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Tesco 1p deals (maybe)

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  • 02-03-2011 10:01am
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    Dexterm99
    Registered Users Posts: 330 ✭✭


    Dont know if this is available in Ireland but certain items in tesco are reduced to 1p to clear stock. Offer is at the discretion of the store. The 1p price will only show up if you scan it or bring it to checkout. Some known goods on offer are included in the link.

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=2711727
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    ixtlan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭ixtlan


    Very strange. Yes, this seems real, at least in the UK... but how can this be expected to "clear stock" when it's not the marked shelf price!? It's only value would seem to be to create an Internet frenzy.

    Ix.


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    lindtee
    Registered Users Posts: 3,396 ✭✭✭lindtee


    Might take a look later and see if any of the items posted on MSE indeed do go through at 1c(ish) Will post back later with my findings!


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    benfr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭benfr


    Nice find! thanks for the tip!


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    Coolaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭Coolaboy


    Whats MSE lindstree?


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    Mountjoy Mugger
    Registered Users Posts: 4,486 ✭✭✭Mountjoy Mugger


    MoneySavingExpert - the website in the original post.


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    lindtee
    Registered Users Posts: 3,396 ✭✭✭lindtee


    Found nothing on a quick search of Mahon Tesco, a few of the things on the list were there but not reduced at all. Not really worth the search I'm afraid. Better off checking the reduced to clear sections for discontinued items, got a few highly reduced things there in the past, but the only thing I ever got in Tesco for 1c were halloween fondant eggs! And something else for 3c but I can't remember what that was:cool:
    No other great deals except half price mini twixes/mars bars/malteaser bags and manhattan peanuts selection for €1.50 (about 8 small bags of different kinds of peanuts-chilli,dry roasted, salted, chocolate, honey roast)


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    Siobh73
    Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭Siobh73


    Nothing in Drogheda Xtra store either - named items all still full price.


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    wmpdd3
    Registered Users Posts: 9,624 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    In Ireland its 25c, its the default discontinued price. Items should be removed from the shop floor as soon as 1 scans at 25c, so you'd be really lucky to find 1.

    Once one sells a report should print out to prevent anymore being sold.

    When the prices are printed out each morning the person displaying the prices should take the item off sale. Sometimes the products end up back on the shelf.

    Only happens at certain times of the year.


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    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,928 ✭✭✭thesandeman


    wmpdd3 wrote: »
    In Ireland its 25c, its the default discontinued price. Items should be removed from the shop floor as soon as 1 scans at 25c, so you'd be really lucky to find 1.

    Lol. The Tesco haters in the ROI forum will love that bit when they get wind of it. The calculators will be out.


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    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I saw a big box of cadbury wishes in Tesco Lucan, they were 25 cent each.

    Just in case anybody really liked them :p

    Is there any particular reason the default discontinued price is 25c in Ireland and 1p in the UK?


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    wmpdd3
    Registered Users Posts: 9,624 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    No, doesn't make any difference, its just priced at that to distinguish the item not to sell the item.

    These item are usually products were credit has been granted but it would cost too much to return the product so it is just removed for sale.


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    dowtchaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,486 ✭✭✭dowtchaboy


    wmpdd3 wrote: »
    No, doesn't make any difference, its just priced at that to distinguish the item not to sell the item.

    These item are usually products were credit has been granted but it would cost too much to return the product so it is just removed for sale.
    Full credit has been granted to the supplier, so the item should properly be removed from sale AND presumably destroyed rather than sold off very cheaply (which could impact the full-price sales of the supplier)?

    Is it the case that NOTHING normally will be priced at 25cent then in a Tesco store?


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    Jessica Fletcher
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭Jessica Fletcher


    Couldn't even find the products when I looked, not to mind substantially reduced ones. Had to console myself with 5 packs of Mars Bars on BOGOF (10 bars for €2.59) instead :p


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    beemaja
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭beemaja


    Just wondering,

    I had a few reductions in Tesco Dun Loaghaire of the Christmas stock items, might not be related but there were marked to sell at 25 Cent.

    Anyone knows which Tesco in Dublin sells Playmobile? Would be worth a shot.


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    wmpdd3
    Registered Users Posts: 9,624 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    There was playmobile little toys for toddlers sold off at 75% off in the main aisle about last august. They were all about 3/4 quid each.

    Each seasons items are cleared to 25c about 7 weeks after the event, so thats why the x-mas stuff was 25c, usually mens socks!


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