How to get free food at Superquinn

dewsbury

The following happened twice in Superquinn Blackrock, Dublin.

Example:
I bought a number of food items including;
3 Bread rolls (with a SPECIAL price for buying 3).
2 pasta with filling. (SPECIAL price for buying 2)

In neither case was the SPECIAL price applied at the till.
I complained and was given both items FREE!

I will try again in a few days.

It may or may not be relevant that I was using a hand held scanner.
I think that their specials are not properly maintained in their systems.

Mossy Monk

Mispriced items at Tesco = free also.

white_falcon

tesco have a "no quibbles" policy. superquinn are most likely the same. if you argue over the price of anything, they will give it to you for free

also, go to the reduced section in tesco. take some of the yellow stickers off. put them on some products in your shopping trolley. hey presto - half price food. dont do it with too much stuff in your trolley, cuz my friends got thrown out of tesco for doing that once. do it only with a few items so they don't get suspicious

bill_ashmount

white_falcon wrote: »

also, go to the reduced section in tesco. take some of the yellow stickers off. put them on some products in your shopping trolley. hey presto - half price food. dont do it with too much stuff in your trolley, cuz my friends got thrown out of tesco for doing that once. do it only with a few items so they don't get suspicious

Stealing?

Tony

what a decent thing to do

white_falcon wrote: »

tesco have a "no quibbles" policy. superquinn are most likely the same. if you argue over the price of anything, they will give it to you for free

also, go to the reduced section in tesco. take some of the yellow stickers off. put them on some products in your shopping trolley. hey presto - half price food. dont do it with too much stuff in your trolley, cuz my friends got thrown out of tesco for doing that once. do it only with a few items so they don't get suspicious

white_falcon

im not saying i ever did it. as that would be illegal. i know a person who knows a person who did it

sweetie

tescos stopped that policy due to people in the uk getting free ps3s and xboxes. Now they refund twice the difference I think which is much less.

Tony

white_falcon wrote: »

im not saying i ever did it. as that would be illegal. i know a person who knows a person who did it

Then why mention it at all?

inforfun

white_falcon wrote: »

also, go to the reduced section in tesco. take some of the yellow stickers off. put them on some products in your shopping trolley. hey presto - half price food. dont do it with too much stuff in your trolley, cuz my friends got thrown out of tesco for doing that once. do it only with a few items so they don't get suspicious

And peopel still wonder why everything is getting so expensive.
For every product stolen in a shop, they have to sell 5x the same item to get their los back.

Really, if at the check out i get change back for €50 while i gave a 20 note, you will not see me tellign them they made a mistake.
But changing labels and al lthat is for me just simple theft, for which honest people pay the price.

bill_ashmount

inforfun wrote: »

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Really, if at the check out i get change back for €50 while i gave a 20 note, you will not see me tellign them they made a mistake.

I'd give that back, i'd feel guilty otherwise.

ch750536

Nothing wrong in stealing from tesco, b*****ds steal from us all the time.

Must calm down.

ch750536

inforfun wrote: »

And peopel still wonder why everything is getting so expensive.
For every product stolen in a shop, they have to sell 5x the same item to get their los back.

They made £2,200,000,000 in PROFIT last year.

Tony

inforfun wrote: »

Really, if at the check out i get change back for €50 while i gave a 20 note, you will not see me tellign them they made a mistake.
But changing labels and al lthat is for me just simple theft, for which honest people pay the price.

So not telling them they made a mistake is honest? I dont see the difference between the two? Sorry for going OT

white_falcon

sorry this has gone way too far. i was just saying that some people have gotten away with putting discount prices on normal stuff in tesco. im not saying its legal. im not saying do it. I in no way advise anyone to do it. i was just enlightening everyone to instances where food has been free or nearly free.

stealing comes in many forms, and is illegal in all forms. tesco may be a pack of ****holes, but even still they are a company. i wouldnt want people doing it to me if i owned a shop. still...students will be students...

sweetie

ch750536 wrote: »

They made £2,200,000,000 in PROFIT last year.

have an agenda much?

IvyTheTerrible

ch750536 wrote: »

They made £2,200,000,000 in PROFIT last year.

Are you sure? I was under the impression that Tesco don't release the amount of profit they make.

And stealing is stealing.

GG66

Tesco offer free goods if there is an overprice.... but are happy to charge you if you don't notice....How many don't notice?? Majority i would guess!

Others change lables to reduce the price and hope Tesco don't notice....and if they do they can have the goods back or ask for full price...

Seems like an interesting game to me...Somehow I'm guessing that with tesco's profits they might be winning the game

Everyones gotta eat and stealing for food doesn't strike me as immoral. I'm lucky I don't need to

Sad Professor

dewsbury wrote: »

In neither case was the SPECIAL price applied at the till.
I complained and was given both items FREE!

I will try again in a few days.

This isn't a Superquinn policy. The staff member probably just didn't give a s**t or was a member of the old guard that were trained under Quinn. The current management count every penny and would be sick if they knew about this.

Basq

Since when does complaining represent a bargain?!

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