Just How Rubbish Is Your Local Tesco?

Kintarō Hattori

Well I'm wondering. My own local on Prussia street is pretty damn awful. They regularly run out of whole product lines. You can often walk in and find no bread, no milk, no mushrooms at all. How on earth do they manage to run out of entire products? It hasn't just happened the odd time, you could forgive them that, but it happens all the time.

I know, I should shop somewhere else but Tesco is a 30sec walk away whereas the next nearest supermarket is a 20min trip in both directions.

So just how bad is yours?
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No Bread:


No Mushrooms:


No Soup:

whiterebel

And I thought my local in Midleton was bad when it doesn't restock cod fish cakes.......Seriously though, the management in Tescos now seems to be non-existent. Dunnes on the other hand, have more managers than customers in Douglas.

parsi

I've seen Tesco in Mahon Point out of milk & potatoes which is fairly damning seeing as they're staple food items.

I've also seen them (back in the days) out of nappies - this always amazed me.

A major part of their problem is lack of floor managers who should wander around and spot the gaps.

Padraig Mor

Went to Midleton the other day to get the meal deal.......no red wine left. Went to Mahon Point the next day.......no deal wine left at all (at 12.00)! I also find the stores to often be quite dirty and messy. Give me Aldi anyday.

MagicMarker

You should send those pictures on to their head office with a nice disgruntled customer letter.

HxGH

Looks like your store is regularly hit with waves of zombies...

I suggest a stereotypical pump-action shotgun. :pac:

Run_to_da_hills

Beaking News.

Panic Buying :eek:

All the Toyota owners are stocking up with basic food supplies fearing that they could be off the road soon. :eek:

jspruit

The Tesco on Prussia St. isn't great, but I haven't seen it in that state since moving to the area in November 2009.
The Tesco at Phibsoborough Shopping Centre is less than 1.5km away and seems to have much more selection.

Oryx

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Beaking News.

Panic Buying :eek:

All the Toyota owners are stocking up with basic food supplies fearing that they could be off the road soon. :eek:

If youre a Toyota owning, Halifax customer who shops at tesco and voted for George Lee, then youre completely buggered.

Our tesco doesnt have empty shelves unless you go in in the evenings, when you usually will only get the dregs of the bread or fruit and veg. Pricing is terrible though, inaccurate or missing on items all over the place. Once they run out of a non staple item, like bread soda or a certain flavour of soup, you can wait months for it to come back in. And when it does, its often dearer than before.

Galadriel

Tesco in Rathmines is not much better, whatever bread they do have is usually green, no mushrooms, 'furry' tomatoes etc etc.

morgana

Mallow Tesco is terrible too, albeit not as bad as the OP's. Restocking is their main problem, staples they used to have for ages are suddenly gone :P like White Strong Flour. (Had to go to Supervalue to get it :P). And is very cramped, not to mention expensive. TESCO is strictly for BOGOFs and stuff the Lidl down the road hasn't got ^^

Suzyq

I remember when that Tesco's on Prussia St was shut down by the health inspector cos of a rat infestation. It was back in the 90s sometime.

But as a shop it's still pretty awful, you can never get everything you need and I still silently shudder everytime I walk in thinking of the rats...

Fortunately I dont' have to go there too often!

Kintarō Hattori

jspruit wrote: »

The Tesco on Prussia St. isn't great, but I haven't seen it in that state since moving to the area in November 2009.
The Tesco at Phibsoborough Shopping Centre is less than 1.5km away and seems to have much more selection.

Yep I could go there but it is a fair walk there and back and laden down with bags of groceries.

Suzyq wrote: »

I remember when that Tesco's on Prussia St was shut down by the health inspector cos of a rat infestation. It was back in the 90s sometime.

But as a shop it's still pretty awful, you can never get everything you need and I still silently shudder everytime I walk in thinking of the rats...

Fortunately I dont' have to go there too often!

I've heard from several different people about that. Thankfully I wasn't shopping there when that was happening. Still it makes you wonder what problems there might be that you don't know about.

Colonel Sanders

I'm from Wexford but living in Dublin. New store in Wexford town seems to be properly managed but most stores I've visited in Dublin are appalling. Main complaints as follows:

1. Rarely baskets inside the door, you have to go looking for them at checkouts (not once have I actually got one at the door in Clear water, my nearest one and got a basket at the door)
2. Massive gaps on shelves at all times of days, and as the OP says its not exotic stuff I'm on about, quite often bread, veg etc even reasonably early in the morning
3. Always huge queues at the check out, fair enough if all tils are open but not when there are 20 people queues and 5 or 6 check outs not open
4. Cleanliness of stores, a lot of the time I find the floors (and sometimes the shelving) filthy
5. SELs in the wrong place or no SELs at all
6. Quite often they have quibbled with me over their no quibble guarante!!

I spend years working in Dunnes when I was in school/college and had any manager I worked with run their store like most Tesco stores I visit in Dublin they wouldn't have lasted too long

Lollipops23

the one in Ballyfermot (beside my old college) was infamous. I remember the backs of the big fridges where the sandwichs were kept had mould all over them!ew!:eek:

and the staff were unreal,always too busy chatting amongst themselves to serve customers!

vandriver

Couldn't agree more about Rathmines,they regularly run out of milk (about a 15 ft section)and the place is grotty.You never see any manager to complain to and once they were out of soap- all kinds- for about a month!

Toots

Tesco Stillorgan = worst Tesco ever. Regularly out of products, and also has a lot of products on the shelves that are out of date. Queues are always massive cos they only have about 3 tills open at the really busy times.

Tesco in Bloomfields in DunLaoghaire is the best one IMO, it's always well stocked and plenty of tills open.

BroomBurner

Tesco Balbriggan. It's even in a dimly lit basement, for that added touch of despair.

Kintarō Hattori

BroomBurner wrote: »

Tesco Balbriggan. It's even in a dimly lit basement, for that added touch of despair.

Oh I remember this well. We lived out in Balbriggan for a year. It brilliantly closed at 7pm just as the trains were arriving back from town with everyone on them, so you could only ever shop there at the weekend.

Pythia

In Tesco Dundrum some of the fruit and veg are often going off. It's horrible. Superquinn ftw!

Artfully Dodgin

The store in New Ross is very impressive with a huge diverse range of products, electrical, clothes, DIY and every little thing you could think of and available 24/5. Its like a shopping centre in one.

Have noticed the bread shelves are completely empty as if they were moving the area to someplace else. Might be a purchasing issue

supremenovice

They display the Selection boxs and tins of Roses from 22nd September.
But you could argue there are many culprits of that.


On a related Tesco issue, where have the ready made Potato Skins gone to? I used to love them but cant find them in any Tesco now.

jelly&icecream

Tesco Prussia St is beyond useless. Shelves not restocked throughout the day, no baskets at the doors most of the time, ignorant staff. Stopped shopping there about a year ago. Shop in Aldi in town now on my way home. Few things in Dunnes now and again, but its not much better than tesco tbh. Aldi all the way!

(The Centra in Stoneybatter Village is actually quite well stocked and reasonable aswell. You wouldn't get a big shop there though I suppose. Plenty of special offers and friendly staff too)

bernyh

Recent trip to a "tesco's" in Dublin, store was near closing, I had just finished work and was looking for some "essentials" on my way home. Ran around trying to grab the stuff I needed, where an over eager staff member kept reapeating over the intercom at 2 min intervals (much to the delight of the other staff) "this store will be closing in 25 mins, this store will be closing in 23 mins etc....) I grabbed my Tuesday bottle of wine, for the old desperate housewives, a few bits and bob's. By the time I reached the check out it was almost 6.58pm (only one checkout open).

The highly trained customer service advisor, advised me "ye will not be able to buy that bottle of wine, ye will have to leave it there "cos" we can't serve it at the checkout?!?! Ye should have paid it at (the unmanned) offlicence?!?! I replied I think not, I will be paying with my laser card and shall not be making two transactions in this store, I can pay in any other tesco this way and shall pay the same here. She called her "manager" who proceeded to tell me that "you are ridiculous, this is how we do it, so you will have to leave it there" Again I told her "NO" and if you'd like I will leave this €100 something worth of shopping here for you to redistribute to the shelves... she did after much mumbling and cursing agree for me to pay for my bottle of wine and be on my way......

To add insult to injury when I went to use the chicken I had bought I found it was out of date, the bread was out of date and the nan bread's were out of date..... shame on tesco i will NEVER shop there again!!

I agree Aldi and lidl all the way!

1nk3d4L1f3

Some Tesco's seem crap from your stories. I work nights and go to Tesco's around 4am to do my shopping. And all the schelves are being restocked at that time so it's happy dayz for me...:)

StudentDad

My local Tesco isn't so bad. I won't go near my local Dunnes or SuperValu though. Overpriced and awful service ... wonderful combination.

We do all our shopping in the North ... ASDA and Iceland mainly and the few bits we need ... bread and milk etc. ... we get in our local Tesco or Lidl/Aldi.

SD

princess-lala

MagicMarker wrote: »

You should send those pictures on to their head office with a nice disgruntled customer letter.

Their head office is sh1te, I sent 3 letters of complaint and still nobody has gotten back to me :mad:

Small claims court it is so

axer

princess-lala wrote: »

Small claims court it is so

For what?

Joey the lips

I use the one just off donore road drogheda. Its well stocked. Although there price fluctuates like the weather.

My mum uses the one in ballymun. Jesus its bad.

The ashbourne one is well stocked as well

Have to admit, I'm quite shocked at the portrayal of Tesco in this thread. The Tesco (24hour) in Drogheda is, in my own personal opinion, fantastic. Every time I've visited, it's spotless, full of stock and everything is priced properly. There's a lack of staff after dark and you have to use the Self-service a lot then, though, which is a bit of a downside but not too bad.


It's probably so good because it's 24/7 though. Constant staff use = constantly in good condition?


Shocked at how poor the one looks in the pictures in the original post. Shameful.

eth0_

Deleted User wrote: »

Have to admit, I'm quite shocked at the portrayal of Tesco in this thread. The Tesco (24hour) in Drogheda is, in my own personal opinion, fantastic. Every time I've visited, it's spotless, full of stock and everything is priced properly. There's a lack of staff after dark and you have to use the Self-service a lot then, though, which is a bit of a downside but not too bad.

Agreed, it is an excellent store BUT it's a Tesco EXTRA; it's most of the normal Tesco's that are woefully bad.

Irish supermarkets in general are terrible. You only have to shop in Sainsbury's or Waitrose to see that.

axer

Nothing wrong with Tesco Clare Hall I find.

Max Power1

Joey the lips wrote: »

I use the one just off donore road drogheda. Its well stocked. Although there price fluctuates like the weather.

My mum uses the one in ballymun. Jesus its bad.

The ashbourne one is well stocked as well

Deffo +1 on that!

The tesco in the Omni SC is so much better its unbelievable.

compsys

eth0_ wrote: »

Agreed, it is an excellent store BUT it's a Tesco EXTRA; it's most of the normal Tesco's that are woefully bad.

Irish supermarkets in general are terrible. You only have to shop in Sainsbury's or Waitrose to see that.

That's a bit of a generalisation and something I wouldn't agree with. Supervalue, Superquinn and Dunnes are all fine in my opinion, whereas in the U.K. Tesco's and Asda are often woeful.

It's really just Tesco's that's badly managed and kept here.

jarvis

id have to disagree with the comments about tesco in rathmines. Ive shopped there for 6 years and it used to be a lot worse than it is now
in general i find it fairly decent for a shop of its size . there has been a big improvement i there of late and it would be perfect if their carpark was a little bit bigger and sometimes their recycle bins are over flowing. do you not think tesco in general get a tough time?

i know i have no problems in my local one.

camden street can be good too

Nolimits

bernyh wrote:

The highly trained customer service advisor, advised me "ye will not be able to buy that bottle of wine, ye will have to leave it there "cos" we can't serve it at the checkout?!?! Ye should have paid it at (the unmanned) offlicence?!?! I replied I think not, I will be paying with my laser card and shall not be making two transactions in this store, I can pay in any other tesco this way and shall pay the same here. She called her "manager" who proceeded to tell me that "you are ridiculous, this is how we do it, so you will have to leave it there" Again I told her "NO" and if you'd like I will leave this €100 something worth of shopping here for you to redistribute to the shelves... she did after much mumbling and cursing agree for me to pay for my bottle of wine and be on my way......

It may have been illegal for them to sell you the wine from a regular checkout. In the Dunnes I work in the regular grocery checkouts only have a licence to sell Wines (they didn't always have that) and if anyone picked up any beers or spirits they could not pay for them anywhere but the offlicence, though obviously it was bad management for no one to be in the Offlicence.

Them main problem with tesco is the lack of Managers, they got rid of a load a few years ago and now computers do their orders it just doesn't work as well.

I seen two rats running across the floor in one of the Tescos in my town last week.

admiralofthefleet

axer wrote: »

Nothing wrong with Tesco Clare Hall I find.

yeah, its always well stocked

the one in rathmines is awful

noodler

No complaints about the one in Merrion.

Truley

Oh lord don't get me started on Tesco in my home town. I went in there on a Wednesday afternoon and they were out of all kinds of mushrooms, iceburg lettuce, all peppers and burger buns. I have been served by staff members with shirts wide open, sweat stains, dirty fingernails. On one occasion I asked for help from a staff member on the shop floor, and believe me if that man was sober then I'm Britney Spears. I have never been a Tesco fan, but was it always this bad? My boyfriend was refused a job there years ago because he refused to shave his goatee. Ugh, Lidl ftw!

jpb1974

3 here in Co. Wexford (Gorey, New Ross, Wexford Town).

All pretty good.

New Ross and Wexford purpose built... big, big shops... do a bit of everything. Gorey is a bit older... haven't been there in a couple of years.

Never any long till queues.

Lots of parking.

Staff seem OK, no issues to report.

Toilets stink.

ejmaztec

Truley wrote: »

Oh lord don't get me started on Tesco in my home town. I went in there on a Wednesday afternoon and they were out of all kinds of mushrooms, iceburg lettuce, all peppers and burger buns. I have been served by staff members with shirts wide open, sweat stains, dirty fingernails. On one occasion I asked for help from a staff member on the shop floor, and believe me if that man was sober then I'm Britney Spears. I have never been a Tesco fan, but was it always this bad? My boyfriend was refused a job there years ago because he refused to shave his goatee. Ugh, Lidl ftw!

So, why is it that you don't like Tesco?:P

jor el

I've noticed the Tesco in The Crescent in Limerick has been getting worse and worse for stock over the last number of months. A large section of frozen food has been replaced with frozen fruit their fresh fruit section is almost always close to empty, use-by dates on cooked meats tend to be quite short, and I've noticed some other stuff gradually disappearing too.

Started using Dunnes on Childers Road more and more, even though it's not close by, and they're by no means perfect either, but seem to be more reliable than that particular Tesco. Maybe the new purpose built Tesco at Coonagh is better, but I've never gone over to it.

dudara

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

the one in rathmines is awful

This is my closest one, but I'd rather go to the ones in Nutgrove or Dundrum than use the one in rathmines. It's just not great - but I do think that it has gotten better.

The lwr baggott street one is grim.

The staff look broken and disillusioned, and the self-service machines are glitchy

Redpunto

I went to the one in CLarehall the other day and walked back out again, the price tags are in the wrong places, there was a staff *disagreement* on the floor, i nearly had to point out to them how unprofessional they were being, nearly but didnt!, certain stock not on shelves and i always find their fruit and veg go off within a day or two. and the quite loud english manager sauntering up and down the aisles didnt help.

anotherlostie

Tesco Ballyfermot -grim. The checkout staff yapping to each other instead of dealing with their customers is just one of many reasons I avoid it, even though it's the closest one to me. And there are never that many tills open at the one time, compounding the queue time. Clondalkin is as bad on that front, but the store is at least much cleaner.

Lucan is grand since they renovated it from the old Crazy Prices layout, but Maynooth's Extra store is where I go for my big shop - worth the drive on occasion. The other one I occasionally am in is Jervis Centre store, and it seems very good.

I've given up buying veg in any of their stores though because it goes off in no time. Either Aldi and Lidl have better quality product, or they pump them full of preservatives!

macy9

My Tesco on Baggot street has no soya butter. So if you're lactose intolerant....you're screwed. But the one in Finglas has at least 3 different types.

Poly

Tesco Navan is a kip,very dirty, Fruit and veg usually past it's best. I don't touch the butcher counter in Tesco.

I find Lidl are going downhill too, very dirty, trollies so filthy I don't like putting the child in the seat.

Travel is good

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Yep I could go there but it is a fair walk there and back and laden down with bags of groceries.



I've heard from several different people about that. Thankfully I wasn't shopping there when that was happening. Still it makes you wonder what problems there might be that you don't know about.

This Tesco's in Prussia St. has been bad for years. I am so sick of it. Now they have this new "Change for Good" joke, I find it even harder to find a lot of products. I agree with the other posters, it is convenient, but I try my best to visit the other local supermarkets like Superquinn at Rathborne (heaven in comparison - so clean!) & Tesco's in Phibsboro. The one is Phibsboro is a bit better, a bit better stocked.

We could badly do with a nice clean Lidl or Aldi in the area. I was hoping that one of them would appear, at the Maple Centre in Cabra. Has anyone heard anything?

IMO, the Tesco's in Prussia St. should be knocked down & rebuilt. I had thought this would happen with the whole redevelopment of the Grangegorman area.

There has also been a problem with the management in that Tescos there for years, they seem to be non-existent.

Some of the staff have been there a long time & are lovely. Though I do feel sorry for them having to work there.

Fellani

Tesco in Celbridge is a disaster....poorly run store, shelves always empty, products not priced and this is only a newish store......!!!