Tesco to 'honour' Dunnes/Supervalu money off vouchers

snubbleste · 28-08-2014 9:33pm

dublin-texas wrote: »

.. 32€ off a shop over 100€ from Dunnes..

32% off! that's an excellent coupon

Yggr of Asgard · 29-08-2014 9:42am

snubbleste wrote: »

32% off! that's an excellent coupon

I know but ever since Superquinn become Supervalue their local store has gone down to become a horrible place so I now shop dunnes regulary, especially as they have all the nice food I want (like Ardale farm milk) that I can't get at tesco.

So I wrack up large bills with them, I assume the more you spend the nice vouchers get because I know some people that got 32€ off over 160€ who spend less than me.

But let's see if Tesco takes that one.

OwaynOTT · 29-08-2014 3:08pm

dublin-texas wrote: »

I know but ever since Superquinn become Supervalue their local store has gone down to become a horrible place so I now shop dunnes regulary, especially as they have all the nice food I want (like Ardale farm milk) that I can't get at tesco.

So I wrack up large bills with them, I assume the more you spend the nice vouchers get because I know some people that got 32€ off over 160€ who spend less than me.

But let's see if Tesco takes that one.

A dunnes better to shop in than a Supervalu. I'm shocked.

lifestyle · 29-08-2014 4:31pm

Hi my local tesco sells loads homewares things. Has anyone used the money off coupons for cutlery, toaster etc. thanks

L1011 · 29-08-2014 4:36pm

lifestyle wrote: »

Hi my local tesco sells loads homewares things. Has anyone used the money off coupons for cutlery, toaster etc. thanks

Yeah, they're allowed.

snubbleste · 30-08-2014 10:41am

The Sun has a €5 off €25 spend at Iceland for those lucky enough to live near one.
Not honoured by Tesco.

lotsofthegreen · 30-08-2014 2:59pm

snubbleste wrote: »

The Sun has a €5 off €25 spend at Iceland for those lucky enough to live near one.
Not honoured by Tesco.

Why wouldn't it be? It should of been i would have thought

Whiplashy · 30-08-2014 3:11pm

lotsofthegreen wrote: »

Why wouldn't it be? It should of been i would have thought

All of the Tesco ads on the radio state that they accept all Dunnes, Super Value, Aldi and Lidl vouchers, so I'd be surprised if they accept the Iceland voucher.

christmas2010 · 30-08-2014 3:27pm

Whiplashy wrote: »

All of the Tesco ads on the radio state that they accept all Dunnes, Super Value, Aldi and Lidl vouchers, so I'd be surprised if they accept the Iceland voucher.

They accepted a Marks and Spencer one from me (€5 off €25 spend) a few weeks ago so worth asking if they'll take Iceland

The_Conductor · 30-08-2014 4:24pm

OwaynOTT wrote: »

A dunnes better to shop in than a Supervalu. I'm shocked.

I take it you're saying that tongue-in-cheek?
Dunnes tends to be far better now than Supervalu.......
Dunnes are even carrying quite a few Waitrose ranges, that Superquinn had once upon a time..........
Dunnes has gone upmarket- Superquinn- as Supervalu- has gone decidedly downmarket.

Yggr of Asgard · 31-08-2014 10:52am

The_Conductor wrote: »

I take it you're saying that tongue-in-cheek?
Dunnes tends to be far better now than Supervalu.......
Dunnes are even carrying quite a few Waitrose ranges, that Superquinn had once upon a time..........
Dunnes has gone upmarket- Superquinn- as Supervalu- has gone decidedly downmarket.

I agree with you, my local Supervalue (ex Superquinn) is a horrible place now with the quality being bad, several times I found outdated (by days) stuff on the shelfs. It got so bad, I stopped shopping there and went accross the shopping centre to Dunnes which has all the good stuff I can't get at Tesco.

But back to the vouchers, my tesco driver had no problem taking my Dunnes voucher when he delivered (he made a joke about if I had printed it myself as he never had seen such a discount), so I'm now monitoring my card for a refund.

I have some Supervalue vouchers (please come back to use, we changed, we promisse), they are next to go.

et101 · 31-08-2014 4:25pm

Any update on whether or not Tesco will accept the Iceland vouchers? Cheers people

The_Conductor · 31-08-2014 4:38pm

et101 wrote: »

Any update on whether or not Tesco will accept the Iceland vouchers? Cheers people

Tesco Lucan, Celbridge and Maynooth- all refused to accept them today (we were actually looking for a specific item of clothing- so we went to all 3 branches out of curiousity)

shineon23 · 31-08-2014 6:12pm

Sorry if this has been asked before, but have Tesco honoured the Aldi vouchers for fuel for anyone on here?

I would have presumed no but I have used the vouchers for phone credit before, and would have thought that wouldn't be allowed either.

The_Conductor · 31-08-2014 6:15pm

shineon23 wrote: »

Sorry if this has been asked before, but have Tesco honoured the Aldi vouchers for fuel for anyone on here?

I would have presumed no but I have used the vouchers for phone credit before, and would have thought that wouldn't be allowed either.

Vouchers are not valid for *fuel*, baby food, lottery tickets or tobacco products. Everything else appears to be fair game.

KayeQ · 31-08-2014 8:10pm

Tesco(Carlow)driver took my dunnes 20 euro voucher today, happy customer:), he told me as long as it has a bar code he'll accept it.

Agrandsoftday · 01-09-2014 7:54am

The_Conductor wrote: »

Vouchers are not valid for *fuel*, baby food, lottery tickets or tobacco products. Everything else appears to be fair game.

I had a dunnes voucher for 'spend 40€, get €8 off'.
In Tesco yesterday, my bill came to 48€. 13€ of this was infant formula. The cashier scanned competitors voucher and I got the shopping for 40. No mention of the baby formula.

L1011 · 01-09-2014 8:12am

Baby formula being excluded is actually the law, not a tesco rule. Cashier shouldn't have allowed that.

The_Conductor · 01-09-2014 8:24am

Agrandsoftday wrote: »

I had a dunnes voucher for 'spend 40€, get €8 off'.
In Tesco yesterday, my bill came to 48€. 13€ of this was infant formula. The cashier scanned competitors voucher and I got the shopping for 40. No mention of the baby formula.

You got lucky.
Its specifically excluded under all promotions (its a UN declaration that Ireland has signed up to- its not a Tesco specific requirement- its across the entire grocery sector.)

leck · 01-09-2014 12:14pm

The_Conductor wrote: »

You got lucky.
Its specifically excluded under all promotions (its a UN declaration that Ireland has signed up to- its not a Tesco specific requirement- its across the entire grocery sector.)

Off-topic, but I think it's a European Union Directive - Directive 2006/141/EC .

Article 14 (2)
Clause 2. There shall be no point-of-sale advertising, giving of samples or any other promotional device to induce sales of infant formula directly to the consumer at the retail level, such as special displays, discount coupons, premiums, special sales, loss-leaders and tie-in sales.

The_Conductor · 01-09-2014 12:49pm

And a copy of the WHO code of conduct for the marketing of breast milk substitutes

In short- infant formula is not supposed to be discounted, or offered on promotion- full stop. The person who used the voucher for infant formula- got a cashier who was unaware of the restrictions (or didn't care)- and allowed them use the voucher, when they clearly should not have done.

Johnny_Fontane · 01-09-2014 1:59pm

So are Tesco accepting the Dunnes vouchers at the moment (sorry if I missed this). From the OP it was only in 30 odds stores, cant find anything online.

gazzaman22 · 01-09-2014 2:08pm

Have used vouchers manys a time when also buying formula. Never been pulled on it!

Fingleberries · 01-09-2014 3:31pm

Is this "Tesco accept competitor vouchers" only for the 'Spend x, get y off'-type of vouchers or are they also valid for the Dunnes Vouchers (e.g. the quarterly mailing where you get xxx off, because you spent yyyy in the last quarter)?

Thanks,
F.

L1011 · 01-09-2014 3:42pm

Fingleberries wrote: »

are they also valid for the Dunnes Vouchers (e.g. the quarterly mailing where you get xxx off, because you spent yyyy in the last quarter)?

Thanks,
F.

No, they don't take those.

Fingleberries · 01-09-2014 4:05pm

MYOB wrote: »

No, they don't take those.

Thanks

kn · 01-09-2014 5:23pm

Johnny_Fontane wrote: »

So are Tesco accepting the Dunnes vouchers at the moment (sorry if I missed this). From the OP it was only in 30 odds stores, cant find anything online.

Its now all stores with the exception of the Tesco Express branded stores.

kn · 01-09-2014 5:25pm

Fingleberries wrote: »

Is this "Tesco accept competitor vouchers" only for the 'Spend x, get y off'-type of vouchers or are they also valid for the Dunnes Vouchers (e.g. the quarterly mailing where you get xxx off, because you spent yyyy in the last quarter)?

Thanks,
F.

They do not accept the Dunnes clubcard vouchers but they accept the e.g. €25 off when you spend €125 type vouchers that came in the same mailing.

The_Conductor · 01-09-2014 5:25pm

kn wrote: »

Its now all stores with the exception of the Tesco Express branded stores.

Who are franchisees and not owned/operated by Tesco.......

kn · 01-09-2014 5:27pm

The_Conductor wrote: »

Who are franchisees and not owned/operated by Tesco.......

They are operated by Tesco but the range is limited and I guess Tesco want people to shop in their mainstream stores with these vouchers.

L1011 · 01-09-2014 5:27pm

The_Conductor wrote: »

Who are franchisees and not owned/operated by Tesco.......

You sure on that? In the UK it's their even smaller brand (One Stop) that's franchised.

snubbleste · 01-09-2014 6:25pm

Peed off now I did not but The Sun on saturday. Fakebuke:
Customer: just wondering if you're accepting the Iceland voucher... spend e25, get e5 off?
Tesco: Thank you for getting in touch. We sure are. Proving the coupons are €5.00 off a €50.00 spend etc. This is in any denomination. I hope that helps, Mat - Customer Care

ruth12345 · 01-09-2014 9:51pm

Why-are tesco accepting that iceland voucher from the sun?

L1011 · 02-09-2014 5:52am

ruth12345 wrote: »

Why-are tesco accepting that iceland voucher from the sun?

Because they're desperate for sales, same reason they're accepting all the other vouchers for other firms.

The_Conductor · 02-09-2014 7:05am

MYOB wrote: »

Because they're desperate for sales, same reason they're accepting all the other vouchers for other firms.

I'd rephrase that- they're desperate to maintain market share....... Sales in the segment are down- come what may- and Tesco's model of being everything to everyone is in tatters......... In the UK they are loosing at the higher end to Waitrose, and the lower end to Aldi and Lidl. In Ireland- Dunnes are carrying more and more of Waitrose's products (predominantly frozen products, but increasingly ready-meals etc)- so while Tesco Ireland may have viewed M&S as their competitor at the top end- increasingly- its actually Dunnes Stores. In the meelee we have Musgraves and their chains- who are hemorrhaging customers- especially from their once premium Superquinn stores. Musgraves imagined they had a premium brand in 'Supervalu'- however, years of lack of any consistency in the monitoring of their Leinster franchisees eroded any premium this label may once have had, in the greater Dublin region.

So- we have Dunnes and Supervalu increasingly using vouchers to try to maintain or increases their market shares (both in the region of 25%) Tesco hemorrhaging customers to both and also to Aldi/Lidl (who are both around 8% each) with the independents now only in the region of 10% of the market.

Tesco- are sacrificing all, to try to convince customers to stay with them- however, as this thread has shown- most of us are increasingly fickle- and will actively go to where we perceive better value to be had.

Tesco's traditional model- has been to appeal to customers who do a single large weekly shop- and all their marketing has been targeted at this audience. Increasingly- its no longer a valid assumption- more and more people do multiple small shops throughout the week- and indeed, split their large shops across several stores, to mop up what ever special offers/bargains may be running in any particular multiple.

The internet in this case- is the great leveler- and customers are the beneficiaries- though what the battle ground is going to look like in a few short years, is anyone's guess.

dashcamdanny · 03-09-2014 1:54pm

The_Conductor wrote: »

The internet in this case- is the great leveler- and customers are the beneficiaries- though what the battle ground is going to look like in a few short years, is anyone's guess.

Ironically the future battle ground for these guy will be the online market . They seem to be still on top by a long shot, and with the blinkbox and the Hudl already proving successful, maybe we will see a downsizing of the supermarket end of things in favor of the delivery and tech market.

Who knows. But any fighting between the big supermarket chains will be good for us, the consumer.

With Dave Lewis (the new Tesco CEO) starting this week, they might start taking drastic changes .
They still make billions of euro in profit so its not going to disappear anytime soon.

The_Conductor · 03-09-2014 3:27pm

dashcamdanny wrote: »

They still make billions of euro in profit so its not going to disappear anytime soon.

They haven't figured how to turn a profit in online deliveries though- apparently each delivery costs them an average of 23 Euro- all told, a price consumers are most certainly not happy to pay.

kn · 03-09-2014 4:47pm

The_Conductor wrote: »

They haven't figured how to turn a profit in online deliveries though- apparently each delivery costs them an average of 23 Euro- all told, a price consumers are most certainly not happy to pay.

Can't believe it costs them as much as €23 per delivery. They do however make it very costly for themselves by doing the shopping for the customer. Specialist internet retailers would have their warehouses synched to make this a painless electronic process whereas individual Tesco's are not set up for it. Dunnes however have a saner model where they charge €3 to drop off your shopping - that i'll suit those with no car but a large shop.

dashcamdanny · 03-09-2014 6:29pm

kn wrote: »

Can't believe it costs them as much as €23 per delivery. They do however make it very costly for themselves by doing the shopping for the customer. Specialist internet retailers would have their warehouses synched to make this a painless electronic process whereas individual Tesco's are not set up for it. Dunnes however have a saner model where they charge €3 to drop off your shopping - that i'll suit those with no car but a large shop.

I think Tesco has 6 of these stores in the UK and maybe one in the Belfast area I think.

No customers allowed in.
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uck51js9zml2yt · 03-09-2014 11:13pm

dashcamdanny wrote: »

I think Tesco has 6 of these stores in the UK and maybe one in the Belfast area I think.

No customers allowed in.

Am I right in thinking that it's for deliveries?
As for the cost of delivery. I'd say 23€ is about right when you take in wages, vehicle costs and diesel..
Probably doesn't account for the picking costs.

I know I wouldn't allow a new customer if they spent less than 20 per delivery. It upset the sales reps no end.

Nanazolie · 05-09-2014 10:28am

Karina Aggressive Jelly wrote: »

Am I right in thinking that it's for deliveries?
As for the cost of delivery. I'd say 23€ is about right when you take in wages, vehicle costs and diesel..
Probably doesn't account for the picking costs.

I know I wouldn't allow a new customer if they spent less than 20 per delivery. It upset the sales reps no end.

I've seen these in France. Supermarkets have turned their warehouses, that they need anyway, into click and collect bases. All they needed was a few extra staff to do the collection and a few parking bays for customers to park. Since the customers are not allowed in the warehouse, you don't need special lighting, music, displays, etc... And it's easier to manage the stocks that way too

Nanazolie · 05-09-2014 10:28am

Has anyone tried the competitor vouchers for online shopping? I couldn't enter mine

snubbleste · 05-09-2014 10:31am

Nanazolie wrote: »

Has anyone tried the competitor vouchers for online shopping? I couldn't enter mine

You give it to the delivery driver and your card should be refunded

L1011 · 05-09-2014 11:27am

Nanazolie wrote: »

I've seen these in France. Supermarkets have turned their warehouses, that they need anyway, into click and collect bases. All they needed was a few extra staff to do the collection and a few parking bays for customers to park. Since the customers are not allowed in the warehouse, you don't need special lighting, music, displays, etc... And it's easier to manage the stocks that way too

Tesco have some click and collect here, e.g. Maynooth has one sited in the old store (they built a new store about 6 years ago to replace an 'old' one built in 2001!)

Nanazolie · 05-09-2014 12:05pm

MYOB wrote: »

Tesco have some click and collect here, e.g. Maynooth has one sited in the old store (they built a new store about 6 years ago to replace an 'old' one built in 2001!)

In Clarehall too, but they still have a store. What I meant was a click and collect linked to a warehouse and no customers allowed in. Saves a great deal of money to the comapny

The_Conductor · 05-09-2014 12:07pm

Nanazolie wrote: »

In Clarehall too, but they still have a store. What I meant was a click and collect linked to a warehouse and no customers allowed in. Saves a great deal of money to the comapny

This is what they have in Maynooth. They have an entire store- which pickers use to fulfill online orders- its where Tesco used to be before the new Extra opened a few years ago.........

needinghelp · 05-09-2014 2:03pm

Are these vouchers only given against groceries?? Was looking at purchasing a laptop and wondered if they would accept the €25 off.

Fred Swanson · 05-09-2014 2:16pm

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questionmark · 06-09-2014 10:15pm

hello, dose anybody know if this can be used as the same time as the discount for making your first online order ?

L1011 · 06-09-2014 10:18pm

questionmark wrote: »

hello, dose anybody know if this can be used as the same time as the discount for making your first online order ?

Unless the first online discount gives reasons why other vouchers wouldn't be accepted it should be fine.

Tesco to 'honour' Dunnes/Supervalu money off vouchers

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