Reply to: Baked potato

[shaunbhoy]

How Tesco fits into it? They have for some reason like 30% market share, and few times I was there it did not occur to me they were obviously better than ASDA (that I now stopped using).

So you find large discrepancies in the pricing of the cabbages and beetroot that comprise your staple diet then alexei?

[TheMonkey]

We used to have one in Borehamwood, another place I lived.

Borehamwood is different to Norfolk in that you don't marry your sister, you beat her up. Then you go down to The Crown pub by the station and have a fight, then up to the Bull and Tiger for some drugs and another fight.

That's so right it's not funny.

[wendigo100]

bargain

Oh, I thought he meant barging.

[Fleetwood]

bargain

[CaribbeanPirate]

I like Tesco's - I can convert my Clubcard points into BA Miles. If I spend over £20,000 in their stores I can earn enough for a flight home!

It'll cost me nearly £700 quid on BA's website otherwise. Using New Labour's economic model, that has got to be the barging of the decade.

[xondo]

Anyone who shops at Morrisons should be banned from this board

[hyperD]

Tesco express seemed like a good idea, but whenever i've nipped to get a bottle of wine or some toothpaste there is always a queue the length of an aisle full of people who dont get the concept off 'big shop'=supermarket 'small shop'=express.

The concept of "Tesco Express" was simply a malicious marketing ploy to circumvent restricted town planning permission and local monopoly laws to oust any local grocers, butchers and farm shops, thus effectively putting the competition out of business.

Read more on LB's suggestion of the book: The Schocking Power Of British Supermarkets

You'll never buy a grey, slimy organic Tesco's chicken, on the pretense it's healthy, ever again.

[Lucifer Box]

Try reading Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets. Highly recommended and likely to make you think twice about using a supermarket again.

[AtW]

What about Somerfields?

A real class act.

Are you being sarcastic? There is hardly another store that looks so bleak, so rip-off and so crap choice wise - at least ASDA and others are cheap. Their model seems to be to acquire local monopoly on high street as otherwise nobody would pay their prices.

[gingerjedi]

Tesco express seemed like a good idea, but whenever i've nipped to get a bottle of wine or some toothpaste there is always a queue the length of an aisle full of people who dont get the concept off 'big shop'=supermarket 'small shop'=express.

[Bagpuss]

Marks and Spencers have removed EVIL transfats from their foods. So, I shall only be shopping with them. Everyone else can save their money in exchange fro cancer.

[gingerjedi]

Come on admit it... who shops at Sainsburys/M&S during the good times and Asda/Tesco when you're 'resting'?

I usualy 'downgrade' after my 4th week of 'resting' but as soon as i get that phone call it's back to looking down my nose at the trash that is Asda.

[wendigo100]

Anyone remember Finefare?

We used to have one in Borehamwood, another place I lived.

Borehamwood is different to Norfolk in that you don't marry your sister, you beat her up. Then you go down to The Crown pub by the station and have a fight, then up to the Bull and Tiger for some drugs and another fight.

[DimPrawn]

Just like IT contractors then. The dirty ugly bastards are the best.

[hyperD]

Local farmers' market for me.

All of the big 4 supermarkets offer poor value for money and sub-standard quality.

As always, LB speaks the truth. Remember your baking potatoes from supermarkets will come from the overfarmed and over-pesticided mega-Dutch fields producing tasteless roots that lie in warehouses for 6 months or longer. They will then be washed, selected on size and rotundness, packaged using MAP (modified atmospheric packaging, containing ozone which will destroy most of the surface vitamins within days) and sent to your local supermarket.

Notice the words freshness and taste have been conveniently omitted from the above scenario. That's why farm shop English potatoes, dirty and ugly bastards, taste wonderful.