They should start dishing out fines like they do in the Financial Services sector when companies rip off their customers. HSBC were fined an eye watering £40Million yesterday, which might sound like a lot, but when they make £20 Billion profit a year from ripping off their customers it's a tiny percentage. Hit the big supermarkets with £100Million fines for ripping off their customers, it might reduce our national debt a bit quicker thenOriginally Posted by Dedworth
Mps have probably got shares in these big supermarkets.?????.
Labour have got Lord Sainsbury and his chum Shaun Woodward MP (he's the one who used to sit next to Bottler Brown grinning inanely and nodding his head). Scouser Leahy ex Head Honcho of Tesco was Labour but I think he saw the writng was on the wall and wriggled his way into some sort of advisory role with the Tories
Court adjouned.
I agree. I would like to see prosecutions. I think what they do is fraudulent.
I shopped at Tesco in Ireland today ( prices charged in Euros ) and can get to Tesco Derry in 20 minutes and pay in £ stg at normal UK prices . In August we spent three weeks in France and shopped in Carefour / Mamouth / Aldi / Lidl etc . I find it difficult to see any price difference between UK and Ireland using todays rate of 1.167Euro/£ , vat is going to 23% in Ireland which could increase prices but if the Euro drops due to Sarkozy and Merkel not getting it sorted it could go the other way for a short period but then we will get price inflation. Compared to France I find UK prices cheap , all the time we were there we did not find a single bargain in short dated price reduced food and no 20P loaves , in Ireland you can eat for very little cost by picking up the short dated items . I found supermarkets in France on average 10 to 15% more expensive than UK and for childrens clothes over 100% more expensive . We have Primark in Ireland and UK , they seem to have the market at the moment for cheap clothing and in Ireland there is a place paying Euro 60c / kilo for your old clothes and shoes ( which means on some of the stuff Primark sells you could almost make a profit ) . Needed a pair of jeans in France and paid 30 Euro from Carrefour that would have been 5 Euro or less in Primark Ireland . When I worked in the Philippines we had sandwiches every lunch for some reason I cannot remember , buying tinned tuna in mayo from Robinsons I remember it costing double what we would pay in the UK and the tins being only filled less than half and thinking how do they get away with that ? My favourite is fresh mango , I cannot see that being available anywhere else in the world better or cheaper than the Philippines ?
I was watching Asda's new Xmas TV ad' with a wry smile today.
Of course any fines payable would be added on to our shopping bills, so bit of a stalemate there.
Criminally prosecuting and jailing some of the fat cats at the top would however be a much better deterrent.
Excellent post, a rep on its way.
I agree some of Tesco's yellow price labelling can be misleading.
Its upto the consumer to work it out themselves. In fact we experienced that this week buying wet wipes....what was special offer a month back was no longer...another brand had taken the yellow label, thus taking the attention away from the previous special offer...after doing some calculation, it was still cheaper to buy the brand I bought a month ago.Ty
In the past we've tried Sainsburys (on our doorstep) and Asda...neither offer the the same choice as Tesco.
For example we can order filleted and whole Talapia the week before we want it....just like the fishmonger, that was in the high st.
'rip off Britain'....not at Tesco
I was having a banter with a Tesco Stratostore Manager in the pub last night and he confirmed that the yellow shelf edge multibuy labels are deliberate not human error
Did we ever doubt it ?
I didn't....im sure Tesco's aren't the only ones doing this.Did we ever doubt it ?
I think they've got the copyright - Watchdog don't ever show any similar viewers pics taken in other Stores.
Tesco - every rip off helps
But not Tesco Value G
I just had a thought about your Tesco manager mate in the pub
Back in the summer while shopping alone I came across a wheat biscuit promo.
I gathered 2 boxes and off I trot...I did look at the price of the branded weetabix but, I didn't do the price comparison until in cash out queue.
It was actually cheaper to buy the weetabix...I hurried back to change them while thinking aloud, robbing .......s.
It just so happened a multi skilled manager was replenishing the shelves with the promo wheat biscuits...I said to him what id noticed...'yes I know' was my answer.
I didn't realise the B word (children born out of wedlock) was deemed a swear word
Doesn't surprise me. Too many and too frequent to be human error.
Careful guys, we might already be marked men .
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Careful guys, we might already be marked men .
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is that scousers keith mob number
Tesco is too upmarket for him
i hope the misses doesn't see this
Tesco just can't stop the deceptive practices
For Christmas shoppers watching their pennies, the offer of a half-price frozen turkey sounds too good to miss.
Unfortunately, Tesco’s heavily promoted deal is not all that it seems.
Rival supermarkets are selling their own frozen turkeys for around the same price – without the supposed 50 per cent discount.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1g581NLf8
They can get stuffed.
Tesco.... I won't do our main food shop anywhere else.
Its up to the consumer not to pay any attention to the flowery words and to take the time to do some simple arithmetic while loading your push cart...see, you'll be exercising your grey matter at the same time.
Me too.
I'm pretty much impervious to all marketing....miserable git that I am.
farm foods, aldi, pak shop come on, save you all loads of cash,beleive me
In there Swindon stores they just dont stock the same variety as Tesco's...yes, we would save money...the downside being, spending precious time and fuel chasing around getting what we couldn't get at the stores you've mentioned.
You don't really have to chase round but grab stuff if you're passing whipped into a Farm Foods today - out in 10mins £20 lighter would probably have cost at least 50% more in Tesco. No queue at check out, free parking. As I said before you're paying through the nose for Tesco's massive and ostentatious choice, tonnes of which ends up in landfill.
Farmfoods is actually closer to me than Tesco ( I can almost see both from my house). Only been there once before, but might give it a look again.
Theres a fair bit of unhealthy crap there but also decent buys if you pick & chooseFarmfoods is actually closer to me than Tesco ( I can almost see both from my house). Only been there once before, but might give it a look again.
My tuppence worth ....
Took my son down to Gatwick Airport this morning.
Arrived in short-term car park at 07.37, departed car park at 08.10.
... and those 33mins cost me
£5.60 !!!!!!
No man is an island, but Barry is
"TESCO don’t deserve to be in business if they don’t even respond to letters, said Castletown Commissioners’ chairman Jerry Ludford-Brooks this week.
The local authority has twice written to the supermarket giant requesting a meeting – first when there were rumours a Tesco Express would open in the town’s Callow’s Yard development and a second time after the rumour was confirmed"
http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/distr...ting_1_4043575
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