Tesco C/D

Seriously though, that's a real bummer.

Tesco isn't as bad as Asda. Morrisons is just plain awful.

At my local (to where I work) butcher, I can buy organic meat at no more than it costs in Sainsbury, and I get good conversation (if a bit surreal at times), the butcher knows where all his meat comes from, and if I want somethign different, he'll do it for me.

At my local farm shop I get local produce that is in season. I will soon be able to buy a large bundle of aspargus, grown in a field about half a mile away, for about £1.50. In Sainsbury it would cost me about 3 or 4 times that (and may come from hundreds of miles away). I really went off supermarkets when I saw parsnips from New Zealand in the middle of July.

Local food, in season is the best.

Revive!

Slang guide for Tesco's silver army

Older supermarket workers are being given a guide to youth slang to help them understand younger colleagues and customers.

The pamphlet is being tried out in some of Tesco's 1,500 stores with a high proportion of employees over retirement age.

Key phrases in the guide include:

Bad: Good (but this can also mean bad. When in doubt, just nod).
How’s it hanging’?: How are you today?
Laters: Cheerio, goodbye.
Minging: Ugly, unattractive.
Phat: Wicked (in the good sense), cool.
Slammin’: Pleasing to the eye.
Talk to the hand: I’m not listening.
Wack: Weak, boring.

A Tesco spokesman said: “It aims to help bridge the generation gap and offer a guide for older members of staff looking to chat with younger colleagues and customers."

Lionel Gardner, 70, who works at Tesco Extra in Eastbourne, East Sussex, said: "It's a great idea. I love working with young people but a lot of the time I have difficulty understanding what they are trying to say.”

And Ash Coley, 18, who works in the same store, said: “We youngsters learn a lot from the old timers. It is very interesting to talk to them - especially when they go on about the war.

“Hopefully, we will be able to have even better conversations with them now with the help of this guide.”

Tesco PR chief Jon Church, who recruited daughters Nicola, 15, Gemma, 14, and 11-year-old Hannah, to help write the guide, said: “We have a very diverse workforce and customer base and in today’s fast-moving world there can be a communication barrier between generations.

“If the leaflet is well received, we will roll it out to all UK stores.”

Aren't most of these words a little anachronistic?

Richard Littlejohn blames the Sixties.

Tesco PR chief Jon Church, who recruited daughters Nicola, 15, Gemma, 14, and 11-year-old Hannah, to help write the guide, said: “We have a very diverse workforce and customer base and in today’s fast-moving world there can be a communication barrier between generations

Ohh and child labour too!

can't they get any tory kids to work there then?

They all work at Waitrose.

Dud for not delivering my muesli this week.

Here on the smaller island, they're the only game in town for home deliveries, and my local delivery people are very friendly and will call me from the van to let me know within the half hour when they'll be arriving, rather than leaving me to sit around for two hours waiting for them.

I wish I had a decent local shop to buy stuff in, but I don't, and I feel (perhaps incorrectly) that it's better for the van to drive to me rather than me to drive to the supermarket. It's certainly better for my nerves.

that article sounds a little fishy to say the least!

That article is a c&p of a press release with enough adjectival change to transcend plagiarism charges.

alright, i'm going to go swing it on the flippity-flop

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/hist100.96/elc/grungehoax.gif

is where the jazz butcher hang out and drink weird kinds of lemonade but when they export it to the states it will just not be the same.

Oh, great.

think tesco might make america a bad place?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/29/tesco.supermarkets1

"good food"

Yeah I hate Tesco all they sell is inedible muck, right?

tesco is shit....the tesco in bethnal green in particular is just a dump, stuff fucked everywhere and massive long queues at all times of day or night.

I like a big supermarket, it gives you space to think. sainsbury's mile end is where I shop lately, it's spacious and I like the way you can buy the ultra cheap basics stuff to counterbalance anything expensive.

waitrose is incredibly nice too but I don't have the money. Though I bought a steak there last week that was pretty much the greatest steak I've ever eaten.

Yeah, but vegetables and fruit are ridiculously expensive in supermarkets in general, herbs all come from israel, despite being entirely growable in this country, hideously overpackaged with yards of choking plastic and overall, I find that small family owned asian, chinese and african foodshops around the country are much cheaper for basics. I get milk and juice there and usually want to kill myself afterwards.

Really, at this stage, Tesco is just the illusion of cheapness. It's pretty shite value really, it's just that most people only compare it to the other supermarkets and the difference between them all is pretty negligable.

"'It all comes down to customers. There was the example of tomatoes, which in British supermarkets are generally tasteless. Tesco thought why not invest in making a brilliant tasty tomato, but when they tried it people made clear they preferred the tasteless one, so they went back to that. They follow the basic advice: listen to the customer and don't act too quickly. As the sales figures show, they have still got their finger on the pulse of the British consumer."

Wah?

I want nice tomatoes, supermarket ones are crap, but so are local grocer ones up here.

I think Tesco's stock a lot of good value frozen stuff the the big 1kg bags of chicken breasts, mixed veg, runner beans, etc...

Sounds filthy:

Tesco has started selling fish finger sandwiches, complete with lettuce and ketchup, to be eaten cold. The move comes as fish finger sales soar - with sales up from £584m to £610m in the past year as the recession eats into family budgets.

Tesco product developer Laura Fagan, who came up with the idea, said, "The inspiration for the sandwich came from my own student days - it really was survival food back then.

"I realised that every now and then I was getting a hankering for one - and guessed I wasn't alone. Nothing makes us feel better in difficult times than comfort food. We're thinking of developing other classic sandwiches - we'll see how well this one does."

I realised that every now and then I was getting a hankering for one

But couldn't be bothered tearing off a piece of lettuce, finding a bottle of ketchup, and putting it all between two pieces of bread.

ketchup no mayo/tartare/similar yes

Tesco currently v dud since their van fridge broke down when delivering our groceries yesterday but they aren't returning phone calls or emails inquiring whether they are going to refund us or redeliver the fridge/freezer stuff. It's not that hard a question.

I had one of these Tesco fish finger sandwiches an hour ago and it was delicious.

it didn't taste 'evil' to you?

It was weird because it was cold - fish fingers should be hot and the butter should be melted. But that weird feeling soon went. Plus I couldn't decide which flavour crisps to have with them, don't think salt & vinegar really worked.

They should obviously include crisps with the sandwich, to save their customers the excruciating trouble of finding and opening a separate package.

subject line of pr email received today:

Tesco launches the UK's first lad's granola

i dare not open it

i really hope it's called GRANOLADS

MANGRAN

LAUNCH OF UK’S FIRST LAD’S GRANOLA
The first ‘lad’s granola’ breakfast cereal has been launched in the UK.
FUEL is a delicious chunky breakfast granola packed with vitamins and minerals essential for keeping men fighting fit. It is being sold exclusively in 459 Tesco stores.
FUEL is aimed predominantly at active, healthy males – or men who are aspiring to be – and comes in two varieties: 70% Chocolate Chunks and Fruit Loaded.
Containing only natural ingredients, FUEL, whose brand strapline is “One Life – Live It”, is rich in Vitamin B and E, high in fibre and contains guarana extract. It is a blend of both slow release and fast release energy.
The aspirational packaging tells customers to: ‘Throw off the shackles, sail away from the safe harbour, climb to the peak of your ambitions. Whoever you are and whatever you choose to do in life, be it jumping for joy, trekking the Amazon or chasing that business dream, you need the right FUEL to give you the boost that will get your day off to a great start.’
Barney Mauleverer of FUEL said: ‘Men are fed up with the lack of choice in the breakfast cereal market. We wanted to create a fantastic tasting new cereal just for guys which has all the energy a man needs to get his day – and evening - off to a great start. But we’ve also heard that lots of women like it too.’
FUEL will be sold in 400g packs with a retail sale price of £3.69. It is on special offer in Tesco during November for just £2.49.

WHERE DO YOU EVEN START

assuming FUEL stands for File Under: Energetic Lads

lol @ "men who are aspiring to be"

i'm sure 70% chocolate chunks will help them in that regard

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eo1E3uKybJ4/Tqp2Vgig_-I/AAAAAAAACdU/LRV6it1iEsc/s400/IMG_7095a.JPG

Get Matt Cardle to advertise it. I'm sure he's not doing anything at the moment.

Actually the silhouette on the box looks like Alan Partridge shouting "ah HA!"