Warning - Sainsbury's special offers - check receipts!!

Steel_2

The one practice that really gets my goat with supermarkets is the offers running out an them leaving the signs on the shelves. They make the date in as small a writing as possible so you really have to squint to read the date.

I managed to spot two in tesco yesterday, one of which was dated as running out on 28/10. You can complain about it, but they don't take the sign down.

You can't tell me with all their technology they don;t have a list of promotions with the end dates so they can be taken off the shelves?

DCFC79

Steel wrote: »

The one practice that really gets my goat with supermarkets is the offers running out an them leaving the signs on the shelves. They make the date in as small a writing as possible so you really have to squint to read the date.

I managed to spot two in tesco yesterday, one of which was dated as running out on 28/10. You can complain about it, but they don't take the sign down.

You can't tell me with all their technology they don;t have a list of promotions with the end dates so they can be taken off the shelves?

I dont know about tesco but i guess they are the same, sainsburys have a list of the offers stating when they start and when they end,

stuvee02

You should always check receipts thoroughly as they may simply just not add up....

Years ago I shared a house with a few others and went to a Tesco superstore with one of my housemates. We did a big shop; stuff for me; stuff for my housemate who was with me and stuff for the 'house' which everyone would contribute to and I paid for it all on my card.

Later at I home I divvied it all up to work out who owed what but it wouldn't balance. Being a geek and it getting a bit to much for my grey cells I put it in a spreadsheet and it still wouldn't add up. Finally I did a simple sum of all the item values without splitting for each person and basically the sum total of all the values was less than the total listed at the bottom! IIRC it was between £1-£2 on a shop that was probably £50-£70. I could hardly believe it - there was no reason at all it wasn't VAT it wasn't a multiple with the single price listed nothing it simply did not total correctly.

The potential scale of the problem was huge - this one store had 30 tills and hundreds of customers each day. If it happened on each till on each transaction over a certain value then they would make thousands. Add to that the tills were all electonic run by software from a central computer that dishes the same software out to every Tesco till nationwide....

I went back to complain and they gave me just £5.00 should have made a bigger scene but I don't think the Customer Service appreciated the possibility that it could have affected hundreds or thousands of customers.

Still check my receipts add up occaisionally!

Stu

RHYSDAD

Supermarkets, as with most other institutions that want to make money, are basically rip off merchants and dishonets blaggers. Play the tw@ts at their own game and buy your food from those that actually produce or specialise in it. Shop in farmers markets, go to a butchers/greengrocers/fishmongers/bakers etc or grow your own and bake your own bread. Buy some chickens for eggs. Eggs at £1.50 for a half dozen. Are they taking the pi55? The supermarkets are basically halfway highwaymen who load the prices on goods they don't actually give a !!!!!! about. They haven't the faintest interest in providing high quality at a reasonable price, preferring spend a fortune to hire cockney !!!!!! chefs to cajole us in to buying the overpriced cack, despite the glossy adverts. They buy the cheapest !!!!!! they can find and load the price up as much as the punters will put up with. If you want to a be lazy git the by all means get ripped off but put a bit of effort in and you'll realise how little you need Tesco et al. The customer is treated as a nuisance basically so i think, fair enough, you can cope with hardly any of my money then. I have no loyalty to any of the supermarkets, they all treat us as gullible mugs. YOU have been warned!!

Edit to say that in my experience most shopworkers are helpful, some are tw@ts but it's the management i take the real issue with. Tw@ts

98jdougl

DCFC79 wrote: »

why peanuts with peas, peanuts are nuts are they not,

if you want to get a refund on the lambrini then take it back for a refund if you dont drink it

actually peanuts, althoguh commonly regarded as nuts, are in actual fact a fruit... same family as a legume if i remember correctly