Tesco's "4 for 3" offer on ALL frozen products - TAKE CARE!!

Peppa537

This is normal for all these 4 for 3 and 3 for 2 offers though. The cheapest items are free whether you buy 4 items or 8. I agree it's annoying though. I order my shopping from Tesco online and get it delivered. Because of this offer though I did walk to my local one to buy 4 of the more expensive frozen items I needed, otherwise my bags of veg would have been the free items. Of course Tesco know this will happen with most people, it would be more helpful if they reduced all the individual products instead. 

alinkliter

The opening poster makes perfectly valid comments, something I've thought about myself.
Another question about the offer, if you buy 5 or 6 frozen products, which 4 products does the offer apply to?

MorningcoffeeIV

You would get the cheapest of the 5 or 6 free.

35har1old

Peppa537 said:

This is normal for all these 4 for 3 and 3 for 2 offers though. The cheapest items are free whether you buy 4 items or 8. I agree it's annoying though. I order my shopping from Tesco online and get it delivered. Because of this offer though I did walk to my local one to buy 4 of the more expensive frozen items I needed, otherwise my bags of veg would have been the free items. Of course Tesco know this will hapotionpen with most people, it would be more helpful if they reduced all the individual products instead. 

Tesco is not the only one involved in this kind of promotion at least with Tesco you will see the products clearly that are included in the promotion. Where as Lidl will over a promotion like this but it would be via app and then you have to scroll through a list of products in which you could easy miss  the cheaper items

where_are_we

Paying for each group of items separately will guarantee you get the best discount provided each item in the group is similarly priced although I`m not sure this is absolutely necessary eg in the recent 3f2 cooking sauces offer I grouped 3 sauces at £1.20 on the belt, then some general items, then another group of 3 sauces at 47p, then something else etc etc. The 3 items at £1.20 immediately received the £1.20 discount and the 3 items at 47p received the 47p discount ie. the best discounts were applied without having to do separate "shops"

MarzipanCrumble

LOL - why s anyone surprised by this? 

sarah1972

MarzipanCrumble said:

LOL - why s anyone surprised by this? 

I agree. It’s always been like this since these type of deals came out. 

It has always stated that the cheapest item is free so I am amazed that people are surprised by this. 

pumpkin89

sarah1972 said:

MarzipanCrumble said:

LOL - why s anyone surprised by this? 

I agree. It’s always been like this since these type of deals came out. 

It has always stated that the cheapest item is free so I am amazed that people are surprised by this. 

In most retailers the till works it out so that you can't get a better deal by splitting the transaction.  If you bought 12 items on 4 for 3, you would get the 4th, 8th and 12th free.

If this isn't the case for this offer, it's poor on Tesco's part.  Though it's much more likely to be an oversight in the programming of the till than a deliberate rip-off.

molerat

where_are_we said:

Paying for each group of items separately will guarantee you get the best discount provided each item in the group is similarly priced although I`m not sure this is absolutely necessary eg in the recent 3f2 cooking sauces offer I grouped 3 sauces at £1.20 on the belt, then some general items, then another group of 3 sauces at 47p, then something else etc etc. The 3 items at £1.20 immediately received the £1.20 discount and the 3 items at 47p received the 47p discount ie. the best discounts were applied without having to do separate "shops"

Good point.  When using the gun offers are shown as they scan in.  It would be interesting to see if they can go back and change what they have already shown on the screen when you check out.

sarah1972

pumpkin89 said:

sarah1972 said:

MarzipanCrumble said:

LOL - why s anyone surprised by this? 

I agree. It’s always been like this since these type of deals came out. 

It has always stated that the cheapest item is free so I am amazed that people are surprised by this. 

In most retailers the till works it out so that you can't get a better deal by splitting the transaction.  If you bought 12 items on 4 for 3, you would get the 4th, 8th and 12th free.

If this isn't the case for this offer, it's poor on Tesco's part.  Though it's much more likely to be an oversight in the programming of the till than a deliberate rip-off.

Never seen that before. It’s always been the lowest item is free in all my years of shopping. It always says that on the t&c’s to.