don't know if you got one, but about three months ago Tesco sent me a coupon for a year's delivery for £30 (full price is £60, IIRC, which isn't bad either). Bargain; the only condition is minimum spend of £25, so in theory one could have a daily delivery provided the spend was reached.


BTW, according to my local Tesco Manager, the actual cost of each delivery is £15. Having recently encountered a home delivery vehicle in the middle of the North York Moors, about 20 miles from the nearest main road and 40-odd miles from the nearest Tesco, that seems pretty believable.

I can't see that being true, perhaps their most expensive delivery could be £15, or even that the stores average is £15 because of location or competition factors, but there's no way that each home delivery costs Tesco £15. That simply isn't going to be viable.

As for the voucher - didn't get one, probably don't use Tesco enough even then to justify it...

gayleygoo

I love our local Tesco, there are so few customers there that it's almost a pleasant experience

Although I only go about once or twice a month for things we can't get closer to us.

ALIBOBSY

Having chatted to a few friends on the whole most people who are trying to save money seem to be moving away from the "big shop in one store" kind of mentality.

This is bound to hit places like Tesco who rely on you picking up a few cheapies and getting the rest of you items at full price (often higher than other shops) to balance out their profit margins.

We use a variety of shops, mostly Lidl or Aldi and two local farm shops, plus bits/bargains from poundstretcher/b and m/Iceland. But I do look for offers and bargains/vouchers for any of the other big stores and will go in for those. But tbh I am finding more stuff like that in Asda or Morrisons these days, or even co-op with their recent run of offers, even quite like waitrose as they get some pretty good offers on now and the quality is fab, plus a free coffee of course.

Do like clubcard points so use the petrol station and as I said the odd bargain (or bits when they are open and other stores are shut) and use them against days out vouchers. Just swapped £25 of CC vouchers (saved over the year) for £100 for days out on our holiday in the summer and my Mum saves her vouchers from this time and next to double up and get a big chunk of the kids uniform for us in August.

Tesco need to get back to putting the customer first rather than obsessively scrambling around for higher profit margins.

Ali x

pimento

Tesco looked at the things I liked to buy and stopped stocking them. They used to make a really nice smoked salmon dip but they don't stock it any more (amongst other things). I now only pop in every few weeks for their Finest black teabags and their Value cat litter.

I now use Waitrose.

geerex

pimento wrote: »

Tesco looked at the things I liked to buy and stopped stocking them. They used to make a really nice smoked salmon dip but they don't stock it any more (amongst other things). I now only pop in every few weeks for their Finest black teabags and their Value cat litter.

I now use Waitrose.

It's infuriating.
They stopped selling (amongst other things) both Weihenstephan and Paulaner German beers. Pretty niche, you'd think, but the bws supervisor/manager told me they were both in his top ten greatest beer sellers, so much so that the shelf was often emptied each day.
What did tesco do? Delisted them both, replaced by a Vietnamese beer which has been reduced due to it coming to its bbe, and yet another variety of erdinger which generally gathers a nice layer if dust.
Perhaps they only sold well in my store and the other local ones I visited. Even so, I doubt they sold as badly as their replacements.

Sod tesco, due to the weak euro I can now import cases of decent German beer for €43.90, around £33 ish. I used to spend £15-£20 more than that in tesco. Their loss.

Petra_70

Haven't shopped there in years anyway as we do not have one for 25 miles. No loss.

welshbookworm

They closed the only sensible sized Tesco near me about 3 years ago, so I very rarely go to Tesco.
When I do its for odd bits and bobs, my last shop with them was £5!
Aldi and Waitrose are my usual shops now.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoycoTT them. Local tiger garage always cheaper. And with our points this year we have spent 16 pence to their filthy coffers.

Avoid.

SpammyTheSpammer

Ours is great - there at least once a week
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I love Tesco - every little helps...