So, What Have I Learnt Today?

[missprim]

Tesco do this price promise against Asda/Sainsburys/Morrisons BUT not against their own website! How do I know?
My daughter did my shopping for me today, so I gave her a very detailed list with the prices that I got off Tesco's internet shopping page.
Nescafe gold blend decaff refill £3.50.
Daughter goes to Tesco Extra store where it is priced at £4.48, so she queries it with a supervisor who tells her that prices can be different than the website!
I thought this seemed strange so I phoned Tesco and spoke to a lovely young man in Wales who told me it's the managers discretion however he felt they should have offered to match the price on their website so he phoned them and they said no, they don't do that. He was as surprised as me.
How can they do that? He more or less said this is the price I would have to pay at my Tesco but the one further down the road could be a different price again. Very unfair I feel. Would like to here your views on this.

[paddywak]

I've gone in three local Tesco shops all within a few miles of each other and the way the way the prices vary for the same product is amazing

[cupid04]

tesco like other stores have price differences depending on size and location, rip off Britain.

[daffy654]

Many shops with an online presence charge less online than in their shops.

[missprim]

really paddywak? I can understand the Express shops might not show some special offers etc but not at the big Extra stores.

[Ann]

I knew this years ago - I worked in a manufacturing factory office and found that Tesco stores are "price graded" in a location depending on how much competition there is in the same area ........ where there are hardly any other supermarkets, prices are sky high!

[Sammy48]

This also applies to Tescos petrol garages. I can go a few miles down the road and there is defence in price with their petrol.

[missprim]

Is it just tesco or do the other big supermarkets do this?

[Ann]

The price of petrol at our Tescos is among the highest in the country and no-one knows why.

[missprim]

Sammy I understand that as I've heard some of the petrol stations at the tesco stores are Esso I believe.

[owdhamer]

You shop, we drop speak with forked tongue.

[Sammy48]

I thought our local Tescos garage was the cheapest, then noticed the BP garage was 3p per litre cheaper. It's all mad.

[DaisyNonna]

Have noticed that my local Co-Op, opposite a newly opened Tesco Express has recently stopped carrying quite a few products. On querying this I was told that it was the fault of 'them across the road.' They do not carry those products either. Consequently I will now shop in town instead of locally. No point in shopping twice.

[Sammy48]

I had a gripe at sainsbury before Christmas. In store they do a price comparison, where they give you a voucher for the difference, if they come our dearer. Though online this is not offered. I phoned Sainsbury to complain about this. They said they didn't have the facility online to do this. I pointed out that when ordering shopping online, it is checked out through the store till and you receive a receipt from that till, just like in store. They could easily give a voucher number which could be entered when ordering your next online shop.

So when ordering online, you are losing out on the discount.

[missprim]

You can't win can you Sammy. I have been known to kick up quite a fuss on occasions and only for the fact I don't like to go out in the snow, I would have been round there to see the manager and tell him what I think of it all in no uncertain terms.

[missprim]

Sammy I just saw that horse prank video you put on, it's hilarious.

[Sammy48]

I don't think enough people check prices, I myself am guilty of this, but when you do, it can be quite a shock. I ordered Asdas own brand of unsweetened soya milk online, paid £1.20, when my daughter popped into her local ASda store the next day, she found it was on special for a £1.00.

[Sammy48]

Lol, missprim, I had a tena lady moment watching it lol lol

[Georgiesmum]

When i worked for Somerfield our store, our shop was made bigger and we were sent a whole lot of price increases, when we asked why they said it was because the shop was now bigger, no other reason!

[Iluvspikey]

I don't like Tesco ever have, never will, for one, I don't think the quality is there, and two, they come out with antics like this. I was shopping in there with a friend many years ago when it was 'Tesco's Home and Wear' My friend picked up an electric kettle, put it down and then went back to it later. she got to the check-out and the price came up as £11.99. My friend pointed out the reduced to clear sticker that said £7.99, and they accused her of taking the label off something else, said they a store detective had seen her acting suspiciously, and had seen her do it, and they were quite within their rights to prosecute. It was then an under-manager came and said that it was right as it was the last one in the store. My friend and I walked out, (after he told them what she thought of them!) and I've never set foot in a Tesco's since