Tesco Items at The Reject Shop

scorpionsa on 09/09/2020 - 12:46
Last edited 10/09/2020 - 10:32 by 1 other user

So I’ve seen this reported on news.com.au a few times and I’m genuinely perplexed that The Reject Shop is going to be selling Tesco home brand products. Here is the latest article

As someone who spent 2 years living in the UK recently, apart from Aldi the home brand items from Tesco were by far the worst quality and at the prices claimed in this article you can actually get most of these things cheaper in Australian supermarkets. If they were importing things from a decent supermarket which was known for quality (ie Marks and Spencer or Waitrose (although you certainly wouldn’t get a decent price for anything at Waitrose)I could see this of being interest, but I can’t see why I’d wanna pay more to buy Tesco’s shittest chocolate biscuits than buying Tim Tams when their 1/2 price at Woolies…

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  • scorpionsa on 09/09/2020 - 12:47
    +3

    Also I’ll always be perplexed how Aldi is amazing here but utterly shizer in the UK.

    • DashCam AKA Rolts on 09/09/2020 - 12:56
      +2

      Thought it might have been because of the Aldi Nord / Aldi Süd issue, but the UK and Australia are both Aldi Süd.
      Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi

    • dasher86 on 09/09/2020 - 13:02
      +6

      It's because a large portion of what Aldi stocks in Australia is made in Australia.
      UK seemed to import everything when I was there.

      • netjock on 09/09/2020 - 14:15

        Even the jams from Europe are pretty good. Blueberry Jam $4 at Woolies and $3.50 from Aldi both from France.

        • RockyRaccoon on 09/09/2020 - 21:58
          +1

          Funny, the Aldi Blueberry Jam I have says Made in Germany and was I think $2.49

    • jtc13 on 09/09/2020 - 16:42

      Last time I visited ALDI in the UK I loved it. Had no problems with quality and was impressed. I am a fan of Waitrose as well.

  • GG57 on 09/09/2020 - 13:05
    +5

    The article is (yet another) ad, this time for the Reject Shop.
    What a waste of journalistic training to have to put your name on that article.

    In relation to the Tesco products, if you don't want / like them, don't buy them.
    It is not as though the Reject Shop are going to stock Waitrose or M&S branded items.

    • scorpionsa on 09/09/2020 - 13:23

      I fully agree and I won’t be buying any Tesco items. Just thought it would make for some interesting discussion on what is a bargain website.

      And whilst I agree it’s unlikely the Reject Shop are going to stock Waitrose or M&S, they could have at least opted for Sainsburys or Morrisons. Heck even what ASDA serves up would be of higher quality.

      • Hybroid on 09/09/2020 - 16:31
        +1

        Heck even what ASDA serves up would be of higher quality.

        I'm sorry, what? Tesco product quality is miles better than Asda.

    • brendanm on 09/09/2020 - 13:35
      +2

      News.com.au is truly a blight on humanity. Did they at least get the spelling correct in this "article"? I can't bring myself to read it.

      The reject shop is going to be selling Tesco, and that's a Good Thing!

      • GG57 on 09/09/2020 - 13:44

        When you copy/paste from a press release, you inherit the spelling / grammar from that release. I didn't spot anything in this one, plus they quoted a "…Mouths of Mums Facebook group member…" saying how great it is, so we can all sleep at night now.

        The byline belongs to Kathy Skantzos; apparently a "Finance Editor"!!

        To be fair, this "news" article is also showing up in the Daily Mail, Insider Retail, 9News, 9Now, lifestyle.com.au, KIIS1065, Retail and Leisure International, and probably a few more.

    • Cluster on 09/09/2020 - 13:49
      +3

      News.com.au is 25% news, 25% gossip rag, and 50% advertising masquerading as news.

      For some reason they love to flog KMart and Aldi wares. Here is a good example:

      The front page has "Bloodshed" on the article's header. Unless customers were stabbing each other this morning it's ridiculous to use that word.

      https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/home/aldis-149-air-fryer-s…

      • GG57 on 09/09/2020 - 13:54
        +2

        But they quote "Facebook group Aldi Mums", so some serious journalistic research going on there.

  • WoodYouLikeSomeCash on 09/09/2020 - 13:14

    Be interesting if Tesco Mobile comes to AUS as well. Obviously not the best deals on their page (all have a limited amount of calls/text) but could change if they bring it to AUS.

    • netjock on 10/09/2020 - 13:29

      Would be "Reject Mobile"

  • innov on 09/09/2020 - 13:26
    +1

    I remember I bought a 12 pack of Tesco beer for 6 quid back in 2012.

    Did the job as any beer would do but easily the worst beer I’ve ever had.

  • netjock on 09/09/2020 - 14:14

    As someone who spent 2 years living in the UK recently, apart from Aldi the home brand items from Tesco were by far the worst quality and at the prices claimed in this article you can actually get most of these things cheaper in Australian supermarkets.

    Tesco version of home brand is just as nasty as home brand from here. Buying Woolies / Coles brand here you need to check where it is made, if made in Oz you have a change it is slightly inferior product coming from one of the big manufacturers.

    If they were importing things from a decent supermarket which was known for quality (ie Marks and Spencer or Waitrose (although you certainly wouldn’t get a decent price for anything at Waitrose)

    All of the major UK chains have most of the time bad generic products whether it is Sainsburys, Asda or Morrisons with exception of Waitrose.

    Supermarket generic brain but step up like Sainsburys "Taste the difference" is quite good and priced about same as Australia generic brand.

    Reject shop selling Tesco brand products just goes to show how bad Tesco generic is. I'd be interested to see how much Reject shop is going to try to gouge from customers trying to flog the stuff.

    • Luo18740 on 09/09/2020 - 14:24
      +1

      Prices for some stuff is on their website.

      There was also an ad, sorry 'story' about this on A Current Affair last night.

      • netjock on 09/09/2020 - 14:30
        +2

        Prices for some stuff is on their website.

        Prices are dreadful.

        • Luo18740 on 09/09/2020 - 15:09

          Yep, agreed.

          No idea why they are importing Home Brand flour and pasta etc from the UK at all.

        • scorpionsa on 09/09/2020 - 15:17
          +1

          Some of the prices on the website are even worse than the ones in the news.com.au ‘story’

    • scorpionsa on 09/09/2020 - 15:19

      Agreed re ‘the taste the difference’ being similar to the Australian generic. It was also similarly priced to the Australian generic. But the bottom basic generics in the UK whilst cheaper than what you get in Oz are just awful.

  • Starlight8 on 09/09/2020 - 16:20

    Oh man, i was excited to see more European brands come to Australia.

    When holidaying in Europe last year i only went into Tesco to buy bottled water so im unaware of the quality. If the consensus here saids Tesco quality is bad then they just lost a potential customer!

    I was quite sad when kaufland pulled out of Aus! We need more variety!!!!

    • scorpionsa on 09/09/2020 - 16:35

      There are plenty of decent European brands out there. Tesco is not one of them. And I guess as of the end of this year they won’t be a European brand anymore.

      Reject could have made an agreement with Carrefour or Albert Heijn or any number of other places…

      • scorpionsa on 09/09/2020 - 16:39

        In the UK I was also impressed by Lidl which I believe is owned by Kaufland. The quality in Lidl is very similar to Aldi in Australia.

    • netjock on 10/09/2020 - 13:33

      Tesco generic water there is types:

      15p (25c) for 2L table water (same at Sainsburys) which is just filtered tap water
      45p (80c) for mineral water Ashbeck (by Tesco) which is decent water

      Ashbeck by Tesco is like middle to upper class of Tesco generic. It is a branded white label product.

  • slow on 09/09/2020 - 16:25

    Same reason people pay for Heineken here as a fancy imported beer, whereas in the UK it is regarded as cheap and nasty.

    Same for VB in the UK

    • scorpionsa on 09/09/2020 - 16:37

      The place I lived had an ‘Oz’ themed bar and they served Heineken. I could never understand why. Maybe because they thought Aussies thought it was fancy?

    • innov on 09/09/2020 - 16:38

      The Dutch don't even drink Heineken

    • netjock on 10/09/2020 - 13:33

      Like we drive Mercs thinking it is luxury but in Germany they are taxis.

      • GG57 on 10/09/2020 - 13:43

        Mercedes stopped being luxury cars years ago, unless you are in the top of the range models

        • netjock on 10/09/2020 - 14:26

          We know but not everyone else does. Still plenty of people buying A class but which probably an F in finance class.

        • [Deactivated] on 10/09/2020 - 14:30
          -1

          Mercedes never claimed to be a luxury car manufacturer, that's perception. They have always sold a range of cars for the middle market upwards. They made regular family sedans (E class or equivalent) all the way up to Maybach S classes, and AMG One Hypercars. Even within the E class range, you can get a low performance small diesel engine model with plastic seats, (which you can pick up for sub $70k sometimes if you shop around), or you can get an ultra luxury Designo interior version. In the last few decades they even stepped down market, first into small sedans like the C class, and more recently into small cars like the A and B classes. Even within those cars, there are different specs, from basic to luxurious. Mercedes Australia don't tend to import the base models, but the street price on an A class, after the initial launch mark ups, tends to be similar to a spec for spec VW Golf. It's just that you cant get the A160 with cloth seats in Australia, to compete with $30k Golfs.

  • Brian McGee on 10/09/2020 - 07:28

    Did someone say Waitrose?

  • OzHunterNSW on 10/09/2020 - 12:49

    Reject is just that… reject.
    If you complain about the quality… simply reject it

  • MrBear on 10/09/2020 - 14:22
    +1

    When I lived in the UK (ahem) 25 years ago, the homebrand products were fantastic quality and I always wondered why Woolies, Coles, and other supermarkets in Australia had really crappy homebrand products.

    I always bought their homebrand products, even the homebrand Bourbon which was £5 cheaper and helped keep my back-packing lifestyle going…

    • netjock on 10/09/2020 - 14:28
      -2

      But you are talking about M&S type of home brand. Now they all raced to the bottom. UK minimum wage only GBP 7 an hour which at the moment is AUD $12 and hour. People can literally afford home brand half our prices.

      Boris Johnson with Brexit is just selling a dream which was never a reality of a glorious Britain.

      • MrBear on 11/09/2020 - 09:33
        +1

        Nope, it was Tesco, ASDA and Sainsbury for me.
        None of whatever else you said made any sense.

        • netjock on 11/09/2020 - 09:41
          -2

          You do have a odd sense of the British supermarket hierarchy.

          That is because you lived there 25 years ago.

          I am speaking about with less than 3 years ago.

          Majority of the people in Australia doesn't realise how low the minimum wage in the UK is because most who relocate over there are skilled professionals (accountants, lawyers etc).

          When you went their 25 years ago working at a pub might be similar wages to Australia but not anymore.

  • MrBear on 13/09/2020 - 22:07
    +1

    You do have a odd sense of the British supermarket hierarchy.
    That is because you lived there 25 years ago.

    Yeah, i kind of mentioned it was 25 years and you said it was M&S. I corrected you because you were wrong.

    Then you blathered on about Boris and minimum wage now and stuff that has absolutely nothing with my comment.

    You have a odd sense of commenting.

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