Tesco to dominate everything and the world?

Mr. Anderson said:
Well, seen as Tesco are bound by law to not false advertise, they have printed on their milk "We pay a premium to our dairies" or similar. Where as the opposition is some random person on the internet.
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What you mean like the half price offers that were risen the month before so they can reduce it back to normal and call it an offer?

"We pay a premium to our dairies" could be a discretionary goodwill gesture of a penny a pint... after they've knocked several pence off when negotiating their contract. The farmer is still shafted.

According to the Tiscali advert that's within these laws their broadband was fast and reliable... it doesn't necessarily mean that's the case.
 
Amp34 said:
Innovative? How?

All the extra they do is cheap no name TV's and some rubbish clothes!

At least Sainsburys sell Panasonic. :p
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They launched a value range of product before any other retailer, yet were told it wouldn't work. Now look at all the value ranges other supermarkets offer, even Sainsbury's offer their "Sainsbury's Basic" range.

Clubcard, on-line shopping, Personal Finance - all done bigger and better than any other Grocery Multiple in the UK.

For Tesco to challenge Wal-Mart and Carrefour, they need to be successful in Asia as well as their Fresh and Easy picking up in the US.

The UK for Tesco is their most profitable market and they're also quite strong in CEE.

I supply some FMCG brands to Tesco - I like them :)
 
The Supermarkets are destroying farmers, this isn't a recent thing, it has been going on for well over 20years.
The Government arn't helping the farmers by scrapping livestock payment schemes and by taking 'subs' off the Supermarkets to put the farmers on their knees so that they can get the lowest price for products.
Dairy is one of the worst effected industries in farming, basically, 3 big Dairy firms went bust last year because of bad prices from the supermarkets- DFoB (Dairy Farmers of Britain, a farmer owned Co-Operative)..They we're promised prices of +35p/litre and only got 26p/litre last April/May and this put them into administration and within days they had thousands of farmers still producing milk but with no buyer, a vast amount of milk was therefore 'dumped' due to no other firms such as Milk Link or Robert Wiseman Dairies being able to handle the amount of milk which was being handed over to them.

Here is the Milk Price Table for the month of November 2009. These are the top price averages, the Farmer would be getting a little bit lower than this, with the odd very small farmer who has plenty of money behind them to put lots of money into added products such as 'Butterfat Extra' to increase butterfats etc so that they can increase there ppl by a fraction.
http://www.fwi.co.uk/gr/milkpricestable.pdf

4 years ago, farms down here (West Wales) needed 17.5p/litre to break even and they we're getting 13p/litre..
The hours in dairy are the most unsocialable, how many people on these forums get up at 4am, work right through until 7pm (and many disturbances overnight due to cows calving etc) would work those hours 365days a year from the age of 13-70.

At the bottom line, How much do you pay for a litre of milk and how much for a litre of water in the Supermarkets?

Aled.
 
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We spent 2 years out of the Supermarkets. It is actually quite hard now. Meat and veg are easy. Its all the other stuff. Loo roll, spices, alcohol, pasta. We did most of it through running a food group but that stopped when we moved and Tesco became too convenient again.
 
romperstomper said:
Tesco is rubbish after 10pm ,no customer service ,so if you get over charged at the till they tell you to come back during the day :mad:

Also very few staff speak English at night .
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I have also found this! Why just the other night I was speaking with the checkout girl and, at the stroke of 10pm, she switched, mid sentence, to Mandarin. Luckily I am fluent and our conversation continued to a satisfactory conclusion.
 
we used to go to the market in town to buy most things but got lazy and started going back to tesco, one thing i refuse to buy from any supermarket is meat tho.
 
msm722 said:
I shop at Asda.
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this.

asda are actually cheaper on main brand stuf. the only place they are more expensive is in their home brand stuff - hence why tescos keeps saying how much cheaper they are.

fact is tescos home brand stuf is awful and tasteless crap.
 
G-MAN2004 said:
Is one disallowed from preferring a store that is not in their country? :confused:

It may not be over here, but I've been in enough Wal-Marts to form an opinion of them.
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In which case Carrefour >*

Well sort of, european supermarkets are generally much nicer than British ones, mostly because they contain far more fresh foods and less processed rubbish. In a lot of places you still need to go to counters get a good selection of meat for example, usually cut by people who look like they know what they are doing, unlike here whereyou spend your time worrying if the person holding the knife is actually trying to cut their fingers off...:eek::p
 
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