Should there be dual pricing in supermarkets?

MikeJXE

I haven't noticed that with Tesco, Cheese that had gone up to £5.40 is still £4 on clubcard. 

What I have noticed is larger packet or boxes are no longer available, smaller more expensive packets only. 

baser999

Myser said:

As I found at a recent trip to Tesco, if you ask for an item price check at the start of a checkout before presenting your loyalty card, you will be given the non-loyalty card price!

This has confused me. I’d noticed that ann item appears on the receipt as £x but then is discounted on presentation of clubcard. Your comment would suggest that everyone pays the clubcard price regardless of whether they’ve got one or not; or is the cashier assuming you have a clubcard and so gives you that price if you ask? 

brianposter

Grumpy_chap said:

brianposter said:

Seems to me that these loyalty card and 2 for 1 promotions simply drive marginal customers who do not have, or have forgotten their card, to Aldi and Lidl.

That might not be an entirely rational response to the Tesco Clubcard Prices or Sainsbury Nectar Prices.  AIUI, Lidl also do the same thing for users of the Lidl Plus App and I even think the Lidl Plus App pricing predates the Tesco Clubcard Prices and Sainsbury Nectar Prices.

The working assumption is that the Lidl price will be somewhere between theClubcard price and the regular price, or between the 2-for-1 price and the basic price.

If it were not for the obvious discrimination I might well not even think about the price.

Grumpy_chap

brianposter said:

If it were not for the obvious discrimination I might well not even think about the price.

I don't think any of the pricing structures, whether Tesco Clubcard prices, Sainsbury Nectar prices, Co-Op Member prices, Lidl Plus app prices are discrimination.  AIUI, there is no bar to anybody in signing up for the respective discount schemes.

GingerTim

brianposter said:

Grumpy_chap said:

brianposter said:

Seems to me that these loyalty card and 2 for 1 promotions simply drive marginal customers who do not have, or have forgotten their card, to Aldi and Lidl.

That might not be an entirely rational response to the Tesco Clubcard Prices or Sainsbury Nectar Prices.  AIUI, Lidl also do the same thing for users of the Lidl Plus App and I even think the Lidl Plus App pricing predates the Tesco Clubcard Prices and Sainsbury Nectar Prices.

The working assumption is that the Lidl price will be somewhere between theClubcard price and the regular price, or between the 2-for-1 price and the basic price.

If it were not for the obvious discrimination I might well not even think about the price.

It's not even close to discrimination.

Myser

If you are under the age of 18, you cannot strictly speaking apply for a Clubcard. Unless a parent registers one for you or you falsify your age.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/zone/clubcard-terms-and-conditions 

As pointed out on talkshow, this means that a child would miss out on the cheaper lunch meal deals.

Lidl Plus pricing is targetted cheaper prices on products that you buy often. It's not like the blanket dual pricing structure of Tesco and Sainsbury's.

brianposter

GingerTim said:

It's not even close to discrimination.

It is not criminal discrimination but it is discrimination in simple English. As I say I suspect it is partly responsible for the growth of Aldi and Lidl.

I am not complaining about the discrimination, I am saying it is incompetent in the British market.

brianposter

"AIUI, there is no bar to anybody in signing up for the respective discount schemes."

Just FWIW I have spent the past 4 months trying to get a functional Morrisons card and they are so incompetent that I have not yet got one.

jon81uk

MikeJXE said:

I haven't noticed that with Tesco, Cheese that had gone up to £5.40 is still £4 on clubcard. 

What I have noticed is larger packet or boxes are no longer available, smaller more expensive packets only. 

Or was it cheese that used to be £4 and was on special offer at £3 is now £5.40 and on special offer at £4?

The price increases are the current inflation, all thats changed is now special offer pricing requires a card.

Also I can't see any cheese at Tesco at £5.40 currently on special offer at £4?

badmemory

The only way to shop now is to shop with your fingers before you leave home & check all the prices.  Anything that you don't want the named stuff for then be very very wary.  You can't even trust the Aldi price match at Tecos.  Pick up 6 bananas at Tescos with Aldis price @ 18p.  They put them through the till by weighing them, so they are more than 18p each if they are heavier @ Aldis they are 18p regardless.