Get 2 Co-op pizzas and a tub of Fairtrade Ben & Jerry's ice cream for £5
Until 25 August 2020
Do you have a Co-Op Membership card? It gives you 2% cashback on most of your Co-Op purchases. It costs £1, and you also get personalised offers via the Co-Op app.
Good deal but I only value the pizza's at about £1.50 each and the ice cream £2 so for me a fair price. I'd never pay the normal prices for these. Fairway to Heaven or Karamel Sutra Core?
Papa John's pizza are doing their version, buy one pizza get one free and a free tub of Ben and Jerry's. Although it's £20
FrancescaPascal that's pretty good for Papa John's, tho out of my price range at the moment, loving the coop deals as a treat atm
Total scam, be VERY VERY careful cost me 140% extra! You can beat this deal at Tesco with B&J and their ownbrand pizza.
So every seller runs and offer from time-to-time, the great sellers offer a fantastic offer in terms of price, which is clear and easy to understand. The worst offers are deceptive and misleading, here enters the Co-op at Pewsey, in Wiltshire.
You can understand why Coop, this once bastion of local shopping has fallen from favour over the decades, the only thing leading to a slight upturn in early 2020, must surely be COVID19. Possibly the only business saved by COVID19?
Coop currently run a an offer that states:
"2 pizzas + 1 Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream Tub" and this is displayed directly in front of their own brand "Meat Feast" boxed pizza, with an image that appears to show the same meat topped pizza (wanted to post it here so you can see). The offer states "£12 (lined through) and then £5)". Now the magnificent scam, you grab your pizzas, and icecream with the rest of your shopping. The checkout operator zips everything through the till. Later you discover you've been overcharged, so call the store. Here the manger tells you, you are the 'fool' as you picked up the wrong pizza (only two types of their pizzas and not the ones displayed directly behind the offer, which look exactly like the ones in the offer image are in it) so you had to pay the additional £7.00.
The checkout staff don't query you (that you are about to pay 140% more than the offer price) or prompt you about the offer (ASDA, Tesco, Lidl and Aldi staff will!) maybe they all get a cut of the overcharge?
Store manger seemed to revel in the fact Coop had scammed you. Later turns out the icecream was melted anyhow, and at least one of the pizzas smelled off, store refuse to refund the inedible items, even refusing in-store to inspect them as the manager had left instructions not to refund items!!
Well done Co-op you win 'Grocery Scammers of the Year Award 2020'
My advice steer clear of Coop, you get better, clearer offers in Lidl or Aldi (even if you buy their 'DeLuxe' ranges). Tesco normal price is always £1 cheaper than Co-op anyhow, and currently on offer for £2.50 and you don't have to buy anything else, but you can beat this deal by 2p using Tesco ownbrand pizza.
Referred to ASA and Trading Standard as deliberately misleading and deceptive
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