Reply to: Tesco Rant Parts 1 and 2

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Don't like shopping at Auchan because their checkout system means they pack everything into new carriers for you, I prefer to take my own.

Not the Auchans I go to, including those at Val d'Europe and Velizy 2.

[Scary]

Don't like shopping at Auchan because their checkout system means they pack everything into new carriers for you, I prefer to take my own.

[pzz76077]

The Big Tesco at Letňany - Prague is great. It sells car bits including tyres.
Fresh fish, I mean live fish. Live out the tank and in to knotted Tesco bags. You can see the fish moving and gulping trying to get out the bag.
Try selling that without bags!

We have the same from Metro in Vienna.

Then, living right next to the Danube, I should really try and catch my own occasionally.

PZZ

[Paddy]

Our favorite two Tescos in Bratislava always give us loads of bags. The two story one in the center of town are a bit more liberal than the big one on the way back to Vienna though.

Maybe you are just going to the wrong branch of Tescos??


Similarly, our two favorite M&S branches in Bucharest and Luxembourg always give us loads of bags. We have heard that M&S are the more frugal than Tescos regarding bags in the UK.

Is this true??

PZZ

The Big Tesco at Letňany - Prague is great. It sells car bits including tyres.
Fresh fish, I mean live fish. Live out the tank and in to knotted Tesco bags. You can see the fish moving and gulping trying to get out the bag.
Try selling that without bags!

[pzz76077]

Our favorite two Tescos in Bratislava always give us loads of bags. The two story one in the center of town are a bit more liberal than the big one on the way back to Vienna though.

Maybe you are just going to the wrong branch of Tescos??


Similarly, our two favorite M&S branches in Bucharest and Luxembourg always give us loads of bags. We have heard that M&S are the more frugal than Tescos regarding bags in the UK.

Is this true??

PZZ

[suityou01]

Tesco Rant
Part 1

Away from home and I wanted some food for the evening so that I could some work done in the hotel room, have a drink and nibble at the same time. Called in to Tesco and selected contractor quality French cheese, duck & orange pate some French bread and a small red wine.

Check-out busy but the self-service ones empty. Off I go to the self-service and … no bags. I looked around and then an assistant came over with a bundle of bags in her hand a screwed up the smallest possible bag and threw it on the stand. The bag obviously was not big enough for my shopping so of I go the Customer Services and ask for a proper sized bag. “No we are not allowed to issues bags, that's our policy". I tipped my basked upside-down on the counter and walked out.

If supermarkets had a policy of “no-bags” then I am OK with that, but I don’t liked being messed about. In Holland, they sell proper carry bags or you can put 5-10 cents into a machine and get a bag that way. That’s fine.

On a few other occasions in other branches of Tesco I have had the shopping piled up after being scanned and no bags supplied. In those incidences I stand with my arms folded looking at the shopping. “Oh, do you want a bag?” is usual reaction.

Rant about Tesco
Part 2

I always ask and make sure that I have got a receipt and a bag. At one time I stopped of at a Tesco to buy some peanuts. I was hungry and opened the nuts as I walked through the door way. Once outside one of the managers chased after me shouted “have you paid for those Sir?” I replied yes, and showed him the receipt. He then said “Well you should have put them in a bag”.

WTF then do assistants especially at the supermarket kiosks; do not automatically issue receipts?

I am well fed up of supermarkets making huge profits, having monopolies and giving poor service. I would however praise Morrison’s, M&S and Waitrose.

Even I found this dull.

[Cliphead]

I mentioned earlier that Lidl veg tastes like veg should.

If baffles me that Tesco and other supermarkets can sell veg that is absolutely bland and tasteless. You chop carrots the kitchen should smell of carrots - not so. Tomatoes that are more of just a texture than having flavour, I could go on.

Deli offerings in Sainsbury taste better than Tesco right across the range. M&S has a smaller range of produce but generally tastes better.

I don't have much of a choice where I live but an excellent local butcher, Lidl for veg and the occasional farmer's market fill the gaps that the supermarkets attempt to cater for but fail in my opinion.

I've been making my own bread for some time now, breadmaker to take the hard work out of it and finish in the oven. I found an excellent wee book and all the recipes I've tried have turned out perfectly.

Supermarkets may be convenient customer service aside but there's a whole generation growing up that just doesn't know what good food tastes like.

[SantaClaus]

Whenever the plastic bag police try to make me feel guilty, I show them the vast amounts of plastic they have used to package their fruit and vegetables.

That usually shuts them up.

btw, I also remember when supermarkets provided cardboard boxes. Costco still do this, so why not all the major chains?

Its so much easier to take a big cardboard box full of groceries and put it in the boot of the car, erm...I mean GWhizz electric vehicle or Islingtonian pedal rickshaw

[RichardCranium]

that "you just can't get decent bacon any more".

Read the ingredients list on the bacon and you will see what te proble is: added water and the chemicals to make it stay there.

Buy your bacon in Lidl's. Theirs has no added water.

[NickFitz]

"When you're in Tesco and you notice that the checkout girl has a lovebite on her neck, you don't really think anything about it; but when you see the same thing in Sainsbury's, you're somehow slightly shocked."

- Alan Bennett

And another one:

In one of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads dramas, someone exposes themselves in a branch of Sainsbury's. "Tesco's you could understand," says an elderly woman tartly.

- What your supermarket says about you

[DaveB]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Where will you buy your combined clock and inside/outside thermometer gadgets now?

Not to mention the spanners.

I once bought a table saw from Aldi. Still got it out in the garage and it still works

[gingerjedi]

Come on, own up.

One of my mates is the Aldi store manager so he's already in the frame.

[Mich the Tester]

Lidl/Aldi - An Indian took my job

Not much choice at the moment, the local Lidl burnt down last week.

Come on, own up.

[gingerjedi]

My shopping habits:

Waitrose/M&S - Bloody good contract

Sainsbury's - Good contract :

Tesco/Morrisons - Its work I suppose contract

Asda - Better than nothing contract

Lidl/Aldi - An Indian took my job

Not much choice at the moment, the local Lidl burnt down last week.

[wobbegong]

Some stores have trolleys that lock wheels when going over a red-line. (One wheel works a dynamo charging LED sensor and solenoid)

Red chalk on the supermarket floor works just as well in stopping the trolly.

That's a bit high-tech for Tesco, it's all my local one can do to provide trolleys that actually go in a straight line.