Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Tesco - coincidence or something more sinister?
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Permalink Reply by kotkas on
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Prices at large retailers are set centrally and are hard coded into the point of sale terminal, so probably a pricing or an inventory glitch. Employees have little to no ability to set prices and typically have to close the till every evening and everything needs to tally. I don't suppose it's anything more sinister than this.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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They "could" put internet-of-things prices that display the price digitally from these "central, hard coded" places and it would save them paying employees minimum wage to update the prices. The fact that they're not means they must be making money from these pricing mistakes so whilst not wanting to use the same word as you, I'd say it's deliberate at some point.
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Do you really think Britain's largest supermarket by sales would actually cook up such an obvious pricing conspiracy? Especially after the reputational blow they were dealt after the accounting scandal? Tesco (and other retailers) are supremely good at pricing and inventory management - they have the means to make a few pence on the pound in a myriad of ways. It's absurd to think that's deliberate. I would be far more vigilant with the local independents many of which don't even provide an itemised receipt....
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Permalink Reply by andy h on
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I'm probably wrong (again) but I thought the small 'convenient' chains are franchised.
That would mean that price discrepancies would be pounds in the pocket for the franchise holder.
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No Tesco branches are franchised. Some M&S Simply Food branches are, as well as the ones on railway stations. Spar and the like are all franchises. Budgens is mixed (and a bit of a mess).
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Permalink Reply by Rachel W on
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This happens very often in the Tesco Metro at Tottenham Hale. The price difference NEVER goes in my favour.
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Yes, it's a frequent problem at the Tesco Express in GL - always check your bill. The T&Cs pasted on the window next to the entrance show that the policy is to refund twice the price difference if they charge more at the till than the marked price, but the staff didn't know anything about this last time it happened to me; they also say it doesn't apply to reduced-price goods that go through the scanner at full price. The (then) manager said they'd lost their admin person, so had nobody to cross-check prices on shelf-stickers against their price lists, but I can't help feeling it may be a ploy all the same.
Although I do try to use independent shops, Tesco is horribly convenient, but my impression is that it's been going steadily downhill for a long time now - too few staff, stock shortages, rudeness to customers, a general air of "don't care", as well as pricing problems - not to mention the constant parking of their artics on the double-yellows outside or at the bus stop. If the wardens were doing their job, Tesco should be a major contributor to Haringey's parking income in fines and tickets.
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If the mistake was the other way around, Tesco would do something about it.
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Permalink Reply by Nick on
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I also, in principle, like to support independent shops. I am lucky, and able, to avoid Tesco, and will frankly cut my nose to spite my face to avoid them! However, I have unfortunately found that the independent shop near, for example, the Turnpike Lane Station and a few others systematically charge different prices for the fruit and vegetables if you don't keep a very close watch. If you happen to point it out (I always check now! ) then invariably the reply is (across different shops) "Oh, they must have changed the price today". However, the day that the shop near Turnpike Lane did this on each of the three items I bought was too much. I just told them to keep the lot, walked out, and never went back. Miserable bunch anyway. I guess for both supermarket and independent shops, one needs to watch closely what one is being charged!
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I always get a chance to drag out one of my favourite poems when there's a post like this:
The Song Against Grocers
G.K. Chesterton
(From "The Flying Inn", 1914)
God made the wicked Grocer
For a mystery and a sign,
That men might shun the awful shops
And go to inns to dine;
Where the bacon's on the rafter
And the wine is in the wood,
And God that made good laughter
Has seen that they are good.
The evil-hearted Grocer
Would call his mother "Ma'am,"
And bow at her and bob at her,
Her aged soul to damn,
And rub his horrid hands and ask
What article was next
Though MORTIS IN ARTICULO
Should be her proper text.
His props are not his children,
But pert lads underpaid,
Who call out "Cash!" and bang about
To work his wicked trade;
He keeps a lady in a cage
Most cruelly all day,
And makes her count and calls her "Miss"
Until she fades away.
The righteous minds of innkeepers
Induce them now and then
To crack a bottle with a friend
Or treat unmoneyed men,
But who hath seen the Grocer
Treat housemaids to his teas
Or crack a bottle of fish sauce
Or stand a man a cheese?
He sells us sands of Araby
As sugar for cash down;
He sweeps his shop and sells the dust
The purest salt in town,
He crams with cans of poisoned meat
Poor subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands
Why, he laughs like anything.
The wicked Grocer groces
In spirits and in wine,
Not frankly and in fellowship
As men in inns do dine;
But packed with soap and sardines
And carried off by grooms,
For to be snatched by Duchesses
And drunk in dressing-rooms.
The hell-instructed Grocer
Has a temple made of tin,
And the ruin of good innkeepers
Is loudly urged therein;
But now the sands are running out
From sugar of a sort,
The Grocer trembles; for his time,
Just like his weight, is short.
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John - Time to turn left into the Salisbury rather than right into Tesco, then?
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Permalink Reply by Baz on
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Don't let this distract you from the fact that - If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines 2 years ago, you would have £49.00 today.
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in AIG insurance company 2 years ago, you would have £33.00 today.
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers 6 years ago, you would have nothing today.
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Northern Rock 5 years ago, you would have nothing today
But, if you had purchased £1,000 worth of beer one year ago at Tesco's, drunk all the beer, then taken the aluminum cans to the scrap metal dealer, you would have received £214.00.
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