Question for anyone who works at Tesco

harz99

Very Trying-I live in Stranraer, with a very small and very busy Tesco Metro, a large Morrison and a medium Lidl.
Morrison is for the greater part full of cheap and unhealthy junk food, coupled with fresh fruit & veg that is always dearer than Tesco, though admittedly more choice due to the size of the store.
Lidl again is largely full of junk food, albeit cheap; but their fruit and veg is absolute rubbish, in fact the only things I normally buy from them are the german prepared meat products simply due to the actual meat % being higher than equivalent uk produced lines.

Judging by your anti Tesco comments, you seem to think that Tesco are much worse than the other large retailers; perhaps you would like to give some price examples of own brand being dearer than leading brand of equivalent products, excluding of course any special offers or bogoffs which are not representative of normal prices, then we could all see where you are coming from.

Personally, I think other retailers are just as bad or good. Asda, for example used to price things like whole chicken's or turkey's in a weight band rather than for the individual weight of each bird; funnily enough you could never find a bird at the top end of the weight band!

Apart from small village shops which simply cannot compete on price with supermarkets, the above three sm's are the only one's for a radius of 30 miles or so. The Tesco's is the nearest to our town centre, also local and rural bus service stops, which matters a lot if you are aged and/or using the bus to carry your shopping home. There you have it.

VeryTrying_2

Harz, I'm not sure why you are being so self-pitying. Don't you realise how lucky you are to be so near three supermarkets, even if you don't seem to like two of them very much? My nearest supermarket is over 10 miles in one direction, the next a little further but in completely the opposite direction. I have to admit I am lucky and have never had to visit them on public transport since it would take at least two buses to get to either.

But you might have a point about junk food, I can't comment since I don't look for it and don't buy it. I've never had any problem in buying all my basic commodities from either Morrison's or Lidl - flour, eggs, butter, milk, sugar, cereals, rice, etc. I'm surprised that Morrison's in Stranraer is full of unhealthy junk food - don't the locals ask for the raw ingredients and then cook them themselves?

And you want some price examples? Well, I've already described the Typhoo tea where Tesco are getting twice the price. I don't usually buy own brand (although I have from time to time), and experience had taught me that I certainly should not buy Tesco own brand, but my most recent experience was when I was out with a friend, she wanted some tartare sauce. We did a quick trip into the next supermarket we passed (which was Tesco), and I was surprised to see that their own brand tartare sauce was dearer and smaller than the equivalent Colman's jar. Hardly overwhelming evidence, but a little more to tip the scales against the wisdom of shopping in Tesco (or even of buying their own brand).

I never used to be precious about buying a supermarket own brand, but since trying a tin of Tesco baked beans I have discovered the wisdom of avoiding their not-so-cheap offerings. The beans were so awful that I did something I have rarely done before - opened the tin, poured the contents into a dish ..... and then threw them out. They were so pallid and the sauce so thin, I couldn't face them. And it wasn't as if they were particularly cheap either, so I'm not trying to look down on those shoppers who have to watch their pennies, I'm looking down on those who waste their money on poor value offerings because they've been brainwashed into believing the advertising spin.

Just remember that the words "Tesco" and "finest" don't belong in the same sentence!

backdoor_rebel

Mschappie wrote: »

I haven't been able to buy White Flora for several months now! :mad:

it was a epw =emergancy product withdrawel from the makers not tesco

gwapenut

All seems a bit dangerous. When Sainsburys lost their crown as No 1 Supermarket ten years ago, part of the reason was said to be their over-reliance on home brands - customers wanted the big names, not the "just as good" Sainsubrys stuff, and this lost them market share.

Whether the Tesco Finest brand is better enough than Sainsubrys own to avoid this problem, I don't know. But this own-branding ploy WAS cited as one of several reasons for Sainsburys falling out of favour.

Emma37

Tesco have been advertising five fruit and veg for half price for a while. The Daily Mail did a piece exposing their tactic on this: Just before the five for half price campaign began, certain fruit and veg went sky high in price at their stores. Then it was widely advertised as being half price - not such a bargain as it seemed.

Chas

It really bugs me that Tesco don't stock Sainsbury or Asda own brand products.

Pottermuss

Wesker wrote: »

Something i've noticed missing off the shelves recently is multipacks of Trebor Softmints. Its not just Tesco tho, they seem to be missing from Asda, Sainsurys, Somerfield etc

Yes i thought it was just me but there does seem to be a softmint shortage, perhaps they are only available on the black market somewhere/

MINCER_2

withabix wrote: »

You have the option NOT to shop at Tesco! Nobody is forced to shop there.

If Tesco had their way - you wouldn't have an option. How many sites have they bought up to stop competitors opening in the local area?
The competition comission isn't investigating them for a laugh you know!

C_Ronaldo

the shops are entitled to stop selling whatever lines they like, its life,

xadoc

joannasmum wrote: »

Annoying isnt it. They've stopped selling Noddy organic childrens yogurts and there now branded as there own label. Unfortunately DD only ate them because they had Noddy on the lid so now she wont eat any yogurt it makes me so cross.

Is there anywhere you can buy Noddy stickers?