Save £££'s at Tesco
Today I have come up with a cunning plan to save lots and lots of money at Tesco that everyone can benefit from! It's completely legal, very simple, and will cost them lots and lots of money too!
Now I am not one to bear grudges, but I remain very cross with Tesco over their customer service in my local store and specifically their refusal to honour mistakes that they have made in their shelf labelling. You will recall the Now 83 CD that they mistakenly had labelled at a tenner that they refused to let me have at that price, petulantly removing all the stock from the shelf on the day of release. And the 3 for £5 offer which had finished the day before even though the stickers were still up. And countless others.
Sorry Tesco - but you do not mess with Bicester Blogger. So here now, I present to you, dear shoppers, the way to cash in every time you shop.
To sweeten us all up in the wake of the horse meat scandal, Tesco have launched their in store price promise. To cut a long story short, when you get to the checkout it compares your shop to Sainsbury, Asda and Morrisons (all equivalent items) and if your overall shop is more expensive than any of them they will give you an instant voucher off your next shop.
Sounds good in principal, but there is a catch. The key word is "overall". Here's the maths bit:
If you have 10 items in your basket that are 10p more than in Asda - in theory that's a £ they owe you - but then if you also have something in your basket that is on special offer in Tesco e.g. half price making it a £ cheaper than Asda, then your 10 items at 10p less will all be wiped out by this one item and you will get nothing.
But there is a simple way around it - and here is the key to my devilish scheme! Simply split your shop into two transactions. Put all the items that are on promotion or that you know are cheaper in Tesco through first as a separate shop! If they ask just say they are for your mum or something so you need two receipts. Not uncommon, people do this all the time. Then put all your other items through as a second shop. The savings on the first shop won't impact on the second one then, and hence you should get a voucher.
Brilliant! And simple. And perfectly legal! I would like to encourage my blog readers to share this link across facebook and twitter - maybe we can get it to go viral. Imagine if a million people read it and all did it and saved an average of a £ each - that's a million pounds!!! Wow!!!
Bet you wish you'd given me that CD for a tenner now, don't you?
Oh, just before I go, noticed today you had Harpic bog cleaner at £2.60 - special offer 3 for £5. Do you want to insult your shoppers intelligence any further? This product is normally on sale somewhere between £1 and £2 and anyway you can get it for a quid in Wilko.
Happy shopping readers!
If you have enjoyed reading this blog, please take a look at my books on Amazon (Paperback & Kindle), where you can read lots more of the same! Click here.
Jason xx
Now I am not one to bear grudges, but I remain very cross with Tesco over their customer service in my local store and specifically their refusal to honour mistakes that they have made in their shelf labelling. You will recall the Now 83 CD that they mistakenly had labelled at a tenner that they refused to let me have at that price, petulantly removing all the stock from the shelf on the day of release. And the 3 for £5 offer which had finished the day before even though the stickers were still up. And countless others.
Sorry Tesco - but you do not mess with Bicester Blogger. So here now, I present to you, dear shoppers, the way to cash in every time you shop.
To sweeten us all up in the wake of the horse meat scandal, Tesco have launched their in store price promise. To cut a long story short, when you get to the checkout it compares your shop to Sainsbury, Asda and Morrisons (all equivalent items) and if your overall shop is more expensive than any of them they will give you an instant voucher off your next shop.
Sounds good in principal, but there is a catch. The key word is "overall". Here's the maths bit:
If you have 10 items in your basket that are 10p more than in Asda - in theory that's a £ they owe you - but then if you also have something in your basket that is on special offer in Tesco e.g. half price making it a £ cheaper than Asda, then your 10 items at 10p less will all be wiped out by this one item and you will get nothing.
But there is a simple way around it - and here is the key to my devilish scheme! Simply split your shop into two transactions. Put all the items that are on promotion or that you know are cheaper in Tesco through first as a separate shop! If they ask just say they are for your mum or something so you need two receipts. Not uncommon, people do this all the time. Then put all your other items through as a second shop. The savings on the first shop won't impact on the second one then, and hence you should get a voucher.
Brilliant! And simple. And perfectly legal! I would like to encourage my blog readers to share this link across facebook and twitter - maybe we can get it to go viral. Imagine if a million people read it and all did it and saved an average of a £ each - that's a million pounds!!! Wow!!!
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| Shopping has never been so much fun! |
Bet you wish you'd given me that CD for a tenner now, don't you?
Oh, just before I go, noticed today you had Harpic bog cleaner at £2.60 - special offer 3 for £5. Do you want to insult your shoppers intelligence any further? This product is normally on sale somewhere between £1 and £2 and anyway you can get it for a quid in Wilko.
Happy shopping readers!
If you have enjoyed reading this blog, please take a look at my books on Amazon (Paperback & Kindle), where you can read lots more of the same! Click here.
Jason xx
Another good offer I noticed this week is caster sugar £1.19 for 500g or £1.05 for 1kg....no special offer, this is just the shelf price! And this is not the first time this price differential has been in play!
ReplyDeleteTesco also drive me mad with the price drops....cereal for example, they whack price up from 98p a box to £1.69 then 2 weeks later they bung up a price drop label to make the same product £1.29......an amazing 'bargain' if you call 31p more than earlier in the month a good deal!