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Tesco fricking Club Card / two tier pricing

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Fahbeep · 31/10/2023 09:18

AIBU to hate Tesco Clubcard App and the two tier pricing in store. It rely annoys me on principle that Tesco actively sets out to overcharge customers in store if they haven't got the app handy or the card, in which case, massive palaver at the tills. They do this so they can scrape your personal data. It just puts me off shopping there TBH.

Moan over. I'm in Tesco's car park as a I write as I've flounced out in outrage!

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Getitwright · 24/08/2024 14:05

I really can’t see what’s so bad about having a loyalty card for anywhere to be honest. Tesco Club card is just so worth having, not as generous as it used to be, but we once did a London trip and got into Hampton Court Palace and Tower for free with vouchers, plus lots of folks used to use the vouchers for ferries overseas. Huge savings. All I do is either wave card or code on phone, pick up a scanner and it’s all go from there, discounts applied, quick easy check out. I got RHS membership last year with my points. Don’t get loads of unwanted emails either, just targeted offers for things I buy the most. Struggling to see where all the angst lies to be honest…..

NotSmallButFunSize · 24/08/2024 13:46

Get the card, get the prices and stop moaning - frankly I will take any discount I can get!

tuvamoodyson · 24/08/2024 13:44

My card is in my phone ‘wallet’ no pressure or palaver to have it scanned. I put all the savings I make in my ‘piggy’ bank, and bank them at the end of the year (£300+ so far!)

MassageForLife · 09/01/2024 17:10

enchantedsquirrelwood · 09/01/2024 10:25

Finding it on your phone is a faff. Open phone, find app, find relevant page, show to cashier or scan at self-serve till. Even if it's in Google Wallet it's still a few taps to get to it.

Compared with wave loyalty card at machine and then payment card at machine to pay.

Some things really aren't easier with an app.

It's dead easy to find it on my phone. Open phone. Go to apps. My wallet is saved at the top, with my clubcard and my payment card.

Less faff than using an actual payment card as I never have to remember a pin number.

LeonBlack · 09/01/2024 16:41

How on earth is it a faff? I have my Clubcard added to my phone wallet and I also pay with my phone. I take only my phone out with me shopping nowadays.

It could not be any easier.

Goodlard · 09/01/2024 14:37

I also pay be phone so even easier!

Goodlard · 09/01/2024 14:33

enchantedsquirrelwood · 09/01/2024 10:25

Finding it on your phone is a faff. Open phone, find app, find relevant page, show to cashier or scan at self-serve till. Even if it's in Google Wallet it's still a few taps to get to it.

Compared with wave loyalty card at machine and then payment card at machine to pay.

Some things really aren't easier with an app.

Put it in your phone "wallet"; press side button twice and hey presto it appears!

Hardly a faffGrin

bruffin · 09/01/2024 11:18

Samsung still have the edge feature so my google wallet on there and have my tesco card and a debit card on there. Its quock and easy to find

enchantedsquirrelwood · 09/01/2024 10:25

Finding it on your phone is a faff. Open phone, find app, find relevant page, show to cashier or scan at self-serve till. Even if it's in Google Wallet it's still a few taps to get to it.

Compared with wave loyalty card at machine and then payment card at machine to pay.

Some things really aren't easier with an app.

SophieJo · 08/01/2024 17:46

Coffeerum · 31/10/2023 09:41

Don't they all do this now?
Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys, Boots etc.

Just save the card on your phone, it isn't really that much faff.

I agree. I think it’s a great idea. If you don’t like it, don’t shop there.

Finlesswonder · 08/01/2024 17:43

Just use ocado

BIossomtoes · 08/01/2024 17:37

Deathwillbebutapause · 08/01/2024 14:30

Lidl's knockoff Bailey's is cheaper still and just as nice

It wasn’t before Christmas, it was about £1.50 a litre more.

Deathwillbebutapause · 08/01/2024 14:30

Lidl's knockoff Bailey's is cheaper still and just as nice

comingintomyown · 06/01/2024 22:33

GreenAppleCrumble · 31/10/2023 13:59

This thread baffles me. I can only imagine my Tesco must be different 🤷‍♀️

The Clubcard offers are usually on one item within a range. That’s it. So if you choose one of the many, many other versions of that item, you are not in any way affected.

For example, the best Clubcard price I’ve had recently was on a branded jar of coffee. As we know, all jars of coffee are insanely expensive now. I actually checked online, and this brand of coffee was retailing at £5.50 in all of the major supermarkets. But Clubcard price was £2.95. So I bought it.

Those who didn’t have a Clubcard would have paid the regular price that was the same as Asda, Sainsburys etc. Alternatively, people could just buy one of the many, many brands uninvolved in the offer.

No bullying. Just choice. There is some top quality MN drama on this thread!

Exactly.

Porridgeislife · 06/01/2024 21:34

BIossomtoes · 06/01/2024 20:19

The last four digits of the card aren’t encrypted. Clearly you have no idea how smart technology is now.

You obviously don’t either.

Retailers cannot store your card details without your express permission so they cannot use any information they may glean from your weekly shop to target you. They may know that a card ending in 1234 buys ice cream every Saturday but there’s no advantage to this information over a cash purchase as they cannot use it to target you.

Transactions made with Apple or Google Pay use a virtual credit card number and are very difficult to link together. Eventually credit cards will go the same way.

With a loyalty card you expressly opt in to data storage and targeting. They’re not in any way comparable.

BIossomtoes · 06/01/2024 21:04

Goodlard · 06/01/2024 20:59

@BIossomtoes surely they won't pick up on the Ben & jerrys!

I'll pay cash everywhere, only used notes obviously!

Definitely the B&J - don’t even think of buying Lindor, will you? The consequences could be catastrophic!

Goodlard · 06/01/2024 20:59

@BIossomtoes surely they won't pick up on the Ben & jerrys!

I'll pay cash everywhere, only used notes obviously!

BIossomtoes · 06/01/2024 20:30

Goodlard · 06/01/2024 20:19

@PrimitivePerson so they'll not know until buy multi bags of crisps then..... phew!

Oh they will - and all your other guilty grocery secrets!

Goodlard · 06/01/2024 20:19

@PrimitivePerson so they'll not know until buy multi bags of crisps then..... phew!

BIossomtoes · 06/01/2024 20:19

The last four digits of the card aren’t encrypted. Clearly you have no idea how smart technology is now.

PrimitivePerson · 06/01/2024 20:04

BIossomtoes · 06/01/2024 18:50

Only in the same way that checkout tills do. Itemised receipts and payment by card do exactly the same thing.

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No, they don't. Sure, they know what you happen to have purchased all at once, but payment details are encrypted and it's not possible to link all your visits together and connect them to the same individual.

BIossomtoes · 06/01/2024 19:02

Goodlard · 06/01/2024 19:01

@BIossomtoes of the humiliation of them knowing I buy multi packs of walkers crisps! I was hoping to take that knowledge to the grave with me!

😂

Goodlard · 06/01/2024 19:01

@BIossomtoes of the humiliation of them knowing I buy multi packs of walkers crisps! I was hoping to take that knowledge to the grave with me!

BIossomtoes · 06/01/2024 18:50

Goodlard · 06/01/2024 17:25

Do loyalty cards data harvest then @FreshWinterMorning, if only someone had mentioned it!

🙄

Only in the same way that checkout tills do. Itemised receipts and payment by card do exactly the same thing.

Goodlard · 06/01/2024 17:25

Do loyalty cards data harvest then @FreshWinterMorning, if only someone had mentioned it!

🙄

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