Tesco's latest brainwave

[Mups]

Quite interesting - however, as far as I know some people can't afford buying only healthy food - at least here in Germany - because it's much too expensive for them.  Moreover, many people prefer buying ready-made food (not really healthy), because it saves time or they no longer know how to cook a healthy dish.
In my opinion it should be quite difficult to control whether people buy healthy or junk food and you are right the only way would be to sell only healthy food at a reasonable. price.

I agree with that, Ansu.   So-called 'Organic'  things are always more expensive than the usual products too.
Even organic Milk,  or Eggs are dearer than the  usual mass-produced products,  and its not everyone who can afford these price increases.

[dextrous63]

I'm still struggling to understand why people are taking so much umbrage with Tesco, when all they're trying to do is offer individualised feedback and advice.

[Mups]

I'm still struggling to understand why people are taking so much umbrage with Tesco, when all they're trying to do is offer individualised feedback and advice.

But a lot of people, perhaps like people our age, who have been shopping for decades,  don't appear to want to be told by some 'bot'  that they are buying stuff they shouldn't.

Like I said before,  isn't that what labelling is for?    Info is already there if someone wants to know the fat content, or additives, or protein etc.

[dextrous63]

But it's only going to be advisory, or informative, surely.  Like having horrible pictures of tar ridden lungs or written warnings on cigarette packets, or "drink aware" things lurking around.

We all get ads on our devices which utilise data from cookies, to offer suggestions of what we might like based upon (recent) things we've looked at/purchased.  We take it or leave it.  Tesco is just extending the concept to help people consider other options, not demand that they follow their decrees.

Tesco isn't Keir Starmer, after all😬

[Mups]

But it's only going to be advisory, or informative, surely.  Like having horrible pictures of tar ridden lungs or written warnings on cigarette packets, or "drink aware" things lurking around.

We all get ads on our devices which utilise data from cookies, to offer suggestions of what we might like based upon (recent) things we've looked at/purchased.  We take it or leave it.  Tesco is just extending the concept to help people consider other options, not demand that they follow their decrees.

Tesco isn't Keir Starmer, after all😬

We don't know yet.   They might suggest alternatives   (which are bound to be dearer),  for all we know.
I guess we'll have to just wait and see if/when it starts.

[dextrous63]

We don't know yet.  They might suggest alternatives  (which are bound to be dearer),  for all we know.
I guess we'll have to just wait and see if/when it starts.

Exactly.  If it makes financial sense then they'll keep running with it.  If not then they'll drop it, no doubt.

[Cassandra]

... Tesco isn't Keir Starmer, after all😬

If you were to judge them by our generation's 'laissex faire' approach, all would appear unchanged. However in  the modern interventionalist 'woke' world I'm afraid I see it as a future attempt towards the 'nudge' world of deciding what you will eat, where and at what time etc. In Economics 'Pareto's law' states that 20% of the stock provides 80% of the turnover and as a generality he's been right since 1906. This principal extends to most things in life ~ 'roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes', (the "vital few")..

Since Covid, 'Tesco' in particular have applied this principal and I noticed it coming before I left. Also with their 'click and collect' and home delivery variation they skilfully funnel customers into time windows that are determined by their efficiecy co-ordinates, not the customers. This fits in with an 'Authoritarian' messianic Government, who are constantly issueing restraintive edicts by the same principal. Think how you are being processed towards Electric cars, heat pumps, zoom calls with GP's, no smoking outdoors, ID cards, immigrants are good for you, Ulez schemes, etc. The fevered stranglehold of the ridiculous 'track & trace' system that wasted £35 billion during the pandemic is the way they want to go. 'Conditioning and Control' for the sake of it becomes the aim in itself.

George Orwell and Aldous Huxley saw it nearly a century ago, through their titles '1984' and 'Brave New World'. Insiduous suggestion and sub liminal introvention is already here.

[Michael Rolls]

I have a Tesco delivery between 1400 and 1500 every Monday. As I order four weeks ahead I could, should I wish, take any time I liked and any day. The beauty of Tesco's system is that you can modify an order up to 2346 on the day before delivery. Don't think that I have ever not amended an order. Tomorrow, for instance, I will be placing an order for delivery  on the 21st of October

[klondike]

Lidl have an excellent system too. I can pick just about any day and a convenient time at the very last minute and change my mind on any buying item right up to the moment the checkout operator scans it.

[dextrous63]

George Orwell and Aldous Huxley saw it nearly a century ago, through their titles '1984' and 'Brave New World'. Insiduous suggestion and sub liminal introvention is already here.

Scary indeed.  Think I might change my name to Logan, and make a run for it.  

[Raven]

Think how you are being processed towards Electric cars, heat pumps, zoom calls with GP's, no smoking outdoors, ID cards, immigrants are good for you, Ulez schemes, etc
George Orwell and Aldous Huxley saw it nearly a century ago, through their titles '1984' and 'Brave New World'. Insiduous suggestion and sub liminal introvention is already here

Nothing short of red hot needles under my finger nails would make me switch to an electric car. 

[JBR]

Nothing short of red hot needles under my finger nails would make me switch to an electric car. 

I completely agree, and I was very pleased to hear that the number of fools falling for the EV con is now beginning to noticeably fall.  
Despite that, our inept government is still trying to persuade - or drive - everyone to buy EVs in their ridiculous attempts to stop the world following its natural changes, by looking into imposing financial deterrents on those who continue to buy ICE cars.
Despite Sir Kneel's stupidity, EV sellers are now beginning to worry about how to get rid of the things!

[klondike]

By 2030 unless the law gets changed you just won't be able to buy a new ICE car. The infrastructure supporting them (ie petrol stations spares and repairs) will decline to the point they can't realistically be driven. Bit like a BEV now for many.

[JBR]

By 2030 unless the law gets changed you just won't be able to buy a new ICE car. The infrastructure supporting them (ie petrol stations spares and repairs) will decline to the point they can't realistically be driven. Bit like a BEV now for many.

By 2030 I shall be 78 years old, and probably past caring.
On the other hand, by 2030 the inept Labour government will hopefully be a defeated party never to rise again.

[Cassandra]

By 2030 I shall be 78 years old, and probably past caring.
On the other hand, by 2030 the inept Labour government will hopefully be a defeated party never to rise again.

I'm 78 and can say that my caring is now past me ...