Tesco reduced to clear

On the day of sell by they are reduced several times by a great amount...

*** I meant greater, not great!

I work at Tesco (and I'd just like to point out I am not a "fan" of Tesco and simply work there because I'm a student and need a part time job).

I don't work on the shop floor and don't do reductions but I know how they work. As a company, they want to make as much money as possible. Products are reduced by a small amount the day before their sell by date. On the day of sell by they are reduced several times by a great amount. Just before closing, products that have not sold are usually reduced by about 80%.

If you're going during the day - no, the reductions won't be huge. If you in the last hour of opening, the reductions will be much more significant. Although, people who come every night looking for reductions aren't very popular amongst staff!

This is, however, based on the store I work in. I don't know about other stores.

T M has obviously taken advantage of all the fatty salty sugary BOGOF offers in his/her 'spot-on' Tesco - to the point where he/she (most likely 'he') has a brain so devolved it resembles a Dairylea Lunchable... Or maybe Tesco has added brainwashing to their risible portfolio of customer 'services'...

T M sweetie, you're not as funny as you think you are.

Jamie Oliver is so right to endorse Sainsbury. My local branch of TESCO simply don't stock many of the ingredients from his Italian cookbook (although perversley, they stocked the cookbook!!!). I wanted some Polenta last week for Jamie's Apple and Polenta cake - 'Never heard of it' says all the floor staff of COPDOCK TESCO - and neither did they want to find out for me. After thirty minutes delving, I got told they had withdrawn it. Presumably because their staff hadn't got a clue......

Pull your socks up TESCO - we haven't failed to notice that you employ thick, ignorant staff who can't be bothered to serve us with a smile let alone good manners. Oh, and it's no good asking us to fill out those silly complaint forms because you simply fail to respond to them - fail from the top management down. Ring any bells TESCO at COPDOCK IPSWICH?

The price of food is so immoral, that when Tesco REDUCE their food at the end of the day, it is STILL TOO EXPENSIVE! We are professional people, doing the best we can to get our own business off the ground and we can't afford to buy anything that isn't BOGOF or reduced - and that's because we are trying to live CREDIT-FREE. We are also law-abiding, so we have to make choices or we go under. God knows, we've already sold our house to fund our ventures - and that's because the banks aren't interested in true entrepeneurs.Insane country isn't it? The three worst things in this place is THE LABOUR PARTY, TESCO plc and the HIGH STREET BANKS. These three monsters have us all by the short and curlies and we don't have any real FREEDOM. If you think you are free, then you are quite simply brainwashed. And what the hell are those little electronic chips inside the new passports for? - no, don't tell me because I'm afraid I won't believe you! - Oh, and by the way, I'm an ordinary mum, not a young male anarchist. Open your eyes eveybody......

I always shop at Tesco. The Tesco near where I live is spot on!

Terry, I couldn't care less about what you think Tesco has done and I cast not one thought over any misguided assumptions of yours.

Bigger picture. I have concerns on what this government has done to my country. At the moment they are concentrating heavily on losing our whole identities in the post and on round-a-bouts. They are getting pretty good at it but will run out of methods soon enough.

Get David Cameron in for he does not suffer fools gladly, he does not mess around.

Do not shop at Tesco.

Tesco is the embodiment of all that is wrong with Britain today.
Tesco has destroyed the farming industry.
Tesco has ripped the heart out of High Street shopping the length and breadth of the country. Tesco has killed off local businesses with its frightening monopoly on 'competition'.
Tesco has flooded the market with cheap financial products, ie. insurance policies that are not worth the non-recyclable paper they are written on.
Tesco's 'Computers for Kids' is not the socially responsible scheme it would like to think it is - it would be cheaper to buy the computer directly from supplier than spend the £1000s in store to qualify for the vouchers.
Tesco stores do not take responsible action to prevent town centre traffic congestion.
Tesco has created a subclass of people who thrive on fatty salty and sugary BOGOF offers.
Tesco employ store managers who do not possess the intelligence to politely respond to customer concerns.
Tesco does not store its produce correctly BUT does see fit to sell the same spoiled produce to the public.
Tesco produce is ridiculously over-packaged and unjustifiably non-recyclable.
Tesco does not honour its "if you have to queue we'll open another till for you" policy. EVER.

Etc etc etc etc....

Get the picture?
Tesco is EVIL.

The likes of people that turn up at closing time to (hopefully) buy stupidly cheap food are only pushing up the price of the products of shoppers that are genuinely buying their food shop. Don't moan about it just pay the price that you are prepared to. It is better for them to sell something for 1p then have to pay to have it put in the skip and disposed of. If they do not sell for the price they would surely be reduced further.

Ps. I don't work for any supermarket and I'm totally unbiased.

All supermarkets are bXXtards. I wouldn't bother going to one if you can help it. And if they stopped giving away millions of carrier bags, maybe their prices would be cheaper anyway. Write to their head office or do demo infront of the store. They will probably throw you off their 'land' but so what. Wear a beard next time you need to buy something and see how quickly you get served. Not that I've tried that. I could go on a right rant now about supermarkets but what's the point? Don't give them your money is the only way to 'make a difference'.

We live in the quite frankly, I don't give a damn society. Tesco is a store which couldn't give a monkeys. They are simply in it for nothing but the huge profit/margin they can make.

You people who sell "The Big Issue" or who are on some kind of social security voucher forget it. That voucher is simply a source of profit to Tesco.

"Reduced to clear" means that the bacterias are ready to invade. Watch out you Martians, if you haven't been vaccinated you are dead.

Sainsburys's reductions of meat are a lot better in Didcot. Top tip reduced beef joints can be cut up for steaks for bbqs quite cheaply yum yum.
Tesco's employs imbeciles whereas Sainsburys's only has 4 tills open at 6pm. Choices choices deal with morons and get served quicker, or hang around like one but have better customer service.