Tesco Self-Scan tills

Broken_hearted

laffers wrote: »

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!!!

I call over a manager. We had them try to refuse galaxy vouchers for free chocolate because thats all we were buying. Hello it's free.

thelurch

miggyuz wrote: »

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

From the thread on this forum "Newspaper Summary" where people post whats been printed in the daily papers so you can go out and buy them for the voucher.

Join baby clubs, huggies, pampers etc, register on manufacturers websites, they send you all sorts through the post.

Its a little bit of work to hunt them out but they are out there to find, womans weekly magazines sometimes have them and as long as it works out more than the cover price then you make a profit.

I learnt from advice posted on here, hunted, did the ground work and now know the best places for regular coupons. Its all on this site and others

stebiz

miggyuz wrote: »

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

For those who are just getting started try


www.couponnet.co.uk
www.money-off-coupons.blogspot.com
The magazine thread on MSE

Good Luck
Stebiz

fuzzgun19

thelurch wrote: »

From the thread on this forum "Newspaper Summary" where people post whats been printed in the daily papers so you can go out and buy them for the voucher.

If you have to buy papers/mags to get the vouchers doesn't it kinda defeat the object?

stebiz

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

If you have to buy papers/mags to get the vouchers doesn't it kinda defeat the object?

It depends on how much the vouchers are worth. If you buy a paper for 45p and it gives you a good read, and £2.00 or in some cases more worth of coupons that would do me. I know in the past I've bought 20 papers to get a £100 worth of coupons??

Cheers
Stebiz

welsh_cake

I have just printed a voucher off couponnet for £2.00 off nicorette. Does this mean i can do a little shop in tesco later and have £2.00 off my shopping? or do i have to buy the nicorette, which i won't do.

Coupon-mad

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

If you have to buy papers/mags to get the vouchers doesn't it kinda defeat the object?

It would if the cost of the paper or magazine was almost as high as the coupon, but then we wouldn't bother.

For instance, last Summer, Fresh magazine printed £8 worth of non-store-specific coupons, all reasonable amounts like 50p or £1 each and all for different products (same manufacturer though). So for the £2.50-odd cost of the magazine (paid for in Tesco by using other, free random coupons printed from t'internet) you got £8 of different coupons you could use as cash against your weekly shopping. I bought every copy of Fresh I could find that month (only about 20 copies) mostly funded by other coupons.

This info came from the Magazine Offers thread started by MBN (there are 2 magazine threads on MSE but MBN's is the one with the coupon news).

That's just one example. Sometimes newspapers have a high-value coupon in (although I don't use book tokens in Tesco as I believe they are not able to redeem them). I would buy 20 copies or so of a newspaper costing 45p, if it had a redeemable coupon worth between £2 and £4 - which they sometimes do! Nicorette had a £2 coupon in the Sun one day this month.

But mainly my £20 is made up of free coupons, either printed from the internet or given out somewhere (in Supermarkets at taster stalls, at events like the BBC Good Food Show or Country Fairs, etc). I just make sure I try to get more than just one or two free ones if handed out, and I pick up any discarded ones too - people don't realise what they are throwing away!

techno_saver

OK.

I think that my previous comment may have taken things a bit far. I am not calling people thieves or taking the moral high-ground.

The things that I was specifically refering to in my comment were those vouchers that were either:
a. complete printed fakes
b. posting blanks through the SS tills
c. redeeming vouchers where somebody WILL go the loser, example being:
- where, let's say, a heinz voucher was redemed against a baxters soup (not an actual example of course). In this case heinz may go the loser because they will lose the money.

By basic point being that someone will go the loser on these sort of transactions. I know that SS tills are not perfect (I have worked in this area at Tesco) and know that they can be very easily exploited.

As for the following quote (sorry to pick on you specifically):

thelurch wrote: »

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!

It does depend on how you do this. If you are doing this by using the coupons for items they wern't intended for / other slightly dodgy ways of doing this (even if they are in the rules) then I do feel that this falls under what I originally said. I think that paying £9.56 for £300 worth of shopping IS wrong if done this way. This sort of exploitation of the system does cause less offers to be put out for rest of us - it has to because this money has to be reclaimed somehow.

However, I do not know how you did this so cannot accuse you.

I'm sorry if I have offended anyone on here, it wasn't meant to be a nasty remark.

Coupon-mad

welsh_cake wrote: »

I have just printed a voucher off couponnet for £2.00 off nicorette.

Does this mean i can do a little shop in tesco later and have £2.00 off my shopping? YES, it should do unless your Tesco are very anti-coupon!

or do i have to buy the nicorette, which i won't do.

No you don't, nor even pretend you've bought the item. If asked just say 'no, I didn't buy it this time, I believe it's Tesco policy to allow one or a few coupons off my shopping?'





P.S. And do go back to Couponnet for another go, you can print ALL the coupons twice! Only use one set of different ones each time though, and if your store will only allow a few at a time just keep the rest for next time.

Coupon-mad

techno_saver wrote: »

OK.

I think that my previous comment may have taken things a bit far. I am not calling people thieves or taking the moral high-ground.

The things that I was specifically refering to in my comment were those vouchers that were either:
a. complete printed fakes
b. posting blanks through the SS tills
c. redeeming vouchers where somebody WILL go the loser, example being:
- where, let's say, a heinz voucher was redemed against a baxters soup (not an actual example of course). In this case heinz may go the loser because they will lose the money.

I'm sorry if I have offended anyone on here, it wasn't meant to be a nasty remark.

Not offended at all, but thanks for putting this straight.

I know from previous discussions that 'the lurch' uses coupons like I do, and neither of us often use the self-scan (I never do as the amount of coupons I have would hold everyone up, also the authorising SA wouldn't be able to check the dates like the till operators should do).

We (neither the lurch nor I) NEVER use dud coupons as you've described in a) and b) above!

But why try to say it's wrong to use a coupon for an item it was not intended for? You say you work(ed) for Tesco? It's their policy, not mine, and as I said before I am certain the decision to accept coupons like this was made for very sound business reasons (as I explained above). No-one is taking the mickey as there is no maximum (unless a store chooses to impose one, luckily my local store doesn't).

The manufacturers know some coupons are redeemed against other products - and I am sure they don't like it - but Tesco & co have so much clout and sell so many of their products that the policy remains (although it's not advertised of course, that would be rubbing the manufacturers' noses in it, as indeed they do fund the coupons).