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Nanazolie · 20-12-2011 9:48am

dogtoffee wrote: »

The store I work in gets most of the items posted on here every few days.

Do you mean they take the items off the shelves by management's order or do the staff buy these things before the customers can get their hands on them?

No bargain in Tesco Clare Hall yesterday. Although they now have a bragain shop that sells pretty good things. I bought some Sensodyne toothbrushes for 1.50 each and a few biscuits for less than 70 cents

dogtoffee · 20-12-2011 10:24am

Nanazolie wrote: »

Do you mean they take the items off the shelves by management's order or do the staff buy these things before the customers can get their hands on them?

No bargain in Tesco Clare Hall yesterday. Although they now have a bragain shop that sells pretty good things. I bought some Sensodyne toothbrushes for 1.50 each and a few biscuits for less than 70 cents

Lol why would management want them took off the shelves they want rid of them that why the price is so low tesco still are making on it.

All stock is put on the shelf with a SEL this means anyone can buy it if you can't find any bargains your not looking hard enough. Send me a PM of what is it your looking for I might be able to help you out .

Nanazolie · 20-12-2011 10:46am

dogtoffee wrote: »

Lol why would management want them took off the shelves they want rid of them that why the price is so low tesco still are making on it.

All stock is put on the shelf with a SEL this means anyone can buy it if you can't find any bargains your not looking hard enough. Send me a PM of what is it your looking for I might be able to help you out .

all I'm saying is that some of these "bargains" are clearly misprices, as opposed to "reduced to clear". Why then would they go down to ridiculously prices such as 9 cents, only to be back to full price a few days later? And I checked all items I bought, the use by date is far enough not to justify a clearance. I would understand if Tesco wanted to get rid of some lines, but usually the items keep selling as normal after the price has been corrected.
For eg, the Finest chocolate truffle balls at 1.12 were marked "2 for 6 euros", and 3 days later they were back to "4.42, 2 for 6 euros", so it was obviously a misprice.
Explains my comment: the management could have spotted these and asked the staff to remove the items off the shelves until prices are corrected

As for looking hard enough, I check most prices on the self service price checker, but no, most of the items are now back to normal in Clare Hall. Thanks for your offer anyway

HungryJoey · 20-12-2011 10:53am

Clearance items that are reduced are not just reduced because a product is near its "Shelf Life" date, but more so beause a product is now out of production, cannot be sourced or is going to be superseded by a replacement product in the near future.

I don't think any of these price drops are mistakes as such, but maybe trying to push older products off the shelf.

Nanazolie · 20-12-2011 10:59am

HungryJoey wrote: »

Clearance items that are reduced are not just reduced because a product is near its "Shelf Life" date, but more so beause a product is now out of production, cannot be sourced or is going to be superseded by a replacement product in the near future.

I don't think any of these price drops are mistakes as such, but maybe trying to push older products off the shelf.

Sure, but why are some like the Milka bars reduced then back to normal and will certainly be sold for years to come? Some items are clearly reduced because discontinued, but some still puzzle me

robertpatterson · 20-12-2011 12:02pm

Stll plenty of ipod stations in millfield

bmaxi · 20-12-2011 12:19pm

1967 wrote: »

Just to let you know my diabetes is well under control my last five hbA1c tests have ranged between 5.1 and 5.4 better than the vast majority of non diabetics,i keep a very tight control but because i got diagnosed christmas eve four years ago i kinda let loose this time of year.

Better than mine, as long as you realise it's a lifetime battle. I can understand the urge to blow off every now and then but the more more times you give in to the urges, the harder it is to resist them next time.

positron · 20-12-2011 12:26pm

Picked up one of these Sony ipod docking radio thingees at Drogheda over the weekend, and there were a few more left in the top shelf. They were 13.99, marked down from 59 something. They must have been having a laugh trying to sell it at 59! Just about worth 13.99 really.

moodrater · 20-12-2011 12:57pm

positron wrote: »

Just about worth 13.99 really.

The other €45.01 is for the Sony badge.

snubbleste · 20-12-2011 1:16pm

Mint Crisp & Tiffin 100g still at 39c
Golden Crisp 230g marked €1.32 scanning at 66c
Haribo jellies 200g is 50c

tantipie · 20-12-2011 1:34pm

JJust picked up the last 2 soap factory sets in tesco cresent for €1.25 each

Chriscl1 · 20-12-2011 2:24pm

Chriscl1 wrote: »

Over 50 sterling on amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B000SO0846

Still a few of these in tesco extra naas today.

Snowc · 20-12-2011 3:07pm

Maybe posters could put the tesco store they got the offer in the title box ?

wmpdd3 · 20-12-2011 3:54pm

Nanazolie wrote: »

all I'm saying is that some of these "bargains" are clearly misprices, as opposed to "reduced to clear". Why then would they go down to ridiculously prices such as 9 cents, only to be back to full price a few days later? And I checked all items I bought, the use by date is far enough not to justify a clearance. I would understand if Tesco wanted to get rid of some lines, but usually the items keep selling as normal after the price has been corrected.
For eg, the Finest chocolate truffle balls at 1.12 were marked "2 for 6 euros", and 3 days later they were back to "4.42, 2 for 6 euros", so it was obviously a misprice.
Explains my comment: the management could have spotted these and asked the staff to remove the items off the shelves until prices are corrected

As for looking hard enough, I check most prices on the self service price checker, but no, most of the items are now back to normal in Clare Hall. Thanks for your offer anyway

Sure there are some mistakes, usually inputted offshore on the EPOS system wrongly.

Every week hundreds of new items are released, space has to made for them, sections are changed around, products are discontinued and others are launched.

Like everything there is a budget for this. Discontinued items are reduced to clear for a period of time, if 99% of distribution centers and stores cleared them by a certain date they return to full price and the budget is spent.

Once the item has an SEL on the shelf, it will not be removed once there is stock in the depo waiting to come in. When all the stock in the depo is in stores and the stock sells through, the SEL is removed.

See packing shelves is simple!!

Then you have the crappy stores that don't launch products on time, their stockrooms look like a child's playroom and they just find ramdom stock and put it on sale, if its old enough it will be cheap enough.

Irishchick · 20-12-2011 3:58pm

Does anyone have a pic of the ipod dock??

CH3OH · 20-12-2011 4:22pm

Post 405 page 27

daytob · 20-12-2011 4:26pm

PressTheButton · 20-12-2011 5:12pm

Rolson Tools 5M (16ft) x 19mm Auto Lock Tape With Rubber Cover €2.00 in Tesco, Poleberry, Waterford today. Plenty of stock. Good Christmas stocking filler for the DIYer. Price on Amazon UK is £4.95 (Sterling). Review on Amazon is a fair one. Link.

Irishchick · 20-12-2011 5:21pm

daytob wrote: »

Cheers. Look nice. hope I can get one this close to xmas.:)

loremolis · 20-12-2011 5:43pm

Irishchick wrote: »

Cheers. Look nice. hope I can get one this close to xmas.:)

To be honest, it looks nicer than it works.

I got one recently and the sound quality isn't great, it sounds like mono not stereo.

As another post said, it's just about worth the €13 but not the €59 it went for before.

That said, it's a nice present for someone who doesn't know what it actually cost.

Frowzy · 20-12-2011 5:58pm

few reductions in my local Tesco yesterday evening, lost my receipt so can't remember prices exactly but roughly:

Neutrogena Handcream, normally 4.80 - now 2.34
Galaxy Caramel Sweets in box - half price - 1.79?
Maynards Wine Gums - Box - half price
Head and Shoulders Conditioner, down from 4.70? to 1.34 (large bottle)

If I find receipt I'll amend prices, they also had Terri's Chocolate eggs in different flavours (with Honeycomb and with Popping Candy) for 1.60 each.

Thought we were stocked for Christmas but I'm living with 3 boys so I'm going back this evening :-)

brian ireland · 20-12-2011 9:25pm

Normally €5. Scanning @ €3.33

Was back today and it has the yellow reduced label on it now.

patwicklow · 20-12-2011 9:32pm

Most of the stuff from there is rubbish i bought sellatape a 3 pack for 1.99 or some thing, i was posting some parcels bloody would,nt tape it up for me. had to get some from the post office to do the job right and i threw them in the bin
so not all bargains, 90% crap

mikedragon32 · 20-12-2011 11:04pm

patwicklow wrote: »

Most of the stuff from there is rubbish i bought sellatape a 3 pack for 1.99 or some thing, i was posting some parcels bloody would,nt tape it up for me. had to get some from the post office to do the job right and i threw them in the bin
so not all bargains, 90% crap

Hardly Tesco's fault!

Frowzy · 20-12-2011 11:17pm

brian ireland wrote: »

Normally €5. Scanning @ €3.33

Use the €1 coupon on Pigsback to get it for €2.33

dvpower · 20-12-2011 11:20pm

patwicklow wrote: »

Most of the stuff from there is rubbish i bought sellatape a 3 pack for 1.99 or some thing, i was posting some parcels bloody would,nt tape it up for me. had to get some from the post office to do the job right and i threw them in the bin
so not all bargains, 90% crap

Are the stresses of Christmas time getting to you?:)

turbodiesel · 20-12-2011 11:28pm

According to the las over on biker.ie 2 man dome tents in clearwater for €1.25 http://www.biker.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=165722

cson · 21-12-2011 12:02am

patwicklow wrote: »

Most of the stuff from there is rubbish i bought sellatape a 3 pack for 1.99 or some thing, i was posting some parcels bloody would,nt tape it up for me. had to get some from the post office to do the job right and i threw them in the bin
so not all bargains, 90% crap

Ah I see we're using figures from the Pulling It Out Of Your Arse Institute.

patwicklow · 21-12-2011 1:33am

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Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..................

cson · 21-12-2011 2:09am

patwicklow wrote: »

ha ha sheep will follow..........................such a true saying.......................
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..................

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