MSE News: Tesco launches instant price match guarantee

Pincher

Walker's crisps is normally £1.50 for a pack of six 25g, any flavour.

Tesco is doing 3 for £4, but Sainsburys is simply £1 per six pack.

So the computer has to work out 3 x six pack is £4 vs. £3, with £1 difference. I'm still munching on the Sainsburys Walkers, so can't be bothered to test the Tesco deal.

Good test for any one who wants to know whether it's a genuine Price Match.

Assuming you get 1% cashback on the credit card, getting £1 cash means you are 1p better off, compared to deducting off the bill. For those with TSB 5% cashback, it's 5p per £1.

KevinG

Pincher wrote: »

So the computer has to work out 3 x six pack is £4 vs. £3, with £1 difference. I'm still munching on the Sainsburys Walkers, so can't be bothered to test the Tesco deal.

ASDA's price match does that quite happily and it knocks the others out of the water with the "10% cheaper" guarantee and matching own-brand goods. Now if they did that one at the till as well it would be amazing - but they won't because the current scheme relies on the fact that probably only 10% of shoppers can be bothered to do it.

KevinG

minislim wrote: »

does this cover fuel? or is that wishful thinking?

Of course not.

KevinG

photome wrote: »

so not the difference back on individual items but an average of all branded goods you buy...i think

It's not an "average" - how could it be? It's based on the total spend on branded goods.

puk999

Supermarkets should just lower prices and stop making customers jump through hoops.

Nada666

They're closing down and not opening larger stores, taking over local sites, and then turn round and say if you use our shops for a small shop you pay more and don't get the best price. Grotesque.

A._Badger

Not a hope in hell of wining me back. I've better things to do than stand in a store checking to see if some fiendishly complex formula has been properly applied at the checkout. And on that point, who still trusts Tesco?

I'll stick with Aldi and do top-ups wherever I can get a decent price on what I want that Aldi doesn't sell.

huggychair

Instantly, Instantly! as long as you buy 10 different branded items and at least 1 one of them just happens to be 'on their list'. That's quite a narrow Venn diagram.

Even if you were lucky enough to conform to the critirum of 'what they want you not to buy' they've already changed the prices, but not the shelf labels.

System

KevinG wrote: »

ASDA's price match does that quite happily and it knocks the others out of the water with the "10% cheaper" guarantee and matching own-brand goods. Now if they did that one at the till as well it would be amazing - but they won't because the current scheme relies on the fact that probably only 10% of shoppers can be bothered to do it.

95% of my Asda's PG coupons issued was because of the 10% cheaper guarantee. Even it's the cheapest. Last week, my shopping v Morrison's was exactly the same price - £20.40, even with things at different prices. Given a coupon for £2.04.

My mum shops at Asda, most weeks, apart from when she gets £8 off £40 vouchers from Sainsburys in the post.

KevinG

ScarletMarble wrote: »

My mum shops at Asda, most weeks, apart from when she gets £8 off £40 vouchers from Sainsburys in the post.

Ditto - Sainsbury's send me a new batch of vouchers (£12 the latest lot) every four weeks so I feel obliged to use them, but I much prefer Asda.