I don't buy hundreds of pineapples
I buy hundreds of litres of fuel
what a silly comment tbh
Tesco Petrol prices in you area pls help
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I don't buy hundreds of pineapples
I buy hundreds of litres of fuel
what a silly comment tbh
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I don't buy hundreds of pineapples
I buy hundreds of litres of fuel
what a silly comment tbh
Not really, it just goes to highlight the total lack of any sense of reason you have with this issue.
You don't need to buy 'hundreds' of pineapples for a £1.50 difference in price to be noticeable but you do need to buy 'hundreds of litres' of fuel for a 3p difference in price to be noticeable.
Just fill up somewhere else?
I don't buy hundreds of pineapples
I buy hundreds of litres of fuel
what a silly comment tbh
The point is you're getting all worked up about price variations amounting to no more than a couple of percent. Most products vary by far more than a couple of percent between retailers - fuel is remarkably consistently priced.
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In keeping with the automotive nature of the OP, I'm giving it five stars for being a fantastic car crash of a thread.
I'm amazed I've made it to the end of this thread without my brain leaking out from my ears, its been a long time since I read such utter drivel. Why you keep fighting your corner when you have somewhere in the region of 60 people telling you that you are wrong astounds me.
Tesco is a business, the whole reason that Tesco opens its doors up every morning is to make money for its shareholders. It does this by selling products on (in the most part) for more than it purchased them for. When Tesco sets it prices it will examine many factors, including supply & demand, competitor pricing and local variations - this is what any smart business does.
It seems that from your posts, the only competition in your area with regards to fuel pricing is the nearby Total garage. After examining the market, Tesco has decided that it will move a significant amount of fuel by matching price with the Total garage up the road, and there is no benefit to it as a company, or to its shareholders of undercutting the price. This will vary from area to area based on the factors alread mentioned.
Your argument seems to be that in the planning meeting (which you didnt attend, but your neighbour did) that Tesco promised competitive fuel prices when they asked for permission to build a store in your area. I find it hard to believe that you do not find matching the price of their nearest competition to be competive - especially when you have the added conveniance of being able to fill up after your weekly shop, and not go out of your way to the Total garage up the road. Do you feel that competetive has to mean lower?
I would address your compulsive need to complain also, but I feel that would further derail the thread and detract from the points I made above.
Tesco is a business, the whole reason that Tesco opens its doors up every morning is to make money for its shareholders. It does this by selling products on (in the most part) for more than it purchased them for. When Tesco sets it prices it will examine many factors, including supply & demand, competitor pricing and local variations - this is what any smart business does.
It seems that from your posts, the only competition in your area with regards to fuel pricing is the nearby Total garage. After examining the market, Tesco has decided that it will move a significant amount of fuel by matching price with the Total garage up the road, and there is no benefit to it as a company, or to its shareholders of undercutting the price. This will vary from area to area based on the factors alread mentioned.
Your argument seems to be that in the planning meeting (which you didnt attend, but your neighbour did) that Tesco promised competitive fuel prices when they asked for permission to build a store in your area. I find it hard to believe that you do not find matching the price of their nearest competition to be competive - especially when you have the added conveniance of being able to fill up after your weekly shop, and not go out of your way to the Total garage up the road. Do you feel that competetive has to mean lower?
I would address your compulsive need to complain also, but I feel that would further derail the thread and detract from the points I made above.
Can anyone be bothered to provide cliffs for what this thread has actually turned out to be about? I'm sure I've followed it from page 1 and I still don't understand what, why, who, where, how.
As far as I see it- guy gets annoyed about petrol prices at newly built local supermarket, thinks they were promised lower prices than anywhere else, writes letter to CEO of supermarket, OcUK scratches its collective head. ??
As far as I see it- guy gets annoyed about petrol prices at newly built local supermarket, thinks they were promised lower prices than anywhere else, writes letter to CEO of supermarket, OcUK scratches its collective head. ??
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Short version : OP has no understanding of almost everything.
Booo hoooo wahhh wahhh.
And life goes on for us normal humans.
Why waste your timie, use petrolprices and find the cheapest place to fill up.
On another note, I got a £7 off £50 shop (next week covered then) when buying a bottle of water in my little tesco today. I love Tesco.
Also my other half works for them, so I know a little about their evil ways
And life goes on for us normal humans.
Why waste your timie, use petrolprices and find the cheapest place to fill up.
On another note, I got a £7 off £50 shop (next week covered then) when buying a bottle of water in my little tesco today. I love Tesco.
Also my other half works for them, so I know a little about their evil ways
How can I be wrong...when there is no right answer? Fact is Just because some people disagree with me and feel my actions to be futile, I however do not.
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I know how business works. But without consumers business would not exist.They would soon lower their prices if people stooped buying fuel there.
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And? All I want is a simple answer to a simple question.
I could stand 1p difference from the tesco store 10 miles..But 3 p is taking the ****
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This is where you quite nice detailed responce tuens into a personal attack...
What business is it of yours whether I complain to comapnies or not?
I buy a monitor for 200 quid and its not fit for purpose and your have the gall to say I should not complain?
Priceless
What is this simple question? We've given you the reasoning behind price structures and what not, yet you refuse to listen to us.
Ask your simple question, without your unrelated bumpf, and people will answe it.
3p on 140p is 2%. You're getting all worked up over a price variation of 2% - you're mad. Almost every other product on sale in this country varies by far more than 2% over a 10 mile area.
The Tescopoly website - The Tescopoly campaign website [www.tescopoly.org]
provides evidence from a range of public interest groups on the impact of Tesco and
other supermarkets, and how local communities around the UK are fighting back.
Information on various local campaigns around the country is available from the “local campaigns” section of the website.
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/calling_the_shots.pdf
http://www.tescopoly.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
If you are going to be nasty then get your facts right. I'm not married and the thread wasn't even about that.
Being the kind of person who likes to actually listen to other people's arguments and come up with logical and meaningful responses I was about to read your links, but then I realised that those aren't the rules we're playing by so I didn't bother.
You are wrong in the fact that you referred to setting your prices in relation to the prices of the nearby competition as price fixing. It is not, price fixing occurs when there has been collusion to keep prices at a certain level.
Your arguement here makes no sense. Nobody has a gun to their customers heads forcing them to buy fuel there. People are making a choice to stop at the pump, fill up their tanks, and pay the advertised rate for their fuel. The market will bear the price that Tesco are charging, therefore Tesco will keep charging that price to get the best return they can for their shareholders. This is commerce, this is how it works.
What is the question, ask it, in one sentence please.
How is it taking the ****? Its simply an attempt from Tesco to maximise their revenue, as any and every company would be expected to do in this situation. They are in business to make money, the more money they make the better.
This is where you quite nice detailed responce tuens into a personal attack...
What business is it of yours whether I complain to comapnies or not?
I buy a monitor for 200 quid and its not fit for purpose and your have the gall to say I should not complain?
Priceless
I actually refrained from being drawn on this, and I will do so again. If you feel it was a personal attack then I apologise.
Thats fine.Keep your head buried in the sand. 1000's upon 1000's of people not just me have contacted Tesco about their concerns.
I'm just one of them
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I'm sure they have, however I imagine they actually have a real complaint. If that many of them have equally baseless arguments as you do then I stand by my previous statement that I don't want to live on this planet any more.