The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
I found the mother of all Tesco concept stores yesterday in London's Charing Cross. It's a small unit that specialises in lunch time meal deals on one wall and hot food on the other. But get this, the back wall is home to a freaking burrito counter! As in a proper Chipotle operation. The shop was just called Tesco though it had a little yellow sign saying burrito bar on the sticky-out sign. I was the only one in there so I'd be interested if the lunchtime office trade will be enough to justify this staying open all the time.
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According to the Harris + Hoole website, Tesco invested in the business from the start.WillPS wrote:I'm not sure the precise order of events but Tesco were involved pretty early on, if not before they opened their first branch.nodnirG kraM wrote:Harris + Hoole was a coffee chain in its own right before Tesco's interest, is that right?
http://www.harrisandhoole.co.uk/company/our-story
TVF's London Lite.
M&S are now rolling out their fabulously classy sans-serif font "MS London" onto the SELs. Looks amazing. As does their full revamp of every product that appears to be going on, for the first time in years.
"He has to be larger than bacon"
My local Lidl has demolished itself and is being rebuilt from the ground up. I saw one in Norfolk doing something similar last year - I think they are better off spending their money on a modern logo, a name change and some decent edible food
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Lidl appear to have a thing about demolishing stores and starting again as they did that to one of the south London stores near me.stu wrote:My local Lidl has demolished itself and is being rebuilt from the ground up. I saw one in Norfolk doing something similar last year - I think they are better off spending their money on a modern logo, a name change and some decent edible food
TVF's London Lite.
Yep, my local one has also recently reopened after being gutted, expanded in to the adjacent unit and pretty much rebuilt.Martin Phillp wrote:Lidl appear to have a thing about demolishing stores and starting again as they did that to one of the south London stores near me.stu wrote:My local Lidl has demolished itself and is being rebuilt from the ground up. I saw one in Norfolk doing something similar last year - I think they are better off spending their money on a modern logo, a name change and some decent edible food