Tesco clubcard pricing differential...
Discussion
r3g said:
How does thiis work? How do you use them without the app? Do you have to print them out and take them with you? I don't understand why I'm getting them in the post then. Might have to create a new account as evidently my requests to set my preferences are being ignored.
Print them if i want to use them in shop, i often use the partner offers and spend them online when booking other activities as you get double the value.Pre covid i used them mainly for cinema tickets, saved a lot of money that way.
Rufus Stone said:
A supermarket demanding your personal information or they will charge you a higher price is blatant discrimination
I remembered this post when this morning we went to Sainsbury's for the first time since they have introduced the Nectar card pricing.Our main supermarket shop is at Tesco , with sourcing of specific items due to preference at either, Lidl, Aldi Co-op or Sainsbury's. But for generic shopping adopt the only way to consider this, know your products and prices, if the invitation to treat is not acceptable you don't buy it.
So being fully aware of the Tesco method, and pricing of various goods generally, it was interesting to see the difference with the Sainsbury's system.
Firstly, the display of the two prices is clear, not the shout it in your face level of the Tesco labelling, but still sufficiently clear.
Secondly prices. This might seem as putting the above quoted post into the absolute incorrect twaddle category, but that is what we found. The normal prices displayed were generally the same as the normal Tesco prices, either to the penny, or very very close, usually cheaper than Co-op normal prices by a few more pence. However the Nectar card prices were genuine discounts, mostly the same as when discounted in both Tesco or Co-op, to the penny! Clearly not every discounted item was evaluated, but all those actually purchased were, plus some others at random in passing.
Therefore one could conclude based on this admittedly limited exercise that the frequent claims of "the discounted price is the normal price and the other is an attempt to rip off any customer without a store card" or any other tin foil hat wibbling will result in those proponents being consigned to the ignore anything said in future as possibly short of a full sandwich.
FiF said:
Rufus Stone said:
A supermarket demanding your personal information or they will charge you a higher price is blatant discrimination
I remembered this post when this morning we went to Sainsbury's for the first time since they have introduced the Nectar card pricing.Our main supermarket shop is at Tesco , with sourcing of specific items due to preference at either, Lidl, Aldi Co-op or Sainsbury's. But for generic shopping adopt the only way to consider this, know your products and prices, if the invitation to treat is not acceptable you don't buy it.
So being fully aware of the Tesco method, and pricing of various goods generally, it was interesting to see the difference with the Sainsbury's system.
Firstly, the display of the two prices is clear, not the shout it in your face level of the Tesco labelling, but still sufficiently clear.
Secondly prices. This might seem as putting the above quoted post into the absolute incorrect twaddle category, but that is what we found. The normal prices displayed were generally the same as the normal Tesco prices, either to the penny, or very very close, usually cheaper than Co-op normal prices by a few more pence. However the Nectar card prices were genuine discounts, mostly the same as when discounted in both Tesco or Co-op, to the penny! Clearly not every discounted item was evaluated, but all those actually purchased were, plus some others at random in passing.
Therefore one could conclude based on this admittedly limited exercise that the frequent claims of "the discounted price is the normal price and the other is an attempt to rip off any customer without a store card" or any other tin foil hat wibbling will result in those proponents being consigned to the ignore anything said in future as possibly short of a full sandwich.
The prices, with and without discount, are similar because they are all now doing it.
FiF said:
I remembered this post when this morning we went to Sainsbury's for the first time since they have introduced the Nectar card pricing.
Our main supermarket shop is at Tesco , with sourcing of specific items due to preference at either, Lidl, Aldi Co-op or Sainsbury's. But for generic shopping adopt the only way to consider this, know your products and prices, if the invitation to treat is not acceptable you don't buy it.
So being fully aware of the Tesco method, and pricing of various goods generally, it was interesting to see the difference with the Sainsbury's system.
Firstly, the display of the two prices is clear, not the shout it in your face level of the Tesco labelling, but still sufficiently clear.
Secondly prices. This might seem as putting the above quoted post into the absolute incorrect twaddle category, but that is what we found. The normal prices displayed were generally the same as the normal Tesco prices, either to the penny, or very very close, usually cheaper than Co-op normal prices by a few more pence. However the Nectar card prices were genuine discounts, mostly the same as when discounted in both Tesco or Co-op, to the penny! Clearly not every discounted item was evaluated, but all those actually purchased were, plus some others at random in passing.
Therefore one could conclude based on this admittedly limited exercise that the frequent claims of "the discounted price is the normal price and the other is an attempt to rip off any customer without a store card" or any other tin foil hat wibbling will result in those proponents being consigned to the ignore anything said in future as possibly short of a full sandwich.
If it's only the staples you're looking at - yes, the pricing across the supermarkets is usually identical. Once you start looking at other random stuff, you'll see that Sainsbury's standard pricing for most stuff is now way above the other majors. They've basically made their old pricing model only accessible if you have a Nectar card. If you don't, well that'll be £2 more please.Our main supermarket shop is at Tesco , with sourcing of specific items due to preference at either, Lidl, Aldi Co-op or Sainsbury's. But for generic shopping adopt the only way to consider this, know your products and prices, if the invitation to treat is not acceptable you don't buy it.
So being fully aware of the Tesco method, and pricing of various goods generally, it was interesting to see the difference with the Sainsbury's system.
Firstly, the display of the two prices is clear, not the shout it in your face level of the Tesco labelling, but still sufficiently clear.
Secondly prices. This might seem as putting the above quoted post into the absolute incorrect twaddle category, but that is what we found. The normal prices displayed were generally the same as the normal Tesco prices, either to the penny, or very very close, usually cheaper than Co-op normal prices by a few more pence. However the Nectar card prices were genuine discounts, mostly the same as when discounted in both Tesco or Co-op, to the penny! Clearly not every discounted item was evaluated, but all those actually purchased were, plus some others at random in passing.
Therefore one could conclude based on this admittedly limited exercise that the frequent claims of "the discounted price is the normal price and the other is an attempt to rip off any customer without a store card" or any other tin foil hat wibbling will result in those proponents being consigned to the ignore anything said in future as possibly short of a full sandwich.
A case in point which I already posted a month ago (I notiice the price has risen even further since!) : Gold Blend 200g at Sainsburys vs Tesco :
Saisnburys £8.10
or £6 with Nectar.Tesco £6 (no CC)
How on earth is that a "genuine discount" (using your own words) unless you're not very good at math?
I could go on - orange juices, branded tinned stuff, branded pies etc. Everything is stupidly priced and all they've done in reality is jacked up the prices of their entire range by around 25% and that's what you will now pay unless you sign-up to their data harvesting scheme, to put it bluntly.
Sure, I get the argument that it's their train set - if you don't like it you don't have to play with it and can go elsewhere, but they're all at it now.
What people don't seem to be getting is that this is not a loyalty scheme with genuine discounts. If it was then the shelf prices would be the same as what they were BEFORE they introduced their dual pricing model and loyalty card holders would be able to purchase the items at a reduced price. What's actually happening if they are jacking up the prices of everything by a considerable amount and are forcing you into their data harvesting program if you want to buy your stuff at their usual prices. That's not a discount, that's deception, and it's only those people who are a bit dumb or are incapable of doing math that can't see this.
r3g said:
If it's only the staples you're looking at - yes, the pricing across the supermarkets is usually identical. Once you start looking at other random stuff, you'll see that Sainsbury's standard pricing for most stuff is now way above the other majors. They've basically made their old pricing model only accessible if you have a Nectar card. If you don't, well that'll be £2 more please.
A case in point which I already posted a month ago (I notiice the price has risen even further since!) : Gold Blend 200g at Sainsburys vs Tesco :
Saisnburys £8.10 or £6 with Nectar.
Tesco £6 (no CC)
How on earth is that a "genuine discount" (using your own words) unless you're not very good at math?
I could go on - orange juices, branded tinned stuff, branded pies etc. Everything is stupidly priced and all they've done in reality is jacked up the prices of their entire range by around 25% and that's what you will now pay unless you sign-up to their data harvesting scheme, to put it bluntly.
Sure, I get the argument that it's their train set - if you don't like it you don't have to play with it and can go elsewhere, but they're all at it now.
What people don't seem to be getting is that this is not a loyalty scheme with genuine discounts. If it was then the shelf prices would be the same as what they were BEFORE they introduced their dual pricing model and loyalty card holders would be able to purchase the items at a reduced price. What's actually happening if they are jacking up the prices of everything by a considerable amount and are forcing you into their data harvesting program if you want to buy your stuff at their usual prices. That's not a discount, that's deception, and it's only those people who are a bit dumb or are incapable of doing math that can't see this.
Which probably goes a long way to explain why food inflation is so high. We are being ripped off.A case in point which I already posted a month ago (I notiice the price has risen even further since!) : Gold Blend 200g at Sainsburys vs Tesco :
Saisnburys £8.10
or £6 with Nectar.Tesco £6 (no CC)
How on earth is that a "genuine discount" (using your own words) unless you're not very good at math?
I could go on - orange juices, branded tinned stuff, branded pies etc. Everything is stupidly priced and all they've done in reality is jacked up the prices of their entire range by around 25% and that's what you will now pay unless you sign-up to their data harvesting scheme, to put it bluntly.
Sure, I get the argument that it's their train set - if you don't like it you don't have to play with it and can go elsewhere, but they're all at it now.
What people don't seem to be getting is that this is not a loyalty scheme with genuine discounts. If it was then the shelf prices would be the same as what they were BEFORE they introduced their dual pricing model and loyalty card holders would be able to purchase the items at a reduced price. What's actually happening if they are jacking up the prices of everything by a considerable amount and are forcing you into their data harvesting program if you want to buy your stuff at their usual prices. That's not a discount, that's deception, and it's only those people who are a bit dumb or are incapable of doing math that can't see this.
Sainsbury's also have separate nectar discounts not shown on the shelf that they put in the app, more targeted ones that seem to relate to things I already buy.
For example, the two packs of chicken breasts are £1.88 compared to £2.29 on the shelf sticker, the latter being the same price Tesco charge.
For example, the two packs of chicken breasts are £1.88 compared to £2.29 on the shelf sticker, the latter being the same price Tesco charge.
Quote from Which?
"Every day in May, we checked the prices of 40 popular grocery items, including Heinz baked beans, milk and tea bags, at some of the UK's biggest supermarkets.
Aldi was still the cheapest, at £68.60 for our basket of 40 groceries, closely followed by Lidl.
Shopping with a Tesco Clubcard was next cheapest - but at £72.89 it was still £4.29 more than shopping at Aldi. Both Tesco Clubcard and Sainsbury's Nectar prices (£75.51) did knock Asda (£76.45) off the top spot of the more traditional supermarkets though".
"Every day in May, we checked the prices of 40 popular grocery items, including Heinz baked beans, milk and tea bags, at some of the UK's biggest supermarkets.
Aldi was still the cheapest, at £68.60 for our basket of 40 groceries, closely followed by Lidl.
Shopping with a Tesco Clubcard was next cheapest - but at £72.89 it was still £4.29 more than shopping at Aldi. Both Tesco Clubcard and Sainsbury's Nectar prices (£75.51) did knock Asda (£76.45) off the top spot of the more traditional supermarkets though".
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And yet the discounted price on tea, for example, was exactly to the penny the same price paid before the scheme when the product was on offer. No rip off there. Still carry on with your victim complex. Boo hoo.
Edited to add
Waitrose £8
Asda £7
Morrisons £5.99
Rufus Stone said:
r3g said:
If it's only the staples you're looking at - yes, the pricing across the supermarkets is usually identical. Once you start looking at other random stuff, you'll see that Sainsbury's standard pricing for most stuff is now way above the other majors. They've basically made their old pricing model only accessible if you have a Nectar card. If you don't, well that'll be £2 more please.
A case in point which I already posted a month ago (I notiice the price has risen even further since!) : Gold Blend 200g at Sainsburys vs Tesco :
Saisnburys £8.10 or £6 with Nectar.
Tesco £6 (no CC)
How on earth is that a "genuine discount" (using your own words) unless you're not very good at math?
I could go on - orange juices, branded tinned stuff, branded pies etc. Everything is stupidly priced and all they've done in reality is jacked up the prices of their entire range by around 25% and that's what you will now pay unless you sign-up to their data harvesting scheme, to put it bluntly.
Sure, I get the argument that it's their train set - if you don't like it you don't have to play with it and can go elsewhere, but they're all at it now.
What people don't seem to be getting is that this is not a loyalty scheme with genuine discounts. If it was then the shelf prices would be the same as what they were BEFORE they introduced their dual pricing model and loyalty card holders would be able to purchase the items at a reduced price. What's actually happening if they are jacking up the prices of everything by a considerable amount and are forcing you into their data harvesting program if you want to buy your stuff at their usual prices. That's not a discount, that's deception, and it's only those people who are a bit dumb or are incapable of doing math that can't see this.
Which probably goes a long way to explain why food inflation is so high. We are being ripped off.A case in point which I already posted a month ago (I notiice the price has risen even further since!) : Gold Blend 200g at Sainsburys vs Tesco :
Saisnburys £8.10
or £6 with Nectar.Tesco £6 (no CC)
How on earth is that a "genuine discount" (using your own words) unless you're not very good at math?
I could go on - orange juices, branded tinned stuff, branded pies etc. Everything is stupidly priced and all they've done in reality is jacked up the prices of their entire range by around 25% and that's what you will now pay unless you sign-up to their data harvesting scheme, to put it bluntly.
Sure, I get the argument that it's their train set - if you don't like it you don't have to play with it and can go elsewhere, but they're all at it now.
What people don't seem to be getting is that this is not a loyalty scheme with genuine discounts. If it was then the shelf prices would be the same as what they were BEFORE they introduced their dual pricing model and loyalty card holders would be able to purchase the items at a reduced price. What's actually happening if they are jacking up the prices of everything by a considerable amount and are forcing you into their data harvesting program if you want to buy your stuff at their usual prices. That's not a discount, that's deception, and it's only those people who are a bit dumb or are incapable of doing math that can't see this.
Edited to add
r3g said:
Saisnburys £8.10 or £6 with Nectar.
Tesco £6 (no CC)
How on earth is that a "genuine discount" (using your own words) unless you're not very good at math?
The Tesco price is an Aldi price match, or doesn't that count as a discount, you forgot to mention that. or £6 with Nectar.Tesco £6 (no CC)
How on earth is that a "genuine discount" (using your own words) unless you're not very good at math?
Waitrose £8
Asda £7
Morrisons £5.99
Edited by FiF on Saturday 15th July 19:34
Rufus Stone said:
I rarely take my phone with me when I go to the supermarket. Are they permanently attached to some peoples hand or something?
Another old person then. I don’t go anywhere without my phone and neither does anyone under 50. It ‘is’ my wallet (I don’t carry anything physical and haven’t for 3-4 years).
dxg said:
I've noticed a new trend whenever something non-perishable comes up with a clubcard price of some selfish t
t coming along and emptying the shelf.
Case in point was a shampoo offer this week against several different scents. Someone had cleared out one particular scent and left the others. There's no way it outsells the others at that ratio normally as its bit of the shelf is never normally empty.
Also happened this morning with a really expensive (i.e. only affordable when it comes onto clubcard) dooderant which just happens to work really well. Shelf was empty. Same for paper hankies - clubcard price labels up, but empty shelves.
What happened to taking your fair share and leaving enough for everyone else?
It is very selfish, I agree. I get times are tough for some, but why deprive others? They'll probably simply argue first come / finders keepers etc.t coming along and emptying the shelf. Case in point was a shampoo offer this week against several different scents. Someone had cleared out one particular scent and left the others. There's no way it outsells the others at that ratio normally as its bit of the shelf is never normally empty.
Also happened this morning with a really expensive (i.e. only affordable when it comes onto clubcard) dooderant which just happens to work really well. Shelf was empty. Same for paper hankies - clubcard price labels up, but empty shelves.
What happened to taking your fair share and leaving enough for everyone else?
There's looking for a bargain and then there's just embarrassing yourself.
This happens with reduced to clear items as well.
In my experience, if you finish work, gym etc at a certain time and are in a supermarket at a certain time, you'll always see the same little community of reduced to clear trolls who dwell in the aisles until final reduction time. Or if yo skip the supermarket, you'll see them on their way their for the day's catch.
Sometimes I do feel tempted to offload out of an evidently greedy selfish person's trolley and into someone else's. Or my own. Or just grab all their trolleys and shove them down the aisle. It's the wheelchair users I feel bad for. Survival of the fittest - they don't stand a chance against the competition.
I've seen videos of 'feeding time' and actual barriers being put up to protect staff whilst they load the reduced shelves. I remember when they'd do the labels casually on the aisles without worry, whereas now it's wheel things away, reduce in secret and come back to find the usual people loitering. How times have changed.
I've said before that sometimes you'll come across groups who hunt in packs. One of them gets the fruit and veg section, the other the chilled section and the other the bakery section.
They gather at the end. Wonder whether they split the booty or whether certain items are sold in other shops. There needs to be a limit on certain things, I agree.
One particular incident I recall well was in Morrisons when a group of three women were hoisting in a somewhat choreographed manner as many of the reduced Happy Egg Co cartons they could into their trolleys (i.e. all but maybe 1 of them, when I dared take just the one).
captain.scarlet said:
dxg said:
I've noticed a new trend whenever something non-perishable comes up with a clubcard price of some selfish tt coming along and emptying the shelf.
Case in point was a shampoo offer this week against several different scents. Someone had cleared out one particular scent and left the others. There's no way it outsells the others at that ratio normally as its bit of the shelf is never normally empty.
Also happened this morning with a really expensive (i.e. only affordable when it comes onto clubcard) dooderant which just happens to work really well. Shelf was empty. Same for paper hankies - clubcard price labels up, but empty shelves.
What happened to taking your fair share and leaving enough for everyone else?
It is very selfish, I agree. I get times are tough for some, but why deprive others? They'll probably simply argue first come / finders keepers etc.t coming along and emptying the shelf. Case in point was a shampoo offer this week against several different scents. Someone had cleared out one particular scent and left the others. There's no way it outsells the others at that ratio normally as its bit of the shelf is never normally empty.
Also happened this morning with a really expensive (i.e. only affordable when it comes onto clubcard) dooderant which just happens to work really well. Shelf was empty. Same for paper hankies - clubcard price labels up, but empty shelves.
What happened to taking your fair share and leaving enough for everyone else?
There's looking for a bargain and then there's just embarrassing yourself.
This happens with reduced to clear items as well.
In my experience, if you finish work, gym etc at a certain time and are in a supermarket at a certain time, you'll always see the same little community of reduced to clear trolls who dwell in the aisles until final reduction time. Or if yo skip the supermarket, you'll see them on their way their for the day's catch.
Sometimes I do feel tempted to offload out of an evidently greedy selfish person's trolley and into someone else's. Or my own. Or just grab all their trolleys and shove them down the aisle. It's the wheelchair users I feel bad for. Survival of the fittest - they don't stand a chance against the competition.
I've seen videos of 'feeding time' and actual barriers being put up to protect staff whilst they load the reduced shelves. I remember when they'd do the labels casually on the aisles without worry, whereas now it's wheel things away, reduce in secret and come back to find the usual people loitering. How times have changed.
I've said before that sometimes you'll come across groups who hunt in packs. One of them gets the fruit and veg section, the other the chilled section and the other the bakery section.
They gather at the end. Wonder whether they split the booty or whether certain items are sold in other shops. There needs to be a limit on certain things, I agree.
One particular incident I recall well was in Morrisons when a group of three women were hoisting in a somewhat choreographed manner as many of the reduced Happy Egg Co cartons they could into their trolleys (i.e. all but maybe 1 of them, when I dared take just the one).
ts are just ruining it for everyone. Not long back from my local Tesco after picking up a few supplies, 800gms of fresh loose carrots on clubcard offer...... 15p!
I also picked up a bag of spuds (Maris Piper) 1.25kg bag for £1.20
I do wonder sometimes with offer/ prices like this how some people say they can't afford to eat, I guess as it would involve actually doing something other then putting it in a microwave it is too much hassle
I also picked up a bag of spuds (Maris Piper) 1.25kg bag for £1.20
I do wonder sometimes with offer/ prices like this how some people say they can't afford to eat, I guess as it would involve actually doing something other then putting it in a microwave it is too much hassle
Saleen836 said:
Not long back from my local Tesco after picking up a few supplies, 800gms of fresh loose carrots on clubcard offer...... 15p!
I also picked up a bag of spuds (Maris Piper) 1.25kg bag for £1.20
I do wonder sometimes with offer/ prices like this how some people say they can't afford to eat, I guess as it would involve actually doing something other then putting it in a microwave it is too much hassle
Got this email from Tesco yesterday - Christmas dinner for 6 people £12.54 using clubcard.I also picked up a bag of spuds (Maris Piper) 1.25kg bag for £1.20
I do wonder sometimes with offer/ prices like this how some people say they can't afford to eat, I guess as it would involve actually doing something other then putting it in a microwave it is too much hassle
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