Tesco fricking Club Card / two tier pricing

But you’re not being penalised, bullied or controlled. It’s entirely up to you if you set foot in Tesco.

There are at least six other supermarket chains in the UK so just go to one of those. Waitrose doesn’t have two tier pricing, neither does Aldi or Lidl.

I used to work in a shop that pretty much mostly only the elderly used for food. It also had a members card scheme which gave you money off. This was back over 15 years ago now and I can tell you, they had no problem carrying a card around to swipe it.

@VisionsOfSplendour 100% agree!

Maybe different branches of Tesco have different approaches but in the one I use regularly this isn't how the club card pricing works. I know how much the things I buy every week are and they dont go up the week before the reduction then come down to the previous price, they are genuinely cheaper for that week/fortnight

There is a cheese that I like but is more than I want to pay so I will buy when on club card price, if has consistently been the same price for months except for a couple of weeks when it was offer and I stocked up

What kind of products are people buying where the price goes up and down?

'In my view ,the people who are least likely to have signed up or have an app on a smartphone handy are likely to be elderly or find it challenging'

In my experience, the people that are least likely to have signed up are ones that either want to make a point about not having a clubcard (usually middle aged men, but not exclusively) or have recently moved to a house near a Tesco.

The elderly are definitely less likely to have the app - but they usually have their physical card at the ready. People that find tapping a card challenging also find shopping and budgeting challenging, and usually have someone with them to help.

@FreshWinterMorning the fact is that if you shop in Tesco or Sainsbury's then you'll pay more than me.

You can choose not to shop there at your inconvenience, that's your choice.

Judging by the profits you're in the minority though.

Exactly! Can't believe people fall for this rubbish!

I honestly CBA with it. I went into Tesco today thinking to pick up a couple of ready meals (out and busy over dinner time, walking home in the cold) and it wasn't just two tier pricing, it was two tier then two for £6.50 or two for less with a clubcard - I walked out and went to the chippy instead. Can't be fucked to stand around trying to do three stage calculations about buying ruddy ready meals that work out more expensive than m&s.

Chippy was spot on by the way.

It's disgusting .In my view ,the people who are least likely to have signed up or have an app on a smartphone handy are likely to be elderly or find it challenging .

It's a two tier pricing system with the higher prices being charged to the people in society who can least afford it .

Personally I think there should be a campaign to boycott Tesco to stamp this out .
As people have said ,it's spreading to other supermarkets and it's morally corrupt.

It's a discussion that's addressed in the article. They are gouging.

The Which? study found that a third of the products it examined at Sainsbury’s (34% of 71 products) had only been at the “regular” price advertised beside the Nectar deal for less than half the time over the previous six months. At Tesco, it was a quarter of the products examined.

Yeah exactly. For some reason, a few of these supermarkets are DESPERATE to have people sign up to their storecards! Why IS that? Why the desperation to make so many people have storecards??? Don't tell me it's because they care about the consumer/the customer, because that's simply not true. They don't give a rat's ass about us. You can tell that by the way they con gullible people into believing the storecard 'saves' them money!

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You can download the club card to your phone wallet (on an iPhone at least)

I know what you’re saying, and I rarely use Tesco, but if I’m in there the card makes it cheaper than if I didn’t have it. Whether the prices are gouged in the first place is another discussion.

LOL. You really believe that dontcha? They've got you hook, line, and sinker!

I don't know, they might be selling them further, or cross-referencing them with other data? The price difference seems too aggressive to be explained this easily.

Obviously up to each individual if you want to agree to the Tesco terms. It works for me but I also have cards for the other supermarkets. So I pick and choose. I can ‘save’ apparently lots of money, but it’s all crap.

What awful things do you imagine they do with it?

They looks at what you’re buying to try and sell you more things.

YANBU.
I hate two tier pricing. It just feels as a scam. If they value the customers data so high, what awful things must they do with them?

Yep! I have both cards but, on principle, I avoid shopping in both stores now.

The prices without are outrageous and the prices with are no cheaper than elsewhere. It feels like a con and so I shop in supermarkets that don't do this now.

@FreshWinterMorning you're not penalised for not having one! I'm rewarded for having one. 🤷‍♀️

I like my clubcard bargains but I shop online now so my card number is stored, but prior to that I used to just have the card in my purse all the time. What really annoys me is the two tier pricing between Morrisons supermarket online and the way they hike the prices in the Morrisons Daily stores, you pay at least a third more in these stores on most things, it's not fair at all. I checked them out as we have a Daily store local to us but I never use it now unless I'm desperately needing something. They're capitalising on the fact that some people will have to depend on them so pay the price or do without & it stinks!

You can't screenshot the QR/bar code either, so if you have no signal you're stuffed.

That's nice for you.

I go for 3 x 3 course meals on Tesco clubcard points a year so they have all my data they want

@PrueRamsay You can tilt your head with your faux naivety as much as you like. The simple fact is that some people have no desire to have a supermarket clubcard. As a pp said, they harvest peoples data with the clubcards, and the fact is that some people do not want them.

It is 'THAT SIMPLE' and clearly you are missing something! You are missing the fact that some people don't want them, and are pissed off at these supermarkets trying to bully people into them.

Regarding the data-harvesting, some people may say 'you're paranoid!' but IDGAF. I don't want one and I won't have one. I shouldn't be penalised because I choose to opt out. It's bullying and controlling behaviour. 'SO, you won't have our card? Pay 40-80% more then!' As I, and others have said, the clubcard prices are not cheaper, they are normal prices. The prices you are charged without a clubcard are massively over-inflated. Sometimes double.

I have noticed this practice for some time now. Definitely for a year or more. Even the BBC had a news article on it 2-3 months back. Which magazine had highlighted it! I am glad someone is officially looking into it now!

Sainsbury's and Tesco loyalty card prices not as good as they seem, says Which? - BBC News