Tesco Overcharging For Out-Of Date Food

Tesco customers are being short-changed by promotions which have expired but are still advertised on the shelves, a BBC investigation has found.

It revealed shoppers were overcharged at two-thirds of stores visited by an undercover reporter.

In 33 of 50 stores visited, multi-buy promotions were marked on the shelf, but the time-limited discounts were not applied at tills.

Tesco said it would double-check the accuracy of pricing at all its stores.

A reporter for BBC's Inside Out visited the stores over a three-month period.

He found multi-buy deals still on display days, weeks and - in some cases - months after the deductions were no longer being applied at the till.

Mistakes only applied to in-store offers, and not those online.

The investigation was triggered when discrepancies in receipts were discovered by a member of BBC staff.

On one occasion, the reporter told customer service staff at a store in Dudley offers for gingerbread and cat food had not gone through.

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