From our information, most of the stores have now completed the price changes, however – a number of compliance managers and PID assistants have contacted us to express their concern that all is not well in the Tesco Lands.
Obviously, with Tesco failing to track the price changes, the stores have had to set-up their own trackers – the concern is that no-where near the expected quantity of labels had been sent, many departments have completed some price verification routines today on affected areas, we have recieved faxes of paperwork showing PV routines showing price discrepancies of more than 67% on one mod alone! – i.e over half of all price labels on one area alone is incorrect!!, Compliance managers are concerned that Tesco’s Head Office have managed to pass the problem to stores and that all the flak will be directed at the PI departments rather than the H/O staff responsible for this farce!!
“Traders are required to display clearly their prices inclusive of VAT. For a period up to 14 days, they are permitted under the Price Marking Order 2004 (SI 2004/102) to let consumers know, by way of a general notice, that an adjustment in price, to take account of the VAT change, will be made at the till.”
The Order was amended in December to give 28 days for price changes.”
THIS DOES NOT GIVE TESCO’s THE RIGHT TO OVERCHARGE DUE TO POOR PRICE INTEGRITY HEAD OFFICE POLICIES.
We look forward to recieving more details from you all in the next week!!
January 3rd, 2010 at 11:45 pm
PV’d 1 area subject to change, loads of errors, PV’d an area not affected and loads of errors too -Guess we are all gonna have to PV the whole freakin stores again – god HO are shite!!!