TESCO CLUBCARD CONSPIRACY?....REALLY!?

You know you are living in a time of mistrust and ignorant fear when people do not trust the Tesco Clubcard loyalty card! Saying things like "This is how they get you" and no, this is not just online, I have seen this in shops.

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[Dragonborne]

So I'm just throwing my hat in here. I'm a data security engineer, and I absolutely hate the club card system. They've removed the discounts from regular shopping and attached them to a card that tracks all your purchases and habits. There is a real data risk, it goes along with the data profile that other companies, like Microsoft and Google do. I didn't have a problem until they took away all normal discounts and attached them to the card, it's simply not altruistic they must be getting more out of it than us, otherwise they wouldn't do it. Not to say people should complain at staff or that anyone reading this should change their minds, just my opinion.

[dataterminal]

The worst, and best, supermarket scam was ASDA's price guarantee promise. Anyone remember that? They said they price match the other stores to guarantee you the best lowest prices. Except... it wasn't the prices in store, nor via their online store. What you had to do, is put the code off your receipt on to the website price promise, and they'd check your items against the other stores and give you a coupon code for the difference that you could take for your next shop. I mean, yea, it was kind of a price guarantee but I'm sure very few people ever printed off the coupons as I've never seen anyone else using them.
It got to the point where if there was a receipt in the shopping trolly when I collected it, I'd pocket the receipt. Check it when I got home along with my own. I had a spreadsheet tracking it and the best one I had was over £70 in coupons in a single week. That covered my entire shopping costs. The only reason I didn't just go around the super market car park looking for them was the website restricted coupons to 20 a week.

[noahhanley]

I think its more the fact that you now need a club card to get a normal price, you now need a physical membership just to get decently priced shopping.

This gets us used to only buying goods if we go along with company conditions.

[HippoDrones]

Hahaha... I had the same "discussion" with someone on Twitter a while back when Tesco first started doing the Clubcard discounted prices, he didn't seem to get that he was on Twitter where all his tweets are fed into databases, didn't seem to get that he paid for his shopping by credit/debit card, so the banks knew exactly what he purchased and when and where, and Tesco also knew what was purchesed in that sale too as the tills know what is scanned through them! 😀
I am beginning to mute or unfollow the foil hat wearers on social media now, and those that just post political stuff... I'm so far from being interested in anything MSM really has to say too, so no TV in my house, well no TV signal at least. I quite enjoy having my head in the sand from all the BS in the world and just enjoying my motorcycles instead! 🙂

[urnansroach]

My main concern is them raising the price of normal items and making the "clubcard price" the standard price anyway. Drawing more money from people who dont have/ forget their clubcard.

BUT TESCO PETROL STATIONS ARE THS SPAWN OF SATAN. TELL ME HOW YOU HAVE 6 PUMPS AND ONLY 2 OF THEM WORK.

[WolfyFam]

😂 love it (there will be a £5 subscription soon)

Have to say - if you get a weeks shop in Tesco you need a club card so the prices are reasonable. I forgot mine a few times and always ask the person behind if they want some points and it’s always a win-win.

On a similar(kinda) note - BP costs a bit more for petrol than other stations but has loyalty card too and that’s where BP ironically becomes probably one of the cheaper petrol stations after the cash back. 🤷‍♂️

[Phil]

Clubcard Conspiracy, that could be a good band name hahah.
I am shocked that this video did not end at Tesco!

[dataterminal]

8:05 "is the reason why food is going up..." - Bank of England admits "greedflation" is a thing - the idea companies are using the cloak of the rapidly rising cost of living to widen their profit margins. 45% of companies surveyed say they plan to increase their profit margins in the coming 12 months. Almost a third (32%) expect “no material change” to margins. The top 10% of profitable businesses had successfully driven their margins to approaching 30%, and will make further progress towards this target over the next year.

[Littlegreenlightweight]

Last year i went on holiday to Shetland and the only Supermarket there is a Tesco. It had the same selection of pre-packed fresh fish as the rest of the UK when you're literally no more than a couple of miles from the sea with daily landings of whatever they can catch! Doesn't get fresher than that.

[AndyB]

I worked for tesco for a good 7 years and since the introduction of the clubcard price a lot of customers became absolutely insufferable, deliberately picking up stuff that was on clubcard price so they could make a big song and dance about it at the till like they're fighting the big bad corporation that is Tesco. No, you're not, you're making my life more difficult and achieving nothing please get in the nearest bin with your phone and send an email to head office. Why people think Tesco is gunna take over their life by knowing how many babybels they buy on a weekend is beyond me as well

[driverfilms]

Next Conspiracy Theory..Spicy Works at Tesco!
I just laugh at them. I keep forgetting about my club card points. Same as Nectar points I claim them them but never use them!

[leabrattle-parker]

Brilliant video as always.

Club card is great but the worst thing you can do with it is waste your points back in the store, look at the points deals, you can exchange them for vouchers for money off food in restaurants, cinema tickets and best of all Merlin passes.

I agree Tesco is terribly run from the top down but the store manager can change his or her stock levels and the items for that store, relying on correct stock counts and checkout through put is the worst way to replenish stock especially when shop floor stock take is done only twice a year and by an outside contractor. I could go on for ever here about the levels of incompetence within Tesco/Asda and Morrison as I've worked for all three, yes they are all exactly the same except Tesco is blue, Morrison is dark green and Asda is horrible green

[TheHappygreenfrog]

Is it too much to ask to be able to shop without having this weeks new card/voucher or whatever. I don't give a fk, I just want fair prices without having to bend over.

[ExeterCenturion]

I work for the NHS. A while ago I was working on the Summary Care Records programme. Basically, a summer of you health record is made digital, so that if you get ill nowhere near your usual home/doctor/hospital, whoever's treating you can access your latest meds, allergies, etc. People went nuts about the fact that that data might be made available to insurance companies. However, they're more than happy to use Clubcards of any sort which track EXACTLY how much alcohol and fags are consumed (possibly voiding any life insurance if they're told fibs), how many women, birth control (condoms etc), the rough age of children in your family (nappies, formula etc), but get them to sign up for something which will literally save their lives? No. Big government/big pharma will use my data.

[marktaylor]

Don't get me started on Tesco... Oh, you just did!
I have a Clubcard but dislike how they can penalise other non clubcard users for the same product, and often by a significant amount. I'd much rather have lower prices across the store.
And, whatever happened to shop locally... I do that a pay a premium over their bigger store prices 😕

On a different note, filling up with petrol at my local BP station, I was handed a BPme card, register it and you get 400 free points and also they gave me a 200 point voucher to use next time. I filled up last night and got my 200 free points and they gave me a 150 point voucher for next time. I think I'm onto a winner here 😄

[kiradotee]

What I don't like is that supermarkets (Tesco and now Sainsbury's) moving towards the model of if you give us your data you get one price, if not you get another.

In some cases like coconut water without the discount it's £4 and with it's £2.50. That's huge money difference.

[swordofomens]

This popped up ready to watch while eating my meal deal in the car, after popping into Tesco for the Sunday roast stuff. For which I used my clubcard. 👌

[DSN]

FYI. A member of staff is not allowed to lend their club card to anyone else as it is also their privilege card 2 in 1. People have been sacked for doing just that

[Nerb]

Loyalty cards are to keep you going to the same store and not go to the opposition. Data harvesting is secondary.

[andrewjohnson]

In case you're not aware, the days of getting stuck in the pension's queue on pension day are long gone. For a few years now the DWP pay pensions into a bank account. In one way it makes me sad because in one way I was looking forward to being a crotchety old fart on a Tuesday morning but when I retired last November, I found it was paid four-weekly into my bank.
On supermarkets, I've noticed that what you pay in them is also dependant on how much they think the locals can cough up and whether they can get away with not selling the bargain basement stuff. In a town 5 miles away a local store periodically hides or stops selling their 'Savers' lines. In a city 15 miles away in a low income part of that area the 'Savers' stuff is piled high.