Tesco – Every little helps!… their pockets!
Tis the season to be jolly but I think Tesco has Scrooge on their payroll!
A few weeks ago I was in Tesco (in Coatbridge) to buy some Christmas presents and I wanted to buy a box of chocolate biscuits as a gift for a friend and I saw their promotion of £4.99 for 1 or buy 2 for £6 so I opted for the £6 promotion so I could have a box for myself too and I thought this was a decent deal.
About 2 days later I wandered into a different Tesco store (Leith Walk, Edinburgh) only to find the exact same box of chocolate biscuits on the shelf for a mere £2.07 so as you can imagine I was pretty cheesed off as I could almost buy 3 boxes for the “promotional” price at the Coatbridge tesco store. I was also surprised that they could have a 141% different in price between stores (with that being the case I am definately not buying a new TV from them!)
To add further insult to injury I went back into the Leith Walk Tesco store a week later to find the same box of chocolate biscuits on the shelf for a different price yet again. This time it was for £1.99 which was supposedly “half price” with the original price being stated as £3.98.
This is the first time I have seen a clear case of a store doubling the base price just so they could show a half price sticker on it with very little reduction in the actual sale price they receive. We all know it happens but normally it is something that we do not notice however, after this incident, I am definately going to be more vigilant with what I buy from now on… especially with Tesco and their so called “promotions”