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Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 6:30 pm Post subject: Tesco vouchers...
Just been sent loads of Tesco vouchers and the first one is ï¿½12 off an ï¿½80 spend. Time to pay them a visit and stock up on the things we don't tend to find locally or grow ourselves.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 6:43 pm Post subject:
Might as well, I'm all in favour of eating into their profits if they send vouchers

cab

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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 7:17 pm Post subject:
Gah! I hate it when shops do that. "Money worth saving as long as you buy really expensive things you don't want or things you want in bulk but couldn't conceivably cycle home carrying". Damn them to hades for offers you have to have a car to make the most of.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 7:22 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

things you want in bulk but couldn't conceivably cycle home carrying

Don't worry, they can be used online for home delivery.

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 7:22 pm Post subject:
They used to send us all sorts of things, but they seem to have got the message now, and we don't get anything at all

cab

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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 7:27 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Don't worry, they can be used online for home delivery.

Thus clocking up road miles just the same and acquiring me pork pies in place of free range chickens they don't have? No, I'd rather burn calories while buying more.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 7:30 pm Post subject:
You don't have to accept replacements and there's a reasonable arguement that home deliveries might keep cars off the road. Anyway, what I intend to get could easily be put in a rucksack and we'll carry on getting our bulk items from Suma.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 7:45 pm Post subject:
Whilst I am trying to use supermarkets less I don't see why I shouldnt make the most of their vouchers if I happen to have them. We try to buy useful stuff with our occasional vouchers rather than 'novelty items' or things we'd have to top up with cash to afford, so I reason that I might as well use em.

cab

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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 9:16 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

Whilst I am trying to use supermarkets less I don't see why I shouldnt make the most of their vouchers if I happen to have them. We try to buy useful stuff with our occasional vouchers rather than 'novelty items' or things we'd have to top up with cash to afford, so I reason that I might as well use em.

Oh, absolutely make the most of such vouchers when you get 'em. If you can then its foolish not to. Its a gripe of mine that we also get vouchers like the one Treac. got, but to actually buy enough to get the money off we'd need access to a vehicle to get all that stuff home. Its a crying shame that those who get to a supermarket by a more sustainable (and healthy) means end up losing out.

Its rather like all the 'buy two, get the third free' offers you see; why can't they just be at 2/3 of the normaly price, then I can still carry everything home and make the most of the offer.

The very premis of such offers is that the customers will always be going by car so they can carry shedloads of stuff, and yeah, most customers are getting there that way. And as long as thats so, for as long as the supermarkets make it easy to get offers that way and for as long as they offer thumping great discounts as long as you buy more than you could conceivably carry, theres a real disincentive forpeople to get to the shop any other way. And I hate that, I hate it with a real passion, its a classic example of supermarkets operating in a way that is contrary to good the good of the environment and, indeed, against the interests of customers who want greater choice in how they shop

dougal

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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 9:24 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

The very premis of such offers is that the customers will always be going by car so they can carry shedloads of stuff, and ...

Errrr. No, the basic premise is simply to offer bait that will help to shift shedloads of everything.
They really don't care if you take it away in a wheelbarrow...

Pilsbury

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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 9:38 pm Post subject:

dougal wrote:

They really don't care if you take it away in a wheelbarrow...

And if you do you can get green clubcard point just like Alan Titchmarsh

Sorry , i'll be of then

sean
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 9:40 pm Post subject:
Just go and buy 80 quids' worth of spirits.

cab

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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 9:41 pm Post subject:

dougal wrote:

cab wrote:

The very premis of such offers is that the customers will always be going by car so they can carry shedloads of stuff, and ...

Errrr. No, the basic premise is simply to offer bait that will help to shift shedloads of everything.
They really don't care if you take it away in a wheelbarrow...

But as taking it home in a wheelbarrow ain't an option, its really pandering only to those who can drive to the stores. I totally accept that what the supermarket is doing is baiting people in to shift a lot of stock, but I rather resent the combination of location, masses of 'free' parking and bulk-buy marketing that make the whole thing so very seductive to the motorist, and so very un-seductive to anyone who isn't a motorist. Environmentally, and just in terms of sheer accessibility for a broader range of people, I've always thought that stinks.

cab

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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 9:43 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Just go and buy 80 quids' worth of spirits.

Bleeding hell. That'd be some party afterward

Thats more spirits than we get through in two years. We really should start drinking more.

Silas

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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 06 9:44 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Don't worry, they can be used online for home delivery.

Thus clocking up road miles just the same and acquiring me pork pies in place of free range chickens they don't have? No, I'd rather burn calories while buying more.

Err.. They do have free range chickens - drive to collect or have home delivery - its all the same.

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