Tescoâ€™s Big Price Drop - Page 2

Taf · 24-09-2011, 18:39

For the past few months Tesco has been selling turnips at 69p EACH (which worked out at around Â£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".

Arthurgray50@blu · 24-09-2011, 19:56

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.

Uncle Peter · 24-09-2011, 20:03

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.

Cobbydaler · 24-09-2011, 20:21

It's all smoke & mirrors.

They save Â£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...

Zee · 24-09-2011, 20:21

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Originally Posted by martyh

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

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

alferret · 24-09-2011, 21:01

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

Gary L · 24-09-2011, 21:29

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Originally Posted by alferret

Now we shop at Aldi

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.

Hom3r · 24-09-2011, 22:02

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.

thenry · 24-09-2011, 22:41

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

Gary L · 24-09-2011, 22:49

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Originally Posted by thenry

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

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.

Ken W · 25-09-2011, 06:53

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

blackthorn · 25-09-2011, 07:21

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 Â£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.

Ignitionnet · 25-09-2011, 07:38

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.

colin25 · 25-09-2011, 08:48

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Originally Posted by Rob

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.

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.

Ken W · 25-09-2011, 09:03

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Originally Posted by colin25

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.

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.