That went well, because I was in the massive West Durrington superstore about an hour ago, which is a 2 minute drive from where I work in Goring. There are also two (possibly more?) Tesco Express' in Goring, and a Tesco Esso petrol station.
Tesco in crisis
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That went well, because I was in the massive West Durrington superstore about an hour ago, which is a 2 minute drive from where I work in Goring. There are also two (possibly more?) Tesco Express' in Goring, and a Tesco Esso petrol station.
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The quality of Tesco food is poor and has been for years but that's not exclusive to Tesco all the big 4 supermarket have **** poor quality food especially meat. I tend to buy my meat at butcher if I can and avoid the supermarkets for that reason.
I think people are over-reacting over Tesco's it's not like their market share has fallen of a cliff it's dropped from around 31% to 29% in the last few years yet to read the press you would think their in the fast track to insolvency which isn't the case. What Tesco does do well if offer consumers choice and lots of it, for example as a bachelor shopping at Tesco means I can buy a wide range of fruit and veg and in the qunaity that suits me but my local Lidl offers a much small selection and it's all in big packets which I can't use up before it's goes off.
I think people are over-reacting over Tesco's it's not like their market share has fallen of a cliff it's dropped from around 31% to 29% in the last few years yet to read the press you would think their in the fast track to insolvency which isn't the case. What Tesco does do well if offer consumers choice and lots of it, for example as a bachelor shopping at Tesco means I can buy a wide range of fruit and veg and in the qunaity that suits me but my local Lidl offers a much small selection and it's all in big packets which I can't use up before it's goes off.
They have deliberately over-saturated for the purpose of gaining market share, and now their stores are cannibalising each other. This is not an immediate problem because Tesco is big enough to sit tight and absorb some attrition while their competitors' stores are forced out of business.
When they're satisfied that their lead is acceptable they'll close the stores with the biggest losses to rebalance their books.
Because their focus is on the numbers, not the customer.
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No just Tesco - because we're talking about Tescos
I don't like them and their ubiquity. I'm not adverse to supermarkets I even like Aldi! However I choose to try and buy from smaller independent as much as I can, hence why I don't buy my meat from supermarkets and often enjoy buying fruit from a green grocer as and when I can.So I'm afraid your little dig at me is completely irrelevant, sorry.
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Completely agree - we made the point on the previous page that a lot of people see food as just fuel, and that's part of the "culture" piece I was talking about, it's less important to people. However as was also discussed, people can still make decent quality meals, costing very little, with a little knowledge and skill.
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Poor quality food from Tesco? What are you people buying???
Birds Eye chicken whatever? Bernard Mathews turkey ballsack? Is it the processed junk? If it is, then the problem isnt the supermarket...
Isn't this what everyone buys......... No wonder I was getting some strange looks when I asked for them..
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Off topic but an amusing coincidence I clicked on the link above and on that page there's another link to a story about Michael Suchmacher I clicked on it and at the top there's a large photo of him and right next to it there's a small thumb nail of swastika.
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Spoon meat, sticky African waffle biscuits, sticky lasagne, sticky peas, part baked sticky discs, hydrogenized tomato flavoured dust, carbonated dipping jam, sticky potato pistols, chicken lengths, and............skewered fish coil with a fizzy porridge style dipping gravy.
Same. I used to shop at Tesco every Friday, but then the one in Watford I went to had a horrible refitting and it is awful.
A lot less food, smaller aisles etc
Common complaint around here and why a lot of people started using other stores. They used to do a good job of catering for the customer but awhile back refitted in a way that put a lot of people off - forced them to make their way through aisles of stuff tesco was trying to push before they could get to what they want, a lot less food as you mentioned, shelf layouts changed from a system that was usable by older and disabled people, etc. to trying to push what tesco wanted on the convenient shelves and many of them couldn't reach or properly browse the shelves where the stuff they wanted was, etc. and a whole lot of problems with the targets, etc. they set staff that was resulting in them being abrupt or even ignoring customers so they wouldn't get disciplined for not being "productive". (My mum has some guests over a few weeks back and I caught quite a bit of that conversation heh).
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There are too many large supermarket chains for them all to be sustainable.
Morrisons and Sainsbury's are also struggling. Asda is awful.
Do most my shopping at Aldi these days
Tesco were always awful tho. Their own brand products are really the definition of crap.
At least Sainsburys food is edible; if our local one closes down it's blinking miles to the nearest non-Tesco store
Aldi is OK but I don't get people who rave about it. They aren't selling caviar and truffles for the price of fish'n'chips. They're selling knock-off brands for the price of knock-off brands
id eat this
I live 100 yards in straight line from large Tesco building. Five floors of parking, two shopping floors, restaurant floor. I do everything in my power not to shop there. It is without a doubt the worst supermarket I have every seen in UK, in Europe, in the world. Restaurant closed, three floors of parking closed, one store floor closed, half of the remaining floor partitioned and closed, one out of three lifts working. Inside it's like Banhoff Zoo movie set, grim, drab, urine in every corner of the lift and parking lot, leaking fridges propped by several flood defence bags, wonky asbestos ceiling panels pierced by random pipes and airline pipeline repairs over the years above you. Every wall plastered in faded shades of that eighties school uniform blue and red they use for logos, but scruffier, dirtier, peeling and damaged.
They re-arranged sections few months ago and now it is completely retarded, all the heavy items are at the back, veg, milk and bread is in the furthest corner at the back, but alcohol is right on the front, between children toys and nappies. Nothing in the layout makes any sense. Cheese is adjacent to instant meal section, but imported sliced cheese is at the end of the meat section between hamburgers and milk. Coffee is next to fizzy drinks but coffee whitener and sugar is next to spices and flour. Milk is tucked behind veg section, but long life milk is in opposite diagonally section, between ethnic food and rice bags. Quick/instant rice however is in canned veg section. Noodles are not in the same section as pasta. The so called "healthy" breads - the Kargs and Rivita's are between chocolates and imported cookie boxes in confectionery alley.
Life is too short and time is too precious trying to play treasure hunt and where is Waldo in dirty, depressing, smelly store.
They re-arranged sections few months ago and now it is completely retarded, all the heavy items are at the back, veg, milk and bread is in the furthest corner at the back, but alcohol is right on the front, between children toys and nappies. Nothing in the layout makes any sense. Cheese is adjacent to instant meal section, but imported sliced cheese is at the end of the meat section between hamburgers and milk. Coffee is next to fizzy drinks but coffee whitener and sugar is next to spices and flour. Milk is tucked behind veg section, but long life milk is in opposite diagonally section, between ethnic food and rice bags. Quick/instant rice however is in canned veg section. Noodles are not in the same section as pasta. The so called "healthy" breads - the Kargs and Rivita's are between chocolates and imported cookie boxes in confectionery alley.
Life is too short and time is too precious trying to play treasure hunt and where is Waldo in dirty, depressing, smelly store.