chocolate in tesco

admiralofthefleet

i was shopping tonight in tesco clarehall and most if not all of their xmas chocolate (selection boxes, boxes of sweets, tubes, etc) are all half price. the boxes of lindt that were nearly €6 before xmas are now 2 for €9, also i got a bottle of gin for free as it was priced on the shelf at €19.95 but scanned at €21.95, happy days

muffler

admiralgar wrote:

also i got a bottle of gin for free as it was priced on the shelf at €19.95 but scanned at €21.95, happy days

Sure you didnt drink it before you posted

wyndham

admiralgar wrote:

i was shopping tonight in tesco clarehall and most if not all of their xmas chocolate (selection boxes, boxes of sweets, tubes, etc) are all half price. the boxes of lindt that were nearly €6 before xmas are now 2 for €9, also i got a bottle of gin for free as it was priced on the shelf at €19.95 but scanned at €21.95, happy days

You realise you could have gone back and taken all the stock of these off the shelf and got them for nothing when they scanned through at the wrong price?

admiralofthefleet

wyndham wrote:

You realise you could have gone back and taken all the stock of these off the shelf and got them for nothing when they scanned through at the wrong price?

that would be cool alright, but it was the last one on the shelf. it was one of the xmas boxes with the ribbon on top

killbillvol2

admiralgar wrote:

i was shopping tonight in tesco clarehall and most if not all of their xmas chocolate (selection boxes, boxes of sweets, tubes, etc) are all half price. the boxes of lindt that were nearly €6 before xmas are now 2 for €9, also i got a bottle of gin for free as it was priced on the shelf at €19.95 but scanned at €21.95, happy days

Does your search for freebies never end?
Just a little reward for all your freebie posts I reckon.

flan59

Is it Tesco policy to give items incorrectly priced away for free or it it a consumer right?

rediguana

flan59 wrote:

Is it Tesco policy to give items incorrectly priced away for free or it it a consumer right?

I'm pretty sure a retailer isn't legally obliged to give the item for free if it scans incorrectly. But hefty fines exist for shops where there's a discrepancy between the SEL (Shelf Edge Label) and the actual price. This is a supermarket's primary incentive for getting it right.

As for Christmas bargains, I'd imagine they're not confined to just Tesco. I'm only home from M&S (Blackrock). Their 'Christmas Claret' (wine) has a couple of quid knocked off. So do most of their wines! Tesco Merrion has some decent wine deals too. Looks like January is the month for inexpensive boozing.

Nevyn

Tesco policy and superquinns too.

A Primal Nut

rediguana wrote:

I'm pretty sure a retailer isn't legally obliged to give the item for free if it scans incorrectly. But hefty fines exist for shops where there's a discrepancy between the SEL (Shelf Edge Label) and the actual price. This is a supermarket's primary incentive for getting it right.

As for Christmas bargains, I'd imagine they're not confined to just Tesco. I'm only home from M&S (Blackrock). Their 'Christmas Claret' (wine) has a couple of quid knocked off. So do most of their wines! Tesco Merrion has some decent wine deals too. Looks like January is the month for inexpensive boozing.

I work in Lidl and if something scans at the wrong price it is either sold at the actual price (whether that's the scanning price or the shelf price) or not sold at all. There is certainly no legal obligation to sell the item for the shelf price and certainly not for free, and as far as I know there are no fines either if the shop made a mistake.

Yakuza

Isn't it another case of the classic "colour tv for £5" case?

I'm not a lawyer, but I thought the price tag was (in legal terms) "an invitation to treat" (transact) and was not binding in a contract (for which you need an offer, acceptance and consideration).

In the case above, a tv was mispriced in a shop window at £5, and someone tried to make the shop sell it at that price; a judge upheld that there was no obligation on the shop to sell it at that price.

I'm sure the shops that do give away mispriced items do so purely for goodwill, rather than through any legal obligation.

rediguana

...and as far as I know there are no fines either if the shop made a mistake.[/QUOTE]

I'm 99% sure that there are fines for misleading customers regarding price. If there were no consequences, why would shops bother being honest? Most people don't check receipts.

I'm open to correction on this but I seem to remember stories in the media last year about shops being fined every day of the week across the country for shoddy pricing.

themonk

apparently self prices are not advertisment and can be wrong with little consequence ... i could be wrong but almost all shops i goto never have them right .... http://www.odca.ie/cfmdocs/c_query/prices.cfm

Murt10

I seem to remember a good few years ago that RGDATA or some other such body representing smaller retailers carried out a survey on the prices charged in big shops and started a big hoo-haa about all the discrepencies they found. Talk about righteous indignation. Lidl and Aldi had just entered the market at the time.

The survey accused Tescos of ripping off people big time by charging prices higher than the price displayed on the shelf. Tesco (or was it Quinnsworth) responded by making an announcement that if anyone was charged higher at the checkout than the price displayed on the shelf that they would refund the money and the cusstomer could keep the item in question free. Dunnes Stores and Superquinns did the same.

If you are doing a large shop it is very hard to remenber the exact price displayed but I try my best and I still often get stuff for nothing. Sometimes some of the staff aren't aware of the policy and you have to get a supervisor.

My best ever was a couple of years ago when I was buying a 1/2 bottle of Hennessy on its own and was overcharged by 5p. Drink never tasted as good.

Keep up the good work Gar

Murt

Victor

pfah, noobs http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=79725

In addition the industry (EAN?) code of practice for scanning says scanner price or else the retailer may not sell it (in practice it has to be given free).

rediguana

My girlfriend tried to buy moisturiser the other day in Tesco. Expensive stuff, though don't ask me the brand. Anyway, the shelf said 30% (or was it 25%?) off. Then when she went to pay, they charged full price. GF complained, as is her wont, and Tesco said they SEL already showed discount. Argus-eyed GF maintains that the 'reduced' price is actually the regular price that has always been charged. Shop floor staff didn't really know, and GF just didn't buy it, on principle.

rubadub

wyndham wrote:

You realise you could have gone back and taken all the stock of these off the shelf and got them for nothing when they scanned through at the wrong price?

Yes this works. I have been waiting for the day it happened with spirits and now missed it especially since they take up little room, have no sell by date and are something I regualarly use

There is a UK site with a massive thread simply dedicated to spotting these mistakes. I cleaned up on frozen chicken and orange juice using this method. It works best if things are on offer since you have a more plausible reason to have a trolley full to the brim with the stuff. If I saw 2 prices displayed I would sometimes use the instore scanner to check if it was wrong.