Tesco - why do people shop there?

a7man

Do you live in London? If you dont you have no idea how good you have it!

HC_2

a7man wrote: »

Do you live in London? If you dont you have no idea how good you have it!

No, thank God. Do you have to put half a day aside for grocery shopping if you live in London?

Amy83

I used to have an Asda nearly on my doorstep and a Tescos even closer - good old student days.

Now I've moved down to Surrey and my choices are Co-op (not enough choice), M&S food and Sainsburys - much as I'd like to shop at M&S for the rest of my days, Sainsburys has proved to be the cheaper of the options. Sigh. Looks like I'll never be rich - though we have started buying a lot of the basics range stuff :j

MrsE_2

I'm in Surrey

We have a co-op in the village - useless

A Waitrose 2 miles away

A Tesco 3 miles away

A morrisons 7 miles away (& M&S food here too)

An Asda & sainsburys about 7/8 miles away

So nothing on very close, but everything not too far.

HC_2

I used to know Justin King, the CEO of Sainsbury's, many moons ago.

Now he is earning millions and I'm ... not. Not sure what happened there.

a7man

I live in central London close to quite a few supermarkets, they are all always packed, people get in your way to the supermarket, in the supermarket and on the way home. Then you have the traffic! There are even huge supermarkets on the outskirts, even with every till open you have to queue for at least 5 mins!

HC_2

a7man wrote: »

I live in central London close to quite a few supermarkets, they are all always packed, people get in your way to the supermarket, in the supermarket and on the way home. Then you have the traffic! There are even huge supermarkets on the outskirts, even with every till open you have to queue for at least 5 mins!

Stop it, you're elevating my BP just talking about it.

Move out of London! (Mind you, nice for theatres and lovely parks...)

HC_2

MrsE wrote: »

I'm in Surrey

We have a co-op in the village - useless

A Waitrose 2 miles away

A Tesco 3 miles away

A morrisons 7 miles away (& M&S food here too)

An Asda & sainsburys about 7/8 miles away

So nothing on very close, but everything not too far.

I live in a country-ish market town and I have Tesco, Morrisons, M&S, Sainsbury's, Asda and Waitrose within easy driving distance, so I have lots of choice.

Morrisons and Asda need their own threads with the ranting I could do (Morrisons - at least an improvement on Safeway, which never seemed to sell anything I wanted to buy, but still utterly dire; Asda - a dark claustrophobic hell. Cerberus wouldn't feel out of place at its doors).

I think I will check out Lidl, though, next time I'm in our nearest big town. They seem to have lots of fans on here, so maybe worth a visit.

brettcta

nearlyrich wrote: »

I prefer the local Tesco stores to the Asda store, the Asda is a great big ugly monstrosity that has been built without any regard to how it fits in to the area around it.

Also I find it cheaper to shop at Tesco and I get my points...

prey tell, which asda is that? i work in one of them in the north west and if it's the one i'm thinking of, it truly is a horrendously ugly building

carriebradshaw

scottishgal wrote: »

I think it's because Tesco have dominated the UK!! There is only 1 postcode in the UK that Tesco does not have a store, and that is Harrogate!

I read that somewhere too can't remember where it was now but it's rubbish anyway.There's no Tesco where I live and the nearest one is 50 miles one way or 70 miles the other,so there's lots of postcodes with no Tesco store in between