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So you need a pint of milk and some tea bags do you go to the small usually dirty over priced corner shop, staffed by greedy traders,who fail to spend a few quid on geting the place painted, or cleaned, who employ possibly just the family,or the local unemployed wortking cash in hand, or a multiple retailer, where youre guaranteed usually, a clean shop, a free cash machine,loyalty card, decent amounts of stock, and who employ lots of people thus reducing unemployment.
I'm a [s]capitalist[/s] pensioner. Where is cheaper?
I get mine deliverd by a "milk man" along witg my coffee,sugar butter and bread, (dnt do tea) every day so i dnt need to interact with said shop keep, the wife does the "big shop" so im happy as a pig in the preverbial!!
Anything but Tesco
My corner shop went to the dogs during the proprietors martial break up. Some days there was no sweets or booze but there was always milk. It got to be a bit of a joke. And then a Tesco Metro opened 200 yards further and that was that for the corner shop. A Sainsburys Local has just opened up 50 yards along the same road as the Tesco.
As for my choice, its a convenience store and as such needs to be the most convenient - so which ever is nearest.
Tesco Express took over our corner shop a few years back - suddenly you could get twice as many products, at sensible prices, without having to leave the village.
And the fact that more people were coming to use it meant that the vacant retail units around it were suddenly revamped and in use again.
Whilst on a number of levels I can't abide Tesco and what they stand for, I have to accept that their takeover of the corner shop was a great success for our community.
Curse them!
Also strangely localy Tesco small shops opening has made the local Spar and coops close, with no great loss, but a lot morere expensivethan tesco they where.
Also multiple retailers are open longer, and dont shut for lunch.
The nearest shop to me is asda, sooo...
My nearest shop is a Sainsbury’s superstore and unsurprisingly it is quicker to walk than drive
My local corner shop is a delight. Employs about five or six people (possibly related, never asked as it didn't matter). Always very clean, including making the point of sweeping the pavement outside. Always has the essentials in stock, and not really that expensive considering. Doesn't shut for lunch, and opens pretty good hours (Around 0700-1900). So, if I've forgotten to get something from Waitrose, I go there. Also use them to buy the paper/lottery tickets/the occasional something to snack on when working from home.
Oh, and they know their cricket! A visit during a test match can take some time....
Tesco extra is my corner shop 2min walk
Tecos won't sell you beer at 9.30 Christmas day morning when you forgot to stock up the day before.
Project you forgot that the multiple will be paying below "living wage" levels and expecting the state to top-up the pay or "employing" those on Job Centre work experience.
Both examples are as bad as each other for abusing state aid.
Dancake - Christmas is the same date every year. Be prepared this year!
Corner shop provides at least one real job (owner/shop keeper), that is a wage that will keep a family to a decent standard. No one can survive as the bread winner on the money Tesco pay.
The owner of a corner shop is part of the community (see cricket chap above), Tesco just employ transient staff with no connection to the locality.
Corner shop will do you favours, pay when I get some money tomorrow et c. The shop near my old house used to take in my parcels for me 🙂
Yeah, they're a little more expensive, and there isn't the same range, but that's not the end of the world.
So, corner shop FTW
APF
Tesco are currently building an express store over the road from my local shop, about half a mile from a Tesco extra.
I can't see the local shop lasting long once it opens. Will Tesco be delivering my papers at the weekend? Thought not.
Sandwich - Member
Project you forgot that the multiple will be paying below "living wage" levels and expecting the state to top-up the pay or "employing" those on Job Centre work experience.
Both examples are as bad as each other for abusing state aid.
No one can survive as the bread winner on the money Tesco pay.
Tesco and the major multiple retailers, will of course be paying the minimum wage, and offering a staff discount on everything in all their shops, also most major comapnies will avail themselves of all available state aid, because they can, thats how it works.
Strange how the supermarkets are now a major employer in the uk, and creating more jobs every week.
When we first moved in, we dubbed our local shop "The Inconvenience Store" as it's opening times were a bit odd. However, we now use it for bread, milk, booze, snacks and sundries. That may be largely because it's less than 60 seconds walk from our front door... However, they're open early, they shut late and the happy chap who works there is into bikes & cycling. Winner!
Tesco or nowt.
funny, Tesco won't do 'tick'-- local shop does, i like my local shop, you get interaction, never get that in a multi-corporate store-them like vampires-- sucking life out of communities...
I live in a place with no choice at all.
Tesco local and the like will 'consolidate' to out of town stores once the local competition is dead
I'd rather pay extra if it means a short stroll to the end of the road
strange how the supermarkets are now a major employer in the uk, and creating more jobs every week.
you work for their PR ?
what crap-- part time jobs at the expense of other jobs, subsidised as per above, soulless mc jobs-- doubt you would like a 'job' there !
Corner shop preferably but tbh, wherever is easier to get parked 😳
National multiple everytime. Cheaper, better range, nicer shop, everything in stock.
Having said that I guess it depends where you live, and what is available in the local area.
I don't have a corner shop, my nearest shop is a supermarket. But my last two houses did have a local cornershop, in both cases owned by Asians (that's Indians or ****stanis to our foreign readers, not people from the Orient!). Priced a little higher than the supermarkets, but I don't get called 'Sir' in the supermarket, or asked how I am, and the supermarket won't order stuff in for me on demand. The supermarket also expect me to queue for the privilege of buying their product.
tesco actually pay just shy of two quid more than the minimum rate.. they pay more than john lewis and marks to thier checkout operators..
staff discount is 10% up to 6 weeks paid holidays and share saving schemes and bonus schemes.. there a real pain to work for..
on the other hand i ve witnessed working relaives rolling thier beds out on the shop floor at 11pm in family owned businesses
My local corner shop was selling Coke 500ml bottles for 70p, on close inspection out of date by 2 months 😕
I have a friend who is a professional, earns good money whose hatred of Tescos leads him to shoplift every time he visits 😀 he is a bit strange 😆
Market. Venison sausages in the fridge. Guinea Fowl in my tum. Tesco can **** off 🙂
Strangely, the staff in my local Tescos have all been there for a while - some were at the old shop it took over.
And they all live in the village.
And they all chat to you.
And they'll deliver papers.
As I said before, there are lots of reasons to hate Tesco, but some of them/their staff are not necessarily the spawn of Satan
whats a corner shop, one end of the road is tesco and the other is waitrose.
Waitrose!!!!!????? I dnt even think blackpool has one or a acado, its rife with tescos round here, the corner shops are now all owned by one geezer through a franchise dubbed "smileys" which i dnt think they know how to do!!! But theyre trying hard to become tesco, mini cafes in the shops, deli counters hot food, dvds etc, i agree with some posters as my pal works at the tesco superstore and earns more than some of my tradesmen friends, ie allways know u have work, paid hols sick benefits. Discounted phone bills loans etc and first dibbs on the reduced goodies!!!!! Taste the differance scoff for less than 50p!!!!!
My corner shop is a classic family run slightly grimy affair, over priced with a bizarre and random selection of products, and a small shelf of veg which is always past its best (i always assumed they were trying to sell the stuff the owners found in there own cupboards and thought 'oh, don't fancy that'). I have been going in at least 4/5 times a week with a cheery hello for nearly a decade, and receive not a flicker of recognition nor communication. I expect if i were to collapse and die in there they would barely be able to tell the police if they had seen me before. The wife though, makes the most fantastic samoses, which you buy loose from a bowl on the counter for 25p each. They are of such size that two makes for a fiery meal; two and a can of overpriced baked beans and you have my favourite Sunday lunch. In it's own way i find my shop a very British experience of inner city life and one which is disappearing, and one which I will miss. But if i could be arsed to walk to Tesco my diet would be a he'll of a lot better!
We have a sainsbury's about 200m down the road so normally go there. If they are shut we have these people
I go there a reasonable amount as they have really good local produce - bread, milk, cheese, beer etc. and are open early till late most days.
If the corner shop is indigenously owned then that - otherwise elsewhere.
Just streetviewed my old uni flat and gutted to find both sub continent owned convenience sores have closed. 1 did the best samosas and always had cold Irn Bru in glass bottles. The other Mr Soods sold the cheapest booze from behind a grille. Occasionally had permanent marker pen over the duty free marks etc but was cheap.
Locally Tesco supermarket opened and the co-op closed. Wasn't that sad as the staff in the co-op were the slowest serving lot ever.
I have a friend who is a professional, earns good money whose hatred of Tescos leads him to shoplift every time he visits he is a bit strange
not at all- just principled !
not at all- just principled !
Hurray for victimless crimes!
If the corner shop is indigenously owned then that - otherwise elsewhere.
It was a bitch to find a Pictish corner shop round my way so I usually ended up going to patriotic multiple retailers like Asda and Aldi.
The corner shop is sainsbury's local. To get to the nearest "proper" corner shop I'd also have to walk past to coop and it would be much further away.
Morrisons is a couple of minutes walk away, so that gets the nod for essentials, out of necessity. That and the Tesco's have seen off anyone else apart from the Local Market on a Saturday, where we tend to stock up for the week
I do miss the local shops I had at the top of our road, living in Whalley Range. The fruit and veg were about half the price of the supermarkets, and miles fresher and better quality. The market does the same job now, but only on a Saturday 🙁
Strangely, the staff in my local Tescos have all been there for a while - some were at the old shop it took over.
My auntie has just got a job with Tesco last week. She says the staff perks are fantastic, and she had an induction with the union rep who says they have a great relationship with the management. Which certainly isn't the impression you get from the "Spawn of Satan" press reports
Co-op run loooooads of our little corner-shop-sized-shops round here. Since our local post office closed 🙁 they have become my most local shop. I don't know how well they treat their suppliers (iirc for some things they are as bad as Tesco) but their employees are well looked after, they 'own' the business like john lewis/waitrose, and like tesco metro, everything costs the same as it does in the one supermarket they also run round here as opposed to "convenience" spar/londis prices.
I used to be a community nurse and know my way round everywhere here, but I struggle to think of more than a couple of dozen convenience stores in our 250000 population city which don't have the name of one chain or another over the door nowadays, many that locals still refer to by the surname of the original owner as opposed to "bargain booze on Merafield Road". Loads of the smallest ones have also closed outright in the last few years
Would be cornershop, but we don't have one.
Tesco/Spa are the nearest.
WTF is an 'indigenous' shop?
Do you check passports?
Do you demand to see a family tree?
How many generations do you go back and verify before buying your paper?
Whichever is cheap and convenient, which generally means the local Asda. I'd love to see independent retailers do well but my experience of corner shops is poor quality, poor choice, high prices and surly owners. I gave up on them when the last one I used seemed wholly incapable of saving a Sunday paper for me despite constant polite asking. I'm sure there are good ones out there somewhere, but not near me.
My local village currently has a crappy little [londis] shop exactly as described in projects first post but before the end of the year we're going to have spanky new Co-Op. Frankly I can't wait for the Londis to close 😈
The village already has 2 pubs, a restaurant, a newspaper/mag/sweets/post office, 3 x hair dressers, ladies clothes shop, beauty place, chip shop, little cafe, a small deli and a farm shop selling meat and a few veg.
Amazingly there has been some opposition to the development but I reckon that the village will be all the better for the Co-Op coming in and it's smartened up an area that's been empty for a while.
Hurray for victimless crimes!
i think he's just trying to redress the balance in his own little way-- tesco rob us, we rob them. Despite all the best efforts they still achieve over 1 Billion profit-- since most of their hourly paid workers get tax credits to top up their wages, its not really a surprise .
tesco rob us
How so?
Unless you're a dairy farmer, I can't see how you can [i]literally [/i]claim to have been robbed by Tesco.
Are you a dairy farmer?
However, I think he's saying that as Tesco won't pay their staff a living wage, then we effectively subidise their profits through tax credits, housing benefit etc. Which is a fair point. Its a bit rich to say you can't afford to pay more than minimum wage, then posting profits of [i]only[/i] £1.7 billion
I have a friend who is a professional, earns good money whose hatred of Tescos leads him to shoplift every time he visits he is a [s]bit strange[/s] freeloading thief
If he had principles he just wouldn't shop at tesco
I always consider helping the locals when I shop (by locals I mean me and my family). So I shop at the big supermarkets as they are the cheapest. This allows me more left over to maybe spend at other local establishements. Of course I could shop at our local corner shop where they will smile and say hello, whilst at the same time selling me product of dubious datage at an extortionate price. Not to mention their obvious ignorance of age/working hour restrictions.
Really dont get this hatered of Tescos etc... maybe I'm just not hip 🙄
I am fortunate enought to have a morribogs 5 minutes walk down t'road. My friend visits a local cornershop that may as well be a shed stuck on a corner wi a genny running his fridge of pop. Its proper good n the dude inside is always chipper.
I shall visit whichever is most conveninet.
Tesco are a ruthless corporation,projecting an image that is opposite of their real aims-- their prices on some items would make Dick Turpin blush. You may say you have a choice not to shop there, when they have eliminated all opposition its a bit trickier.
I do not like any of the large conglomerate retailers, but there is a ranking system based on smugness,vfm, and other subjective factors-- Tesco just happens to be No 1
within 2 minutes of my house I have two corner shops, a Tesco Express, a Budgens, a Waitrose, three greengrocers, two butchers, a fishmonger, two bakeries (three if you include Greggs), a deli, a newspaper vendor... the list goes on.
I choose to spread my pennies around them all, apart from Tesco because their produce stinks.
jonba - Member
We have a sainsbury's about 200m down the road so normally go there. If they are shut we have these people
> http://www.nisalocally.com/I go there a reasonable amount as they have really good local produce - bread, milk, cheese, beer etc. and are open early till late most days.
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Nice thing about> http://www.nisalocally.com/ Tesco don't make 1.7bn a year for no reason, they have extremely good marketing departments! Big price drop etc it's just the same type of offers you can find at any other good conveince store. Supermarkets do have an impressive range though And like it or not they are part of our every day lives and have their place, but they are not as 'cheap' as you might think, especially when you factor in the cost of fuel and the amount of food you waste when you buy too much!
tescos for me, its cheaper than the M&S food bit in the garage.
how many people on here have worked for tescos?
I've worked with them and didn't like their working ethos (not their communicated values)
Pigface - which fresh ingredient of Coke were you worried about poisoning you 😉
My local shop is ok, good for a pint of milk, has our little post office in too and is always busy with people from around the village!
Also saw a guy returning some out of date Rich teas in there, Rich tea biscuits - surely there is nothing in them to go off? They then went and cleared the shelf of them, so it's not like they didn't care just a general mistake. I do shop at Tesco too much though, the the local one is HUGE and you have to drive really as the road there is a pig.
All these quaint people still physically going into a shop. How very 20th Century.
Home delivery is the way to do it.
Save loads of money too as you're not walking along the aisles going "ooh, that's nice, we'll have some of those" and flling your trolley with stuff you never thought of or intended to buy.
WTF is an 'indigenous' shop?
You know - sells mostly woad. Shelves made of mortarless slate. Overpowering stench of sheepshit. Owners complaining about bloody Angles coming over here, taking their jobs, getting all the best dykes, refusing to speak the language.
and can i spend my Groats in there ?
Ah, somewhere with a decent jute box.
Sorry.
can you buy ergot infected beer, the original LSD ?
bit of mis information floating about despite some of the issues being highlighted earlier in the thread. i guess its too easy not to read the content and just skip to the 'reply'
lets just clarify..
Tesco pay checkout operators about 2 quid an hour more than minimum rate.. they pay more than Marks and John lewis.
Tesco are NOT ripping off dairy farmers they ve been praised by teh NFU for thier attitude and many farmers markets have signs placed by the NFU praising them..
thier not perfect but more people work for tesco than any other business in the country, they pay more out in pensions than any other business in the UK. unlike some of thier uk rivals they are a british company making money employing folk and paying tax ( check if Aldi, Asda Lidl can say the same..)
Morrisons is 2 mins walk for me & we don't have a 'corner shop' & never have while we've lived here. However we've got a good little farm shop where you can get top class fruit & veg & a proper grocer who sells all sorts of weird & wonderful things (including about 10 types of bird feed!) but not stuff like milk, bread, sugar etc. We have a Spar for late emergencies as well.
more people work for tesco than any other business in the country, they pay more out in pensions than any other business in the UK
That's just size, not quality.
As for being a British company...you might want to look at their major shareholders: http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=33 (as if it makes a difference anyway - capital is stateless).
I have a friend who is a professional, earns good money whose hatred of Tescos leads him to shoplift every time he visits he is a bit strange
Is he called Richard, and married to Judy?
I was working in the very same Tescos (on the Dairy Isle) when he got nabbed actually. I thought they were a great company to work for. Decent pay (for what the job entails), didn't abuse breaktimes, good discounts and staff shop. In fact, I'm a big fan.