Tesco Self-Scan tills

welsh_cake

Do you mean for example, if I printed off a coupon for toothpaste and orange juice and I didn’t actually buy these items, the money would still come off? Even if i printed them from aa site that had nothing to do with Tesco? Sorry if i am asking a silly question, but i am learning a lot from the people on this site!

Oggyoi

welsh_cake wrote: »

Do you mean for example, if I printed off a coupon for toothpaste and orange juice and I didn’t actually buy these items, the money would still come off? Even if i printed them from aa site that had nothing to do with Tesco? Sorry if i am asking a silly question, but i am learning a lot from the people on this site!

I know Asda and Tesco will sometimes let you use a manufacturers coupon without buying the specific product, as long as the store actually stocks/sells that item. If you are spending £10 on shopping the usually allow you a £1.00 coupon like that ( or £10 from a £100 shop etc).
As had been mentioned previously, it also depends on the cashier / supervisor / team leader etc.
It is a case of using your common sense and don't kick the ar5e out of it and take liberties. As long as the stores get it redeemed from the manufacturer and you are spending, they are happy IMHO.

amancalledchip

techno_saver wrote: »

Erm, Tesco??

What a ridiculous comeback.

WRONG!!

tesco just send them on to the the relavent company.MY aunt works in the cash office .

so , not such a "ridiculous comeback"

miggyuz

My local asda will accept any money off voucher as long as they sell the product. They don't care as they get their money back from the manufacturer. If it was stealing, then don't you think the scanning tills would be set up to reject the vouchers if the product wasn't purchased. Food shopping isn't cheap, don't be an idiot and insult people that try to save a few pence!

stamford

Oggyoi wrote: »

I usually use the coupons for the item I am buying, that way there is no come back to you from the store staff.
The internet coke plus coupons have been a bonus however , though I now have a coke mountain ( the fizzy drink, not the white powder stuff ) in my house. These cancel £2.49 off the shopping amount, yet are on sale at Tesco for £1.99 and Asda for £2.00, hence it knocks an extra 49p each time off the costs of my other items.
I bought 2 packs of coke, 2 packs of fruit shoots and the grand total was 30p to pay...
The supermarket redeem the voucher for £2.49 from coca cola, plus whatever handling fee they also get back, coke sell more pop and I save more money :beer:

Go and have a look at the use by date on the Coke - a lot I've had from Tesco & Sainsburys is short dated 01 & 02 2008 gave two back at Sainsburys just now and collected £4.80 odd cash

thelurch

techno_saver wrote: »

Can somebody just explain to me here why you all seem to think that this is OK to do this?

This is theft as far as I am concerned. I think that this is morally wrong.

Just because a company is successful does not mean that you can steal from them, you may as well just take money from the till when nobody is looking.

You just keep thinking its morally wrong, thats fine.

If it is morally wrong then why did tesco change their coupon policy in july from only taking 10% off the bill to unlimited amount, I have the exact wording in an email from tesco HO which tells me that there is no limit to the number coupons or amount of coupons per shop and I can pay for my whole shop in full with coupons. This is as long as I follow the rules they set which I do 100%

As a result I havent paid more than £1 per shop and no more than £25 for around £800 worth of shopping per month ( £300 worth of christmas food cost me a grand total of £9.56 including alcohol) so you stick to the moral high ground and I will spend my savings on lifes little luxurys.

As has been said tesco gets its money back on 99% of coupons redeemed, they send them to a company who sorts them for them.

If it was theft then I would be arrested about 30 times a month!

tom.senex

[£300 worth of christmas food cost me a grand total of £9.56 including alcohol)[/quote]

That's quite a lot I mean £9.56 is a lot of money.
Last time we shopped and this was a very big shop, I mean two trolleys full of stuff, free range chickens, French wines, beer and what have you, sirloin steaks and all, we paid a whopping 97 pence! I was shocked.
Luckily enough I managed to find and return to the racks a trolley from the car park and get a quid back - that was a lucky escape I am telling you.

With the savings am now thinking to buy a nice top notch motor - like them ones on Top Gear, I am telling you.

Coupon-mad

I paid just over £2 today for my shopping, and that was more than I normally have to pay in cash. Sadly I only had about £20-worth of different coupons to use so didn't want to push it & offer any duplicate ones, as per the rules at my local Tesco.

Why oh why do people post when they don't know what they are talking about? It made me laugh to see that someone thinks using coupons this way is stealing! Try offering a random coupon to the nice people at Waitrose (who also allow some coupon-use instore without buying the items), you will get a smile and as long as they sell the item they'll accept it at most stores, no problems.

Why not check out your local Supermarket's policy before telling posters they are stealing, techno_saver?

We are not making the rules up, Tesco, Asda and Waitrose are - and for very sound business reasons too, I don't blame them!! Not only do they get all the money back and more for our redeemable coupons (for those are the only ones we use) but some of their more forward-thinking Managers understand that coupon-payers will return again and again to a store that will take their bits of paper, AND we will 'spend' a lot more than average shoppers too.

We'll buy entertainment goods, electricals, DVDs, clothes etc as well as food, from Tesco first and foremost even if their prices are a little higher, without a second thought about budget - because we know we are offering an acceptable (and VERY moneysaving) form of payment that won't dent our bank accounts.

What more could they ask, or do you think they'd prefer a cheque-paying, non-loyal, underspending, customer who only buys food items there?

Trentenders

Did you just ask your local store what their policy is? If a SA refuses to comply with their in-house rules, do you just let it go, or do you call over a supervisor?

I think it's a great idea btw and I wish I had the nerve to do it!!!

miggyuz

Coupon-mad wrote: »

I paid just over £2 today for my shopping, and that was more than I normally have to pay in cash. Sadly I only had about £20-worth of different coupons to use so didn't want to push it & offer any duplicate ones, as per the rules at my local Tesco.

Funny! Where do you get £20 worth of coupons from????