RM buddies up with Tesco on new voucher scheme UK schools computer supplier RM has bagged a partnership deal with Tesco for the retail giant’s forthcoming voucher collection scheme which kicks off in 2009. Tesco has merged into one catalogue its two voucher schemes - Computers for Schools and Sport for Schools and Clubs - that were previously supported by RM. Under the …
OK, so you spend bang on £10 in store. You get 1 voucher.
To get a box of 10 floppy disks, you need to collect 230 vouchers. That's £2300 if you spend dead on £10 everytime (but who does, technically you'd only get 1 voucher for spending £19.99). Wow, what great value. A box of floppies worth say £2.30 is 'charged' at £2300.
Now if you want say, a computer. You can spend a whopping £250,000 in Tesco to get a £250 PC. We get a fraction of 25,000 vouchers (nearer 9,000 in a normal year) because we're not near a Tesco.
Then you've got the time taken to count them all up, box them, courier them off, then wait 6 months for the end of line kit.
It's not great value. Sure it gives some schools a little extra, but it's a brilliant BRILLIANT marketing ploy that dupes parents in to 'helping' schools and rounding their shopping bills up for 1 more voucher.
Ungrateful? Me... No. Just realistic!
This is typical Tesco ... they can't keep their mitts off anything!
In an area near to me there are a few horseriding schools, including one for the disabled.
The local Tesco developed a range of horseriding tackle ... why? They're grocers, FFS!
The result was that local tackle suppliers ... well, you know the rest.
Still, I suppose it all helps the Bankers in Leichtenstein or wherever Tesco's bottom line is concocted.
Paris ... because it's a subsidiary of Tesco corporate Conglomerate GMBH
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