Tesco worst supermarket

marmitepotato

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2013/feb/20/tesco-voted-uks-worst-supermarket

No surprise then!

Edwardia

I had to paste the URL in to get it to work.. 11,000 Which ? members polled in October 2012 put Waitrose 1st, Aldi 2nd, Lidl 3rd, Morrisons Sainsburys and ASDA were in the middle Co-op nearly last and Tesco last.

The comments are interesting. Thanks for sharing marmitepotato.

My ones would be
1. Ocado
2. Waitrose
3.Lidl
4.Sainsburys's
5. Tesco
6. ASDA
7. Morrisons

marmitepotato

I agree I would put Morrisons last, along with Tesco.

zippybungle

No surprise to me, I can't stand Tesco!

I have always found Sainsburys staff to be very helpful though.

Zippy x

Middy

It depends on how to poll it on:
. The prices?
. Their own products?
. Customer service when phoning their customer service line
. Customer service on the shop floor
. Clear pricing with offers. Sainsburys is not good for this imo as displayed with Skyfall. The prices are shown as £7 and £12 for DVD and Blu-ray respectively BUT you have to spend £30 on groceries (ins small print) . Otherwise its £14.99/£18.99. We had so many customers moaning about it to us. One customer that pre-ordered the film accused me of being deceitful because I knew the price of the disc when she put down the deposit. I only knew the price and offer the day of release. She moaned Asda were selling it at £10 but she still paid £14.99 for it. She could had her deposit refunded and gone to Asda. Her problem, not mine.

Also Sainsburys dress flavours that aren't part of an offer in the middle of the range. So waste time taking customers to the product and showing that flavour is not on the offer!


Many supermarkets employ brainless students/young people that don't know what simple things like what food product paprika is, don't understand the difference between courgettes and cucumber etc. The latter has happened to me. Bought two loose courgettes and I was charges for 2 cucumbers. The cucumbers were 85p each at the time and I think the two loose courgettes would be about 55-60p. Got the refund at customer service.

A._Badger

Having not set foot in a Tesco for months (and with no intention of doing so again) and having almost entirely ditched Sainsbury too, my vote would put Morrisons near the top of the 'bog standard' brigade (ie leaving out Ocado /Waitrose/Fortnums etc).

Morrison's meat is clearly superior and its prices better. It's a shame the stores are laid out so badly, but that's not much to put up with compared with Tesco's scams and Sainsbury's prices.

The Lidl and Aldi thing I just don't get. I suspect they are both fads. If I wanted copycat brands made by companies I've never heard of, I'd... well, actually I wouldn't do anything. They don't interest me. And as for the bizarre juxtapositions of plastic ping-pong sets, electric sanders, lavatory brushes , fingerless mittens and matching towel sets... it must just be a German thing.

suki1964

Well w don't have most of those stores here but I'd still put tesco last


Dirty through other shop a we say here

Sainsbury is a much nicer, cleaner, well laid out store, with politer staff and better stock levels


Asda is better locally for product choice and staff helpfulness

Tesco I think have rested way too long on their laurels

Both me and hubby remember when only the poorest of the poor shopped in Tesco and we both remember nasty rhymes spouted to kids who's school uniform was bought there in the late 70's early 80's.

Don't ge me wrong, I shop in tesco when I have to cos it's the only sm this town has, but its not pleasant

Edwardia

There's an embarrassing photo of my aunt all punked up with a Tesco carrier bag as a sleeveless top, before a fancy dress party, something to do with the handles it seems. :rotfl:

After my visit to Sainsbury's today I have to say it lost a few points. Every few minutes, the public address would remind us that there's some sort of cookery show from Sainsbury's on Channel Four. All done in Northern accents so if it weren't for the beige tiled floor and navy and orange-clad staff I could have thought I was in ASDA.

I noticed that the TU clothing was 25% off and I am a fan of the plain white/coloured cotton tshirts in the mens section because I hate stretchy with Lycra scoop neck stuff. None in my size. Couldn't find anything else I liked and decided that actually, a lot of ASDA clothing is way better. I bought myself a nice navy crew neck jumper in there for $12 recently and I got several pairs of nice linen trousers last summer.

I did get the Skyfall DVD in Sainsbos because it was right by the entrance and there were only two left. I spotted the proviso cos I do read the stuff after * so yup $7 :T

Sainsbury's seems to be adding more to its' SO organic range and most of it is really good (not the diced beef though). Got to the checkout and as I loaded stuff onto the conveyor belt the woman in front looked me up and down and inspected everything in my trolley.

It didn't used to be that if you bought, organic, wild and additive free actual food in Sainsbos you got stared at. Last time I was there the checkout operator asked me why I buy organic and I thought blimey this is like MSE

It's half term here and this mother was telling her daughters that if they had Boursin, they couldn't have sweets as well so they chose sweets. Way to raise healthy kids :T I don't think.

As for Lidl being like a junble sale, Lidl is like a discount deli with You Can Find Anything Here Just Not Every Week emporium attached and I lurve it.

Middy

Edwardia wrote: »

After my visit to Sainsbury's today I have to say it lost a few points. Every few minutes, the public address would remind us that there's some sort of cookery show from Sainsbury's on Channel Four. All done in Northern accents so if it weren't for the beige tiled floor and navy and orange-clad staff I could have thought I was in ASDA.

I noticed that the TU clothing was 25% off and I am a fan of the plain white/coloured cotton tshirts in the mens section because I hate stretchy with Lycra scoop neck stuff.


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As you may not know I work for Sainsburys. I agree the prerecorded tannoys are annoying. I much preferred the old way - have a sheet of 20 different ones to select and do one in random. We had to do them word for word. One day during the summer it was bucketing it down with rain and we avoided the 3 for £10 meat one as part of the announcement was 'perfect for BBQs':rotfl:

I wish they left the lyrca out of these t-shirts. I have the 100% cotton them in all colours. Even a couple in lemon (not my colour) but they were in the sale for 40p each and use them to wear under my uniform. I take a size 14 in them. I bought a long sleeve grey and plum striped one earlier this month and it was a very tight fit and showed every lump and bump possible as 5% was lycra. I returned the top.

Going to the huge Sainsburys tomorrow about 6 miles from here and I will be looking at the material compositions! Its payday.

dada44

don't ppl find waitrose a lot more expensive though?

the morrisons i've been too have usually been very well laid out. and very clean. don't know about prices as i'm not so good with comparisons

Edwardia

Whatever the price promise or brand match guarantee, I still feel it pays to use mysupermarket.co.uk and check out prices in local stores yourself.