Tesco's anti English delicacy policy

penrhyn

No Tesco is not the only store in the area, within a 6 mile radius we have Aldi, Lidl, Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Marks and Spencer Simply Food, and a variety of small delecatessens. The only place these are made is in and around the Stoke-on Trent area, and I for one think they deserve to be more widley available.
How many of you out in MSE land have tried them?

Ode to the Oatcake

reehsetin

then petition to another shop to stock them, why does it fall on tesco?!?!

uktim29

reehsetin wrote: »

then petition to another shop to stock them, why does it fall on tesco?!?!

Yeah, I was wondering this as well.

Also if your so keen on Tescos stocking this. Given my eailer posts on basic retail operation. What would be your argument to Tesco on how this would benefit their business. Bareing in mind they would have to substitute a good selling line for a possibly poorer selling line therefore causing customer dissatisfaction.

Morglin

Our local Tesco's sell oatcakes........perhaps there wasn't sufficient call for them where you are?

Lin

penrhyn

Hi Lin,
Long Eaton near Nottingham, where are you? ...and are they North Staffordshire Oatcakes?

Tescos because they have the largest retail presence in my area, although I did use the name in a generic sense like Hoover as non of the local shops sell them.
I wonder if our local Cob shop would be interested in stocking them, I'll pop in at lunch after my Friday pint of Olde Trip (to Jerusalem).

pulliptears

Morglin wrote: »

Our local Tesco's sell oatcakes........perhaps there wasn't sufficient call for them where you are?

Lin

Probably a different type of oatcake to be honest, staffordshire oatcakes are like a cooked pancake, not like oatcakes everywhere else.

To be honest the only other place I have ever seen an oatcake was in a little restaurant in Paris where OH ordered a savoury crepe with cheese and when it came it was 100% oatcake.

Contains_Mild_Peril

uktim29 wrote: »

Also if your so keen on Tescos stocking this. Given my eailer posts on basic retail operation. What would be your argument to Tesco on how this would benefit their business. Bareing in mind they would have to substitute a good selling line for a possibly poorer selling line therefore causing customer dissatisfaction.

If it is indeed a minority-interest product then there is really no need to replace an existing product with the new one: instead of, say, a metre of shelf space for one product, you could have two occupying half a metre each and just restock the shelf more often. I'm aware that this may involve ordering smaller quantities of each and that the unit cost to shop would probably increase, but only very slightly, and it's about the bigger picture that so many retailers miss. Increased customer choice means customers are more likely to choose that supermarket over a rival.
There are also many products launched by big companies which do not achieve anticipated sales levels and get discontinued after a farily short time. Why not allocate a little of their shelf space to local products when it comes time to replace the discontinued product with something else?
And how do major retailers think they know that Staffordshire oatcakes wouldn't be a big seller outside Staffordshire if they haven't tried? We don't have to go to Arbroath to buy Arbroath smokies or Wensleydale to buy Wensleydale cheese do we?
As a matter of interest, do English supermarkets usually stock Scottish oatcakes? I've never tried a Staffordshire oatcake, but I often buy Nairn's Scottish oatcakes, and some shops do their own-brand oatcakes too. Scottish oatcakes are flat things which are only about a couple of millimetres thick, and lovely with cheese. I once tried some foreign oatcakes from Lidl, which were sugary and not what I think of as "proper" oatcakes at all.

penrhyn

CMP, Yes indead They stock Nairns and their own brand as well in Tescos, I like the Finest ones with cracked black pepper.Try them with cheese and mango chutney.

Try them with cheese and mango chutney.
The Stafford variety are about 8 - 10 inches in diameter and can be used like tortilla wraps, bacon egg and cheese makes a good filling.
They were popular with the pottery workers, there is a myth that they were inspired by the flat breads that returning soldiers had seen in India.

Jennifer_Jane

mmmm! Oatcakes. I use them as a pud with creme fraiche and blueberries. 50p a packet and absolutely delicious. Plenty of them here in Cheshire - although I am South Cheshire.

Good luck - I feel your pain!

Love
Jen x

dangeroussports

I suggest we all get together in Hyde Park and protest until Tesco introduce Oatcakes covered in curry sauce....hmmm.....

Come on people YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU