The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread

thegeek · Wed 27 May, 2015 07.44

Some info here. Seems they have another one in the city, doing fancy sandwiches.

WillPS · Wed 27 May, 2015 19.58

Reminds me a little of Sainsbury's Fresh Kitchen, which didn't last long.

WillPS · Thu 28 May, 2015 13.57

nodnirG kraM wrote:Harris + Hoole was a coffee chain in its own right before Tesco's interest, is that right?

I'm not sure the precise order of events but Tesco were involved pretty early on, if not before they opened their first branch.

Martin Phillp · Thu 28 May, 2015 17.17

WillPS wrote:
nodnirG kraM wrote:Harris + Hoole was a coffee chain in its own right before Tesco's interest, is that right?
I'm not sure the precise order of events but Tesco were involved pretty early on, if not before they opened their first branch.

According to the Harris + Hoole website, Tesco invested in the business from the start.

http://www.harrisandhoole.co.uk/company/our-story

barcode · Thu 28 May, 2015 20.38

M&S are having a 5 days of summer event, I've never seen so many food stalls promoting new ranges. I tell you this it works the amount of new products which are running out where high.

Pete · Sun 31 May, 2015 03.29

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.

Pete · Sun 31 May, 2015 10.15

The branch of my dreams.

No sadly I had been woken by a chap who decided to rev his ridiculous motorbike right outside my window. tsk @ him

stu · Sun 31 May, 2015 16.37

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

Martin Phillp · Sun 31 May, 2015 17.30

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

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.

AJ · Sun 31 May, 2015 18.04

Martin Phillp wrote:
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
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.

Yep, my local one has also recently reopened after being gutted, expanded in to the adjacent unit and pretty much rebuilt.

thegeek · Sun 14 Jun, 2015 22.53

the award-winning eco-friendly Sainsbury's in North Greenwich is being replaced by a bigger dull shed a bit up the road:
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/201 ... nwich.html