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

sarah1972

jon81uk said:

vacheron said:

The OP makes a very important point which it seems a lot (not all) responders are missing.

If you buy 16 items, all on "4 for 3" offers" and 12 items cost £10 and 4 cost £1, the checkout will automatically give the 4 lowest items free so you would save a total of £4.

However, if you ran the 4 x £1 items through first, paid, and then ran the 12 x £10 items through on a separate transaction, you would save a total of £31. 

Hardly fair that someone is saving an extra £27 over someone who is buying the exact same items, purely based on the way they choose to pay!

I don’t think people are missing the point, just that most people do understand that it’s the cheapest item(s) free and therefore when buying eight items it will be the cheapest two for free. That’s not news to me.

Absolutely agree x

pumpkin89

sarah1972 said:

No it’s doesn’t, as others have said too. Let’s agree to disagree.

It's not a disagreement - I have accurately described how it works in the retailers where I usually shop, but my mistake was to assume other national retailers would operate the same way.  I trust that you are correct in your description of how it works at other retailers (I know from your other posts that we generally shop in different places).

jon81uk

saajan_12 said:

With Tesco, you're more likely to buy in volume, and if the signs for frozen curries aren't near the signs for garlic bread, you wouldn't necessarily know it’s one joint offer. 

The poster outside in the car park states it’s the big freezer filler and all frozen items are 4 for 3, seemed clear it’s one joint offer across all frozen items.

brianposter

jon81uk said:

saajan_12 said:

With Tesco, you're more likely to buy in volume, and if the signs for frozen curries aren't near the signs for garlic bread, you wouldn't necessarily know it’s one joint offer. 

The poster outside in the car park states it’s the big freezer filler and all frozen items are 4 for 3, seemed clear it’s one joint offer across all frozen items.

As you have expressed it I would understand that it is 4 for 3 for each item

where_are_we

If a frozen item has a clubcard discount, and I buy 4 of that item, I do not think you get a double discount ie 4 for 3 at the lower price. Labeling in store for each item either has a clubcard discount label or a 4 for 3 discount label. Am I correct?

2childmum2

I bought ice lollies at a reduced clubcard price and got them as my free cheapest 4th item. I was able to get much posher ones the the cheap ones I had planned on!

alinkliter

Well, that ("4 for 3") didn't last long. Pathetic!

sarah1972

alinkliter said:

Well, that ("4 for 3") didn't last long. Pathetic!

It was on for 2 weeks, deals don’t last forever at supermarkets sadly.

cdspcs

On Tesco's current 4 for 3 I was shopping yesterday and picked only one of their products, 100g box of Bisto powder @ £2.60 each. When it went through the till it totalled £8.17, by my reckoning I had been overcharged by 37p and headed for the customer service desk. After a bit of fuss I got the refund, but really, this is elementary maths and shouldn't be too difficult. My wife didn't want to fuss but when you multiply up the amount of people who buy this offer then the figures start to get massive in Tesco's favour. I'll be keeping a very close eye on Tesco from now on.