I made cheese straws, cornflake cakes and some veg soup... Health and safety risk...
I did however draw a pot, fork, rolling pin many times. I will never forget what a fork looks like again...
Tesco in crisis
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I made cheese straws, cornflake cakes and some veg soup... Health and safety risk...
I did however draw a pot, fork, rolling pin many times. I will never forget what a fork looks like again...
I made cheese straws, cornflake cakes and some veg soup... Health and safety risk...
I did however draw a pot, fork, rolling pin many times. I will never forget what a fork looks like again...
Can you show the rest of us what one looks like?
We've been shopping in our local farm shop now for about 5 years for everything fresh and have really noticed a massive increase in the amount of people that are shopping there in the last year or so. The place is packed out most weekends and they have had to take on additional staff to deal with it. I simply couldn't go back to supermarket fruit and vegetables now as the quality is significantly poorer from them. Yes you pay slightly more for things like fresh milk and dairy stuff but its all local produce from neighboring farms which we don't mind supporting.
I actually think the quality is better despite being cheaper.
They don't bother with any ********, no massive ad campaigns, no price wars, no fancy decor, even the staff look miserable as sin. They don't select fruit and veg based on looks they get the ugly tasty stuff no one else wants
It's brilliant, means they don't need to overcharge for crappy food they can actually provide something decent.
I've bought stuff in there before which was excellent too, tools, camping gear and stuff like that. For the money it was insane.
I agree more teaching about food at school should be required, but good teaching. Food tech was an hour of ****ing about chucking eggs out the window when I was at school and I actually cooked and enjoyed cooking back then and had done since I was a kid. It was the way it was taught, waste of time and no one took it seriously.
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Funnily enough, I've always found the Aldi staff to be really nice.
I'm pretty convinced the fruit and veg is equivalent quality to Tesco (no better, no worse), but it's a more appropriate price for what is pretty crap produce.
Oh don't get me wrong they're friendly enough but they're not in any way instructed to have some fake interaction with you.
You know they're not happy to be there, they know you're not happy to be there. It's just honest.
Lidl has better salad, the peppers and tomatoes actually have flavour. The ones from places like tesco are flavourless and bitter, the tomatoes don't even smell like tomatoes in tescos.
You know they're not happy to be there, they know you're not happy to be there. It's just honest.
Lidl has better salad, the peppers and tomatoes actually have flavour. The ones from places like tesco are flavourless and bitter, the tomatoes don't even smell like tomatoes in tescos.
They (Aldi) are one of the better paid customer facing staff in the retail business.
Mine in my area are cheerful, despite the mad rush of beeping and loading back into the cart, they often pace and help with the loading especially on delicate items.
Better than my local Morrisons resting B. face staff.
I did shop at Lidl in Leatherhead, most of them were miserable though.
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Hopefully this will make way for higher quality shops! I miss all the small green grocers/butchers
I wish, but isn't part of the problem that it's the cheaper but decent quality (ish) places like Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons that are taking their market share?
People don't have the cash to pay independent grocers/butches prices.
The only bad thing about the Chesterfield Tesco is the travelator. Why is it so slow? Wouldn't be so bad if you could push the trolley up to go quicker
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How on earth did they manage to get in such a state in their position of power and dominance?
GREED. Simples
Nail on the head, greed kills a lot of businesses.
If you do things right and you invest in your future success you'll do well. If you grab every ****ing penny you can and screw people over and bend the rules don't cry when you get your comeuppance.
I've seen it dozens of times, it's been the demise of a number of highstreet firms.
If you do things right and you invest in your future success you'll do well. If you grab every ****ing penny you can and screw people over and bend the rules don't cry when you get your comeuppance.
I've seen it dozens of times, it's been the demise of a number of highstreet firms.
I don't. Tesco is a convenient hub for everything I could want, from clothes, to food, to petrol. The prices are reasonable, there is a superstore near me, it is open 24 hours a day.
If they go down the pan, the stores will probably be bought out by competitors, but there will be an inconvenient transitional period I would expect. Not to mention all the people who would either lose their jobs or suddenly have a different job with a different employer whether they like it or not.
If they go down I expect Asda will take over. They are owned by the Walmart giants, surely they wouldn't miss the opportunity to buy out a few superstores in prime locations... I don't like Asda.
Well I love Tesco... Screw the highstreet shops they stomped over, its called progress.
Cheap frozen veg, cheap skimmed milk powder (no other store does this), cheap oats, cheap cottage cheese, cheap low fat natural yoghurt, cheap wholemeal bread, cheap milk.
Thats like 70% of my diet right there and its all good quality stuff. Nuts, fruit and meat are kinda pricey though but to be fair I haven't seen any better from Asda. Lidl have cheap fruit, sometimes meat too and you tend to get more of it.
Cheap frozen veg, cheap skimmed milk powder (no other store does this), cheap oats, cheap cottage cheese, cheap low fat natural yoghurt, cheap wholemeal bread, cheap milk.
Thats like 70% of my diet right there and its all good quality stuff. Nuts, fruit and meat are kinda pricey though but to be fair I haven't seen any better from Asda. Lidl have cheap fruit, sometimes meat too and you tend to get more of it.