Is anyone having a tesco superstore opening near them? cos there's three opening where I live, they're taking over.

there's one opening in my town which is pointless really because it's like a ghost town, another in mansfield but it's way out from the town centre and one in sutton somewhere.

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why?

Alex22 said:

why?

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Because their quality food has turned him into a wee porker

Beau on MSN said:

I'm too fat

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EDIT: Don't slap me mod's, its all in jest

so beau don't like tesco coz he now fat


oh dear

Aaaaaaaahhhh. People must stop attacking the beautious wonder that is TESCO.

If ever a corporation was to rule the world I vote Tesco and shall be proud to wear the clean, simple lines of their blue and sparkling white economy styling. Where else could I do my weekly shop on 20quid a week with enough left over to spend on library fines. Where else could I decorate my flat on a student budget. Huh? Huh?! Tell me.

I love Tesco.

Peace out.

Beau-see sense love.

Theres about 3 tescos within around 4 miles of my house, one huuuugggeeee one, and the other 2 are medium ones.

Ude be suprised though, your town might be dead but everyone that is there will goto the tescos rather than local shops now. Its how they work

why goto a few shops when you can just goto the one and get everything? they ARE taking over

i love tescos! we always go there...the tesco finest stuff is really nice!

Chris had tesco's vodka when we went camping...and he really wasnt complaining

Tesco express in Trowbridge is like about 100 yards from the proper superstore, please tell me the sense in that?? I shop in tesco's usually, i'm not a fan of it tbh, of the opinion people should use local greengrocers and butchers and the like, not possible everywhere anymore as loads have been put out of business by such large corporations. They are all there where i live but am forced to use tesco's and stuff as its cheaper and i'm always skint..

If a foreign input is of any use in this general rant...
Tesco has a strong position here too, but they were not able to defeat the competition of other big chains - the only exception is Carrefour, which was a ridiculous French circus anyway and I hated it (but I grew to hate all things French, so I may be biased here).
I live about 1 km from a Tesco hypermarket, but I do not shop there anymore. The reason is that the store management obviously quit ordering low-turnover items to cut warehousing costs, which results in situation when one is standing in front of the shelves filled 2x2 m with one kind of ketchup and sudden unavailability of the kind I want.
Also, I hate their semiannual "Confuse-a-Customer" game when they move yoghurt to where they had eggs before just to make the customer go through the whole store and to spend more money in the process of searching for some basic item.
I go to Dutch Interspar for my groceries instead - bigger selection on the half of the Tesco store area.

you can buy guns, knifes, camping eqpt, designer shoes, wedding dress's, holidays, exchange money etc.
in tesco's stores in hungary

faster4_tec said:

you can buy guns, knifes, camping eqpt, designer shoes, wedding dress's, holidays, exchange money etc.
in tesco's stores in hungary

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See. Tescos is awesome. The one in cirencester sold horseriding equipment over the summer.

I've stopped using Tesco.

I use sainsburys or tesco (yay nectar points - what can i spend them on btw?)

Tesco in banbury is having work done to it at moment, doubling the size... and its not because its too small, its huge anyway, its a non food items area soon tesco may as well be like walmart in america where you literally buy anything

Carlisle has no big supermarkets I shop at Asda because it's closest and biggest To get to anywhere else I have to drive past Asda so it's a bit pointless........

within a few minutes of us i have a choice of tescos, asda, sainsburys, (all with filling stations) and morrisons. on the budget side, lidl, netto and aldi are all reasonably close too, i just go to the one thats on the way home from wherever i am.

its the speciality indian veg and spices that cause the most hassle, longer trips into wembley, kingsbury and harrow...

It may be a ghost town but if it's a big store people will travel quite a distance to it. As for Tesco (and other big supermarkets too) killing off local greengrocers etc, well, Tesco aren't doing anything malicious like burning down the shops so people have to shop at their store. It's just a case of Tesco catering for and appealing to what people want today.

hows this for cool, go to bluewater, and they'll repair your windscreen chips free whilst you shop!

like fuzzy says, its the services and extras that draw you in, sure it will take out a few shops, but the decents specialities will survive...

FuzzyPanda said:

Tesco aren't doing anything malicious like burning down the shops so people have to shop at their store.

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No, but they are buying up otherwise derelict land and preventing future development.

Hang on a min....scratch that as being a bad thing, theyre actively helping the fight against flats!