Motoring Discussion > 5p/L off when £50 spent.... Miscellaneous
Thread Author: FotheringtonTomas Replies: 22

 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - FotheringtonTomas
At Tesco (various restrictions apply). So, if I buy 75L of fue, I'll "save" £3.75 on about £100.

Um.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - WillDeBeest
I have one of these vouchers waiting to be used next time I fill up. We have a >£50 Tesco delivery every week anyway, so it doesn't influence my grocery buying behaviour, and £3 off 60 litres I'd be buying anyway is better than nothing. Tesco diesel seems to suit the Volvo engine as well as its regular brew of Shell.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - Bromptonaut
Guess it might be worthwhile if you do your regular grocery shop at Tesco. Or if, assuming it's not one of the exclusions your new telly or whatever is cheaper at Tesco then elsewhere.

For me though I'll go on buying groceries from Ocado and visitng John Lewis for electricals.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - Boxsterboy
I'm sorry, but that is not enough of a carrot to persuade me to shop there. We have a mini-Tesco opposite us at work, and the thought of eating their chicken sandwiches, with chicken 'fresh' from Thailand is too much for me.

One has standards, don't you know!
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - rtj70
>> For me though I'll go on buying groceries from Ocado and visitng John Lewis for electricals.

I see JLP are offloading their stake in Ocado. I wonder if they are thinking of branching out to home deliveries with Waitrose?
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - RattleandSmoke
If you're spending £50 in Tesco then you're being ripped off. Even my local corner shop is on average 20p cheaper than Tesco for milk.

I use just the supermarkets for special offers now and buy anything else in the discount stores or local butchers/green grocers.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - WillDeBeest
And how much do the extra trips cost in fuel, Ratts? My corner shop just about does milk but not dishwasher tablets or chorizo pueblo. I'm all for using specialist retailers but £3 a week to have all the heavy stuff delivered is value for money in my book.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - RattleandSmoke
I am lucky. I have a Tesco Express 300 yards away, Morrisons is five minutes walk away, ASDA is 2.5 miles away and lots of Sainsbury's in the city centre. I am also five minutes walk to the main local shopping centre with all the discount stores.

Yet I also have fine delis and butchers/artisan bakers on my door step which sell food which is far higher quality than what supermarkets can dream off, at £3 a sausage though they are a rare treat!.

This way of saving money only works if you know the price of all the items you usualy buy too so you can compare.

I am not sure if you have ever compared the price of veg in supermarkets and green grocers but it is shocking.

I have time on my hands do shop like that though, if you don't then supermarkets offer a far easy way but you do pay for that.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - rtj70
>> supermarkets offer a far easy way but you do pay for that.

But time costs too. There was someone on Radio 2 that was some sort of master sausage maker earlier today. He mentioned his sausages (over 95% meat or more I think they were)... about £1 a sausage. So your local sausages are either brilliant or over priced. :-)

Our local butcher does some good quality sausages and better than supermarket stuff.... but nowhere near £3 each.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - RattleandSmoke
These are hot dogs already cooked and ready to go :). Still over priced but wonderful. Nicer than anything I can get from the supermarkets.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - CGNorwich
"I wonder if they are thinking of branching out to home deliveries with Waitrose?"

They already do and have done so for a few years now. Ocado is an entirely separate operation albeit selling groceries supplied by Waitrose.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - rtj70
CGNorwich, probably a location thing then. So maybe they are expanding. And if you can buy Waitrose goods from Waitrose or Ocado... doesn't sound good business wise for Ocado.

Thinking about it, Waitrose used to deliver to some of our southern offices I think.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - CGNorwich
doesn't sound good business wise for Ocado

You are right especially since Waitrose deliver free and Ocado charge.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - Zero
Ocado is a rubbish business model. Its had millions of pounds pumped into it every year and only ever made a profit in two quarters over 10 years. Why the hell would you build and invest in another tier of distribution, when the majors can just plug home delivery into theirs.

Its doomed. Once Waitrose pull the plug, and they will, it will fold.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - Stuartli
I'm often given the 5p a litre off vouchers but, to be frank, the difference is hardly worth the trip to the fuel station cost wise if the tank is, say, already half full and the voucher expires within a short time...:-)
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - CGNorwich
"Its doomed. Once Waitrose pull the plug, and they will, it will fold."

Ocado have a recently signed supply agreement with Waitrose for the next 10 years
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - Zero
So thats another 10 years of losses?
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - FotheringtonTomas
Link to Daily Telegraph article re Weightrose's intention to set up their own delivery service inside the M25 ring:

bit.ly/ejxr1G
Last edited by: FotheringtonTomas on Mon 21 Feb 11 at 12:40
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - Cockle
Forever being the cynic I was wondering why my local Tesco is currently priced at 1-2p/litre dearer than the Shell just down the road and 3p/litre dearer than both Waitrose and Asda. So if I go and spend £50 in Tesco and then buy 50 litres of petrol on the way out I've saved a total of £1.50 over my local Shell and a whole £1 over Asda or Waitrose. So not really saving 5p/litre because they're not the cheapest to start with and if my £50 shopping basket is £1 dearer than it would have been at Asda then I haven't actually saved a penny, however, Tesco will have increased their market share of the grocery trade, which is one of the important headline figures for them.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - Collos
And if you shop at Aldi then the savings by comparison would be zero it may not be true in every area but Tesco in my area are the dearest without a doubt and there quality leaves a lot to be desires.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - madf
I use:
www.mysupermarket.co.uk/

We are fortunate having every major supermarket plus most of the cheapies and minors within an 8 mile radius. We tend to go where the fruit and veg is good.. and where we have items we must buy in bulk are cheapest...

Tesco? generally expensive, poor offers and no petrol retail near us.. and Shell are cheaper anyway.. (Petrolprices).
Asda ? cheaper but keep losing their way. Dire 6 years ago. Limited range. George good.
Sainsbury. Very expensive.
Morrisons? Good pricing and offers.. better marketing than Asda.
Co-op. Very expensive - much worse than Sainsbury.. Some occasional good offers.
Aldi? Good.
Lidl: not as good as Aldi imo.
Farmfoods: some great offers if you like their range.
B&M: show the margins supermarkets make of food. Much cheaper. Limited date range of food.. Baxters soups 59p vs 82p


Anyone who does not pick and match with shopping is going to get screwed...especially with food price inflation..running at 10%+++

Last edited by: madf on Tue 15 Feb 11 at 11:55
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - Zero
I have three Tescos within a 3 mile radius. They have managed to push the price of Petrol up in my local area by over a penny a litre.
 5p/L off when £50 spent.... - Boxsterboy
We tend to get what we can at Lidl (which is also our nearest supermarket). They don't sell everything, though, and so we have to go elsewhere for the rest, usually Waitrose.

I also have a Macro card for the bulk/tinned stuff, tea, cleaning fluids etc.
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