Tesco fricking Club Card / two tier pricing

Sainsbury's do the same, I thoroughly dislike it, as all they are doing is push other prices up, but I still shop there, with my nectar card, hypocrite that I am.

@Elphame
I mean, the thing is, all big companies, and I do mean all, are absolute bastards, from supermarkets to energy companies to hotel chains. Bastards, the lot of them.

But you have to shop somewhere! I find, by using my Clubcard judiciously, I save money. It’s convenient. The end.

I know they are not doing it out of some benevolent motive though! Same as all companies.

If you were arguing against all big companies and their faceless money-grabbiness, you’d maybe have a point. But didn’t you cite Amazon as a point of comparison?! 😂😂 Come on.

Why so aggressive? As it happens, I generally don’t have time to visit loads of stores. Tesco is right by my house and I find it easy to scan the shelves to see which product has money off.

Irons aside, can you explain why the examples I’ve given don’t represent a saving?!

I’m not ‘determined to defend the indefensible’ 😂If you’re so opposed to companies doing whatever they can to maximise their profits and their customer loyalty, you must find modern life rather unbearable! As a pp has said, have a look at how Amazon operates (or don’t! It might traumatise you!).

I know Tesco is after my money! I’m also capable of looking at prices on the shelves and seeing where the actual savings are.

Why are you so determined to defend the indefensible? Tesco, having forced out the local competition are now happily ripping us all off whilst pretending to offer good deals. Most of us don’t have time to traipse round lots of shops or spend hours online to save a few pence on a tin of beans. Tesco suck you in with the promise of a discount on a few items, generally junk and UPF food and then overcharge you on many others.

Unfortunately people like you seem to swallow this hook line and sinker.

Fair enough! But that price is still £46 even though the Clubcard offer was in March? Seems like that’s just what they charge for that product, absurd though it is. It’s pretty rare to be buying an iron and everyone would surely check out a range of products to compare prices?

What I can’t get my head round is why people are adamant you can’t save on your regular weekly shop, when you absolutely can! As I said upthread, you just look for which, say, crisps or cheese or whatever is on Clubcard offer that week. You’ll see that it is anywhere from 20p to £1 cheaper than all the comparable products on the shelf. It’s achingly simple!

I really don’t see why anyone finds it so angst-inducing. As for the preciousness about data-harvesting… anyone that worried about that sort of thing surely wouldn’t be on a social media site at all?!

The co-op do it too e.g. Meal deals are 50p dearer without the card

It's annoying and I get what I can elsewhere

That’s because it is! Some people on here won’t have it that you can make a saving on Clubcard but it’s very clear to those of us who do that you can!

Of course you have to check, as you have done, though 👍

This is pomelo season. I bloody love a pomelo.

I bought one at Lidl for £1.99. That's where I usually get them.

I then heard Tesco have them for £2, so the next time I bought one, I got it from there. It was both bigger and nicer than the Lidl one.

This week its on clubcard offer for £1.70.

Seems like a genuine deal to me 🤷🏽‍♀️

Most grocery stores in the US are the same. To get the member discount I have to scan a barcode with my phone from a tag just under the item, and it takes forever to scan. My town is very overcrowded so stores are always packed, so I'm basically being rude to everyone by standing there with my stupid phone trying to get the lower price. It takes forever to do a normal shop. Then at the checkout I have to scrutinize the screen to make sure the deal actually went through and usually there's mistakes and it takes forever to fix it. Every single time I wonder why they can't just make the member price the regular price?! I save a lot of money shopping at those stores, but it's almost not worth the hassle. At least our member info is tied to our phone number so I don't need my phone or a card for that, but I still have to use my phone to scan every fucking thing that has a sale price.

Amazon might be cheaper for many products but their methods are very questionable, very poor treatment for those working in the warehouses, sneaky Amazon Prime promotions which sign you up without you noticing, not paying UK taxes so being able to undercut many other suppliers etc.

Im also sure Amazon make good use of our data regarding our shopping habits, probably more than Tesco or other supermarkets do, as they are global based.

@fishfingersandchipsagain

Thank you! I am in complete awe of your investigative skills!

It was this one - no longer on a Clubcard deal though.

I guess I can probably find the receipt somewhere. 2 minutes on google will find it for half the price elsewhere from many retailers! Tesco are way overcharging for it at the moment

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/312092856

It clearly IS that you don’t believe her if you went to the trouble of checking in that much detail. But I’m stubborn inquisitive too 😅

The £46 iron is the “Tower Ceraglide”. It was on a clubcard offer with £20 off in March.

So yes, the £46 was inflated, and they discounted it to the level of other retailers standard prices.

I forgot my club card recently and had done a fairly big shop and i knew about £15 would be taken off at the end. Didn't realise until payment that i had forgotten it and wasn't going to give up£15 of savings and I was prepared to cancel the shop and put everything back.

Then I remembered it didn t have to be my Clubcard..... I asked the lady behind if I could use hers and she obliged .

Win for the lovely lady in Clubcard points and a win for me in saving hassle and getting the savings.

Well maybe 🤷‍♀️I guess with something like an iron or other appliance you’re always going to have a look round at prices before buying.

My experience of the Clubcard is quite different. I don’t go in looking for the offers particularly, but if I’m looking for, say, a multipack of crisps, I might well scan the aisle to see which are on Clubcard offer. Virtually all the others will be at normal price (not inflated) and the Clubcard ones will be about 50p cheaper. So it’s quite easy to see you’re saving. It’s not as if you just look at the Clubcard one in isolation is it? You’d notice if they were trying to tell you that the special Clubcard offer was £2.35 reduced from £2.85 if all the other similar products on the shelf were also £2.35, wouldn’t you?!

It’s pretty easy to tell if you’re actually saving!

There are rules that state an item has to be on sale at particular price for a set period of time, before you can claim that is the normal price and discount it. So possibly Tesco have over inflated the price of the iron in preparation for reducing it shortly as a clubcard ‘offer’.

We’ve started shopping in Tesco again. Lidls prices were just creeping up and up. Our shop used to be £50 and it’s now up to £85.

over the last few weeks we have been shopping in different supermarkets and Tesco with their club card deals has been the cheapest.

i couldn’t care less that they have my details, any company can get our details.

Interesting. It’s not that I don’t believe you, but I have had a look and the only iron that Tesco sells for £46 is not available for any sort of Clubcard price. It’s £46 for everyone, so no 2-tier pricing 🤷‍♀️Anyone would be a fool to pay that price, granted, as you’re right that it does retail much cheaper on Amazon. But things will always be cheaper somewhere else.

I've just gone and looked at the model of my iron. Tesco non Clubcard price was £46. It's £30 in Argos and from £22 on Amazon.

So yes. Inflated.

Even with Clubcard I'd have paid less on Amazon

But neither of those examples show that the non-Clubcard price was inflated, just that there were savings available with Clubcard. To show inflated prices you’d have to show that the same products were generally available elsewhere for the Clubcard price. Sorry, I thought that was obvious.

Ok - my iron died and I needed one urgently.

Tesco sadly is the only game in town now. I can't remember the exact price but the Clubcard price of the model I chose was over £20 cheaper than the non Clubcard price. Luckily I do have DPs card saved in my phone so I was able to use that.

There was an old lady two in front of me who didn't have a clubcard. The store assistant asked the woman directly in front of me if she had one that she could scan to save the elderly customer money which is what happened. Without the kindness of both those people she would have paid over £10 more for her shop.

The more I read this thread the more I hate Tesco!

So take photos of the bar codes or use an app, or don't bother , no one cares that you choose not to take advantage of offers and cheaper prices

Isn't it just like lots of other places though.

I.e. restaurants, attractions, etc., where only a fool would pay the "official" prices because there are, literally, always offers to be found by a quick google.

Similar to buying a used car, (granted things are different after covid and the chip shortage), but only a fool would pay the windscreen price and I'm sure everyone knows you needed to haggle them down.

It's basically "mug" pricing, i.e. to get people who don't care about money to pay more, but at the same time, having "offers" for people more money-aware.

May not be morally right, but it's the way things have been for decades, if not centuries - even in biblical days, people would "bargain" when buying goods!

Fallen for what? Keeping my Clubcard in my Apple wallet and taking the two seconds it takes to scan my card to save money?