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Tesco used to significantly reduce the prices of items that were close to their sell-by date, but these days it's hardly worth the bother looking in the reduced section and hunting for those yellow stickers. They're no longer the bargain they once were.
I have also noticed that they seem to reduce the price of goods a lot earlier than they used to, sometimes several days or even a week before the sell-by date. I think the price reduction is really stingy though and even on the last day, they rarely drop the price enough to make it worthwhile.
I'm on a pretty low income as I am self employed so I need to buy the reduced stuff and the Tesco Value products most of the time. It used to be the case that you could find items that were reduced to nearly one third of the original price. Bargains such as these would be snapped up rapidly and you'd be in a race with the pensioners and single mothers to get there first. I usually lost though because they're canny creatures and know how to use their elbows! Okay, maybe I exaggerate but the shelves were generally emptied as soon as the reduced items appeared because they were REALLY reduced.
lucky enough to find something with a third off...
Now when I go to our local Tesco the reduced counter is always pretty full and there are plenty of yellow stickers, but a few pence off here and isn't much of an incentive to walk past Iceland now is it? If rummage around enough you might be lucky enough to find something with a third off. But that's about as good as it gets!
Come on Tesco; let's have some real price reductions because you know, every little helps!
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John Carney
I find this a great way to taste food that otherwise I would not take a gamble on and now buy salt n pepper tiger loaf though I did prefer the cheese topped one they seem to have stopped making. Also tried celeriac rosti ...... yuk never again but the celeriac was 10p and I know I will never buy it again.
Last Christmas in Waitrose they reduced the price of Turkey by half, still a bit too much for my pocket but I splashed out and we had a memorable Christmas dinner and several other meals. I wrote to Waitrose and thanked them. They have no idea what that turkey meant to me.
I'm disgusted at the large and obese scavengers who I've seen RUN to get their fix practically fighting over a ?2 cooked chicken or 3 blocking the aisle with a shopping trolley and their body mass. Filling a basket or shopping trolley to the brim.. That's just being more than greedy, and they wonder why they are fat.
On one occasion I heard one fat women say hurry up donna before the skinny lads get em.. Ha ha ha.
Besides Tesco. Our local food bank (feeding low income families with donated food) I'm just gob-smacked at how many fat people go there? Obviously not under-fed how are these salad dodgeing chair moisener's allowed to claim free food?
Sorry I dont have a grudge against fat people but for crying out loud DON'T BE SO SELFISH AND GREEDY, and get to weightwatchers, get a job and work it off!
What sort of brain dead person is the manager of this centre to not notice this terrible smell? why havn't the shop managers complained? the stench was unbearable.
Vicky