Tesco’s Big Price Drop

[colin25]

Originally Posted by roger skillin

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

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

[Hom3r]

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).

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

[Zee]

Originally Posted by roger skillin

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

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.

[Ignitionnet]

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?

[Chrysalis]

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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Originally Posted by Hom3r

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).

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.

[Welshchris]

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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[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Welshchris

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"

[Welshchris]

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

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by Gary L

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"

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.

[Ken W]

Originally Posted by Welshchris

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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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!

[nashville]

Originally Posted by martyh

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

Farmfoods are good for prices

[Welshchris]

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

[nashville]

I am lucky we can walk to our local shops.

[Taf]

{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}