General Chat

Rhonda, this is more than anyone could hope for, a very warm welcome to you. Very very best wishes Mike

Channon, with such a beautiful setting all around you, I'm sure Tesco would not apply to set up there. The Island Hotel is a pretty good pub in which to eat though. Best wishes Mike

*makes apologies to the Board Members for leave of absence for a few hours*

...and not forgetting our Mata Hari in Sainsburys....Bet this is even exceeding your expectations, Mike? BC

Mike Hate to burst your bubble but you are wasting your time with this important but fascinating thread! I know this as I was accosted at the entrance to Asda one evening and offered £50 to attend an evening of brainstorming with other Asda shoppers. After drawing diagrams of how you'd like to see the fruit and veg section laid out and discussing the quality of their food etc (can't tell you too much - you might steal their ideas) do you know what they changed in the store? Nothing! Debby

...bows out of the Committee Meeting, gracefully....to watch Liverpool beat Chelsea.....BC

Dear Debby, Heaven forbid that anything useful spills from this board, apart from a few crumbs that is. Having never invested enough in order to be influential, it's fun to see how ineffective one can be. But never underestimate the hidden forces of subliminal shopping (lol) Best wishes Mike

Debby - I could have redrawn their fruit section - would have done something VERY artistic with a banana and a couple of nectarines! (:-0

Lol Mike! Sheila - I nearly died when they said we had to draw - I am useless at drawing and was just in fits of laughter - great way to earn £50 though! Debby

Sorry but I am no friend of Tesco. They are converting our local One Stop into a Tesco Express but refusing to allow space for the existing Post Office. They promised to keep the P.O. open until a new venue was found but reneged on the agreement and closed the P.O. on Friday. It now means going into town for a Post Office or up onto an estate some distance away and not on any direct bus route. So from now on I will be shopping at one of the other Supermarkets. My action may not do much to hinder them, but then, 'Every Little Helps'. Rosemary(Essex)

Multi Skillers? When I first heard 'All multi skillers to checkouts.' I thought they were saying 'All mule skinners to checkouts.' It was only after I asked why they needed mule skinners, that I found out that I had mis-heard. D

Rosemary, in so many cases the closure of the local Post Office is a bad step. In my small village the Post Office/village shop holds the community together, should it ever close it would change the whole character of the place in a very negative way. Can sympathise with you. Mike

Davo, I can imagine that situation (lol). Sometimes it's a bit like trying to interpret public announcements on railway stations. Mike

Can I be on the committee for organising people to stand in the middle of the aisles idly chattering? And on the subject of post offices......... Our nearest town used to have one but they closed it as uneconomic. They opened one up in the Co-op store but it wasn't making enough money for the Co-op so they closed it. Cue HUGE fuss. The PO said they would find another venue which they did after 2 years but it had to be 'economic' so they closed the 2 sub post offices in walking distance of where I live. Harrumph. Gwynne

Gwynne, clearly you've observed a phenomenon (spelling ?????) that has fascinated people watchers for years. Now is the time to act !! A hastily convened overnight meeting (actually I was the only 'Friend' to turn up) has recommended that idle chatterers in the middle of aisles be clamped. They are to be released only after they have forfeited their Tesco coupons ( or been reclaimed by their husbands). Whoops!! who said that??? That might not work, I suppose. Mike

Will there be a sub-sub committee for Internet friends of Tesco please? I order my dads groceries via internet every week and occasionally my own but I have indeed pushed a trolly (in cumulative terms) possibly to Australia and back. Do we get extra credits for having one baby in said trolley and one toddler hanging on to skirt? (Although this is some years ago, it surely counts as practical training towards NVQs in committee membership of sub-sub committees?)

Mike, I shall order clamps forthwith. I think it may be a good idea to order some chains as well. We could use them to chain 'wandering men' to the trolleys that they leave abandoned in the middle of nowhere while they wander off in search of something they forget about after five seconds. This would ensure that the trolleys would follow them if they wander too far in search of whatever it was. Gwynne

Mike, My interest is those huge trolleys used by Tesco staff, to dither while picking up items (Don't know why). I'm sure that with a slight increase in size and in the dozens in use every day, and a bit more thought of where they are to be placed, we could bring Tesco to a total stop. Can I organise, please, please? Anne

Good morning Mike Could you please advise me what you wish me to take charge of? I am multi skilled, but have a special interest in the under 5's, you know the ones, they cause mayhem in most stores, screaming and running riot Dee ;-))

A query please. As I am on the Tesco internet sub-sub committee I am not aware if the real shops have those little trollies for kids to push around with flags hanging off them like our local Waitrose. If they do, could there also be a sub committee for chaining said mini-trollies to the parents' main trollies to stop berserk kids ramming them into shoppers' legs please. Perhaps that could be part of Dee's remit? And could Dee please deal also with all the new young proud parents who walk around with baby carriers swinging them into people.