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John_Pierpoint

or even less for milk in "Farm Foods"?

I-LOV-MONEY

Tesco are doing their 5p off / £50 spend vouchers again. Trouble is I tend to spend £10,max £20 at a time. It is not always convienient to wait and do all your shopping together.

Grade_A_Reject

I-LOV-MONEY wrote: »

Tesco are doing their 5p off / £50 spend vouchers again. Trouble is I tend to spend £10,max £20 at a time. It is not always convienient to wait and do all your shopping together.

I was thinking the other day about how clever a marketing ploy this is. Unless you were planning to spend exactly £50 at Tesco anyway the deal isn't as good as it first appears.

My petrol tank holds 60 litres so the most I'd get out of this would be a £3 saving (60 x 5p). In order to get this I'd need to spend £50 in Tesco, not one of my favourite retailers, and to be on the safe side I'd spend over £50 just to make sure that any bogof offers didn't take me below £50.

Then I'd need to fill my tank from empty to full to gain the maximum benefit so that's another £80 (60 x £1.34) after which Tesco knock off the £3 saving. So that's a minimum £130 spend for the £3 saving (1.66%).

Factor in my 10 mile round trip to Tesco and the fact that they'll have already loaded the cost of the fuel discount onto the goods they sell in the supermarket and it looks like a double-win for Tesco for a small benefit to me.

A lot of people will be lured to Tesco by this deal and many of the vouchers will be issued to people who've done their "big shop" and probably spent £100-200 but still get the same reward as someone who has spent £50.

I-LOV-MONEY

Grade_A_Reject wrote: »

My petrol tank holds 60 litres so the most I'd get out of this would be a £3 saving (60 x 5p). In order to get this I'd need to spend £50 in Tesco, not one of my favourite retailers, and to be on the safe side I'd spend over £50 just to make sure that any bogof offers didn't take me below £50.

Then I'd need to fill my tank from empty to full to gain the maximum benefit so that's another £80 (60 x £1.34) after which Tesco knock off the £3 saving. So that's a minimum £130 spend for the £3 saving (1.66%).

Factor in my 10 mile round trip to Tesco and the fact that they'll have already loaded the cost of the fuel discount onto the goods they sell in the supermarket and it looks like a double-win for Tesco for a small benefit to me.

A lot of people will be lured to Tesco by this deal and many of the vouchers will be issued to people who've done their "big shop" and probably spent £100-200 but still get the same reward as someone who has spent £50.

Okay, if Tesco was were you regularly shop then that part of the deal is not too bad.

If you are going to use the fuel in the car anyway, you may as well wait until it is nearly empty (providing you watch the voucher date) and fill up.

Also provided you are not having to go a distance out of your way to fill up, and the price of petrol is not 5p higher than another garage.

So if you can tick all those boxes, you would not lose out !

grizzly1911

As th poster says if Tesco isn't your favourite store you may easily save more shopping elsewhere.

We have a W, C and Al locally - do you think the discount voucher for C makes much difference?

Ws probably don't get too bothered about it and the Als have already made the choice.;)

socks_uk

FATBALLZ wrote: »

sticking nearer to 60 than 70 makes a huge difference, and only adds a couple of minutes to my journey.

This weekend we went to The Good Food Show, a 400 mile round round trip from where we live, and I tried to stick at 60mph. My car has a computerised data 'thingy' which I kept on the setting of 'how many miles worth of fuel left in the tank' and I noticed that the closer to 70mph I did, the 'miles left' went down, where as when I kept a steady 60mph the 'miles left' it went back up.

I found it easier, or less annoying to other drivers, when I drove (at a safe distance) in front of a lorry as any quicker traffic had to overtake the lorry and so me as well. Mind you, the lorries that overtook me and the lorry I was in front of must have been speeding!
With the cost of fuel nowadays we don't tend to make long journeys very often but I will try to stick to 60mph in the same manner in the future. (hope I didn't annoy too many people!)

chippychappy

Rob - Tesco Customers Services 15:45 17 July 2011 - advises '5p/litre off with £50 spend' vouchers do not qualify for '15p/litre off in one transaction'. These vouchers clearly state 'Multiple coupons cannot be used in the same transaction'. Might still try it at the local Tesco petrol station though!

RozS

Ignoring differences between cars/models, is it more fuel efficient (and therefore cheaper) to use a petrol or a diesel car for very short trips around town? I've always understood that diesel is better for longer journeys but does the same hold true for short trips too?

JDPower

RozS wrote: »

Ignoring differences between cars/models, is it more fuel efficient (and therefore cheaper) to use a petrol or a diesel car for very short trips around town? I've always understood that diesel is better for longer journeys but does the same hold true for short trips too?

No, shorter journeys are generally less efficient as engines are more efficient when up to temperature. Obviously its not that simple though as a far bigger impact will come from the speed of the journey amount of stopping/starting/accelerating.

worried_jim

If I was a passenger in a car travelling 400 miles @ 60mph I would give you £20 just to put your foot down before I killed myself with boredom.