My local Tescos had masses of 'discount' foods for sale

[Blandmum]

This seems to be a fairly recent change for them. they have always promoted their own 'Value' brand, but they have started to sell lots of unknown brand products at bargain prices.

Has this been happening where you live? Credit crunch effect possibly?

Yes same here. Our local Tesco is now a Tesco extra and there was lots of new stuff.

Also lots of bags of prepared stir fry ingredients for £1, guess what we are having for tea.

Yes I've noticed this. It's the aldi effect. They don't want us spending our cash there and are trying to lure us back with obscure cheap cereals.

Their Daisy range of washing up liquid and floor cleaner is cheap and does the job. Think they are competing with Aldi and Lidl.

yes, dicount prices slashed all over the packet.

Yes same here. It annoyed me the other week as they have clearly thrown out a lot of lines to provide space for these discounted lines (eg batteries!)

hmm they are i'm currently working my way through a massive box of cheapo cocopops.

This has been in our Tesco for a little while and is a "credit crunch beating" tactic but if you look at the prices on the discount ranges compares to some of the value / tsco brands its actually cheaper to stick to the basics rather than these new discount ones. Lots of hype about being pro-active and kind to the poor shopper but its false.

Sorry - hate Tescos and am miffed its our only supermarket (Yay for Lidl opening next year - NEXT DOOR to tesco )

I meant the batteries had gone, not that they were discounted!

NickiSue is right - I noticed on Saturday that the Tesco own brand was cheaper than the new discount brand on at least two items. They have been promoting the discount brands heavily in the press.

Yep, it's so we all don't go running off to Aldi.

They have also increased the price of their premium nappies (in the purple packs) so they can pretend they're doing us a huge favour by dropping the price of their cheaper ones (in the green packs)

They panicked when they realised everyone was defecting to Aldi/Netto/Lidl so matched all the discounter products in new brands of their own.

By all accounts someone from Tesco made a note of what's for sale in Aldi and they then pulled out all the stops to get those products into Tesco stores PDQ.

They sit between standard and value in terms of quality (or at least our products do anyway) and have cheaper packaging.

I personally think the quality at Lidl/Aldi is better than for the Tesco equivalent (tried cheap ham/cheese slices).

I also think going to Tesco (or equiv big supermarket) is often a false economy even if they are cheaper on some things, because you are tempted to buy too much you don't actually need.

Much prefer Lidl/Aldi as much smaller and less choice! (I also hate Tesco with a slightly unreasonable intensity!)

even waitrose is at it

They had big bags of veggies for £4 (masses)
and ox cheeks and the like

Used to be involved in buying for ALDI. You will get better quality for the same price on the whole in ALDI due to the long term deals they have with suppliers. As has been siad, they dont stock such a variety of lines, and have a completely different staffing policy, which is why they are generally cheaper. This can be good because you are tempted to get stuff you don't need....or bad if you wnat to do a big shop and cant get everything on your list.

my local tesco has been stocking cheap brands for at least thwe past month

i have bought some free range eggs for £1,29 (6) which i thought was a bargain [SMILE]

they daisy range has been around for months and months in our local big tesco (pre summer hols at least), and the all purpose cleaner seems identical to flash (which also seems identaical to tesco own brand multi purpose cleaner)