The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread

[wells]

In the Republic of Ireland, it is branded Tesco Ireland (although I believe they are phasing this name out).

[Andrew Wood]

Abbreviated product names on the receipts can be tricky - as the one that made it into the papers a while back showed: it was for Finest Chicken Lasagne but on the receipt it came up as 'F*CKN LASAGNE'.

[Nick Harvey]

Except that's not how the name came about.

Now that's very interesting, Andrew.

You'd think that their website ought to be correct, yet the "Tessa" version is what I was always told by my father and, without extending the pissing competition between Gavin and I, he and Jack were pretty good friends, so I've no reason to doubt his version; plus TG, who works there, also thinks the "Tessa" version is correct.

[Finn]

Typical waste of licence fee payers' money

I don't think he got an awful lot of the half crown radio licence, or even the one guinea television licence.

It's the principle that counts.

Have you been drinking something mellow this evening, Mr Harvey?

[Nini]

They've done gone rewritten the past, worse than the urban legends surrounding Asda's name (yes, Associated Dairies, don't get smart).

As an addition, I really don't like their cursive font, something oddly unreadable about it when used for, I dunno, a sentence more than 4 words in length.

Abbreviated product names on the receipts can be tricky - as the one that made it into the papers a while back showed: it was for Finest Chicken Lasagne but on the receipt it came up as 'F*CKN LASAGNE'.

Ah, classic!

[wells]

The Batley store seems to one of many newer stores with a Curved roof.




And here is the Ludlow store apparently it's to blend in with hills in the back ground.




What really interests me about all this is, the idea their could be one in this country exactly the same as one in Poland or Japan although I've not come across such a match as of yet.

[Nick Harvey]

Have you been drinking something mellow this evening, Mr Harvey?

Hehe, how appropriate!

It turns out it's Tesco Finest Cotes du Rhone Villages.

[Finn]

Hehe, how appropriate!

It turns out it's Tesco Finest Cotes du Rhone Villages.

Well, they do say that every little helps.






I said little, not huge gulps from the bottle!

[Andrew Wood]

Except that's not how the name came about.

Now that's very interesting, Andrew.

You'd think that their website ought to be correct, yet the "Tessa" version is what I was always told by my father and, without extending the pissing competition between Gavin and I, he and Jack were pretty good friends, so I've no reason to doubt his version; plus TG, who works there, also thinks the "Tessa" version is correct.

Shame, then, that Jack's wife was Sarah Fox.

[Pete]

On the topic of tesco receipts, which we're only slightly on but I don't care, why is it they have such vague descriptions?

How come if I go to Sainsburys it would read something like
Colgate Total, S Strong Cheddar, Muller Corner SB, Cravendale 2ltr

but at tesco you get a receipt that reads
Toothpaste, Cheese, Yoghurt, Milk?

[Andrew Wood]

Don't know, but it doesn't half play havoc at the service desk when trying to sort out complaints.