Tesco fricking Club Card / two tier pricing

I will never understand those on here who spend time defending large corporations. Do you think they care about you?

I think you're being quite contemptuous of people who have a problem with this. To those of us unhappy with it, it's a really fecking big problem.

It's not my fault you can't see you're being scammed by an obnoxious company that treats you with utter contempt.

Just take the card out as Ms Datarefuse, they won’t even notice.

No. There's a principle involved. As more shops do this, it's harder to avoid.

I have a right to not give away my personal data

Of course you do. So you can shop somewhere else, not use a Clubcard or take out one in a fictitious name - you do know they don’t check ID, don’t you?

I've contacted my MP about this issue - differential pricing for card holders should be illegal.

When I was a teenager, I got involved in a very extreme and controlling church, where I suffered significant abuse that has affected me ever since. One aspect of this was a very excessive level of policing of my behaviour, and I effectively had no privacy at all.

As a result, nothing will convince me that Tesco has a right to knowing all my shopping habits, however cheap their products are in return. I have a right to not give away my personal data, and I shouldn't be penalised for it.

Far more weird to personally defend/excuse a corporation. Tesco is not your friend.

@Notanotherhousepost you are missing the point. TESCO clubcard prices are their ordinary prices. They compare more or less with other supermarkets - sometimes cheaper, sometimes more expensive, but not widely so. The equivalent non clubcard price is always extremely expensive and way off what anyone else is charging for that item.

It is a way to get shoppers to give them their data. So the data must be extremely valuable to go to so much effort to get it.

The Co Op is the only one whose shop card I do use just because you can actually use it to pay for shopping if you have accumulated enough credit. So over the course of a year I usually get about £30 to buy treats at Christmas, OR I can use some of that at any time to buy milk or whatever if I have forgotten my bank card. It's so handy and it's valuable enough that I don't mind trading my data for that perk.

But Tesco, or Sainsbury's with its charging £26 a kilo for lamb as opposed to £13 a kilo with a Nectar card? They can eff off.

I was commenting on YOUR comment. That everyone has the choice to shop elsewhere. They don't always have that choice.

@justteanbiscuits Tesco will not take into account single shoppers, it will make a business decision, which it has done.

Yes the level of over investment is weird, even deciding the staff are rude and aloof!

So, when it's your only shop in walking distance and you no longer drive? But getting out to the shop to buy food is one of your last bits of independence? Awesome.

That's FAB for the elderly and disabled. Such caring and understanding from you. I really hope you don't start getting dementia when you're old and get stuck and confused.

Bloody hell, over investment or what @FreshWinterMorning? You’ve stopped shopping at Tesco, wtf do you care about what other people do? I’ll tell you something for nothing, if Tesco are fined millions it will be at their customers’ expense - huge corporates never lose.

There is no "normal price" for anything in the market - unless you want the state to start dictating what items should be sold for

The argument that an item is cheaper elsewhere than the club card price is also rather stupid. For most things, some items are cheaper at Aldi or Sainsbury or joe blogs corner shop - it varies item to item.

Now, some people like to pay the lowest price and go to 10 different shops to achieve it.

Also tesco are saying is these are our prices.

@Behindyouiam I have scrolled back 4 pages and can't find your comment. There was an early comment about tubs of quality street being £4.50 with a TESCO clubcard. They are cheaper than that at ALDI.

@mantyzer · Today 13:06

It is not simply targeted discounts though. It is inflated prices and then if you give your data you pay normal prices.

Yeah exactly this. They desperately want peoples data. But why? And WHY do they want - indeed need everyone to have a clubcard??? As as I said, don't anyone give me the 'to help the customer' line. They would not be conning people into believing they are saving money if they have a clubcard if that was true. (And having horrifically increased prices for those who refuse to comply.)

I feel we're going round in circles......

I posted that the same club card priced item was cheaper than Morrisons, but no that wasn't good enough...

Because apparently everyone knows Morrisons are really expensive.... do they? I don't and I shop there.

That's it. So shady and devious. I really hope they get a fecking massive fine for it, like millions!

I am also facepalming at how some posters here still don't get it, and are being taken in and conned, and actually believing they are saving money with a clubcard.

YOU ARE NOT! The clubcard prices are 'normal.' the non-clubcard prices are over-inflated - massively. Why are people not getting this?

I give up. Just can't get through to some people.

I hope the 'watchdog' throws the book at these feckers! But yeah, I give up trying to explain the obvious fucking facts to people on here - that they are just. NOT. getting.

'A few supermarkets do it, but Tesco is the worst'

Are they? I'm sure an article looked upthread suggested that Sainsburys did this for a third of offers but Tesco for a quarter?

Sounds like you were unfortunate to get someone new and inexperienced. It is definitely covered in the training, but there is a lot to remember on the customer service desk.

It is not simply targeted discounts though. It is inflated prices and then if you give your data you pay normal prices.

I agree with those saying its not a big deal. This is likely to be the future whether we like it or not.
Knowing their shoppers helps supermarkets plan their discounts, the pricing, the deals, placement of products, age group that is using their stores..
Tesco is similar to Boots, M&S, Sainsbury’s and others giving targetted discounts to appeal to their shoppers.
If they know I am a regular customer who has gluten intolerance and my family likes organic milk and dark chocolate.. that works for me as they continue those deals and negotiate prices with suppliers.

Biggest reason to continue Tesco is their home delivery is brilliant and the hard working drivers are polite and always on time with the items in great condition.
Plus the points help towards our annual Amusement park, historical site visits at prices I dont get anywhere else.

Hopefully the point system will continue and not stop!