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[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not sure I'd push Tesco as a great company. They are pioneers of data collection through the Clubcard and absolutely hammer you on price if you don't have one.

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is sadly a trend I witness heavily here. Have a card or pay a lot more. Except Aldi they all do that now. You can't trust any discount-signs anymore as they all have a Lil footnote รก LA "only with our app". Boycotting this trend seems to be hard ๐Ÿ˜”

[โ€“] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's easy for me. It's part of the reason I only shop at Aldi

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah sure...until they also get an app/card. I wonder why they didn't.

[โ€“] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

I really hope they continue not to.

[โ€“] GoodShowSir@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

As someone who doesnโ€™t have a club card and never will. I do have to shop in Tesco occasionally for smaller things but I have noticed the savings arenโ€™t as much anymore. This is not to justify it, I think there was a big push to get your data and now they have it, they are rolling back to the benefits.

Not that the prices were that great anyway, just brought things down to normal prices.

Edit - also screw you sainsburys for exactly the same thing.

[โ€“] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

It's not really a benefit though, club card gets the normal price and without you pay extra