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Re: The Tesco & Other non-Morrisons Supermarket Thread
Posted: Sat 02 Jul, 2016 16.19
by woah
bilky asko wrote:Just been for a visit to my local ASDA 40 miles away in York. The last time I went, all the standard tills had been replaced by hybrid self-service tills.
This time, all the fancy tills have been replaced by the old-fashioned clicky-clack keyed tills of yore in dark grey (bar 3 conveyor belt self service tills, the standard models, and the ones dedicated to the broken down Scan and Go).
Although it feels like you've travelled 20 years into the past, the queues are moving much faster.
It's amazing that they're still using those ancient terminals and systems, and they still seem to be able to source new ones - for example more recent units I've seen come with no IBM branding since their EPOS business was sold to Toshiba. The system is linked with the US Wal-Mart system - so it's probably a mammoth task to replace it all and if it works well for them they've got no motivation to go to all that effort.
Re: The Tesco & Other non-Morrisons Supermarket Thread
Posted: Sun 03 Jul, 2016 09.52
by WillPS
I didn't realise IBM had sold their EPOS business - interesting.
I think Iceland still use the same ancient tills too?
Re: The Tesco & Other non-Morrisons Supermarket Thread
Posted: Sun 03 Jul, 2016 10.18
by thegeek
Other fans of IBM tills might enjoy this
transcription of a talk about them from Boring Conference 2012.
Re: The Tesco & Other non-Morrisons Supermarket Thread
Posted: Sat 30 Jul, 2016 23.23
by Pear
Re: The Tesco & Other non-Morrisons Supermarket Thread
Posted: Sun 31 Jul, 2016 11.18
by simonipswich1
Doubt it's a rebrand, our little Asda has just applied for planning permission to change the Asda signs to new ones with ASDA and the flowery thing according to the planning application, no mention of Wal-Mart at all.
Re: The Tesco & Other non-Morrisons Supermarket Thread
Posted: Sun 31 Jul, 2016 15.19
by JAS84
Is that branch a Supercentre? Some of Asda's largest stores were once called Asda Wal-Mart Supercentre, later just Asda Supercentre after Walmart changed it's logo (and removed the dash from their name).
http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Asda_Supercentre
Re: The Tesco & Other non-Morrisons Supermarket Thread
Posted: Sun 31 Jul, 2016 22.20
by scottishtv
If you look closely at that image, it reads "Exclusively from Walmart" in reference to the cheap flip-flops.
Not sure why they think that's a selling point, but then these are the same people who persisted in trying to sell a range of Hershey's chocolate products that no-one ever seemed to buy.
Re: The Tesco & Other non-Morrisons Supermarket Thread
Posted: Tue 09 Aug, 2016 17.02
by Philip
Saw this today and thought Metropol might appreciate it… wonder how old this box this. (Image is flipped upside down)
Re: The Tesco & Other non-Morrisons Supermarket Thread
Posted: Tue 09 Aug, 2016 17.04
by james2001
Clearly a lot older than the cupboard it's in!
Re: The Tesco & Other non-Morrisons Supermarket Thread
Posted: Tue 09 Aug, 2016 17.24
by Philip
Yes, if my calculations are correct it's survived one major kitchen refit.
Re: The Tesco & Other non-Morrisons Supermarket Thread
Posted: Tue 09 Aug, 2016 19.05
by james2001
My grandmother still has an old Tesco Glace Cherry tub that's Best Before January 1995, though it has the logo after that one on it. The cherries are long gone though, she uses it for keeping brown sugar in now!