General Chat

Do you like shopping at tesco?

Have you noticed any changes in your tesco store lately....like theres nothing on the shelves and its a mess... with cardboard all over the floor and the staff are miserable and you cant find the price for things!!!!

Or is it just my store?

Yep mine is the same, always stocking the blinky shelves and staff in the way when you want to get something. Feel like we are living in a third world country sometimes.

To top it I have just placed an order on their website for furniture and oh dear, there is a problem we have had to cancel the order and they give a list of the options why, the only option that applys is the fact is that they cannot contact my bank to make the transaction -just spent nearly an hour doing it too. Well they can go and jump! Rant over. Sorry.

To add to it, was up at one of their Tesco Direct stores to make sure the item of furniture was the one I wanted and so ordered on line to get extra discounts this morning! What a rigmarole. arrrgghhh!

Tina x

I said to a staff member stocking shelves " be more room in here if it was not for the staff"

Reply "we feel like that about the customers" !!

what about when you go in the 24 hr stores and come 9pm you cant move for them bringing out all the racks to restock over night, yet the store is still open, but you cant get to what you are looking for because the damm stuff is in the way, cant they leave it in the warehouse til they are going to do something with it?
dawn
(not the poster)

Well Elizabeth, there's a bloomin cheek! Well I will be walking with me feet its not as if Tesco is cheap these days.

Tina x

well I can never get everything I want and the promotion stuff is always out of stock and all I ever here is the tannoy saying "all multiskill staff to the checkout"

Well I think they should put up a notice letting shoppers know that they do a sweep on a Friday between 3-4 -we can all avoid the shop for that hour.

Or get the bargains they are reducing :-))

ok if they do a sweep between 3 and 4 Why is there cardboard all over the floor at 5?

Also (on me soap box now) at our local Tesco store on a Saturday morning they allow one customer to take not 1 2 or 6 loaves of bread -no out he walked with 2 trays of bread - and the bread that was on offer the Danish one which was 44p a loaf. My sister commented and was told that he is the customer. We have an idea this customer was buying the cheap bread and doing a sandwich round.

I think customers should be limited to 6 items of sales stuff to allow a fair share - personally.

Well I couldn't say that about our Tesco. It is well stocked, very clean and pleasant staff........... The gripe I have is that they keep discontinuing items that I use.
If you would like to visiy my Tesco you will be very welcome........Cheap flights to Ireland on www.ryanair.ie.........only problem is the baggage allowance.........lol

I think there is a limit but only on certain lines like own brand lemonade for instance and it depends on top selling lines for the season e.t.c

good 1 Heather lol

Ah now to be sure, we could be coming over in convoys and taking all your stock! LOL

Tina x

Tried Tescos Twice. think its expensive compared to my usual Lydl and Asda.

Do you have to queue at Lidl and asda?

We don't have Asda here...........We have Lydl and Aldi......Both drive me mad cause there is no atmosphere in the place........no music just the drone of fridges. Can't read the lables....all foreign and no, they're not written in Irish.........lol. Must say that Lydl veggies are very good, fresh and cheaper than Tesco... Aldi staff are miserable.

Ours became like this four years ago, and still is. On the ciggie counter, four or five staff,but only one doing anything,the other tree or four carry on talking amonst themselves, and look straight through the customers. They are only bidding their time till there pension at 60. Shelves never filled up etc.
We now go to Morrisons, two towns away, and you are treated like royalty. Plenty of stock usually on the shelves, but anything you can't find they will fetch it for you. Ciggie and Lottery counter works a treat, it is just the thick customers that cause any problems. Best selection of veggies and freshest I've ever seen.
Julia in Derbyshire

And theres another thing.......the veggies in tesco are really not that fresh! and the bread often only has 2 days on it and I was in there once and someone had picked up some out of date cheese and when looking there was a whole bunch of it on the shelf...tut tut

Dawn you are so right in mentioning the vegetables. I keep my vegetables in the fridge to try and keep them longer - if I get them to last a week I count myself very lucky. I love M&S for vegetables but cannot afford to shop there on a regular basis, although having said that at least there is no waste as it keeps so well.

Problem is that Tesco buy in vegetables to store at their distribution centres for them to then deliver to their stores which are stored in their stores ready for the shelves! No wonder the poor veg are limp lol