{"id":140978,"date":"2023-09-07T12:52:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/?p=140978"},"modified":"2023-09-07T12:52:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:52:24","slug":"tesco-is-slammed-for-advertising-vodka-as-essential-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/world-news\/tesco-is-slammed-for-advertising-vodka-as-essential-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesco is slammed for advertising vodka as &apos;essential&apos; for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tesco is slammed for advertising vodka as &#8216;essential&#8217; for students at store next to Glasgow university<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Tesco put bottles of vodka on shelves above signs reading &#8216;Student Essentials&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The\u00a0 bottles appeared in a Tesco store on Byres Road near Glasgow University<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tesco has been slammed for advertising vodka as essential for students at a store next to Glasgow university.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bottles of vodka appeared on shelves alongside signs with &#8216;Student Essentials&#8217; written on them at Tesco Express on Byres Road, in Glasgow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The promotion saw four different types of the spirit marketed to undergraduates at Glasgow University, which currently has more than 25,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Student Essentials&#8217; vodkas included 35cl bottles of Smirnoff and Glens alongside 35cl and 70cl bottles of Tesco&#8217;s own brand vodka.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shopper Alistair McIntosh, 62, was horrified by the signs as he slammed Tesco for its &#8216;irresponsible&#8217; marketing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/12\/75163305-12491545-image-m-5_1694085539317.jpg\" height=\"475\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tesco marketed bottles of vodka as &#8216;Student Essentials&#8217; at a shop near Glasgow University<\/p>\n<p>The shopper branded the display in the Tesco Express store in Glasgow city centre as &#8216;shocking&#8217; and &#8216;irresponsible.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Included in the display were bottles of\u00a0 Smirnoff for \u00a311.75, Glen&#8217;s priced at \u00a39 and Tesco own brand for \u00a37.50.<\/p>\n<p>The marketing display also had 70cl bottles of Tesco&#8217;s own brand vodka on offer at prices of \u00a314.50 a bottle.<\/p>\n<p>The mini-supermarket is just yards from the University of Glasgow &#8211; which has over 25,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>Byres Road is a major road that runs through the centre of Glasgow&#8217;s West End.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/12\/75163307-12491545-image-a-6_1694085565110.jpg\" height=\"348\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The promotion appeared in Tesco&#8217;s store on Byres Road, in Glasgow, near the city&#8217;s university<\/p>\n<p>Mr McIntosh, 62, who was shocked to see the display, said: &#8216;I just popped in to pick up a few items.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I thought it was a shocking and irresponsible approach to marketing. How can it be essential for a students?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The shop is right next to the uni,&#8217; the 62-year-old said.\u00a0&#8216;It is pathetic and wrong in every way.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The supermarket giant said it has now removed the Student Essentials signs.<\/p>\n<p>A Tesco spokesperson said: &#8216;This was an oversight and the signage has now been removed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12491545\/Tesco-slammed-advertising-vodka-essential-students-store-Glasgow-university.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesco is slammed for advertising vodka as &#8216;essential&#8217; for students at store next to Glasgow university Tesco put bottles of vodka on shelves above signs reading &#8216;Student Essentials&#8217;\u00a0 The\u00a0 bottles appeared in a Tesco store on Byres Road near Glasgow University Tesco has been slammed for advertising vodka as essential for students at a store [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tesco is slammed for advertising vodka as &amp;apos;essential&amp;apos; 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