Do you Buy Tesco value products or equivelant ( like Dunnes )?

The Jammy dodger

POll INCOMINGGGG

For me it is a case of: It wouldnt be on the shelf if I couldnt eat it...so...lets have ya and save some pennies.

Some of us are Poor and buy tesco value products to save money and other Poor people are even more poor than the poor poor because they like their luxury cant help but buy the brand names.

And lets admit it, some stingy yuppie pies also buy tesco value products too and those people in stuck in the middle also buy them.:p

But lets see what this Poll results in.

squod

The Jammy dodger wrote: »

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The Jammy dodger

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some random drunk

Tesco Value dishwasher tablets FTW! 2 euro for a box of 40 compared to 7 euro or so for one of the brands, and they do the job just fine. Tesco Value tortilla chips are lovely and tasty too :pac: !

Hank_Jones

Tesco value sweets ftw.

Be on the look out for the Aldi super 6 though, some great deals there.

Bag of carrots, 44c this week.

I'm poor, I shop around.

racso1975

Like hank i shop around and don't care what the brand is with the exception of meat. always get it from local butcher

the groutch

Is there a Tesco own brand equivalent of the Atari Jaguar?

Macers

the groutch wrote: »

Is there a Tesco own brand equivalent of the Atari Jaguar?

Sega GameGear

Sashmo

I'm a Dunnes Stores mostly customer. Yes I'd buy their own brand biscuits, pasta sauces, butter (that has to be from the same line as one of the brands) and definitely dishwasher tabs.

gurramok

I've bought and enjoyed tasty Tesco Finest ready meals which are delicious but not that value range which are muck!

later12

Tesco processed food is generally awful. You can get far better quality fresh food for less, and make something really delicious for just a little extra prep.

One exception is that delicious Tesco raspberry cheesecake.

Feisar

I doubt my carrots, onions, potatoes etc know that they are a Tesco branded product.

GavRedKing

Not a lot but I sometimes pick up items from the value range, the range of products on offer and their overall quality has improved from what was the cheaper brand of years ago.

Its better to shop around and get the best bang for your buck and the value range offer some great products in this regard.

SilverScreen

Tesco Wild & Whippy bars. Nom nom nom nom nom.

starbelgrade

Some of the Tesco finest range is OK, but their "Market Value" range is basically the crap that's leftover, then shoved into ugly bags.

kryogen

I try my best to get most of my ingredients from my local butcher and fruit and veg shop, but I will buy the Tesco equivalent of Rice Crispies rather then buy the Kellogs one now, see nothing wrong with that.

It is important to get value for money these days

Battleflag

I think most of you are missing OP's question

Tesco's line range works as:

Tesco Finest - the best
Tesco - competing with the normal lines
Tesco Value - The Lowest of the low

no, I don't buy Tesco Value

Solair

I usually find Aldi products are similar price to Tesco Value products but are often far better quality.

maximoose

Their value tuna is grand, and only 59c a can.. great for when you're smashed before payday (like now )

loveisdivine

^^Do you know how many dolphins, turtles and sharks etc are killed needlessly just so Tesco and the like can produce ridiculously cheap tuna?

I once saw on a supervalu ad, that a carton of juice cost more than a pack of sausages, how is that possible? Well I know how, but it shouldnt allowed.

Stiffler2

No, I find their products are below standard for sub humans similiar to that lovely KVI brand that disappeared along time ago.

I like to purchase the brands that I am familiar with that have gone to the trouble of using vibrant eye catching packaging.

Don't get me wrong I'll go for the deals.

Has aynone ever used the "clubcards" I have one for Tesco, Dunnes & M&S
I've been having them scanned every purchase for years but have never done anything with the cards.

What are they for and what can I get for 5+ yrs of scanning the card but never using it spending roughly 120+ a week on food if not more ??

Duggy747

I buy some Dunnes branded stuff like pasta and water but I never touch Tesco's value stuff. Horrible gack that seems to be leftovers scooped out of somebody's sewer pipe and repackaged.

Tesco value pudding isn't even fit for a rat.

maximoose

loveisdivine wrote: »

^^Do you know how many dolphins, turtles and sharks etc are killed needlessly just so Tesco and the like can produce ridiculously cheap tuna?

Yup. And it tastes DELICIOUS

EDIT: Looking it up, it seems that the value brand offerings from Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsburys and the like are actually more Dolphin friendly than the expensive brands

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/tunaleaguetable

So kindly take your hippy nonsense elsewhere

Attabear

Feisar wrote: »

I doubt my carrots, onions, potatoes etc know that they are a Tesco branded product.

They do. That's why I transfer them to more upmarket packaging as soon as I get home.

Nothing more tasteless than a carrot with low self esteem.

Our man in Havana

maximoose wrote: »

Their value tuna is grand, and only 59c a can.. great for when you're smashed before payday (like now )

loveisdivine wrote: »

^^Do you know how many dolphins, turtles and sharks etc are killed needlessly just so Tesco and the like can produce ridiculously cheap tuna?

I loves dolphin unfriendly tuna.

krudler

cleaning products yes, does the job,some other things are grand, tescos fruit is sh1te though.

Kintarō Hattori

I'll buy whatever tastes nice or works well, branding doesn't really matter.

Some Tesco Value products are really nice, such as their shortbread, tea cakes, brie cheese, cherry tomatoes and so on, while others are best avoided.

Just try something one week and if you like it then continue to get it. If not- then just move onto something else.

VinnyTGM

Yes, some branded stuff can be awefully expensive.

Jay D

No. I'm probably wrong but I always viewed Dunnes stuff better. Not that I shop there. But I find the watered down quality of the food enough to make me never buy that cancerous shíte again.

chin_grin

I buy Marks and Spencers..................peasants.


:pac:

DEFTLEFTHAND

Vodka.

Shenshen

The Jammy dodger wrote: »

POll INCOMINGGGG

For me it is a case of: It wouldnt be on the shelf if I couldnt eat it...so...lets have ya and save some pennies.

Some of us are Poor and buy tesco value products to save money and other Poor people are even more poor than the poor poor because they like their luxury cant help but buy the brand names.

And lets admit it, some stingy yuppie pies also buy tesco value products too and those people in stuck in the middle also buy them.:p

But lets see what this Poll results in.

I can't really answer that, tbh.
I do most of my shopping in Lidl and Aldi, it's better than andything I've had in Tesco and/or Dunnes, and at a fraction the cost.

I do go to Tesco and Dunnes for things Aldi and Lidl don't stock: spices, some baking ingredients, things like that. And they tend not to come in Tesco Value versions.

So no, I don't buy those as a general rule, but only because I get better cheaper elsewhere...

SV

loveisdivine wrote: »

^^Do you know how many dolphins, turtles and sharks etc are killed needlessly just so Tesco and the like can produce ridiculously cheap tuna?

I once saw on a supervalu ad, that a carton of juice cost more than a pack of sausages, how is that possible? Well I know how, but it shouldnt allowed.

I have a good idea yeah.. and would ya believe me if I told ya I don't care?

Being friendly to dolphins ain't gonna save me any money!

Our man in Havana

SV wrote: »

I have a good idea yeah.. and would ya believe me if I told ya I don't care?

Being friendly to dolphins ain't gonna save me any money!

I am waiting for deadliest catch where they show dolphins being caught.

Nothingbetter2d

Our man in Havana wrote: »

I loves dolphin unfriendly tuna.

maybe its not actually tuna in the can...just processed dolphin meat...mmmmmmmmmmm

Our man in Havana

I don't care so long as it tastes great.

saa

No: I'd buy a lot more Tesco brands than Tesco Value.
Own store brands are usually made up to the same standard are brand name products.

Used to buy Tesco value
white pasta
biscuits

Still buy
Sugar
rice
flour
wraps
brown bread isnt bad

Will not buy Tesco value:
eggs
yoghurt
tinned food
sauces

I find the Aldi and Lidl products are of a better quality at a similar price so I suppose I used Dunnes and Tesco to supplement some of my more "luxury" items.
jam

Deus Ex Machina

Sorry I jjst fell down the stairs!!1 And then it's up again! Haha! The sTairs!


It's like they're the troops. If you treat the troops badly you are either an evil bastard or you've emotionally extricated yourself from the situation. The TEsco brands stuff is like the basic stuff and so if then they you buy it and use it in some anonymous process it's like deciding to plunge thousands of young lives into the Somme as you choose a jacket to wear to dinner. You have to care about them as if you are one of their rank, as if you hold their dreams to be your own, feel the cold on your cheeks and smell the cordite in the air. SOMetimes they are emotionally removed, bad generals, wasteful generals. But a wasteful general is an evil general when the price is human life. Sometimes they would put a pistol in their mouth if confronted with the enemy, sometimes they would be calm and accept their fate, for they are the ones who've been warped by the rigours of their task, and their true nature is still to conduct themselves with honour, though it be buried beneath the rotting husks of youth. But the worst, they eschew the pistol for the trench knife, they await the enemy, they cut down their first with savagery, with zeal. They clutch their mortality like the talons of a starving eagle upon its prey. They writhe and make stab with vengeance at their foe to the very last. It is those who die believing everything they did was right.

gurramok

Sashmo wrote: »

I'm a Dunnes Stores mostly customer.

Dunnes are strange bunch. How come they don't have any Tesco style Express stores around? Tesco and Spar are making a killing in that market segment, there's not even a Dunnes near me!(but loads of mini Tesco's and Spar's!)

Max Power1

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Vodka.

Tesco value vodka tastes like paint thinner

However - the "Tesco" vodka is fine.

mongdesade

loveisdivine wrote: »

^^Do you know how many dolphins, turtles and sharks etc are killed needlessly just so Tesco and the like can produce ridiculously cheap tuna?

I once saw on a supervalu ad, that a carton of juice cost more than a pack of sausages, how is that possible? Well I know how, but it shouldnt allowed.

Maybe they should add them to their Tesco value range...shame to see them go to waste :eek:

Acacia

Sometimes, when the quality of the product isn't too important, like tissues or something. Try and steer clear of 'value' meat and things though. I'm sure they're perfectly safe and all, they just can taste rank.

Freddie59

Flour is flour, sugar is sugar, etc. Even Tesco own brand cornflakes are almost the same as Kellogg's.

However, having bought some own brand washing up liquid recently from a different chain it was dire in comparison to Fairy. Unfortunately some people still feel there is some stigma attached to shopping in Lidl, Aldi, etc. For some insane reason.:rolleyes:

Oscars Well.

Tesco biscuits and milk :cool:

Skylinehead

Tesco Value cookies. 39c. MOAR!

gurramok

Tesco milk does be good, the quality has come a long way over the years. I actually find it lasts fresher in the fridge than some of the main brands.

gurramok

I buy tesco value/dunnes value/superquinn essentials tins of tomatoes, think that's pretty much it though. Oh and I'd buy whichever flour was cheapest. But nope, not fresh food definitely.

gurramok wrote: »

Tesco milk does be good, the quality has come a long way over the years. I actually find it lasts fresher in the fridge than some of the main brands.

Has the NDC mark aswell which most own brands don't have.

The King of Moo

Acacia wrote: »

Sometimes, when the quality of the product isn't too important, like tissues or something. Try and steer clear of 'value' meat and things though. I'm sure they're perfectly safe and all, they just can taste rank.

Yeah, for me, the value labelling just makes meat look grey and gone off (and maybe it is).

I used to go for the value versions of the basic stuff that I think can't really be improved upon. Like sugar: I mean, sugar's just sugar, right?
But then I used to always get Tesco regular brand pasta, but now as a confirmed pasta snob ("really!? Fusilli carbonara!?") I wouldn't get it too often, and wouldn't even look at the value pasta, though I usually have to resort to inferior pasta as there's very little good stuff in Irish supermarkets, at least not at reasonable prices.
So for all I know, Siúcra sugar is infinitely healthier and more nutritious than Tesco value sugar.

The trouble is, the value ranges are so inconsistent: some things are better or the same as name brands; some things are rank.
The same goes for a lot of the stuff in Aldi and Lidl.
My problem is that when I get nice stuff on the cheap and go to get it the second time, I can hardly ever remember which brand it was!

123balltv

I buy lots of Tesco brands tesco Value crunchy peanut butter is great stuff.
gone are the days shopping in upmarket Superquinn, M&S

Acacia

The King of Moo wrote: »

Yeah, for me, the value labelling just makes meat look grey and gone off (and maybe it is).

Ha! Yeah, I think it just works on a subconcious level cause the packaging is so horrible, the customer assumes the product will also be awful.

What I dislike most about 'Tesco Value' and similar ranges is when they're blatantly ripping something off they won't even bother to give it a decent new name they'll, just describe what it is , like Value Hula Hoops are just "Flavoured Potato Rings". Depressing :pac:

I do have a weird thing though where I feel sorry for inferior products, like the afore-mentioned potato rings, so I'll buy them out of sympathy. I just think they're trying to be as good as the real thing, but they just can't do it. I imagine they have low self-esteem and I want to help them out (yes, I'm crazy, don't judge me). it's kinda like a pity-fcuk but with shopping.... a pity-purchase!

gurramok

Its been said that Aldi and Lidl have better stuff than Tesco own brand but all 3 are a hit and miss affair. For example the chocolate in Lidl is far superior than the Nestle and Cadburys stuff nevermind what Tesco have themselves to offer, but their Lidl's cooked ham(I found) is rank!

Aldi fresh meat is quite good but I would never eat Tesco fresh meat. That said I would never again from personal experience eat the own brands of frozen chips and frozen sausages, I prefer my quality in those