Tesco offers for mathematically gifted are back!

Tesco, famous for its chocolate orange offer some years back that saw a clever combination of 3-for-2 and other offers taking the price to 29p, is back with

Buy 4 AA batteries for £2.50....

or 20 Christmas lights with 3 AA batteries included for £1.50.

I tried to buy the cheapy lights but unfortunately the 20 lights was out of stock so got a 100 lights string as a substitution for the same price. Sadly the number of batteries included is still 3, not 15.

Looking forward to seeing if they do their Christmas wine offers this year, in the past they have managed so many any-6-for-4, half price and any-3-for-2 overlapping offers that they nearly have to pay me for buying wine.

 

I have had a weekly delivery from Tesco for over a decade, simply because their delivery service is the best. I know all drivers, and was even told off by then when we moved house some 4 years ago and didn't tell them. (Well, this is North East where bus drivers call everyone "love" and Barclays gives tea and biscuits on Saturdays. ) My weekly shop takes me 15 minutes.

Substitutions are great, I usually buy the cheapskate stuff and hope it's not available so I'll get something posh instead. Sometimes they don't quite get it right, once my 6kg bone-in ham was substituted for 10 packs of sliced sandwich ham. The driver was rather apologetic If I don't want my substitution, the driver usually gives it anyways after deducting the price as it would otherwise get binned.

@ARMANDII , your friend has the right attitude. Having a sharp eye to catch them out on wonky "offers" is great fun.

 

I've still got loads of Energiser torches from when a pack containing a torch and 2 AAA batteries were reduced to 30p at Tesco.

 

I just use Morrisons because its just up the road from me, cant be bothered going round different places comparing prices.
Do look at offers and rarely find anything wrong with them.
Although I must admit all the different bottle sizes of beer does make price comparison a bit of a nightmare.

Never done an online shop, just dont trust them to get it right and would not like them substituting things, or not having what I wanted.
In fact I find it strange they actually do that, as I never really find the store doesn't have what I want, apart from the silly bog roll problems a few months ago.

 

It's a bit difficult doing that at the moment, previously it was worthwhile always stocking up on stuff where it was much cheaper, but now, apart from a few places, they might prevent you from buying a trolley load of half price non-perishible products.

I got fed up with finding 'buy one get one free' promotions limited to 3 items per customer.

Or even worse, buy 3 get 4th free restricted to 3 per customer, and Tesco actually did that.

 

Same here John, not been into a Supermarket since March, and we don't miss it one bit. We have deliveries from Asda twice a week. No problems with substitutes, if its not what you really want the delivery guy will credit you on the spot. Even bought our Xmas cards and second class stamps on line. My car service was booked on line, they collect it deliver it back to you sanitised and washed. Makes a difference of getting the car back stinking of smoke and two woodbine stumps in the ashtray! Now that is going back a few years, when was the last car with an ashtray?