The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread

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james2001 wrote: Thu 23 Jan, 2025 16.21 To be honest, I didn't even know they had any cafes left, all the stores I've been into over the last couple of years have the old cafe space walled off.
My local Sainsbury's is one that still has a Café. It's a bit hidden as you have to walk past a wall where the Argos is (on the mezzanine) to get to it. It was a lot more prominent prior to the Argos turning up.
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also didn't realise there were any cafes left. It's odd how they've done nothing with the space though.

Pizza counters were traditionally quite busy were they not?
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Pete wrote: Fri 24 Jan, 2025 12.58 also didn't realise there were any cafes left. It's odd how they've done nothing with the space though.

Pizza counters were traditionally quite busy were they not?
My boyfriend works at the Sainsbury's in Dundee and he says they've just filled the former cafe space with a Starbucks (it was still boarded up when I was last there). He's gutted about the pizza counter going as well.

Just been in Asda and they were playing Pink and the Sugababes. I did read some speculation they'd only renewed the music licence for Christmas so they could play the christmas songs shoppers expected to hear, but clearly it's a permanent thing. The royalty free music crap becoming yet another failed Issa brothers initiative.
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Our cafe space was replaced with additional storage for online shopping and a relocated Argos which had only been in the store a couple of years at most. This was all done at the same time as an entire refit of the store with all fridges replaced with ones with doors, new freezers and a replacement of the units that support them on the roof.
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AGuyFromUpNorth wrote: Tue 21 Jan, 2025 22.36 I noticed on my recent trip to Asda the other day that there was a load of new POS featuring the older 'Rollback' logo with the big smiley face which they apparently phased out a few years ago but it seems is back again.
I noticed that too... I thought Rollback was a Walmart thing they were losing the rights to?
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good spot - the trademark for Rollback is owned by Walmart Apollo LLC of Delaware:
https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcas ... 002227429B
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As Walmart still have a stake in Asda, they may be able to keep using it because of that.
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james2001 wrote: Sat 25 Jan, 2025 13.50My boyfriend works at the Sainsbury's in Dundee and he says they've just filled the former cafe space with a Starbucks (it was still boarded up when I was last there). He's gutted about the pizza counter going as well.
This is really common in the US (a huge number of Safeway stores have Starbucks in them).

My local Sainsbury's recently reopened with a Starbucks inside, although it is a fully separate entity whereas the US Safeway ones are a franchise model (with minimally trained staff). Not sure if that's the Sainsbury's standard more widely. (Sainsbucks? Starbury's? ...)

This reminds me - what happened to the Tesco / Harris+Hoole ownership? It always seemed kind of dodgy. I walked past Tesco Tooley St the other day (used to be my local when I worked in that area) and noticed it's become a Gould (whatever that is).
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The Sainsbury's and Starbucks team isn't a new thing, my local Sainsbury's has had once since it opened in 2001.

It's a bit grim that all of the cafes are likely to be come Starbucks/Costa, for what it's worth the previous cafes wouldn't charge upwards of £5 for a drink. Certainly, Starbucks for me is a very rare treat now the prices are pushing upwards of £5.

As for the cutbacks, I hope the cuts of the patisserie counter doesn't get rid of the patisserie itself, I am partial to a vanilla Danish pastry on occasion.

Why not just cut the music licences as well - I don't think there's a single person that's ever went endless Slade over the tannoy gets me in the festive mood. Can't imagine how much this costs per store.
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I noticed one of the branches in Aylesford had a Café open a while bake...
Was surprised to see it as the Café near my place in a former Savacentre closed along with the others in 2022, and this was a much smaller store. Only two months ago a Starbucks opened in the vacant space.
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BBC TV Centre wrote: Tue 28 Jan, 2025 20.27t's a bit grim that all of the cafes are likely to be come Starbucks/Costa, for what it's worth the previous cafes wouldn't charge upwards of £5 for a drink. Certainly, Starbucks for me is a very rare treat now the prices are pushing upwards of £5.
I think in fairness you're not really comparing like with like. Starbucks/Costa have lower-end drinks (brewed coffee, hot tea) for £2.50.

(Starbucks quite often run out of brewed coffee, unpopular as it is, and when that happens their policy is to serve an Americano and charge the price of a brewed coffee).
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