Tesco must be off their trolley

[Tim Streater]

Anyone else been taking advantage of the Tesco 10p/litre off offer? I tanked up today and got £28 off the price (56lt @ 50p off per litre).

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Could you just run the maths by me again?

[Owain]

You're allowed to combine up to 5 x 10p-off vouchers to make 50p-off in one fuel purchase, up to 100 litres.

[RJH]

[Wesley]

Its called a 'loss leader'. What they lose on the petrol, they more than make up for with the profit they make in the stores.

[Dave Liquorice]

There is something odd going on. I got one of those 10p off a litre vouchers last Wednesday but I didn't buy any of the products that are listed as required on the website.

was a =A376 spend, so maybe that triggered it but again no mention of= getting a voucher for a spend of >=A3x. My voucher also expires on the 2=

8th Nov, the website says 4th Dec...

[F Murtz]

Where do you get this discount? at their designated fuel shop? where the price is inflated?

[Frank Erskine]

I try to avoid Tesco anyhow, on ethical grounds.

[Jules Richardson]

I think the nearest one to me is about a thousand miles away, which helps :-)

[GB]

My local Tesco garage is the cheapest around here. I might get 1p a litre off if I drove an extra 5 miles, but that rather defeats the point, doesn't it?

[Martin Brown]

You had all five 10p discount vouchers then. We only used three. There is a limit to the amount of gold blend and chocolates I can consume!

I agree that I cannot see how this works. Looks very much to me like some clueless marketing executive who is not very bright at maths thought this one up from the "lets bankrupt Hoover" model.

They will offer free flights to the USA with cornflakes next.

[Martin Brown]

It is too much loss and not enough lead. You can run in pick up the bits near the door and be out again in just a few minutes!

Supermarkets now reward serial disloyalty so that is what they get.

It isn't inflated by much no more than 1p. Most of the time one of the supermarkets round here has the cheapest petrol. Only in the old days when ICI had its own brand petrol as a (smelly) waste stream on Teesside was there a significantly cheaper supply. If you could stand the smell. For some reason it ponged a lot more than other sorts.

[Brian Gaff]

Hmm, for us folk who do not drive they should have an alternative.

Brian

[RJH]

In the sober light of day looks as though they've increased prices of the qualifying items:

[Dave Liquorice]

Most of the "offers" that the big supermarkets do are not funded by the supermarket but by the supplier... If a supplier wants (aka needs) to sell to the supermarket they have to take the hit.

[Nightjar]

I avoid supermarket fuels, as they buy the cheapest available. The second answer here gives some interesting information about the use of additives in supermarket v branded fuel:

Bignell

[Dave Liquorice]

Though you where top right corner somewhere? Fresh & Easy is all east coast California, Arizona and Nevada. Would have expected rather more than 1000 miles. B-)

[Martin Brown]

Hardly a credible reference. The last time there was a major screw up with petrol in the southern UK it was because the refinery had in error put the *diesel* additives into the petrol they supplied. Traces of silicon in the fuel ruined the exhaust sensors.

don't doubt that supermarket fuel is done to a price but I am damned if I am going to waste money on fancy brandnames for the sake of it.

[Tim Streater]

Thass right. We got five 300gm refill packets of Gold Blend. We'll drink that up in six or eight months.

[Tim Streater]

Oh come. And it's arithmetic, not maths.

You can get up to five coupons giving you 10p/lt off your next fill up. We got our five by buying five of an item we'll need anyway. So you're allowed up to 50p off per litre. We arranged it that at that next fill up, there were 4 litres left in the 60 litre tank. So, I shoved in 56 litres and got 50p off each. That's £28. Simples.