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Originally Posted by Maggy J
What goes around comes around.
30 years ago Tesco's shut down all of their outlets in my town and the next town. I had to travel miles if I wanted to use a Tesco which at the time was my favourite supermarket...However Asda,Safeways(Morrisons) Waitrose and the Co-op were able to set up in the area instead.Lidl,Aldi and B&M arrived even later.
Now Tesco have come slinking back into the area having built two huge supermarket as well as a few of the express shops and they are hardly used.Indeed one of their hypermarkets is going to close..IF they had kept a toe in the door so to speak maybe they would have more of a share of the local trade than they can generate in competition to all the other supermarkets that saw an opportunity in my locale and exploited it.
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A few years ago, we had both a Tescos and Sainsburys within walking distance. Then, Tescos closed and is now an Iceland. We are in a very wealthy area, so, TBH, I don't understand why Tescos shut. A few years after Tesco shut, Safeway built a huge new store (which became a Morrisons and ultimately a second Sainsburys, even though it's only half a mile from the original) and we got a Marks and Spencers food hall. All of a sudden, Tescos noticed that we are a potentially profitable area for them, and built a superstore about 2.5 to 3 miles away, and several "Tesco Express" stores, one less than half a mile from the superstore (which is open 24 hours a day).
Annoyingly, that Tesco is too far for me to walk with our weekly shop (I can't drive), and the Tesco express stores are only really any use for picking up the odd thing.
I say annoyingly because I actually prefer Tesco to Sainsburys. Unfortunately, I have to do the weekly shop at Sainsburys as I don't like Iceland, and Marks and Spencer has almost no fresh produce, and is a little expensive for the weekly shop.
However, I have no sympathy for Tesco. The same thing is happening to them that they have been doing to local shops for decades.
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Originally Posted by Media Boy
No wonder.
Someone in my family got an new card offering them 50 extra points per week for just buying The Sun and The Sun on Sunday every weekend.
By the end of the offer they got £6 on Tesco card.
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That's why I think these offers can be a con, and only really save you money if you'd have bought the product *anyway*. If they'd have been planning to buy the Sun anyway, that extra £6 off is a bonus. If they weren't, they'd have spent more buying the papers than they'd saved.
I used to have a Sony credit card, which offered so many points per purchase, and these points could be used to buy Sony goods. I thought it seemed a good deal, then worked out how much I would have to spend to get something free.. It worked out I'd have to spend over £60,000 on my card to get a low end 32 inch Sony TV.