Tesco Vouchers

[Kevin Milkins]

Do Tesco genuinely want to give it's customers best value for money or do they just bombard us with so many deals and vouchers at the till that we can not be bothered to read all they throw at us and loose out because we can't be bothered to read the small print.

I have fallen out with them because I misunderstood the £5.00 back deal and I took the small print to say valued until, (like the fuel voucher) and not valued from.

It may be me just being to lazy or busy to be bothered to read all that they throw at us, but I feel that they have set out to deliberately mislead it's customers and I'm not surprised that they have not performed as well in recent years if there customer service is anything to go by.

I have chose to shop elsewhere for the last month and I am surprised at how much my weekly spend has gone down without the need to bother about vouchers and tickets. Why can't supermarkets just try and give good value for money coupled with good customer service as a front line winner for our pennies?

[secrets in symmetry]

It's not just Tesco. Sainsbury's are equally infuriating - I no longer go there because of their stupid voucher system.

[Dadie]

I use lidls to get what I need first, then Tescos, to get the stuff I couldnt from Lidls...
With vouchers you have to be on the ball with them as they are not really there to save you money....just to get you to spend more!
Cut em out?save em up in your wallet/purse and loook at em on the way round the shop ...scrutinise use by dates and use after dates....and only buy what you need/use....50p of something that will lurk at the back of a cupboard until it crawls out under its own power (or 10 years out of date and still sitting happily on the shelf) isnt a bargain!

[Mr P Cannop]

when they give you
Vouchers for £4.50 you have to spend that before you go to the tills

[Gizmo]

Tesco are the masters of voucher deception.

[Bertieboy]

Give me a call, I'll do a minibus trip down to Asda in Tain..... LOL......

[Torvaig]

Kevin, you are a man after my own heart! I have been composing a letter to Tesco for days now but I get so frustrated with trying to incorporate all the superfluous nonsense we are supposed to go through to save a shilling!

I have already bought a larger wallet to hold all the coupons but still I get overwhelmed as it is also full of store cards, credit cards, debit cards and cards that I don't know how they got there or what they are for.

I have considered employing someone to decipher all these wonderful, money saving ideas and to follow me around the supermarket when I go shopping. There should be a mini bar half way round so that you can rest and gird you loins again for the second half of your exciting day out!

My mind is befuddled enough with modern ways and trickery and I have so many bottles of extra shampoo, conditioner etc., with their two for one offers that I now dread opening the wardrobe door! (Yes, the bathroom cabinets are overflowing!)

I have considered building an extension to my house to store everything in, then I can use up all the lovely cheap goodies that Tesco (and other supermarkets) shower me with every shopping trip. I already have a garden shed which needs to be organised for the proceeds of my shopping trips but it is beginning to defeat me as I am running out of shelves.

In short, I would like Tesco to issue a statement telling us how much the printing, distribution and administrating etc., is costing us in using these vouchers etc., and when the devil they are going to stop tricking and treating us as ignoramuses with their supposed "special offers".

They and other like-minded supermarkets are taking us for a ride; it certainly ain't for our life enhancement.....

Anyone want some flea powder, slug killer, weed killer, gro-more potions, shampoo, soap powder, toilet roll etc, etc?

[Princess]

What I don't get is the thing they are doing just now. "Price Promise" - You get a voucher for money off your next shop if you would have been cheaper shopping elsewhere, why not just lower the prices instead of giving us vouchers?

[Torvaig]

What I don't get is the thing they are doing just now. "Price Promise" - You get a voucher for money off your next shop if you would have been cheaper shopping elsewhere, why not just lower the prices instead of giving us vouchers?

Princess, that would be too sensible for the majority of shoppers who like to think they are getting a bargain. The honest but sad truth is that all these honey traps work with a sizeable chunk of shoppers where some of us would rather utilize our time more efficiently.

Like clearing out the garden shed.......

[Kevin Milkins]

They and other like-minded supermarkets are taking us for a ride; it certainly ain't for our life enhancement.....

The sad thing is, Torvaig, a lot of what they do as a company is good, but they have some people who's sole purpose in life is to annoy it's customers.

If they feel it works for them then Hey Ho.

It's been over a month since I have shopped with them and apart from a different shopping experience I have stopped making impulse buys and saved a load of money as well.

I can hardly wait until my card bill comes to make a more informed analysis on my spending habits.

[Kevin Milkins]

Here is one tenacious lady that would not allow Tesco rip her off with pretend deals and it's cost them £300,000.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct...wdfSdzePQUMeSA

Its interesting to hear what the lady from trading standards had to say about the way that thy market themselves.

I think if thy concentrated there efforts in giving good value for money coupled with good customer service they would be hard to beat.