Tesco fricking Club Card / two tier pricing

My understanding is that they sell it to companies that then use it to target adverts at people they think might be interested in their products.

Is there something more sinister that I should know about? Because that doesn't bother me. I'm fairly immune to advertising - unless they manage to target me with an advert for something that I am already in the market for.

Am I bothered? They can do whatever they want with knowing that I buy cream crackers every couple of weeks and milk every week. It makes absolutely no difference to me. Even more so that I use different supermarkets, so Tesco never see my "overall" purchasing patterns because there are some things I never buy at Tesco but buy elsewhere. I use Tesco for things they stock that others don't and for things where they're cheaper. I use other supermarkets for things Tesco don't stock and where they're cheaper than Tesco. They also don't know what I buy from Amazon, what I buy from the corner shop, what I buy from M&S, etc. At best, they only get a small part of my shopping patterns. I'm sure it's useful information for their data analysts who live and breathe that kind of data.

Telling others what I buy at Tesco?

😂Enlighten me then.

This isn't the old days, you aren't saving for Green Shield Stamps. What's new and different about this scheme is the extent of the data scraping, if you think its just about telling them your D.O.B. and email you really haven't understood what they are doing with your data.

My god! Why can’t people believe that you can save money by having a Clubcard?! 😂

Companies have been running schemes like this forever! You can get cheaper theatre tickets if you’re a member or discounted glasses if you’re on a contact lens direct debit scheme 🤷‍♀️They’re all ways for the companies to make money out of you but there are savings available 🙄🙄🙄

As for the way these schemes are somehow prejudiced against the elderly. Come on! Most things become a bit trickier as you get older - but putting one extra card in your purse is hardly going to be the deal-breaker for most.

Why does it offend you so much that people can save a couple of quid? As many of you have pointed out, we’re paying a high enough cost for it in telling Tesco our name and a random date of birth 😱😨

Yes, that’s what I made it too.

Which @justteanbiscuits I did a quick calculation to show that means is £11.41 a litre.

@justteanbiscuits as I thought, you're wrong!!

What a surprise.....

Quite. And 1 litre of Baileys is £21.95 at Sainsbury’s.

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/baileys-original-irish-cream-liqueur-1l?utm_medium=cpc&catalogId=10241&utm_content=shopping&productId=17616&utm_campaign=20333921261&utm_custom2=759-449-0952&storeId=10151&gclid=EAIaIQobChMInIaT8vP4ggMVyJZQBh3Zfg5FEAQYAiABEgJUvvD_BwE&utm_custom1=&langId=44&utm_source=Google&krypto=LZ37Cjt7oQ0DKwjJFSiJL9fVNcYFkCDxozU72i8NNz1BJGVZNIezk5kohaw4GZ7fzi8it33MXk8hdKCcCUONbDmeKhOrtPEXlZXR2HG7wrp0irexjigdr4M8ds7igNY2zuehDI35m43nNNKVJOaAh%2Fx%2FELd9vIneZ4RtK0JWxiurJigEGOhcRBsr%2BG9FGsGjyPBKLm3HGnvj8OIRD%2FTkqErV4SCEiLxAwPpqaiod2WmuyLul%2FJaXKlwE3KtNsSsbxdN2NxUrDH8nCYCyFzMFg4CRlfbf4ACr%2FCPRePwcNNcq9b898oM5EYwpXN3y57Kg7vzAj9B8PhFBSkUJaEeKsbbO0emd6NgIcY8cAcZmw4f3vCRf7%2FsvFSnQeHo5OZWQC6sv3tYajaRHxXcqktBnIrr3kV27GoPdvtzNj5p%2BHRv2ypJd0w67nZqvnLDPuCk3&ddkey=https%3Agb%2Fgroceries%2Fbaileys-original-irish-cream-liqueur-1l

That's not their Irish Cream, which is made with whisky. That's their country cream which is made with mostly wine as the alcohol content.

Their Irish cream is £7.99 for 70cl.

I'm not, it's £4.99 for 70cl, and I just did some maths to convert like for like size.

https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-ballycastle-irish-country-cream-liqueur-70cl/4088600141770

Again, as I have said. I'm really thrilled for all the people posting their 'bargains' with absolutely no thought in their precious little lives for people who simply aren't able to manage loyalty cards - mainly the elderly and those with learning disabilities. A few who are trying to keep as much independence as possible, but this is just something that is too much for them to manage.

@justteanbiscuits we've had all this nonsense further down in the thread....

Please do share where you are seeing Aldi Irish cream for £7.13 per litre ..

Ah, good stuff! It was £13 last week with the nectar card. They are clearly price matching Tesco's offer, which can only be a good thing!

And yes, you need a nectar card for that price, otherwise it's £21.95.

I paid £12, on offer without any loyalty card, at my supermarket of choice. A quick google shows it is also £10 at Sainsburys. No idea if you need a nectar card to get the price, been years since I've shopped in Sainsburys!

Lidl Deluxe Irish Cream is £9.99 litre. Aldi Irish Cream works out at £7.13 a litre

They didn’t add anything. 1 litre of Baileys for £10 isn’t on offer anywhere else and works out cheaper than Aldi’s knock off. The Lindor is the cheapest anywhere and the no Clubcard price Andrex mega was cheaper than any other supermarket and Amazon. Sorry to disappoint you.

If you’d gone to another supermarket they wouldn’t have added £21.50 to your bill in the first place.

I only carry my phone, so I only want apps and not cards. So why does your want trump mine?

Retail outlets will go with the majority votes. Large organisations like Tesco will accommodate more by having options.

But the wheels of progress have to continue to run. it does raise the question of whether Tesco should automatically give elderly and other vulnerable customers their best available price for items, regardless of whether the customer has a Clubcard or not

or just accept cards, not apps. I know Tesco does, but eg my hairdresser's loyalty scheme has moved to an app. It used to be a little card they put stamps in. I actually have the app to book appointments, but even that's not good enough, you have to scan some QR code thing when you go in (and no, it's not easy because you then have to fill in details on the website it leads to) They know I've been and what I've had done, so why do I need to scan a QR code too?

I thought of this thread when I had £21.50 removed from my bill at Tesco this afternoon. Obviously that included the £10 Baileys, some Lindor and some undiscounted Andrex that was still cheaper than all the other supermarkets. Result.

You can put the Clubcard in your phone wallet so you're never without it. Also have a tag on my keys.

The two tier pricing is getting more and more outrageous I agree.

Just laziness I think! We both had Clubcards prior to meeting and just never ordered a second card. Good idea though!

Exactly, many, if not most, people, actually make an effort to think about what "personal" information is actually being given and make an informed decision about the risk versus benefit analysis. Others just make, quite frankly, barmy decisions based on not understanding what information is actually available and how little the recipient can do with it.

It's like people who refuse to give their bank details to someone, yet happy to hand them a cheque (on which are printed all their bank details).

Like my mother who won't recycle envelopes etc with her name and address on because she read in the Daily Mail once about people rifling through bins to find paperwork with personal information. She can't be arsed to engage her brain to realise that what criminals want are valuable "data" like dates of birth, passwords, security codes, bank statements, payslips, HMRC/DWP letters, etc - things that give them information not readily in the public domain. But the fact that literally anyone can find her name from voting records or her phone number from directory enquiries (neither of which she opts out of despite me telling her she should), so it's not "confidential" information anyway, yet come Christmas, she'll be there shredding all her christmas card envelopes!

It's why we don't have identity cards, despite them being, on balance, more beneficial than detrimental, because people couldn't be bothered to actually research the type of data that would actually be contained within the card itself (minimal).

Personally, given the "techy" World in which we live, topics around data security, data privacy, etc should be taught in schools, in the hope that the next generation have a more informed and balanced view about personal data, what to protect, what really doesn't matter, etc. We seem to be very polarised at the moment with, at one extreme, people not being remotely careful about what personal data they share and the other extreme, people being too paranoid and not sharing even harmless data when it would benefit them.

You're making quite a leap there in assuming that everyone who chooses to have a club card doesn't care about privacy. You're implying that everyone who has a club card has abjectly failed to consider or understand the implications of what information they are handing over. That's just not the case though. It is perfectly possible to carefully consider what data you wish to share and to then choose to have a club card because you have decided you are comfortable sharing your shopping data.

So? GP surgery owners make more profit because instead of buying appointment cards, they get local businesses to pay for advertising on them which funds them. Is that morally wrong too? Hospitals have been known to sell details of accident victims who've gone to their A&E department to ambulance chasing lawyers. Data is valuable and organisations sell it, not just businesses!