Tesco price match Lidl&Aldi

foggy_lad wrote: »

Good to hear it is Irish Milk, Did you buy online or in store? my last online shopping had several items with very short dates including the milk.

In store, I had forgotten to buy milk in Lidl. When I buy online, I also get shorter dates. The same for Superquinn. I now add a comment to the fresh items when ordering online: please select furthest away use by date

rubadub wrote: »

That's a common complaint, I reckon they get rid of the stuff nearing its use by, as they know in store people would usually pick newer ones.

Although sometimes one would think that.
its simply untrue Rubaub. I would tell you if it was true .

From when I worked there I had to pick for dotcom from time to time.

The PDA the picker has to carry will only scan the freshest stock in the store.
If you pick a short dated product, it rejects it, if there is fresher available . The gun will not let the picker continue until the right date is chosen.

Sunday was the day that shorter dates came up as there is a limited delivery that night.

brokenarms wrote: »

If you pick a short dated product, it rejects it, if there is fresher available . The gun will not let the picker continue until the right date is chosen.

Interesting. If not a policy I thought it might also be more likely to be short dated since it might be young lads doing it and not bothering to picking stuff from the back -but in saying that in tesco the newest stuff is very often at the front of the pile.

I searched there and found a complaint in another thread that you replied to. And this one

starbelgrade wrote: »

They're fine. I was given short dated milk once, but I gave it back to the delivery guy. It's a huge time saver for me & between petrol and parking charges, it actually saves me money as well as time.

I wish normal in store customers got those guns, save me rooting!

-creamfields is owned by tesco by the way. The have lots of brands like this now, i.e. when you check the fine print it shows its tesco. I think chokablok ice cream is fully hides the fact its really tesco.

Copy and pasted from my last shop. Got 1.04 back on a 30 euro shop
Quantity Item Description Tesco Aldi Lidl
1x YELLOW PEPPERS EACH CLASS 1 €0.59 €0.79 n/a
1x CUCUMBER WHOLE EACH €0.59 n/a €0.69
1x TESCO GALA APPLES MIN 5PK C €1.79 €0.90 n/a

1x BANANAS LOOSE (0.56kg) €0.70 €0.70 n/a



1x PREMIER LOW FAT MILK 1LTR €1.15 n/a n/a
1x KELKIN EASY EAT MUESLI 1KG €3.99 n/a n/a

1x TESCO MACKEREL FILLETS IN BRINE 125G €1.09 n/a n/a
1x FOREST FEAST REAL VALUE BOMBAY MIX200G €2.00 n/a n/a
1x TESCO L/CH LOW FAT NATURAL COT CHEESE €0.85 €0.85 n/a
1x T. EDAY VAL S/L CKN BRST FILLETS MED 541G €5.74 €5.39 n/a
1x FLORETTE BISTRO SALAD 150G+25% FREE €1.39 n/a n/a
Tesco comparable total €9.67 €0.59
Competitor shop total €8.63 €0.69
The difference €1.04 -€0.10
Comparison cost less cost more

Macy0161 wrote: »

Just to come back to the milk, "creamfields" milk isn't in my usual tesco* as of yesterday. If it's not going to be stocked nationwide (regardless of whether its a Tesco brand), it's in effect a price rise. Tesco now price matching Spar and Centra, rather than Lidl/ Aldi with their milk in my local store, so one less thing to go in there for.

*It's a full on tesco, albeit a relatively small one, not one of the tesco metro or express or whatever their "convenience" ones are called.

In the interests of fairness,

I should point out that my local tesco is now stocking creamfields milk. Still not sure I see the point of introducing a brand - this gimmicky stuff isn't why or how tesco are losing market share.

foggy_lad wrote: »

Good to hear it is Irish Milk, Did you buy online or in store? my last online shopping had several items with very short dates including the milk.

How would it be different buying online or instore? Online just means that the tesco staff walk around the store and shop for you, like regular shoppers some look at dates others just grab the first product on the shelf be it in date rotation or not.

that is crazy if that's what they are doing regarding putting
in stuff with a closer best before date
I know someone who shopped on superv online for months spending
well over 100 a week
the day they gave her bread that was going off the following day
along with something else which escapes my mind is the last time
she shopped online there
Now, given how much dearer superv can be with certain products they
should have done better or had a little more cop on

you lose someone online I doubt they'd come back whereas the
casual shopper might nip into tesco from time to time even
if they didn't like shopping there (myself)

ThisRegard wrote: »

An ex picker posted the process in one of the many Tesco threads. The equipment they use apparently doesn't allow them to scan through stock with short dates if it knows there's longer dated items available.

I find it hard to believe. Dates usually are on a printed sticker or printed on the pack, and the bar code doesn't reflect the date. I just confirmed that by comparing 2 packets of biscuits (same ones) with different best before dates.

And I received several times short dated items, or out of date items, which I got a refund for.

Lissavane wrote: »

You don't think it likely that staff might be instructed to pick short rather than long dates to fill online orders?

I'd be astonished if they didn't do so.

On the theme of dates, I know it's standard practice to put long date stock to the back of the display and short to the front - it makes sense. It's all good saleable stock so you want to sell older before newer.

What I don't understand is why most supermarkets tend to put the longer dates to the right of the display and the shorter to the left. Most people are right-handed and will automatically reach for the newer item even if they're not concerned by the use-by date. Maybe those shelves are filled by suppliers rather than staff?

No I don't think so. When you have time observe the in-store shoppers. Some check dates, others are in a speed contest to finish the order ASAP.

Your right handed left handed theory is a new one on me. All retail shops with perishable stock train staff to rotate stock from front to back. Longest date at the back, shortest at front. Of course shelf stackers cut corners by not rotating and just hurl up stock without rotating. When Tesco use to open 24 hours you could observe cage after cage of stock stacked on the floor with a minimal of staff to stock the shelf so the temptation to cut corners by not rotating is always there. It's all about filling the shelf and the fine detail like rotation or even the correct price are forgotten. I know someone that works in Tesco UK who came over here to work in a store for a number of months and he couldn't get over the lack of staff here, they use 4 times the amount of staff at night to stock shelves in the UK. Higher minimum wage here and Tesco Ireland unwillingness to dig into profit margins perhaps.

Another problem with longer dated perishable products such as butter spreads is that the suppliers sometimes feck up their own distribution and rotation in warehouse. CDC have systems to identify short dated stock. Example Tesco may agree a 60 day life on Tesco Olive spread, but the supplier delivers stock over a week dated 65 days, 67 days, 80 days, 70 days, 58 days, the system will only flag the 58 day product as short dated. It makes the shelf stacker life difficult and confuses the customer because they may buy the 80 day spread one week then the 65 day spread the following week and the customer is firmly convinced they got short dated stock.

Lastly Tesco when it went to a Central Distribution Centre model did away with most of the in-store merchandising by suppliers. They took the discount from suppliers reduced costs and told suppliers that tesco staff would do the merchandising. Milk, Bread, Eggs would probably be the only major items still merchandised by suppliers in Tesco and Eggs and Milk would be by agency staff who range from very good to next than useless at rotating. The odd time you may see a frustrated rep stocking shelves with his product.

snubbleste wrote: »

TESCO FRESH EGGS LARGE 6PK €1.85
LIDL CONNELL FARM IRISH LARGE EGGS 6PK €1.19

TESCO CHUNKS IN GRAVY WITH LAMB 1.2KG €1.59
LIDL ORLANDO DOG FOOD CHUNKS IN GRAVY LAMB 1.25KG €1.09

TESCO CISTERN BLUE 2PK €1.23
ALDI POWER FORCE 3 TOILET BLOCKS ORIGINAL/BLUE 3PK €0.89

TESCO COOKING ONIONS MIN 1KG €1.39
ALDI FRESH IS BEST ONION 1KG €0.79
LIDL OAKLANDS ONIONS 1KG €0.79

TESCO GARDEN PEAS 1KG €1.23
ALDI FOUR SEASONS GARDEN PEAS 1080G €0.99

TESCO EFFERVESCENT VITAMIN C 20PK €1.70
ALDI EFFERVESCENT VITAMIN C ORANGE 20PK €1.09

TESCO EDAY VAL GDN PEAS IN SGR SLT WATER 300G €0.29
ALDI SWEET HARVEST PROCESSED PEAS 400G €0.29

Tesco chunks in gravy sounds real appetising!!!!