Tesco fricking Club Card / two tier pricing

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AIBU to hate Tesco Clubcard App and the two tier pricing in store. It rely annoys me on principle that Tesco actively sets out to overcharge customers in store if they haven't got the app handy or the card, in which case, massive palaver at the tills. They do this so they can scrape your personal data. It just puts me off shopping there TBH.

Moan over. I'm in Tesco's car park as a I write as I've flounced out in outrage!

"Doesn't the fact it works for them as a business model while dividing people 50:50 and putting a lot of people off their stores make you stop and 🤔 about whether you're really getting a good deal?"

I never assume I'm getting a good deal but I have a choice of four supermarkets in my town. My weekly shop, using a clubcard, is cheaper than at two of the others. One of the supermarkets is cheaper but I hate the experience of shopping there, the lack of choice and the quality of the food.

We do most of our shopping at sainsburys, always have my nectar card in my purse so no worries about forgetting it. We save our points for the big Christmas shop and the nectar prices are just a bonus in my eyes. I don't get that it's such a hassle, it's a small saving and you can earn money/points back by having the store cards. I'd rather save/get back a little than nothing.

Surely the days of rummaging around the bottom of a crusty handbag looking for loyalty cards has passed. The vast majority of us have these things on our phones, it couldn't be easier or quicker!

I ditched my Clubcard many years ago, and won't get one again. I definitely don't want any supermarket monitoring my spending etc.

I don't think it divides people 50/50 in rl.

It is only ever on mn that such small non-issues become magnified imo.

*I don't think it divides people 50/50 in rl.

It is only ever on mn that such small non-issues become magnified imo*

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Why not? How do you think it negatively affects you?

For teenagers, why do they not have copies of their parent’s cards? Ridiculously easy solution.

for travelers, I have found that when I am traveling if I just respond to the request for my card with a polite statement that I am not local, the clerk will inevitably pull a card out of the till and scan it. Perhaps it’s because I’m being honest and not just trying to avoid getting a card that it seems to work, but it does. I could take the time to just get a card then and there, but it’s just not worth the hassle to only use once.

the cards make it easier for companies to scrape our information. With data protection provisions in place they do have some challenges without the cards, but they would still manage. I’m not sure what day in history we passed the privacy threshold, but it’s gone and we aren’t going back unless society collapses. Fighting it is pointless.

Ours is awful too
I need to open my 10% off coupon before I get there and use the actual card to activate the handset so I don't need to come out of it.

Only had the issue since they updated the app mind you.

Tesco are a disgrace! Charging higher prices (sometimes stupidly higher prices,) for something, if you don't have their clubcard.

Morrisons do it too, but their prices without a storecard aren't quite as bad - it's still about 15-20% higher without one though. I do actually do some shopping at Morrisons, but hell will freeze over before I get a Morrisons 'More Card.' Not only do I not want my data harvested, but also, I don't appreciated being coerced and bullied into getting their storecard.

Tesco are far worse. Charging a little more if you don't have a storecard is fine (like 5%) but some things in TESCO, are 50% - 60% more, and some have an even higher % than that added on. A few things are double - or more than double, without a storecard. Nasty. And for this reason, I rarely go in there. I spend about £70 a year in Tesco.

As a few posters have said, you don't pay LESS if you have a storecard, you pay much more if you don't have one. At one time, supermarkets would let you collect points for every purchase, and then when you'd got so many, you got vouchers for money off.

Now, they are practicing underhand tactics, and making you pay more - a LOT more - if you don't have a clubcard.

Why are they all so desperate for people to have one? Stores trying to force you into clubcards is one of the reasons I do 75%-80% of my shopping at Aldi and Lidl.

Someone put on Twitter the other day that Tesco are basically bullying people into having their clubcard at this point, and they're right.

I haven't even got a mobile phone, of any kind, let alone a smart phone, but I have an actual Tesco Clubcard in my purse along with my debit card, so it's no problem to get both out of my purse when I pay. It's no trouble whatsoever and worth it for the discount.

I don't have apple and I don't think my phone has a wallet

They are not discounts club card prices are the same as regular prices in Asda/Morrisons.

Yes but it's not just Tesco now - really annoys me

I wish my life was banal enough to give a single fuck about whether I get cheaper prices for having a loyalty card or not.

I don't usually bother with it if I don't need it for clubcard prices so their data on me is going to be skewed.

They're paying you for the data, seems fair to me

You wish you had to worry about money?

I love Club Card prices ❤️

Blimey, if scanning a card at a till is what passes for 'stress', I'll swap with you!

You know you're going to the store, you have the card handy, same as your debit card, surely?

I don't have a choice but to shop at Tesco really. It is the only supermarket close to me. I could walk a lot further to Sainsburys but who has the time.

I always keep my Clubcard in my purse and I like the bargains, some of them are true bargains. I don't really care that they can see my shopping habits.

I used to like this but I think it hardly goes down now, even after a big shop.

I no longer shop at Tesco's. I can't be arsed with yet another loyalty card and I refuse to be ripped off.

Surely thats on the person who hasnt bothered to get themselves ready before they get to the check out??

I totally agree, and I really feel for some older or vulnerable people who may struggle with remembering their card or examining the prices