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So apparently Tesco are going to be lowering their prices from Monday on everyday products such as Milk, Bread and Fruit and veg, in total i think around 3,000 products will be lowered, in total around £500million in cuts but at the same time they will be scrapping their clubcard double points offer, i think i read this will save them around £350 million.

Not sure how well this will go down, for me i stayed loyal to Tesco due to clubcard double points, gona watch my bill for the next month, and if worse off may switch to Asda to save a few pennies

what about everyone else?

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/secto...030418.article

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l will shop where l canl get good quality stuff at a reasonable price and Tesco's round our way is quite dear and many items are always out of stock therefore l tend to shop in Morrisons and Sainsbury's.

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I liked the response from Sainsbury's....

I always thought that the clubcard scheme was a bit of a sham.

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/secto...030397.article

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won't make any difference to me. I shop at Tesco as it's near to me. If I were to shop elsewhere I'd spend whatever I saved on the increased fuel costs.

I just wish that if any supermarket is going to do offers on perishable foods they wouldn't do BOGOF types as that is just wasteful when I'm not going to get through both items before one expires.

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I shall keep my eyes wide open looking for the con tricks...

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I never shop at tesco or asda (far too expensive),used to shop at Morrison untill they hiked all their prices up .We use Farmfoods ,much cheaper and because they are chiefly a freezer shop excellant for topping up the freezer .The problem with Tesco and Asda is many people only use those supermarkets and so don't realize that there are much cheaper places to go

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I shop at Tesco as its Convenient. Asda refuses to deliver to my flat and dumps all the bags at the maindoor of the building and i have to try and carry them then to the lift and then up 4 floors and then to my flat. Tesco will bring them into the building, up in the lift in the trolly and deliver to my actual flat door.

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Hotukdeals has turned into Tescostoredeals lately.

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We'll stick with Sainsburys for the main fortnightly shop and Waitrose for additional bits here regardless of the price changes. Tesco Express will of course remain useful on occasion for tiny top ups when away from home!

Not a huge fan of Tesco, the way they treat their smaller, independent suppliers is pretty harsh.

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Sainsburys and Waitrose appear to be the overall most expensive supermarkets.

Anyway, only noticed few changes so far, milk is no longer 3 for £3 and being charged at £1.49 each, but may be rounded down to £1 from monday and the baker soft bread i usually buy is no longer 2 for £1.80 and has gone up from £1.00 each to £1.05.

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Farmfoods ,milk is 2 for £1.80 (£1 for 4 pints) hovis bread is 3 for £2.00(£1.15 for a single loaf)

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Well we've been shopping at Tesco for 35+ years, and only use Sainsbury/Asda for a top up of bread or milk.

Plus I get my Diesel from them and use the points for extras at christmas.

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I'm so repugnantly middle class :(

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Never use Tescos after they built a new store & increased the prices. Asda & Morrisons, with the occasional visit to Sainsburys for my fuel.

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It is a very good con trick by Tesco, Its the most expensive shop between the big chains.

I found to my horror what they do, is reduce prices on certain goods, but increase other goods, and hope the customer doesn't notice.

Last year, they did a certain price slash, and founf that non alcohol beer l buy is £1.49 for four, after the price slash it was £2.49, I complained to head office and they had the cheek to say it was NEW stock.

My wife prefers Asda, its cheaper, but if you shop around, it gets even cheaper

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For the past few months Tesco has been selling turnips at 69p EACH (which worked out at around £3.50 a kilo), whilst all the other stores sold them for less than 69p per kilo! I questionned this and was told that "We don't set the prices mate, call Head Office".

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To prove another point, l like to have a Belgian bun with a cup of tea. In Adsa l can buy TWO for 80p. ( 40p each)

In Tesco, you can only buy one at 95p, and they say they are going to slash prices.

I was listening to a prog the other day, when Tesco announced this price war, and they were talking to a Dairy producer, who has been asked by Tesco to either sell there products cheaper, or they will go abroad. The dairy producer was stating that farms sell milk to supermarkets at 2p per pint, and supermarkets are now complaining its too expensive, and want it cheaper.

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The staff in my local Tesco are so miserable that their faces would curdle the milk. I stick with ASDA and Morrisons regardless of the prices.

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It's all smoke & mirrors.

They save £350m by dumping double clubcard points & stop all the bogof/3 for 2 etc offers.

Net effect neutral or even more in it for them...

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Dont have this store near me, simular to this in Iceland too though.

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We have a Tesco just around the corner. We used to shop there probably spending around £100pw (& there is just the 2 of us) then we started to shop on-line with Asda & our bills dropped to about £60pw, impulse buying was virtually zero. Now we shop at Aldi & Farmfoods & we spend on average £35-45pw.

It don't matter what Tesco say they are doing it is always going to be corporate BS & it will always cost more.

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I can't stand Aldi lately. I used to pop in there for a few bits but nearly everything they sell they change the recipe/supplier/whatever. they changed the bolognese sauce to some crap just recently.
other than that they changed the red sauce. the bread is crap. potatoes are crap. the cheese and onion crisps now feel like you're eating stone slices.

crap.

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Sorry but you are very naive if you only think Tesco's, to quote Sainsburys “This is classic smoke and mirrors from Tesco, giving with one hand and taking with the other.”

Thay all do it.

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I got both annoyed and amused earlier. A guy in Tesco Express wanting to buy alcohol on offer but the store didn't have it for a few weeks according to the guy... the conversation dragged on about the warehouse and Tesco trucks. All I wanted was a pack of airwaves gum! not 1 other employee bothered to serve me and other customers wanting to buy and get out :mad:

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When that kind of thing happens to me and I've got the cash on me, I just dump it on the counter and walk out.

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Sainsburys is a 10 minute walk away, Tescos, Asda is several miles away.

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The latest con in all of them is to reduce the amount in the boxes.
I`ve been buying Asda own cornettos for ages and there was always 6 in a box and 2 boxes for £2, now theres 4 in a box.
Asda wash tablets, used to be 22 in a box, now 18
Felix cat food (not really Asda fault) used to be 48 sachets now 44 sachets, same price.
Whiskas cat food, same as above used to be 48 sachets now 44.

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That's been happening for a long time with tons of different products blackthorn, it's how even with the price of materials flying up the price of the packets hasn't shot up. Either the price has to go up or the amount in the packet down.

About the only thing you get more for your money for is electrical stuff, hence why it's piled into the inflation calculations to make out they aren't as bad as they actually are.

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totally agree...I rarely buy those offers because mostly it will get wasted, and I generally have a rule that I eat everything I buy. Makes me slightly risk averse, when you buy something crap, nothing worse than the dilemma of weighing waste vs dire food. :D

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There was a offer at a local super market of Extra Value 1 Kg box of cereral but it was actually cheaper to buy two 500 g boxes for 50p less! A lot of shoppers would just see the Extra Value and buy that thinging it was cheaper but in actual fact dearer which is what the super markets want!

Offers are very often a con to make you buy items you don't need, most super markets are the same.

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I shop at Tescos and will be looking carefully at the "price drops" to see if they are genuine or not i do my shopping online and Tesco delivers right to my Flats front door so no complaints,i agree with yesman i think who said the clubcard is a bit of a sham like all suprmarkets its real use is to gather infomation on your shopping habits,so they can market to you.

I would consider switching to sainsburys,but not to the Asda in our town as i disagree with their parent company Walmarts buisiness methods so refuse to do any shopping there.

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Yup!

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I shop at Sainsbury, because it is closest, not because i prefer them..still haven't forgotten that they reduced the reward scheme to 1 point per £1 in Scotland only for a year (as a trial).

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Well i've just seen the latest prices updated, and tesco price drop is disgusting. 4 pints of milk reduced from £1.49 each with 3 for £3 to £1.25 each with no offer, and free range eggs reduced by as little as 8p, with this little drop and no multi-buy offers i'll be definitely switching to Asda with their 10% price guarantee.

Also just saw jazz apples reduced by just 10p, its a joke and Tesco better get their act together with this rubbish or they will lose customers for sure

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It's disgusting, how dare they reduce prices by less than you'd wish for. They'll lose customers hand over fist for not discounting enough.

I think Tesco will be fine, if Asda end up relying on their sugar daddy Walmart as they aren't making any profit that's their call but how much more room there is left to compete on price is an interesting thought.

EDIT: I've just noticed that you picked on the price of milk, eggs and fruit. Tesco chew the nuts off farmers quite enough already with their buying practices. With animal welfare being more of an issue milk and eggs are products that shouldn't be too cheap else it suggests corners are being cut and/or farmers are being stitched up.

I'd rather pay more knowing the hens and cows were treated with some essence of humanity, and the farmers got at least something like a decent price for their work, rather than having Tesco pay them nothing and their relying on subsidies from the CAP.

Just an alternative viewpoint.

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OOooo apples only reduced by 10p, how is that a joke? it's still a reduction and over the course of a whole weeks shop it will all add up.
4 pint milk reduced to £1.25 from £1.49, that's really good, as for the 3 for £3 offer they had, that was an offer, they change these offers about veery 2 weeks anyway what normal family would ever need to buy 12 pints of milk? those sort of offers should be scrapped as all they do is make you buy extra when you don't need it and then you throw it away when it goes off because you have too much of it.

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Try to use your sense. people who multi buy will lose out.

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So let me give an example of multi buy. i usually buy 12 pints of milk per week, which would cost me usually £3 at Tesco, now after this "price drop" it'll cost me £3.75 for the same amount.

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But that's just how things work out. If you have a problem paying the extra every week, all you have to do is go elsewhere, its not that difficult nowadays.

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It isn't about that. This whole thing was to make things cheaper for customers not more expensive.

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well i did my shopping earlier which i do usually monthly and no lie all i saved with these so called savings and buy one get one free etc was £1.44.

I have saved more in the past when doing my shopping.

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The deals will have reduced the cost of a basket of goods somewhere else. Seriously, you're behaving like a politician picking on the specific bit that proves your point. Inevitably you'll be able to find combinations of foods that have gone up in price as a result of removing some offers and replacing them with lower standard pricing.

You'll have saved 10p back, for example, on the cost of apples even if you consider the discount derisory.

Someone who doesn't but the 3 to get the deal will benefit from the lower prices. You'll probably have saved the money back on some other products within the shop. Can't please everyone all the time.

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You can freeze milk

but I do agree with the sentiment

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Bakers Soft bread was 2 for £1.80, now 2 for £2.10 :(

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Where i live we basically have three choices Tesco, Sainsburys and Co Op out of those i do not shop at Tesco because i cannot support a company that hits it's suppliers as hard as they do and turns a blind eye to some shocking animal welfare conditions. Co Op is simply too expensive for us couldn't afford to shop there even if we wanted too although out of the three they appear to have better ways of dealing with their suppliers and treatment of animals used by them.

So for us we go to Sainsburys who seem middle of the road in all ways the quality is always good even on their basic range of which we have a fair bit. Prices whilst not the best are certainly not the worst and the staff are always cheerful and helpful another thing that cannot be said of the other two many of their staff look as though they lunch on lemons most of the time.

These gimmicks do not and never have swayed me what they give with one hand they are taking with the other somewhere all of them, not one of them is better or worse then the others in that regard so shopping based on that is a bit of a smoke and mirrors thing in itself.

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Let me guess the 2 for £1.80 was a special offer? am i right
if so then what you're saying is pointless as these offers come and go all the time.
Just checked the website, Bakers soft bread is not even one of the price drop items and i believe that is what this thread is about, correct?

Kingsmill toasty thick white bread £1.10 in the price drop, Sainburys price is £1.25 so that's a saving right there

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Only a saving if you are planning to buy it, and do. Otherwise it is an offer.

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When me do our shopping I always look for offers, and often make on average £5-7pw savings.

When we buy extras we put then in our shed (in the house).

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I tried using mysupermarket yesterday, it allows you to check all stores prices at the same time on the items that you want, a good idea, but I haven't actually shopped using it yet :o:

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Maybe you don't have to worry about every penny, or maybe you don't even pay for the shopping in your household, but people who do have to worry about each and every penny and a saving of 75p or 40p on bread and milk is a saving on its own if you have only a specific amount of money to spend each month.

And as for the bread and things on offer, that bread has been on "offer" for the last year and milk for many months if not longer, until this "price drop". Its not that big deal as Iceland sell 4 pints milk for £1 and Kingsmill bread of 2 for £1.70 and only down the road

its just how the whole thing has been advertised, no point putting prices down on once place and putting them up elsewhere then calling it a price drop,this is just a scam to try to bring customers in.

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Who would've thought the advertising would accentuate that prices overall are dropping, rather than pointing out that some will rise even if the overall trend is downwards?

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I am loyal to tesco for one simple reason.

They the only one out of the big 3 that give me good dates on delivered goods, allow to reject poor dates, and come early on time.

Asda was awful, I could order bread and it would come with 1-2 days life left on it, rock hard, whilst tesco eg. will have a week or so on it.

Sainsburies were ok until they had that big publicised farce where many people didnt get their orders (me included).

Tesco however have been increasing their prices a LOT lately, I keep track and the stuff I buy overall has gone up 36% in the past 6 months (over 6% inflation a month). However last week some stuff for the first time in over a year went down in price. (typically the same time I cant eat much due to tooth extraction).

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In store is many offers, but online most offers arent available. There is always some of course, but generally its higher priced stuff and bulk discounts.

Tesco did make an error one week (and quite possibly more) where they were not applying discounts. That particular week they had to refund me £9. Problem is I cant back check as past expired offers data is gone.

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This was posted earlier on one of the other sites i goto under the headline "When a deal is not a deal"

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There were a load of these shown on Watchdog the other night. it's pretty obvious that Tesco's think everyone is stupid. there's no way that this what they're doing is a "genuine mistake"

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Gary i remember when i was living at home with parents.

A Leaflet came through the door advertising offers at a local stationers.

The offer cracked me up and i still remember the end bit.

If you spent over a certain ammount you would recieve a "Free Stapler for £1.99" lol.

If its free why are they charging u £1.99 for it lol

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this has been going on, on their website for months. So seems they copied the same tactic now in stores?

eg. 99p each or special offer 2 for £2.

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That is quite common in my local super market, the other one is "Extra Large Economy 1kg packet" but it is cheaper to buy two 500g packets!

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Farmfoods are good for prices ;)

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Farm foods is quite a bit away from me if they id an online order like tesco etc i would consider them.

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I am lucky we can walk to our local shops.

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{cynical mode} I wonder if this sudden drop in prices will provide a lower rate of inflation in October which is used to set the welfare benefit ammount of increase next April? {/cynical mode}

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l suspect so

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When you have Aldi changing the weight of mince beef from 1kg to 900g and still charging the same for it. I doubt it.
you'll just get less for the same price or a bit cheaper. they might even sell halve loaves. shops are in it to make money, and they're already on the ball with that one.

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I assume they used a yearly average of inflation rather than just 1 month?

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Does that fool the measure of inflation? or are they intelligent enough to account quantity as well?

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I agree
I have seen that many times

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Well I bought a block of cheese yesterday but was allowed two extra blocks free. All with a sell by date 6th October.

If I had a family of five I couldn't shift that much.

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Are we all invited for cheese toasties at your house? I like mine with onion please :D

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Well we got two absolute bargains at Tesco today :)

We were looking for some of those plastic storage drawers, a bit like this -

http://images.littlewoods.com/is/ima..._08_TM359b.jpg

We found one on the top shelf. It had no price, bar code etc on it so we went to the counter and asked how much it was. 25p said the guy, I will go and get a barcode for it. My partner an I looked at each other thinking he had clearly made a mistake and had gotten his pounds and pence mixed up.

He returned 5 minuted later with a bar code and slipped it on the drawers. I asked him to clarify the price. He scanned it and sure enough, it came up at 25p!

We only wanted one, however there was another on the shelf so we thought, at 25p why not get two?

We took them to the checkout and they scanned the second one that we picked up and it came up at £10! So we questioned this saing that they were both the same and she scanned the other one and sure enough... 25p. A supervisor was called and we got both for 25p instead of £10 each.

Now that's what I call a price drop!

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Your solution to your problem is to freeze the other blocks, cut into sections before hand, the chease is good for 6 months after the best before date in the freezer sealed in a bag. Just take the piece out & microwave your chease on toast after toasting you bread first... simples!

Waste not want not..... I was always told, still live by it today:dunce:

Toonlight

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Alternatively just completely ignore the sell-by date.

It's cheese, if it's decent cheese it's been maturing for a year, I doubt it's going to curdle again and it's not going to be starting to go mouldy until it's been opened.

Freezing is slightly dodgier as a course of action as the cheese may have already been frozen to be transported, just another trick big stores like to do to reduce costs, you can really tell which do it when you have a fine cheese and buy it from a real cheese shop over a supermarket.

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Never use Tescos. We use Asda online for about 60% of stuff, and the rest from Morrisons, which is 1/2 mile up the road. I normally get between £2 & £4 in vouchers every week from the Asda 10% price guarantee [to use online the following week] this generally it covers the delivery cost.

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And Tesco's is certainly feeling the heat of the cheaper price supermarkets according to this.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...o-supermarkets

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The Grocer magazine says Tesco prices have RISEN.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ying-more.html

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tesco are a master of fooling people on prices. I have been monitoring my shopping costs since the start of the year very closely, and they have used a fair few tricks.

Now because they sell a product thats an essential food/drink I expected they would get away with it forever, but its pleasant to read that they are actually now suffering on sales and this is also a sign ho wbad the economy must be if food sales are been hit.

Unfortenatly online shopping options seem limited to the big 3.

Whilst there is alternatives outside of the big 3, the min order size makes them unviable for me. I would love it if someone proved me wrong here.

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yeah and here is another interesting one..

http://www.walletpop.co.uk/2011/10/0...pers-pay-more/

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Tesco profits grow but UK sales subdued

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15178825

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rise in profits with falling sales? hmm higher profit margins.

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Still a behemoth though

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The great Tesco 'Big Price Drop' rip-off: Supermarket pushed prices UP weeks before its £500m cost-cutting campaign.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-campaign.html

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Who would have thought it eh?

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These big companies at times behave nothing more then crooks and robbers half the time.

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I can back this up.

I am seeing prices drop now but what I am noticing is they have gone back to what they were in feb 2011.

eg. the meal for ones back to £1 each. same price as feb 2011, they went up to £1.30 each 30% increase so all they have done now is been reverted.

Clever games by tesco.

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A comment on the daily mail page with the exact same thing that happened to me.

To rehash.

Discounts on order page for online shop.
Shopping delivered but no discounts applied to actual order.

I have been checking every order since I caught them 5 weeks back and they been ok, but I was unable to check previous orders as obviously I dont have old special offer data so I could have been overpaying for months.

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Watch out for "unit" costs too, smaller packs, less expensive mix, lower quality and so on.

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My dad was telling me a few days ago about a story on the local radio regarding tesco

A Few people who live far out of town get together once a month and go into town and do a mass shop pay for it all together and sort out the cost then when they get home.

They did the shop as usual and tesco wanted to charge them over £19 for carrier bags at which point they said to hell with u and walked out.

Apparently Morrisons are giving away reusuable bags free if u spend over a certain ammount.

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indeed, although I find it a more common tactic that they keep the packaging the same size but just reduce the contents.

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I guess thats the one blessing of the online shop ripoff, we online customers still dont get charged for the bags although could be argued its inclusive on the delivery fee.

I see asdas £5 voucher if you spend £40, shows a lot whats wrong with the supermarkets at the moment, offers catered for families only as not many sinlle people will be spending £40 a week on food. Well I dont anyway.

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Stuff like fruit & veg will vary anyway. Were the items with lower prices on special offer at the time and then that special offer period has ended?:rolleyes:

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I'm surprised that anyone is being fooled into believing that Tesco or indeed any supermarket is going to just reduce prices .With careful pricing and packaging any shop can make it look like they are reducing prices on some items while actually making more money

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Has anyone noticed Tesco's "improved" clubcard offers? Clubcards now earn half what they used to and what you can get for them has increased by 50%. This is being touted as better value!

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They said that it is so that they are able to offer the price drop?

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I used to enjoy the occasional 4 pack of Tennents Super but recently its gone up overnight from £6.34 to £7.53!!!!!! Outrageous:td::mad: