Tescos future in Ireland

ThisRegard

No, they just happen to have a larger percentrage of shares, the biggest of which is less than 10%. And whose pensions do you think are invested by the pension companies?

Sh1tbag OToole

ThisRegard wrote: »

No, they just happen to have a larger percentrage of shares, the biggest of which is less than 10%. And whose pensions do you think are invested by the pension companies?

Mostly random folk who decide to sign up to the said pension company. Probably mostly foreigners. If Tesco closed it's doors tomorrow it would be no great loss to us

lazeedaisy

I prefer to shop in Tesco too.

I buy my meat in Aldi, there is no local decent butcher close to where we live,

I have a choice to shop in Lidl, Tesco and Aldi all close by. I refuse to shop in Lidl, don't like their policies, I worked for them and just don't bother.

My local Tesco have community champions they pay to work in the community, think its 15 hours a week, which is good, there is good work being done because of that,

The shelves are 75% full, with obvious gaps, store s clean, we go for breakfast occasionally, not bad for a fiver.

Their fruit and veg is local where it can be, and so much fresher than Aldi, I don't buy them in Aldi because I got sick of rotten fruit and frozen turnips.

My local Aldi was reopened a while ago on the wettest day of the year, the district managers and head office managers took all the car spaces, during renovation they took away the trolley bay in the car park too, by the time I got to the car, put in my shopping I had to go back to the store with the trolley, I was a sodden mess, I went back into the shop, approached the group of head office managers and complained, they did not give a sh1t,

Tesco today had 2 tills open when I went in, and 1 by the time I was ready. The staff are local and friendly, and at times I get frustrated because they won't open a till, but my biggest frustration is being overcharged. Every week I get double the difference, today I bought 2 chamois for the car, got charged 12.50 each. You have to check your receipt and hold your ground every week, it can be tiring.

They do take complaints seriously, staff are not allowed park at the front, and it's not a bad experience,

I do check prices online before I shop, I am aware f how much everything costs and do find bargains, and the odd what were they thinking prices..... Like below

http://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=279570847

http://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=277465970

The Diabolical Monocle

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

If Tesco closed it's doors tomorrow it would be no great loss to us

And where are we to get our chocolate and pies at 2am on a Sunday.

Some of us have chocolate based dietary disorders. To close tesco is offensive discrimination.

nathang20

Its been posted previously but its so true! They cut the Internet allowance for pay as you go to 7.5GB (from 15GB) per month. I've never seen anything like it. Immediately cutting a products content in half! I bought the dongle and loved the service, but now, no way!

Kiwi in IE

The issue I have with Lidl and Aldi is that I can't get everything I want in either, or even in both, so if I do the shopping there I have to go to multiple supermarkets to get everything. I can't always be arsed doing that and in Tesco I can get everything in the one place.

I live just outside medium sized town with no Tesco. There are 2 supervalues, dunnes, lidl and Aldi. Rather than do the rounds of the supermarkets here, none of which ever have everything I want, I often prefer to drive 25 minutes to the nearest Tesco where I can do a one stop shop. It depends which seems a bigger pain in the arse on the day, driving for half an hour or multiple supermarket shopping, as to whether I do Lidl/Aldi/Supervalue or Tesco. If there were a Tesco in the town, I would probably go there all the time, I prefer it overall, although I do like some of the lidl products that you can't get elsewhere.

ThisRegard

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Mostly random folk who decide to sign up to the said pension company. Probably mostly foreigners. If Tesco closed it's doors tomorrow it would be no great loss to us

You don't know how pensions work either so. Or the broader economy.

Massimo Cassagrande

ThisRegard wrote: »

You don't know how pensions work either so. Or the broader economy.

I know that when our local Tesco sooper-de-dooper store opened, all the local businesses died on their ar5e and the Towns high street became a dead-zone. So now, there's a few people working for crap wages in Tescos stacking shelves and all the other people have lost their previously decent jobs. Progress, eh? Whoop-de-doo.

TallGlass

NachoBusiness wrote: »

If I was a suspicious feller I'd be suspecting that they have been frozen at some point.

All fruit and veg is frozen. Not frozen like a freezer but frozen biologically, it's how we are all able to eat f&v 365 days a year.

Cody montana

Went to Aldi today, no peppers at all and no spinach.
The fruit and veg is generally poor.

markpb

Cody montana wrote: »

Went to Aldi today, no peppers at all and no spinach.
The fruit and veg is generally poor.

Aldi in Sandyford never has much in the way of fruit or veg in the evenings. I used to think it was just a Sunday night thing but apparently it happens most evenings.

ThisRegard

Massimo Cassagrande wrote: »

I know that when our local Tesco sooper-de-dooper store opened, all the local businesses died on their ar5e and the Towns high street became a dead-zone. So now, there's a few people working for crap wages in Tescos stacking shelves and all the other people have lost their previously decent jobs. Progress, eh? Whoop-de-doo.

High Street, cut and paste job from somewhere? And I reckon staff wages and benefits for stacking shelves are higher than what they were in all these local shops that apparently shut down.

frankoreagan

Cody montana wrote: »

Went to Aldi today, no peppers at all and no spinach.
The fruit and veg is generally poor.

One of the few faults I can find with Aldi is their loose peppers! Either they have none at all, or only have a few rough looking ones at the end of the box.

My local usually run out of salsa by the evening too, but always have stacks of the horrible sour cream jars left.

riclad

Aldi have a more limited range than tesco, thats how they keep prices down.
Most of their stock is not big brand name s .
Also tesco stocks a wider range of goods,
and more branded goods, and they do special offers, half price today etc ,
Aldi keep items at the same price .
no special offer .
They both have good points.
tesco overexpanded , built too many large stores in the uk,
which they are closing or selling off ,some before they even opened .
They announced a large loss this week,
a few billion pound loss.
IF you want certain big brand items ,you will have to go to tesco, or another shop,
apart from aldi, lidl.

Sh1tbag OToole

ThisRegard wrote: »

You don't know how pensions work either so. Or the broader economy.

You make a bet with a big company that you stay alive to take back more money from them that you have given them. They invest the money to compensate for increasing life expectancy and to pay for their own costs and greed.

If you are lucky you get a 30 year paid holiday at the end of your life. If you're unlucky you die before seeing a penny of it back.

Massimo Cassagrande

ThisRegard wrote: »

High Street, cut and paste job from somewhere? And I reckon staff wages and benefits for stacking shelves are higher than what they were in all these local shops that apparently shut down.

Oh yeas, verry true. All the local Tesco workers roll up in new Audis carrying iPads to work out how their pension funds and share options are going. Most wear Calvin Klein suits and step disdainfully over homeless people while being roundly cheered and encouraged from the edges of the car-park by all the people who wish they too were on the big bucks.

Some disaffected ingrates have the temerity to whinge that they wished they had started in Lidl or Aldi, as they pay better and workers there get more hours - but we all know that's a big fat lie promulgated by the anti-Tesco brigade and disseminated by shinner commie anarchist rabble rouser leftie pinkos.

The only real criticism anyone truly intelligent can level at Tesco is that they keep moving the biscuits aisle and stock too few varieties of pickled peppers. All the rest is begrudgery.

ThisRegard

Yip, deflection when you post populist nonsense and are called out on it.

meeeeh

Massimo Cassagrande wrote: »

The only real criticism anyone truly intelligent can level at Tesco is that they keep moving the biscuits aisle and stock too few varieties of pickled peppers. All the rest is begrudgery.

That is nonsense. Tesco offerings are not great. They stock wide variety of products but often pretty poor quality. I don't see much in the difference between fruit in Aldi and Tesco but there is huge difference between Tesco and stuff you can get on continent. Similarly prepacked dry meats are not great and there is very little choice at the counter. Super Value is better. Tesco are already acting as discounters in a lot of ways and are getting away with offering very little and charging insane prices for some fresh produce (70c for a pepper???). And no those prepacked ones don't even count as half decent choice.

But I am sure if you are looking for frozen burgers or fish fingers there is plenty of choice...

Massimo Cassagrande

meeeeh wrote: »

That is nonsense. Tesco offerings are not great. They stock wide variety of products but often pretty poor quality. I don't see much in the difference between fruit in Aldi and Tesco but there is huge difference between Tesco and stuff you can get on continent. Similarly prepacked dry meats are not great and there is very little choice at the counter. Super Value is better. Tesco are already acting as discounters in a lot of ways and are getting away with offering very little and charging insane prices for some fresh produce (70c for a pepper???). And no those prepacked ones don't even count as half decent choice.

But I am sure if you are looking for frozen burgers or fish fingers there is plenty of choice...

Grand. I wasn't being even vaguely serious, but you fire ahead. I'll catch up soon as I finish my coffee..

OldMrBrennan83

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For Forks Sake

Patww79 wrote: »

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And you get a free trip in time back to 1985 such is the experience in most of their stores.

OldMrBrennan83

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obplayer

Lantus wrote: »

Tesco are still a giant. There is room for efficiencys. (Do we really need 200 types of pickle to choose from) but they could clean up on service which would make them stand out. Do some cooking shows and samples. Provide free WiFi. A small play centre/ creche like IKEA. Cafes like the UK branches. Electric car charge points.

The real future is fully automated stores where we order everything online and it is delivered by automated electric vans from local distribution centres having been picked by robots. Zero labour costs and no troublesome unions. Low energy and the local centres can be super insulated boxes with no lights.

Ok I can see that is the way we are going but a question. What do all the people who are now out of jobs do?

thunderdog

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That you Ben?

jetsonx

Tesco really are a miserable supermarket chain with no redeeming qualities.

Is their own-brand food quality? no
Is their own-brand food tasty? no
Is their in-store atmosphere pleasant? no
Are their staff mostly pleasant? no
Are they cheap? no
Does the company have an admirable set of ethical values? no

Does Aldi, Lidl and Super Value beat them on nearly all these criterion? yes

As for the M&S food dept. - that is in another galaxy in terms of quality.

uck51js9zml2yt

I got vouchers for 3 weeks so signed up to their delivery plan and ordered online. Didn't have time to go to aldi and figured 15e off each week would cover the price difference.

Phoned to cancel the delivery plan thinking it would cancel at the end of the month. When told it was immediate vi decided not to cancel until next week.
Got a mail to say it was cancelled. When I emailed themvI was told nothing they could do even though it was their mistake and that I would have to call them to discuss it further. No offer if a weeks credit, no apology, no solution offered.
And they wonder why they lost market share.

Back to aldi next week for good.

TallGlass

The thing with Tesco is they think they can have an absolutely massive market share and run the entire ground operation on a shoe string, the company structure is top heavy management that are incompetent, store managers that have lost there voice, area managers happy to be on big bucks and kept there mouths shut about issues on the ground to higher above.

I speak from working in a store that is more than likely in there top three stores, the store operation was run around 2 years ago with 160/170 staff its now down to 55 staff, yet the demand is the same. Its actually dropping off now due to the serious lack of customer service. Its gotten to ridiculous levels of what is expected of you.

I hope the whole thing comes crashing down so we will get a new owners that actually have a clue what they are doing.

Frigga_92

Tesco will continue to be No. 1 for me until the other stores start offering a decent online shopping and delivery service. Far too often, SuperValu are out of stock of too many products by the time my shopping is delivered, which defeats the purpose of having your shopping delivered if you have to then go to the shop and buy a load of stuff. I don't think Dunnes offer online shopping and obviously Aldi and Lidl don't either.