Used to work in Tesco in Stock Control and Cash Office whilst I was at Uni.

Managers get Daily/Weekly reports on price updates e.g. what needs to be changed or put on offer etc, this would be a regional or national price change or offer.

If items have been left on the system for a certain amount of time with little to no sales (e.g. something that has been left out back or is just a terrible seller) it gets automatically reduced until it hits 1p; These reductions will be automatic and you'll only really see them either by the shelf edge label or when you scan the item and it's a different price (Usually much lower). These are national offers but will have very limited stock, they're nationally reduced because of the lack of stock and age of the product.

Yellow labels are at the managers discretion; usually goes 25% off, 50% off then 75-80% off.

The yellow labels are store specific because they're usually old end of life products that many stores will no longer have; they're not in stock in a lot of stores and the stock is very low, which is why they get reduced.

If the price is displayed on a shelf edge label it's a national deal. If it's just stuck on with a reduction label it's store specific.

Most of what you wrote is nonsense.
No offense.

OK people - has anyone realised yet that Tesco deals are invariably local Manager's Specials and are not Nationwide "deals". I had a chat with one of the Tesco sales people today and asked the question as to whether Tesco actually "do" nationwide deals and his answer was a simple "NO".

He said that Tesco Manager's are instructed to clear certain items at their discretion and deals are store specific because of this. It explains why every Tesco deal entered on HOTUK deals are never available at any other store.

I have mentioned this because he also said that this is known as a deliberate ruse to get people into Tesco stores looking for the deals, that do not exist except in specific stores. It is deemed a good marketing tool to get people into the stores and to then buy other goods. The new Upper Management crew has been actively trying to get Tesco's to make money and to get them into profit and this way of getting peoples interest is just one way of getting extra sales.

Be aware of clever marketing - Tesco's have this down to a fine art as they strive to get profitable.

My money is on Teh Arn.

Also, I think he's shown great restraint. :smirk:

tbh id agree with teh arn, quite likely hubba used the wrong terminilogy and got fobbed off then did a chinese whisper with the results

edit: looks like these are being cleared to make way for the '+' and '2' versions

Lol. All of this is just classic. :laughing:

Believe what you want, I know what I wrote is true.

You can chose to believe the "omgz Tesco is planting all these reduced offers to get us in the shops" conspiracy theories though.

I was only pointing out that you're being a bit disingenuous telling us someone else here is talking nonsense when we have no idea whether what you say is any more or less of a shaggy dog story :smirk:

Oh noes the retail insider info experts are in the house.
Retailers are too dumb to try and manipulate us through HUKD. However their stock control systems are clever enough to know when stores are over stocked based on sales rate and season.
So some stores will have different items in stock. Some will have larger discounts to clear out excess items. Others will sell just fine at current prices.

Yes I do call BS on what a member of staff said. That is because most don't have a clue. I've done a stint in retail and know the garbage staff say.

While not every store will reduce evenly and yellow barcoded items with stickers will be local. Other stores will have better deals than others.

I've had so many Tesco deals posted on here and found many others myself. I could probably host a Tesco Toys and Electrical department.

I think the reaction is a bit over the top.

I also worked in stock control for Tesco and as such you get to see and hear more of the communication between head office and the store manager.

I do not think they (Tesco) use reduction tickets as some clever making ploy, this has been happening long before the likes of HotUKDeals.

manipulating shelf edge label (SEL) prices, definitely.

pricing been extras, super stores and express stores are separate. also pricing among stores in those groups is often different. Assuming nothing has changed much in the last 7 years.

If I find any good information or deals I will keep them to myself for fear of recrimination from the HOTUK Police Squad. Whatever happens to sharing information and taking it at face value without analysing every word.

I will personally go back and face the Tesco's sales person myself and reprimand him to within an inch of his life, on your behalf, of course. Fancy someone not being correctly informed eh? Whatever next? These staff should be introduced to the venom and harshness of the HOTUK Police as soon as possible!!!!

Dear oh dear!! The HOTUK Police are alive and well and still spending their valuable time on reprimands and fact finding missions. Please get real and realise this is a site where people do their best to help other people and do not, under any circumstances, deserve the pasting that some are giving out.

It's enough to make you lose your faith in reasonability (if there is such a word). Whatever happens to "thanks but you may be slightly wrong on this, check your sources"?

Next time I am relayed any information I won't bother entering it as all that will happen is the HUTUK Police will want either a written statement or perhaps to find the staff member who said those nasty things and give him a public flogging. Once bitten, twice shy.

I'm not asking anyone to take it as fact, what I've written is correct though.
You can believe whatever you want.

Personally I'd take the word over some one that worked in that department and knew the ins and outs of it over an employee who had no real visibility of head office policy and was most likely just saying whatever they could to get rid of a customer and to keep them relatively happy.

....nor does it, to use your own argument, make what you say any more true!

You can hardly state that someone else has spouted nonsense and then proceed to expect everyone to take your word as fact. Interesting logic :confused::wink:

What, like a recording of the conversation or perhaps a written statement of accuracy from the sales person !!! Get real. I only reported what I had been told - I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition !

No offense taken "teh arn" but if you don't mean to offend then don't call total strangers liars. Not good for making friends and influencing people. What I said is, in your opinion, nonsense from a Tesco employees mouth and not mine, do I believe him or you? When someone proves it to be different then I will believe them, until then it works for me as I have experienced the so-called "national deals", or at least the absence of them.

Labels are not proof of what is National, or not, it's where the stock is that makes it either one or the other. If the stock is local, the deal is local.

Maybe I should get a recording of a conversation or a written..............................mmmmmm, really!

Not sure why this is voted hot- clearly a local-only deal and looks like OP has all of the items anyway..

Used to work in Tesco in Stock Control and Cash Office whilst I was at Uni.

Managers get Daily/Weekly reports on price updates e.g. what needs to be changed or put on offer etc, this would be a regional or national price change or offer.

If items have been left on the system for a certain amount of time with little to no sales (e.g. something that has been left out back or is just a terrible seller) it gets automatically reduced until it hits 1p; These reductions will be automatic and you'll only really see them either by the shelf edge label or when you scan the item and it's a different price (Usually much lower). These are national offers but will have very limited stock, they're nationally reduced because of the lack of stock and age of the product.

Yellow labels are at the managers discretion; usually goes 25% off, 50% off then 75-80% off.

The yellow labels are store specific because they're usually old end of life products that many stores will no longer have; they're not in stock in a lot of stores and the stock is very low, which is why they get reduced.

It sounded plausible to me. Care to qualify your sweeping statement with something to back it up? :stuck_out_tongue:

OK people - has anyone realised yet that Tesco deals are invariably local Manager's Specials and are not Nationwide "deals". I had a chat with one of the Tesco sales people today and asked the question as to whether Tesco actually "do" nationwide deals and his answer was a simple "NO".

He said that Tesco Manager's are instructed to clear certain items at their discretion and deals are store specific because of this. It explains why every Tesco deal entered on HOTUK deals are never available at any other store.

I have mentioned this because he also said that this is known as a deliberate ruse to get people into Tesco stores looking for the deals, that do not exist except in specific stores. It is deemed a good marketing tool to get people into the stores and to then buy other goods. The new Upper Management crew has been actively trying to get Tesco's to make money and to get them into profit and this way of getting peoples interest is just one way of getting extra sales.

Be aware of clever marketing - Tesco's have this down to a fine art as they strive to get profitable.

My missus has a similar one from ks, sound is great,

Looks like local reductions to clear out left over stock from a range change! Good find!

Also forgot to say has case

it was reduced from £30 to £15 at Tesco Brooklands, but £4 is a crime :smile:

Great little speakers too. Bargain.