Tesco to dominate everything and the world?

Amp34 said:
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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Carrefour is fantastic :).
 
platypus said:
So do the supermarkets just choose crap suppliers then? Because I wouldn't touch fresh produce from the supermarkets.
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Most has been stored in cooling stores, how do you think we have 'New Potatoes' in the summer/autumn and winter, when the only months you should be able to get them is Mid March-late June..
Strawberries all year round and products such the same. they are all held in cold stores.

I'm sure R420 (nice waggon btw) will be able to tell you more about rejections of produce than I would, but I know more about production, as soon as our meats and produce get sold to our abbatoir or traders we do not know of where anything goes then.
 
I shop at Tesco, is fine for me an the Mrs. Obviously we don't appreciate good food or something....

Never had problems with the meat, veg or fruit from there either.
 
Most of my knowledge comes from the grocer and tv. I still buy from the big supermarkets I probably wont change, but they are really unscrupulous ********.

They squeeze all their suppliers to try and sell it out at the cheapest price and make the most money. Last year I read in the grocer during the worst of the recession or whatever you want to call it, Tesco called in all their suppliers basically asking them to lower their prices. You're not going to say no to your biggest customer. Saying that it was the supermarkets making more money on their own brand copies of branded products.

They buy up land leave it unused just so their competitors cant buy and develop on it.

Yeah we all want cheap food/stuff, but most likely someone along the line is being screwed over for it.
 
Aled said:
Most has been stored in cooling stores, how do you think we have 'New Potatoes' in the summer/autumn and winter, when the only months you should be able to get them is Mid March-late June..
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Have you ever grown potatoes? Obviously not, or you'd know you can get them all year round.

And besides, I support seasonal foods, it's this availability all year round that leads to such poor quality.
 
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XeNoN89 said:
Shopping at asda is like shopping in a sea of mutants and retards, atleast the asdas around here anyway.
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I went in there with my other half once and nearly went homocidal.

Why do you need to cart around your whole chuffing family?! Leave the little gobshizzles with the big gobshizzles in the car or at home! They must hate themselves quite a lot those mothers.

Needless to say we rock it with the old people in Booths and Sainsburys if we must use a supermarket.
 
Tesco may well have used some pretty questionable business tactics over the years but I would seriously recommend checking out Walmart's track record before people rate Asda as being a saintly supermarket.

The favourite tactic of Walmart is to pick a new town/territory and approach the local authority for permission to build a new store within the town limits. If the authority refuses Walmart will build it's store just outside of the town limits (therefore getting out of paying business rates), it then intentionally makes a loss for a while to undercut the local town stores and attract customers, and then once the competition has gone out of business they will push their prices up much higher.

Fortunately Asda cannot adopt these tactics in the UK, but their revenue is just as tainted as Tesco's.
 
Tefal said:
Leave small children unattended at home or in a supermarket parking lot :/


Grade A parenting advice there.
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The ~16 year olds should be at home looking after the younger ones, is what I meant. Rather than dragging their knuckles and whatnot.

Then again I grew up coming home on my own from school etc to an empty house and walked the dogs or whatever. Judging by some of the older kids you find in Asda, chaining them to the trolley might be a better idea.
 
XeNoN89 said:
Shopping at asda is like shopping in a sea of mutants and retards, atleast the asdas around here anyway.
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Milton Keynes is fortunate enough to have the Biggest Asda in the Country, so it's a rather nice place to shop, no mutants here. Much better than the Tesco, Sainsburys and Morrisons.

AcidHell2 said:
we don't have wallmart stores in the Uk.
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Actually, the one in Mitlon Keynes is basically Walmart, it even has it plastered on the front.

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platypus said:
Carrefour is fantastic :).
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Yeah this.

I quite like Eroski too, given its quite low budget. Produce is immense in choice and good quality, the stores generally cover everything.

I much preffer European supermarkets to teh overpriced tosh over here.

I worked for Tesco and they are good employers, but I don't particularly use the store unless its for a specific item or deal.

Tesco have a massive finance building next to mine, all office workers. Looks very impressive from my window, far better fascilities and the canteen looks very cool (hot and cold food, all store stuff. we have a cooker).

What if Tesco control too much of the market, could they be broken up or told to sell some? Is the takeover of supermarkets and brands ever going to stop?
 
platypus said:
Have you ever grown potatoes? Obviously not, or you'd know you can get them all year round.

And besides, I support seasonal foods, it's this availability all year round that leads to such poor quality.
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Yes I have, used to grow 300 acres of Early potatoes harvesting between late Feb and nothing left in the ground after 1st July.
Since we stopped the Earlies, I do a lot of work preparing spud ground, spraying and fertilising and digging(harvesting) potatoes..
The main reason you can get these sort of crops after November of quality which is better than Cattle feed is because they are put into large cool stores from when they we're harvested in August-September.
 
Aled said:
I'm sure R420 (nice waggon btw) will be able to tell you more about rejections of produce than I would
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I doubt that to be honest, I work out of a "Dry Goods" - Canned Food, Washing Powder, Bog Rolls, Nappies etc - Distribution Centre, rather than one that handles fresh produce.
 
Ysmalari said:
... I would seriously recommend checking out Walmart's track record before people rate Asda as being a saintly supermarket.
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Heh tell me about it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-norman/another-wal-mart-shoplift_b_279063.html

Ok, the article's not brilliantly written, but I was only actually looking for the Chinese case, I didn't even realise about the other ones.

Edit/ Yes, these were all members of staff rather than official policy (one hopes), Wal-Mart did come out after a while to say they were sorry.
 
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