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Shame on Tesco - Removing Irish Brands from its Stores

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    #482
    Noffles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,549 ✭✭✭Noffles


    I buy British whenever I can and drive past quite a few "Irish" stores to get to the Tesco Extra in Arklow, better all round I even like walking around it... I find the Irish equivalents to be either inferior and / or over priced... so I avoid them.


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    #483
    ibuprofen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭ibuprofen


    Noffles wrote: »
    I buy British whenever I can and drive past quite a few "Irish" stores to get to the Tesco Extra in Arklow, better all round I even like walking around it... I find the Irish equivalents to be either inferior and / or over priced... so I avoid them.

    Actually....Tesco are the dearest supermarket stores where they havn't brought in change for good....... From the latest price check there's no difference between tesco and dunnes in stores ion the stores that have.

    It's remarkable that tecso had to source from Britian to lower their prices ''matching the north's prices'' :D and yet havn't come below the other stores. They seem to have forgotten to bring in the change for good in some stores too..woopsie:rolleyes:.

    By all means support your own, and prop up the english economy ..they need it...I think I'll be shopping elsewhere...


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    #484
    madmaggie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    is it just me or has anyone noticed that Tesco have removed some of their previously stocked "value" products, forcing people to buy the same product but at a higher price, ie Tesco own brand or branded product. They might be cutting prices, but by using stratagies like this and reducing selection they will make up the difference in no time.:mad:


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    #485
    dobh
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭dobh


    today - 10th feb 2011 - i could not buy irish cabbage in my local tesco. all spanish and this is the height of our cabbage growing season. what are they at ? what about their carbon footprint ?


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    #486
    siobhan.murphy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭siobhan.murphy


    check ur reciepts,I caught them out mainly on wines that were suppose to be half price


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    #487
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,974 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    dobh wrote: »
    today - 10th feb 2011 - i could not buy irish cabbage in my local tesco. all spanish and this is the height of our cabbage growing season. what are they at ? what about their carbon footprint ?

    You could always grow your own.


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    #488
    dobh
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭dobh


    I have already dug the bed to do so. In any event I wrote to them complaining - received back a standard letter. I wrote again saying they did not deal with my two queries re irish cabbage and their carbon footprint. my complaint has been sent to the buying team to be dealt with.


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    #489
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    dobh wrote: »
    today - 10th feb 2011 - i could not buy irish cabbage in my local tesco. all spanish and this is the height of our cabbage growing season. what are they at ? what about their carbon footprint ?

    aslong as i get the cheapest cabbage i couldn't really give a fook, and i'd say most people feel the same


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    dobh
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭dobh


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    aslong as i get the cheapest cabbage i couldn't really give a fook, and i'd say most people feel the same
    +


    interesting way of looking at it. quite profound. i presume you are happily employed here in ireland and not the slightest bit concerned about other peoples job prospects here. ah well, i hope it stays fine for you.


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    #491
    enricoh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭enricoh


    yeh, thats the kinda spirit we need to help get 450k people working again. farming in the uk has been destroyed by tesco and they are in the process of doing it over here. i know farmers who supply all the supermarkets, even aldi and lidl, and they all say tesco are impossible to deal with. i.e ring them to say they are doing b.o.g.o.f and the farmer will be supplying twice as many cabbages at the same money. if he says no he loses the contract


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    #492
    ScouseMouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭ScouseMouse


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    aslong as i get the cheapest cabbage i couldn't really give a fook, and i'd say most people feel the same

    I think that is the most arrogant post I have ever seen on boards. :eek:


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    #493
    channelsurfer2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭channelsurfer2


    enricoh wrote: »
    yeh, thats the kinda spirit we need to help get 450k people working again. farming in the uk has been destroyed by tesco and they are in the process of doing it over here. i know farmers who supply all the supermarkets, even aldi and lidl, and they all say tesco are impossible to deal with. i.e ring them to say they are doing b.o.g.o.f and the farmer will be supplying twice as many cabbages at the same money. if he says no he loses the contract

    yes and that cabbage was already probably twice the price you would get it for in aldi and lidl in the first place. the farmer gets feck all for it while tesco is usually way more expensive for fruit and veg. their so call value fruit and veg line is pure sh*te, yet they say it compares to the aldi lidl range of fruit and veg. eg tesco value mushrooms 99c tesco own brand mushrooms 1.19..aldi/lidl mushrooms 99c.


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    #494
    vibe666
    Registered Users Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    superscouse wrote: »
    I think that is the most arrogant post I have ever seen on boards. :eek:
    i think you need to read a lot more threads cos there's plenty worse than that. :pac:

    unfortunately, its the attitude most people have these days in all areas of life. if it doesn't directly and negatively affect me then i don't care.

    at the end of the day, the world is a constantly changing place and if your company can't make a profit doing what it does in its industry then it shouldn't be there at all. businesses fail every day for that very reason, but new businesses spring up out of the ashes that ARE competitive and do well, either with a cheaper product, or a better one (or both).

    shame on tesco? shame on irish businesses for milking their consumers for years and then crying when they've grown fat & lazy off them and can't compete in an open market and THEN try and use emotional blackmail and some misplaced notion of national pride to guilt trip everyone into still paying more for the same thing just because 'it's irish'. fcuk them, they shouldn't be in business if they can't compete.


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    #495
    Chaos Marine
    Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭Chaos Marine


    mogdog wrote: »
    dont see the prob , if an irish firm cant supply goods cheaper then an english of a french one ( considering cost of transport etc ) . long and short of it is simple if the irish cant compete eg: price wise with its eu counterpart , where would u shop ?? or do you even look to see where goods are sourced from ?.
    Excelsior, my good man. You are the very reason why this recession isn't going anywhere soon. You and the idiot politicos who live in their own la-la land of plenty.


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    #496
    vibe666
    Registered Users Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    Chaos Marine wrote: »
    Excelsior, my good man. You are the very reason why this recession isn't going anywhere soon. You and the idiot politicos who live in their own la-la land of plenty.
    why are you replying to a post from 2009 posted by someone who only has 3 posts and probably hasn't been here for years? :confused:


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    #497
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Tesco cuts prices soon after raising them
    Tesco increased the prices of some well-known products significantly just weeks into the new year before reducing them as part of a 1,000-product price promotion launched yesterday..

    Who'd have ever thought? Good to see the IT's consumer correspondent keeping their eyes open instead of blindingly taking press releases at their word.


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    #498
    vibe666
    Registered Users Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Who'd have ever thought? Good to see the IT's consumer correspondent keeping their eyes open instead of blindingly taking press releases at their word.
    no he didn't, if you read the whole article he got it from and industry magazine in the UK called "The Grocer".

    still, it is good to see that somebody is at least keeping an eye on them, even if nothing ever comes of it.


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