What next for Tesco?

r3nu4l · 17-05-2007 10:45AM #1

So at the moment Tesco in England are offering the following services:

Groceries
Petrol
Tesco Direct (similar to Amazon)
Tesco Jersey (similar to Play)
Phone & Broadband
Gas & Electricity
Mortgages
Savings
Credit cards
Insurance
Loans
Breakdown Assist
Tesco Mobile (phones)
Tesco Contact lenses
Tesco Diet Club
Tesco Nutri Club
Tesco Travel Club
Tesco Legal Store

As you can see they are involved in a lot but how much further can they go? The only avenues I see left open to them are satellite/cable TV communications services, an Airline service (Tesco Value or Tesco Finest Airlines...which would you use?), Train services or Tesco cars.

I don't see any of these as unfeasible for a corporate giant like Tesco but will they actually delve into these areas?

/I'd love some serious business discussion on this but can't see an appropriate forum so I guess I'll have to settle for whatever I can get from AH answers...

Dub13 · 17-05-2007 10:47AM

Maybe Lap dances,I would like a lap dance while Mrs Dub13 is doing the shopping.

ntlbell · 17-05-2007 10:47AM

lap dancing clubs.....

At last something usefull to buy with them stupid points.

dub that is scary...we thinks da same.....very worried.

grumpytrousers · 17-05-2007 10:48AM

that's silly...where would you swipe your loyalty card...

ntlbell · 17-05-2007 10:49AM

grumpytrousers wrote:

that's silly...where would you swipe your loyalty card...

same place ye test if the pie is warm...

Tar.Aldarion · 17-05-2007 10:51AM

Tesco computers/hardware.

Dub13 · 17-05-2007 10:51AM

ntlbell wrote:

dub that is scary...we thinks da same.....very worried.

What do they say about great men thinking alike...;)

ntlbell · 17-05-2007 10:53AM

Dub13 wrote:

What do they say about great men thinking alike...;)

that they only ever think about one thing?

AlmightyCushion · 17-05-2007 10:55AM

Tesco funerals. I'm telling ya, some day we'll all be burried in a big white box with blue stripes and Tesco Value Coffin wriitten on the top.

John Mason · 17-05-2007 10:57AM

they could do tesco birth, marriages and deaths - and you would get a discount if you went with all three - actually, i think i might try and pitch that idea to them

gucci · 17-05-2007 11:04AM

clearly they are going to enter government next.
something like 1 in every 4 pounds spent a day in england is spent in a tesco

r3nu4l · 17-05-2007 11:04AM

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Tesco computers/hardware.

I can see this happening actually and they are in a better position to do this than any of my other suggestions!

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Tesco funerals.

Maybe! Not sure about the Value coffin but I could see them providing a funeral service. The only thing that would stop them would be public perception of that move as it is a very sensitive area.

Irishbird wrote:

they could do tesco birth, marriages and deaths - and you would get a discount if you went with all three - actually, i think i might try and pitch that idea to them

Tesco weddings? That is a big possibility, a wedding list from Tesco direct followed by cut price dresses (already on sale at ASDA) and honeymoon travel club deals... feasible indeed.

ruprect · 17-05-2007 11:08AM

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e292/piggott23/tescovalue.jpg

AlmightyCushion · 17-05-2007 11:11AM

The tesco computers thing could actually work. I remember reading before that they have already started releasing tesco branded software. They already sell those iQon computers. They would probably just slap a tesco sticker on these and leave the building and the support of these to iQon.

source · 17-05-2007 11:12AM

ruprect wrote:

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e292/piggott23/tescovalue.jpg

WHY WHY WHY did i click on that link????:eek: :eek: :eek:

ROCKMAN · 17-05-2007 11:17AM

i would' nt mind tesco's having a go at running our health service who know's they may do it better ( I KNOW THAT WOULD NOT BE HARD )

AlmightyCushion · 17-05-2007 11:17AM

I think they are launching a mobile phone service piggybacking on the o2 network here in Ireland in the summer. A dsl broadband service wouldn't be that hard to do so that could be another service they could offer here with relative ease.

Tar.Aldarion · 17-05-2007 11:18AM

they should try to go and make agood cheap bb in Ireland.

dulpit · 17-05-2007 11:20AM

ruprect wrote:

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e292/piggott23/tescovalue.jpg

:mad: My eyes! My eyes! :mad:

On topic, we talked about this in college last year, we decided that between them, Tesco & Google are taking over the world... They should merge and then they could do anything...

Setun · 17-05-2007 11:23AM

r3nu4l wrote:

/I'd love some serious business discussion on this but can't see an appropriate forum so I guess I'll have to settle for whatever I can get from AH answers...

Dub13 wrote:

Maybe Lap dances,I would like a lap dance while Mrs Dub13 is doing the shopping.

grumpytrousers wrote:

that's silly...where would you swipe your loyalty card...

Dub13 · 17-05-2007 11:27AM

r3nu4l wrote:

/I'd love some serious business discussion on this but can't see an appropriate forum so I guess I'll have to settle for whatever I can get from AH answers...

You should have posted this in the Business Management forum then,leave After Hours to the simple people.We are simple but happy,you cant buy happiness.

Gran Hermano · 17-05-2007 11:37AM

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Tesco computers/hardware.

They've moved into software already
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5396488.stm

Tar.Aldarion · 17-05-2007 11:39AM

It's why I didn't say s/w

Duggy747 · 17-05-2007 11:41AM

You can buy coffins now, beside the toiletries:

Tar.Aldarion · 17-05-2007 11:45AM

Tesco value star wars
http://www.davidbreslin.f2s.com/silly/for_B3ta_tesco_value_droid.jpg
Tesco value bride
http://mcr.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/pmwiki/uploads/Members.BadTasteEntz05/Tesco%20Value%20Bride.jpg
Tesco brand in the doghouse
http://www.geocities.com/juliemorganmp/tescovalentine.jpg
Tesco brand motivational poster
http://uploads.omega.org.uk/Tesco-Value-Motivational-Poster.png

AlmightyCushion · 17-05-2007 11:46AM

Duggy747 wrote:

You can buy coffins now, beside the toiletries:

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5280/coffinyo9.jpg

No they had to take them off the barcodes wouldn't scan through properly

Working hard I see Duggy.

Duggy747 · 17-05-2007 11:49AM

you bet your ass I am, I see you are too?

I heard they were stopping them cuz they were made of cheap paper and the deceased would rip through the bottom of the coffin

AlmightyCushion · 17-05-2007 11:55AM

Actually they're just the empty box off a fridge with a Tesco sticker slapped on the top.

Duggy747 · 17-05-2007 12:01PM

Why those diabolical.............

Couldn't be worse than the Tesco Value white pudding I bought before, the slices litterly melted into a big gloop in my george foreman AND developed a weird and very sticky layer on top...............so yeah, don't buy their pudding.

AlmightyCushion · 17-05-2007 12:06PM

Duggy747 wrote:

Why those diabolical.............

That's why I told ya not to bury your mother in that but you didn't listen.

Duggy747 wrote:

...

Couldn't be worse than the Tesco Value white pudding I bought before, the slices litterly melted into a big gloop in my george foreman AND developed a weird and very sticky layer on top...............so yeah, don't buy their pudding.

And remember the ham that's made from a cow

Duggy747 · 17-05-2007 12:12PM

Duuuuurrrrrppp!!!!
Remember those value burgers you told me to get.....all 30 of em'? They looked and smelled like reformed poo..........needless to say I still ate most of em'!

What next for Tesco?

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