My local Tesco is the worst shop I have ever had a chance to leave my money in. In late 1970ies they opened huge supermarket in the very center of town, huge, ugly thatcherite, brutalist style prison look-a-like mostrocity right off the high street. 7 floors of parking, green market floor, restaurant, huge floor space, what have you.
Few years later they killed off local mum&paps shops, market stalls, veg stands, etc etc. As soon as all small traders were gone, Tesco closed market floor, restaurant, divided store floor space in half and locked four floors of parking and two out of three lifts. And moved on to build another monster hypermarket 4 miles down the road.
For the past 5 years it's easily the worst supermarket in the country - it's worse than Tesco Express outlets, worse than petrol station stores. They never have anything in stock, half empty shelves, massive queues to few open tills, leaking freezers, wet floors, overflowing toilets and missing ceiling panels. They don't have almost everything from the "Finest" range, and everything they introduce and is worth buying immediately gets discontinued. It's like a shop full of revolving "one time only" deals. And when you ask they deny any knowledge of it ever being in stock before. I literally take pictures of items and barcodes now to get them to check stock. The store is so bad, it's unbelievable. But for thousands of pensioners and people without cars in town it's the only shop to buy food. And believe me, with stuff they have on shelves it's like a rubbish bin behind real Tesco store more than actual supermarket.
Few years later they killed off local mum&paps shops, market stalls, veg stands, etc etc. As soon as all small traders were gone, Tesco closed market floor, restaurant, divided store floor space in half and locked four floors of parking and two out of three lifts. And moved on to build another monster hypermarket 4 miles down the road.
For the past 5 years it's easily the worst supermarket in the country - it's worse than Tesco Express outlets, worse than petrol station stores. They never have anything in stock, half empty shelves, massive queues to few open tills, leaking freezers, wet floors, overflowing toilets and missing ceiling panels. They don't have almost everything from the "Finest" range, and everything they introduce and is worth buying immediately gets discontinued. It's like a shop full of revolving "one time only" deals. And when you ask they deny any knowledge of it ever being in stock before. I literally take pictures of items and barcodes now to get them to check stock. The store is so bad, it's unbelievable. But for thousands of pensioners and people without cars in town it's the only shop to buy food. And believe me, with stuff they have on shelves it's like a rubbish bin behind real Tesco store more than actual supermarket.
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