Tesco - 5th RANT

OK, so last week I ranted about ASDA but actually I've only ranted about ASDA once.


This is my 5th rant about TESCO!!!


About a week ago I filled my car up with TESCO petrol.  I like TESCO petrol stations because they are usually cheaper than any other petrol stations.  And when I hand over my 'TESCO club card' I get 'points'.  Yay!


A few months ago TESCO were running some sort of scheme whereby you got money off petrol if you spent a certain amount of money in store.  I have to say the TESCO employees, both in the supermarkets & in the garages, were really good at telling the shopper how much money they were going to get off their petrol and what date they had to buy the petrol by.  It was actually one of the things I liked about TESCO. 


Obviously I did not RANT about it because I am a 'RANTING middle aged spinster' and that was one aspect of TESCO that I was really impressed with.


But guess what happened today??????????????????????????


I spent a fortune in TESCO and the very lovely checkout man said, 'Do you know that you've 6p a litre off petrol until tomorrow???'


Duh??!!!  No I didn't know.  I thought that scheme had ended ages ago???????????


Nobody has told me and when I filled up my tank last week at a TESCO petrol station nobody told me?????????????  I gave them my 'club card' (which is normally when they tell me if I have any discounts).


Seriously not happy............................


Is TESCO still running these 'offers' but not actually telling anyone about them, so that they can say that the offers are there but the customers are not taking them up????  OR have TESCO seriously lost the plot???  Well we've all seen the news reports that TESCO are losing money???


So, I echoed these thoughts to the very lovely TESCO checkout man and asked how long the 'petrol scheme' was running for.  He said it had been extended until the end of May.


Get a grip TESCO - does anyone actually know this??????


Today, I received through the post, a load of TESCO vouchers giving me £7 off a £50 shop until 10th May.  OK I will go and buy a load of wine but will wait till they have their 25% off 6 bottles on  And then 5 more vouchers giving me '£5 a week off a £50 shop' up to 14th June.  Is that really going to make me want to shop at TESCO every week for the next couple of months?????  I don't think so.


Much as I RANTED about ASDA before. Their policy of low prices, good quality foods, no gimmicky club cards, etc......................  It works for me.