The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread

[cdd]

Sainsburys sending out an email saying that to pay with nectar you now need to use the QR code barcode on the app, or the magswipe on the card.

I'd be amazed if the magstripe has anything more than the account# and name on it. So I expect this option to either be dropped or to require physical inspection of the card by the cashier since otherwise the fraudsters could just write this data to any nectar card.

[all new Phil]

All this supermarket chat being reignited got me thinking - I used to live near a supermarket that started as a Safeway, became a Morrisons, then changed to a Somerfield, and now it’s a Sainsbury’s. Anyone else know of a supermarket going through so many different guises?

[james2001]

Looked at some other Tesco Prunella Scales adverts, and suprised just how many were filmed in stores with older decor- like with the old cream and red stripes around the perimiter, signs in the typewriter font and one even has the old 70s and 80s sign on the outside prominently displayed in the background! While there were stores like that around even into the 2010s, I'm suprised they'd want them appearing in their adverts.

And related in a way, Sainsury's had John Cleese doing their adverts for a while in the late 90s- which supposedly actually had the effect of making sales drop! During that era where they were bizarrely using two different logos (both of which are in this advert)

[BBC TV Centre]

All this supermarket chat being reignited got me thinking - I used to live near a supermarket that started as a Safeway, became a Morrisons, then changed to a Somerfield, and now it’s a Sainsbury’s. Anyone else know of a supermarket going through so many different guises?

One near me that's been a Safeway, Aldi and now an M&S.

[Philip]

Looked at some other Tesco Prunella Scales adverts, and suprised just how many were filmed in stores with older decor- like with the old cream and red stripes around the perimiter, signs in the typewriter font and one even has the old 70s and 80s sign on the outside prominently displayed in the background! While there were stores like that around even into the 2010s, I'm suprised they'd want them appearing in their adverts.

And related in a way, Sainsury's had John Cleese doing their adverts for a while in the late 90s- which supposedly actually had the effect of making sales drop! During that era where they were bizarrely using two different logos (both of which are in this advert)

Well, they are strange adverts to be fair. I'm not surprised it put some people off shopping there. I don't think it's particularly to do with Cleese though, just the concept. His run of Schweppes ads were pretty good.