Tesco fricking Club Card / two tier pricing

However in general Which found that clubcard prices involve a lot of smoke and mirrors.

I'm not necessarily doubting this - as presumably the Which studies compared a range of products & found a particular trend.

My point is different.

I check the products I need, knowing the local prices. I do always manage to find a selection of Clubcard offer products that are substantially cheaper than other local prices.

I accept that relies on me specifically choosing certain products (not my whole shop) and also knowing prices - which I do as my grocery shop (single parent with 3 teens) is a huge part of my monthly outgoings & so I'm hyper aware of prices.

In Ireland, Tesco prices are lower overall (normal pricing) than the other main Irish supermarkets (SuperValu & Dunnes) but I don't like the sometimes limited product range & Dunnes €10 off vouchers allow me to significantly reduce my bill each week & to justify 'treats' or nice meat etc

Carry the physical card or key fob instead.

I'm really baffled people didn't work this out. It was glaringly obvious from the word go. You are basically paying much more than the average price if you are not in the scheme. The only benefit you get by being in the scheme is not being utterly ripped off. I don't care if I can just add the card to my keyring. They can fuck off if that is the best they can come up with in trying to lure me there.

I don't see what's wrong with offering discounts to customers willing to join the loyalty scheme.

If you are worried about them learning things about your buying habits, it's not compulsory to join.

If you don't care about them learnings things about your buying habits, and can cope with storing the card in your wallet app, and like getting a discount, it's a good option and I like it.

Why should they reduce prices for everyone? They are trying to incentivise certain behaviours such as joining their scheme, shopping there more regularly to get discounts etc.

We were just talking about this morning- Tesco is now easily one of the most expensive shops here (Ireland), and to have a normal price advertised like it’s a deal whilst putting the over inflated price next to it really irritates me! Plus surely illegal really, you have to sign up to something to pay the normal price!! I know everyone’s saying it’s no big deal but it really is when Tesco isn’t your usual place of shopping and you’re not tech savvy (my mum would not have a clue!) or the stupid app stops working (happened me when I was on a trip away last month and I put everything back as couldn’t afford the upper end price)

I have a Tesco credit card so earn clubcard points without even stepping foot inside a Tesco. It has given me money off hotels abroad, paid for entry into places like Legoland and other highly priced theme parks, RAC membership, magazine subscriptions and it didn't cost me anything. Just shopping as normal wherever I choose. I get more Clubcard points if I shop in Tesco but it is quite a journey from where I live.

All loyalty cards are there to harvest your shopping data from you. I am also on Google Rewards and get money for uploading copies of reciepts, just done Aldi this morning. That is also money for nothing and I can spend it on Google Play audio books. In the Asda rewards app I have almost £100 to spend, just building it up for Christmas. Money for nothing. I think it is brilliant.

Things like B&Q, Tesco, M&S Sparks are all stored on my phone in the wallet. Easy to open before you get into the shop and have it ready once you unlock your phone.

I can genuinely never understand the angst over this that gets mentioned a lot on MN
Doesn't bother me at all

This is why i shop at Aldi. They aren't DESPERATE for you personal information.

I avoid Tesco and Sainsburys. If I do go in there and it is much more expensive for card holders I go somewhere else. I am too busy for this two tier pricing shit. Luckily I lice near town so I have four different places to choose from.

My point is, it doesn't matter if they are charging you more (relatively) for not having a clubcard, or less (relatively) for having one. All you need to do is decide whether you want to participate in the scheme for the benefit of the (relatively) lower price or not. The fact you might be able to get it down the road for the lower price (without a clubcard) is not relevant.

Agree. Ive also got one on my key ring.

Easy.

This has also been confirmed by the research that was conducted by Which and reported in the news a few months ago.

There may be some exceptions where the clubcard price is the best price you’ll get. However in general Which found that clubcard prices involve a lot of smoke and mirrors.

Honestly this baffles me.

You can save £25. You decide not to go to Tesco even so - when you could just bring your Clubcard or add the Tesco card to your wallet, if the mobile coverage is such an issue.

I use my key ring for all my loyalty cards. No palaver at all to have them handy. Never bother with the app.

(I know, I know - you obviously meant "before Clubcard pricing was introduced" but just let me enjoy my moment of smug pedantry!!)

😅

I don't do loyalty cards of any description on principle. I'm sick of being tracked and monitored the whole time, everywhere I go.

Most of the time I don't use a smartphone either.

Normal pricing is what you would pay at most other shops.

But you seem insistent on this! Maybe it's true in some areas, but in mine, the reduction is cheaper than what I would pay for the same product elsewhere.

(Full disclosure, grocery prices are insane in Ireland atm, perhaps worse than the UK)

I've stopped going there. There is no mobile reception in my local tescos, ad every single time I can't connect to the app. Luckily last time I used the woman behind me's club card, and saved £25! I swore then, even though it my nearest super market, I wouldn't be returning.

Normal pricing is what you would pay at most other shops.

For example I went to Tesco once to buy a jar of coffee. It was £6, with a special clubcard discount to £4. I went down the road to Asda instead, and bought the same jar of coffee for £4 without any silly made up discounts applied.

@Pipistrellus @Jumperhermit

Just add the Clubcard to your Apple Wallet. No need to use the app at all then.

It's not really a con because it's so easy to compare prices nowadays

It's easy if you're online and/or easily mobile/have ready transport. There are plenty of elderly and disabled folk who still struggle to be able to access the best deals.

Same here, last time I stood at the door of the shop for 5 mins, trying to get the app to load to access the club card QR code. I use apple pay for everything so only take my phone when I leave the house

I don’t bother about club card harvesting ( I pay by a Tesco bank card so always have details available) I don’t care who is monitoring my shopping trolley, but I really really hate self service tills. Shopping in store will be a nightmare when people are trying to do huge Christmas shops, I feel for the poor staff members they put on to the self service tills, they are run off their feet as it is, and I imagine they will be subject to horrendous nastiness when things get fraught and stressful.

Google Wallet/G Pay/Apple Pay does the same.

And, knowing Google, that's an extra tier to be harvesting and selling your data!

That will throw up a warning on their system, the other shopper looks like they are using someone else's card to pay for their bill, unless the first customer pays in cash.

? They don't check the name on the loyalty card against the name on the payment card!

I don't think you can use the same card at the same time for two transactions, can you? Presumably, if you stop a customer in Tesco who has a Clubcard, they're expecting to use it themselves.

Also, people are so scared of scams these days, they may well think that you're somehow trying to do this to them - even though I don't think it would be possible to do with just a Clubcard.

I suppose, if it's somewhere where your purchases generate extra discount vouchers, you could skew their profile. Ask an elderly person if you can borrow their card, thinking they might appreciate the extra points - then they end up getting vouchers for nappies and baby food instead of the ones for coffee and bread that they might actually want to use!

I like the Scan & Shop/Shop & Go or whatever they call it, but if I need to grab anything for work, for which I need a separate receipt, I have to put it aside and go to a robot till afterwards to pay for it separately.

Its cheeky but they are all at it. Sainsburys and co-op.

Don't you have a purse?