Tesco mis -pricing

[ebikeerwidnes]

Recycled cooking oil as well!

Do you drink much petrol/diesel?

I am going from someone i used to work with
his wife's car ran out of petrol so he syphoned some from his own car to put into hers to get to the petrol station

he just sucked a bit too much

He claimed petrol tastes bad - and he seemed very sure of it

I am assuming diesel is the same

although one of the Science Teachers at that school did have a "thingy" in his shed to convert old chip fat into diesel - so maybe that is not as bad
I also heard of an old Volvo that ran quite happily on filtered old vegetable oil - such as old chip fat
but did smell like a chip shop when it drove past

otehr than that I have not bothered looking for evidence

 

[bonzobanana]

I don't share you feelings on Tesco and wouldn't call them amazing. Of course the clubcard (like Nectar and it's rivals) is free as you are handing them your habits and preferences for them to market you in the future. It's not there for your benefit.

It's only my feeling but Tesco seems to be the most misleading and manipulative. As one instance pointed out earlier reference removing or changing the unit cost so you cannot compare value.

Costco membership includes fuel that costs way below that of other retailers, so it's easy to recoup your money. 1 tank of fuel per month would recover your full membership cost every year.

I really meant my Tesco store is amazing as its so large with a great range of items, 10s of thousands and a completely free car park despite being close to high street shopping. I've been to other Tesco's that are definitely far less amazing. Who cares if they have your data on what you spend in Tesco its not like that means they have control of my mind and choices, its not like I'm spending all my money on newsagent porn magazines or the ingredients for making bombs or something I'm just Mr Average buying normal stuff. I've got all the loyalty schemes going for all supermarkets pretty much except M&S. The benefit is often discounts and vouchers to get me back to those shops which I will use to lower my shopping costs. In the last 6 months I've benefitted from vouchers and discounts from Morrisons, Asda, Tesco, Lidl and Sainsburys and I will not pay for stuff that is dearer in those shops typically. I tend to keep to offers, value items and price matches or short life promotions.

Costco sounds great but sadly none where I live but if I had one locally and it made sense to shop there to save money I would however again you can't compare a free loyalty scheme to a charged one. It has cost me nothing to join Clubcard and I have benefited hugely from it especially in the past when they did the 4x points boost for purchases like longleat tickets or even Tesco Direct purchases when that existed.

Generally the UK gets some very decent pricing for food shopping, the lack of VAT and the population density etc plus being an island with ports means less costs than going huge miles inland. I watched a video recently where some US people felt Waitrose was cheap!! and they typically have lower wages but perhaps lower taxation and housing costs. I don't think the UK does too badly for food shopping. The US also has much lower quality food with more dangerous additives and chemicals which are illegal in many countries especially Europe.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z29cVLYkWcM

 

[Mike_P]

Lidl are one of the worst for offers as they are seemingly the same offer to all users of their app and hence invariably sold out

And true to form today devoid of the walnuts which are on a mobile app offer

 

[presta]

Some years ago I noticed that Tesco's canned tuna was persistently coming in under weight by quite a large margin, and it was only as I planned a complaint letter that I discovered the difference between the British and EU weights & measures legislation. Under the old UK system, the weight marked on the label was the minimum weight, but the EU system (identified by the large e symbol) is based on a batch average. (It does include a minimum as well, but it's less than the weight marked.)

So just weighing one tin won't prove the average wasn't correct.

 

[DRM]

This is really starting to annoy me. You now need a members card in every shop. Otherwise you just get ripped off.

When they gave away club card points I wasn’t that bothered about missing out. But some of the non member prices are silly. In Sainsbury’s a while ago my preferred tipple was £6 cheaper if you have a nectar card. Which I don’t, so didn’t buy it. Bonkers.

It's a convient & inexpensive way for them to grab your data

 

[classic33]

I really meant my Tesco store is amazing as its so large with a great range of items, 10s of thousands and a completely free car park despite being close to high street shopping. I've been to other Tesco's that are definitely far less amazing. Who cares if they have your data on what you spend in Tesco its not like that means they have control of my mind and choices, its not like I'm spending all my money on newsagent porn magazines or the ingredients for making bombs or something I'm just Mr Average buying normal stuff. I've got all the loyalty schemes going for all supermarkets pretty much except M&S. The benefit is often discounts and vouchers to get me back to those shops which I will use to lower my shopping costs. In the last 6 months I've benefitted from vouchers and discounts from Morrisons, Asda, Tesco, Lidl and Sainsburys and I will not pay for stuff that is dearer in those shops typically. I tend to keep to offers, value items and price matches or short life promotions.

Costco sounds great but sadly none where I live but if I had one locally and it made sense to shop there to save money I would however again you can't compare a free loyalty scheme to a charged one. It has cost me nothing to join Clubcard and I have benefited hugely from it especially in the past when they did the 4x points boost for purchases like longleat tickets or even Tesco Direct purchases when that existed.

Generally the UK gets some very decent pricing for food shopping, the lack of VAT and the population density etc plus being an island with ports means less costs than going huge miles inland. I watched a video recently where some US people felt Waitrose was cheap!! and they typically have lower wages but perhaps lower taxation and housing costs. I don't think the UK does too badly for food shopping. The US also has much lower quality food with more dangerous additives and chemicals which are illegal in many countries especially Europe.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z29cVLYkWcM

Change of name stopped you.

Tesco non-food now.

 

[classic33]

It's a convient & inexpensive way for them to grab your data

Use the card(s) without registering it.
You get the lower price, but not the points.

 

[MontyVeda]

Is that true?
If an expensive TV is accidentally tagged at £1 the shop has no obligation to sell it to you for £1.
An honest mistake is just that.
And if prices are constantly changing and are controlled by head office it is impossible for all shops to change the shelf price at the exact time.
But I agree that Tesco used to honour their mistakes, if they were just a failure to swap the labels in time.

considering it takes a second to change the price of a product on the system, printing new shelf edge labels and putting them all out can take all morning. We now have electronic price cards in Aldi, but even they have to be updated one by one as prices change.

 

[bonzobanana]

considering it takes a second to change the price of a product on the system, printing new shelf edge labels and putting them all out can take all morning. We now have electronic price cards in Aldi, but even they have to be updated one by one as prices change.

That's going to be a lot easier for stores like Aldi, Lidl, Iceland and Farmfoods to do as they have limited ranges of stock. I think the only way you can get accurate pricing data in many shops is those self-scanning devices as you go around the shop you use. Certainly despite the low amount of items sold I've had problems in Lidl recently where the price of cider vinegar was different to on the shelf but I was expecting it so looked out for it. As the price tag was for a lower size than actually on the shelf in its place. It went from 350ml to 500ml so about 45% more but the price was actually 60-70% more at the till.

I guess in the future we will all wear augmented reality glasses and the prices just appear there so no need to price anything in the store.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

They are supposed to always lower prices on "the system" and then go round and change the shelf
if the prices go up then they do it the other way

Clearly that is difficult in a big store - but they do make a decent profit - maybe they need to employ a few more people to control it

 

[classic33]

They are supposed to always lower prices on "the system" and then go round and change the shelf
if the prices go up then they do it the other way

Clearly that is difficult in a big store - but they do make a decent profit - maybe they need to employ a few more people to control it

Worked in a small shop where the items were all priced individually by hand. We had a change of price on a large number of products, I worked on getting the old price tags off before repricing.
In between the two I used shelf edge labels to cover the repricing time.

Later went onto shelf edge pricing first, reserving the pricing labels for the marked down items. Cut down on the amount of work, taking a few minutes to print the new label, and removing the old one. Some higher up didn't like it, but it worked.

 

[Beebo]

All this talk of prices has reminded me of the days when the shop staff has a pricing gun which stuck little labels on each product and the lady on the till had to type the price in.
How did we all cope?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

All this talk of prices has reminded me of the days when the shop staff has a pricing gun which stuck little labels on each product and the lady on the till had to type the price in.
How did we all cope?

WHen I was a kid we lived next door to a supermarket

The ladies (!) on the tills had to memorise every single price in the store - and they were tested every morning and at slack times

fail more than a couple of times and they were out

they always had 2 trolleys at the till - one that the customer had their shopping in and one left behind by the previous customer
as they typed the price into the till they took the item out of one trolley and put it in the other
boy were they fast!!!

"it was said" that they were expected to add a couple of extras onto every customer shop if they had more that a few items

it was also said - and we knew this bit to be true - that once they started someone pointed out my Mum to them and made sur ethey knew her face
Then they knew to NEVER add any extras onto her bill - she would spot it every time
AND she would make them go back and re-do it slowly no matter how many people got helpd up

and she was never wrong - which pacified the people she had delayed

and that was why new staff HAD to know who she was

WOrking in a shop was much harder in those days - even if my Mum wasn;t shopping there!

 

[annedonnelly]

WOrking in a shop was much harder in those days - even if my Mum wasn;t shopping there!

And they knew how to "make change". The till didn't tell them how much to give back when the customer offered a £20 note.

The local independents that I shop at still often tally up your spending on the back of a paper bag. No computerised tills for them. The "Saturday girl" in the fruit shop tends to struggle with the adding up.

 

[stephec]

All this talk of prices has reminded me of the days when the shop staff has a pricing gun which stuck little labels on each product and the lady on the till had to type the price in.
How did we all cope?

That was the good old days when life was just like the Rupert the Bear cartoon in the Express.