Tesco have a two-tier pricing policy in their
supermarkets. There is one price for Tesco club card holders and another price
for non-club card holders. When you pay at a checkout at Tesco, if you can find
one that is staffed and available, you will always be asked if you're a Tesco
club card holder.
You will notice how much more exorbitantly
expensive goods are in Tesco and this is because you're subsiding the cheaper
goods of club card holders. I can't believe that the competition and marketing
authorities in Britain allow Tesco to get away with this. It really is much
cheaper to shop elsewhere where you're not subsiding the food of loyalty cards
holders. Many older people don't like using self-service tills and don't use
smart phones, so they get ripped off by supermarkets like Tesco.
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What we have at Tesco's is a clear example of the casualization of labour. I spoke to the shop steward at the SB store and he informed me that the only staff with full time contracts are those who were employed when the store opened. The rest are given part time contracts, with the opportunity of additional hours as required by the management. The introduction of the self-service tills are now being complemented by some gadget that each shopper registers his/her own purchases and then clicks into the till to pay. they are expecting their shoppers to conduct duties that were previously undertaken by their staff. These are clearly cost savings measures that are not reflected in the price being paid for goods. As there have not been any significant reductions in the prices being paid by the shoppers. I suspect that the annual profits are increasing at our expense.
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