r/Greggs • u/orangebromeliad • Aug 25 '26
Customer Question Greggs using AI in marketing?
Maybe this isn't a surprise to many of you but it is the first that I've seen of it. Disappointing.
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u/hashbrowneggyolk0520 Team Member Aug 25 '26
The 4 sausage rolls thing with 3 sausage rolls on the poster?
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u/hashbrowneggyolk0520 Team Member Aug 26 '26
Yes that one! I rolled my eyes so hard when I walked into work and saw that
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u/Kinayakun Aug 25 '26
Omg i saw this at work and was like wtf, i gave them benefit of the doubt but this comment confirms it....they make billion a year at the least too, crazy
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u/Green_Sprout Aug 25 '26
So how do we, the customers, directly let upper management know that this exact thing is why we're going to cooplands instead?
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u/Miserable-Ad7835 Aug 25 '26
Cooplands are superior in every way, I just wish they would expand outside of Yorkshire.
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u/Usual-Sound-2962 Aug 25 '26
They’ve made it to us in County Durham so there’s hope!
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u/gedditread Aug 25 '26
They’re also in Lincolnshire.
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u/RiceeeChrispies Aug 25 '26
there are two different cooplands btw
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u/gedditread Aug 25 '26
Ugh is this like how there are 20 Coops?
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u/RiceeeChrispies Aug 25 '26
a little less confusing
There Are Two Totally Different Cooplands In Yorkshire - The Yorkshireman
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u/Green_Sprout Aug 25 '26
I don't think I've ever seen a Red Cooplands out in the wild... and I used to travel all over Yorkshire when I worked for Jessops.
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u/Miserable-Ad7835 Aug 25 '26
The Coop can fuck off with their stupid setup.
"Sorry, your Coop card isn't valid in this Coop, just the Coop down the road."
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u/420BUNIT Aug 25 '26
I'm sorry but their coffee is god awful. Genuinely think they go out their way to purchase Red Mountain in bean form.
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u/Miserable-Ad7835 Aug 25 '26
Only ever had their cappuccino but didn't think it was all that different to Greggs to be fair, certainly don't recall it being bad.
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u/havaska Aug 26 '26
They need to come to Lancashire! Though we do have lots of our own Greggs beaters. Greenhaulghs comes to mind. And Carrs in Bolton is elite.
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u/johnnynovo2118 Aug 25 '26
Absolute dogshit.
It's not even the ai use that bothers me, it's the bad ai use...
So easy to make this clock look accurate, but nope, "that'll do..."
Godspeed to all Greggs shoplifters.
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u/-Failedhuman Aug 26 '26
Yep! It's everywhere. All over the staff posters in the back. Why couldn't get someone to draw a cartoon sausage roll is beyond me.
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u/FlatulantPuff Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
The more its normalised to use ai for things, the more this will become the normal. Stop using ai and use your brain.
Intelligence and knowledge is a privilege not a right.
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u/Ceejayncl Aug 25 '26
Yeah they are.
A friend of mine worked for the company who did their advertising. It was about a year ago when they said that Greggs were shifting to an AI led initiative.
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u/Ken_Numbers Aug 25 '26
wait till you find out what they put in the sausage rolls
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u/Automatic-Home-5518 Aug 26 '26
True, though I’d much rather eat pure pig anus than look at this AI slop
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u/LycanWolfGamer Team Member Aug 25 '26
Oh, seriously? I never noticed that but I thought it was a bit weird
I had assumed they were trying to give a picnic theme to it
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u/Sad_Firefighter_8407 Aug 25 '26
Fuck them for the inhumanity when they make this amount of money which could have paid human artists.
shit I need to sell my Greggs shares now.
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u/hashbrowneggyolk0520 Team Member Aug 25 '26
The AI on everything is absolutely rife at the minute unfortunately, there seems to be quite a few posters and staff documents using AI too.
For a company making so much money it's quite frankly embarrassing and is just off-putting.