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

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  • #32
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭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...


  • #33
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭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!


  • #34
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,472 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #35
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    I loves dolphin unfriendly tuna. :D

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


  • #36
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,472 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


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


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  • #37
    saa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭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


  • #38
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭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.


  • #39
    gurramok
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    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!)


  • #40
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Vodka.
    Tesco value vodka tastes like paint thinner

    However - the "Tesco" vodka is fine.


  • #41
    mongdesade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭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:


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  • #42
    Acacia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭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.


  • #43
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭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:


  • #44
    Oscars Well.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭Oscars Well.


    Tesco biscuits and milk :cool:


  • #45
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Tesco Value cookies. 39c. MOAR!


  • #46
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


  • #48
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭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!


  • #49
    123balltv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭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


  • #50
    Acacia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭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!


  • #51
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭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 ;)


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  • #52
    Birneybau
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    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    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 ??

    You're doing it wrong...

    I get vouchers every 3 months? Got up to e30 before.


  • #53
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Acacia wrote: »
    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!

    Sometimes I'll see a really-cheap looking product from a no-name company that has big-brand rivals, and I'll think of all the people involved in creating and packaging the product, and imagine how sad they must feel knowing they can't compete with the big names and feel sorry for them.
    Though I can't say my sympathy often leads to a pity-purchase!


  • #54
    maximoose
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    Birneybau wrote: »
    You're doing it wrong...

    I get vouchers every 3 months? Got up to e30 before.

    3 months is correct. I only have a tesco clubcard, and I find it pretty damn handy to have with the clubcard deals they do. In the last 6 months I've exchanged clubcard vouchers for €10 Milanos token, Free Dublin zoo tickets, and a winter service voucher with Advance Pitstop. Not too shabby :)


  • #55
    flanders1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭flanders1979


    I miss KVI and Yellowpack.


  • #56
    Acacia
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    The King of Moo wrote: »
    Sometimes I'll see a really-cheap looking product from a no-name company that has big-brand rivals, and I'll think of all the people involved in creating and packaging the product, and imagine how sad they must feel knowing they can't compete with the big names and feel sorry for them.
    Though I can't say my sympathy often leads to a pity-purchase!

    Ha, that's exactly what I do, everybody I've told about it thinks I'm crazy! At least you have the restraint not to pity-purchase- I'll just bring home any auld inferior product!;)

    Sometimes i go one step further and actually personify the product... like Mr. Flavoured-Potato-Ring feels really sh1tty next to Mr.Hula-Hoop. I just want to make the underdog feel good about himself, ha!


  • #57
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Interesting list in the op of this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=70930797

    I have no real brand loyalty,especially these days.When you realise who makes the own label stuff it can be an eye opener.


  • #58
    The King of Moo
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    Acacia wrote: »
    Ha, that's exactly what I do, everybody I've told about it thinks I'm crazy! At least you have the restraint not to pity-purchase- I'll just bring home any auld inferior product!;)

    Sometimes i go one step further and actually personify the product... like Mr. Flavoured-Potato-Ring feels really sh1tty next to Mr.Hula-Hoop. I just want to make the underdog feel good about himself, ha!

    My strongest emotional reaction to bargain products is reserved for knock-offs, particularly of kids' toys.
    I get so depressed when I see the obvious rip-off action figure of the latest kids' cartoon craze in a pound shop, or see some little boy wearing a fake Man. United jersey.

    I feel sorry for the company who obviously can't be making that much money from them.

    I feel sorry for the parents who don't know it's a knock-off or, worse, do know but can't afford the real deal.

    But most of all, I feel sorry for the kids who have to pretend they love this crappy thing they know is fake to spare their parents' feelings! Especially in the case of fake jerseys, which they have to parade around in public.

    Man I'm depressed now. :(


  • #59
    yellow hen
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    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.[/Quote]

    The 1 litres are ndc but I think the 2litres are not.


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
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    yellow hen wrote: »

    The 1 litres are ndc but I think the 2litres are not.

    I would only ever buy 2 litres and they definitely are


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  • #61
    admiralofthefleet
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    i used to buy the tesco value bumwad cause i dont see the point in payng over the odds just to wipe my brenda. now i just but it in bulk in musgraves

    i still buy the value bran flakes cause they are lovely and the value coke is very nice too


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