Tesco - why do people shop there?

nosierosie

hi all i do my shopping through my supermarket and it tells you what it would cost at asda sainsburys ocado and tesco and mine is always cheaper at tesco it was £21 dearer at asdas for the same things and about £20 dearer at sainsburys and £40 dearer at ocacdo that is one expensive place hope it helps why not try and do shopping list on there and see what you can save and see which works out the cheapest for you

susan1

as one of the council scum, i shop at tescos because it is near the hospital i work in, next time i am responsible for a ward full of 28 patients i will re-member i am "now't but scum"

Minerva69

I have an Asda 5 minutes drive away, it dominates the town I live in as it also owns other buildings in the town and rents them out. I don't shop there unless I'm desperate and don't have time to go anywhere else. The staff are rude and unhelpful, the fruit & veg is going off when you buy it, it's always busy as it's the only supermarket in town and their non-food range is very limited. I ordered online 3 times, the delivery was over an hour late on 2 occasions and was full of substitutes.

There is a Tesco's about 3 miles away, it's a large one but they sell more non-food stuff than food. The food is poor quality and I've found things on sale past their sell-by date. I tried getting it delivered for a few weeks but stopped when they sent something that was 3 months past its sell-by date (reported to Trading Standards). One driver also claimed he couldn't find our house because he didn't know how to use the sat nav in the van, and deliveries were often late. I don't shop there now apart from very occasionally calling in for non-food items. Have found this to be a very enlightening site about Tescos: http://www.verylittlehelps.com/index.php

I learnt to drive last year and now I travel 6 miles to go to Sainsburys, they check their prices against Tesco so are about the same price. The petrol station is always the cheapest in the area and I get Nectar points. The staff are friendly and I always do a large shop on my own, the checkout staff always wait until I get everything on the conveyor before they start putting it through - this is really helpful for me and no other supermarket I've been to has ever done this. They are building an Asda right next door to the Sainsburys I go to, I'll be interested to see how this affects Sainsburys. I'm hoping they'll be having even more special offers on!

Engadine

I use both Asda and Tesco, Asda tends to be cheaper for a lot of the basics that I buy each week but Tesco stock a lot of things I like that my local Asda doesn't. Tesco's fruit and veg is always fresher and you get club card points. Tesco are also a lot better at taking money off coupons than Asda.

thelurch

I only shop at Tescos because of their coupon policy which has enabled us to spend around £3 a month on food shops including alcohol instead of £50 a week,for over a year.

OH and the points!

valk_scot

I have all the big named supermarkets within an easy drive. Tesco is within walking distance, Asda five minutes away. I used to use Asda all the time but when the local Tesco opened I switched.

Why? Well, I agree with other posters that Asda is grubby. My local one is a huge Walmart emporium one now and the shelves of non-food goods are always untidy, clothes on the floor and falling off the hangers etc. It looks like the aftermath of a jumble sale sometimes. In the food area the floor has that faintly sticky feel and the fresh meat section always has a faint, unpleasant smell, sorry to say. The fish counter frankly stinks. Plus the other depressing thing is that while their are bargains to be had, they also seem to stock a much larger proportion of really low price low quality goods, plus go more for the cheap, greasy, readymade, junk food type of foodstuff. I've got no problem with buying the odd ready meal or convenience product now and again, but Asda don't seem to have gone for the healthy eating message as much as other supermarkets, have they? If I had no other choice I expect I could manage to get my normal sort of shop there, yes, and perhaps even save a couple of ££ doing it, but frankly the whole experience of going in there depresses me.

Sarahsaver

The grubbiest supermarket round here is Morissons! Its got really narrow aisles and the floor looks mucky. So, If I shopped by car i would not go there, but we are near to a sainsburys, Asda or Tesco, about equal distance.
i have had an Asda delivery today, just staple goods i am ok with from there, I do not get the ready meal type stuff anyway, and don't much trust the fresh meat. At least i got some more expensive frozen prawns, with their substitution policy they don't charge the extra for more expensive substitutes

competitionscafe

Tesco - depressing place - only use it for basics as it's the nearest supermarket and open until 10pm, but for fresh fruit and veg our local shops are much cheaper, for fresh fish the local fishmonger is far better quality and cheaper than Tesco and same goes for the butcher. As for bread the local bakery is more expensive than Tesco but again quality is much higher.

Therefore I avoid Tesco (and supermarkets in general) for meat, fish, and most fruit and veg and bread and only use it for occassional basics, mostly when on offer. Lidl is okay for a few things like olive oil, parmesan cheese, chocolate (decent quality and price).

Interesting thing I noticed the other day in Tesco - get cashew nuts from the 'bakery' section and (price per kg) they work out at half the price of cashew nuts from the 'wholefood' section - so basically just a way to make more profit by marketing the same product as a healthy 'wholefood' option! :mad:

competitionscafe

HC wrote: »

Waitrose possibly is a little more expensive than the other main supermarkets, but there are other things people take into account. I do a good percentage of my shopping in Waitrose - it's close to me, the parking's excellent, the customer service is second to none, they have QuickCheck, their own-brand and fresh products are of good quality, they have higher ethical standards than the other supermarkets, and my local store is light and pleasant - all in all it's a nicer 'shopping experience', if I can bring myself to type such a ghastly phrase.

I would agree with that - particularly about the staff being pleasant and helpful, which is not the case in Tescos! I complained about a damaged product in Tescos and they could not have been less interested. But the best thing about Waitrose is going in around 6pm and bargain hunting the reduced items - the cheese counter in particular where items can be reduced by up to 75% - most cheese keeps long after some arbitrary 'sell by date' and in the case of cheeses like brie and camembert they reduce them just when they are getting nice and ripe and ready to eat!

rancid-a

I tend to buy the same stuff every week - junk food mainly! (single, no one else to feed) and my shopping tends to get split between Asda, FarmFoods & Morrisons. If I can't get my Pepsi/Pies/Ice cream cheap at one supermarket, I'll get it at the other, I cant really say whichis the overall cheapest.

I will say I hate shopping at my local Morrisons in Wakefield for other reasons though. The checkout staff all seemed to be trained in the art of pushing you though the checkout as quickly as possible with total disregard for yourself or the person in front of you who's still bagging her items whilst your stood there looking on helplessly as Jabba-the-bloody-Hutt throws your fresh cream cakes down the conveyor belt to a fate worse than 'Hostel II' .

Grrr.