Jack's (from Tesco) - items recommended to buy (or to avoid)?

Doc_N

Similar threads exist for Aldi, Lidl and other low cost supermarkets - the idea is to gather together recommendations for good value products worth buying.

Or, alternatively, ones to avoid.

Do we have any Jack's customers out there at Chatteris or Immingham yet? Are the prices competitive with Aldi and Lidl? Is the quality as good? And how about the range of goods available?

Let us know.............:)

PLRFD

A bit off your subject but I really don’t like the name or the branding.

VfM4meplse

PLRFD wrote: »

A bit off your subject but I really don’t like the name or the branding.

I quite agree. "Jack's" reminds me of the Americanism jack sh*t.

There are a couple of Tesco generic products I like: value cornflakes and their version of Branston. I would be interested to see if these migrate out of Tesco and into Jack's.

kazwookie

PLRFD wrote: »

A bit off your subject but I really don’t like the name or the branding.

I agree as well.

But I am sure that Tesco's have done all their market research.

jenniewb

kazwookie wrote: »

I agree as well.

But I am sure that Tesco's have done all their market research.

I don't know if I trust market research any more...
https://blog.printsome.com/marketing-fails-recent-years/


And one from Tesco
https://pinkbananamilk.wordpress.com/tag/tesco-fails/


I'll give it 2 years max.

wunferall

jenniewb wrote: »

I don't know if I trust market research any more...
https://blog.printsome.com/marketing-fails-recent-years/


And one from Tesco
https://pinkbananamilk.wordpress.com/tag/tesco-fails/


I'll give it 2 years max.

Unless something changes and quickly, I can't see it lasting your 2 years although it is said that Tesco are playing a long game.

With a planned 10 to 15 stores in the next 6 months when Aldi & Lidl plan 300 or so new stores and already have 1300, it will take decades for Jack's to make any significant "dent" - IF they are successful.

Doc_N

For me, one of the joys of Aldi and Lidl is the opportunity to buy excellent quality continental meats and cheeses at a fraction of the price Waitrose charge for them because of their enormous buying power in continental Europe.

Jack’s is unlikely to be able to achieve that, and I suspect the typical Jack’s customer is going to be very much less interested in the high margin stuff than the typical Aldi/Lidl customer.

If that proves to be the case, and the early pictures suggest it will, Jack’s will never achieve the margins being achieved by its direct competitors and it will go the way of Tesco’s last venture into this market for much the same reason - too many of the customers simply came from Tesco!

Novice_investor101

I'm sure I read somewhere a while back that Tesco have joined forces with Carrefour with regards to buying from suppliers, so maybe that is their route to lower priced continental products?

News reports I've seen so far on the Jack's store still show Aldi to be a few pence cheaper....