Tesco is vying to get customers galloping back through its doors following the horse meat scandal.
The giant is also throwing down the gauntlet to its supermarket competitors, offering its customers automatic price comparison coupons.
From today the retailer will compare its prices on branded and own-label goods with those at Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s. It said its customers would receive their coupons after every buy if its prices were found to be higher than its competitors. Online customers will receive their vouchers via email.
The scheme, which is similar to Sainsbury’s Brand Match scheme, will offer customers a maximum of £10 in coupons per visit.
The company will also be going head-to-head with Asda’s “Price Guarantee” that offers to refund customers the difference, via a voucher, if an online price-comparison website does not show that their shopping is at least 10 percent cheaper than it would be.
However Tesco has stipulated that customers must buy more than 10 different products to be eligible to receive money off in its scheme.
Chris Bush, Tesco’s new UK boss, said the company was working hard to build a better Tesco and the ‘price promise’ was an important part of that.
