Expensive. Heavily-marked up. Residual, gradual decline in quality. Fewer lines of decent and different products. More lines of cheap, poor quality tat and junk food. Bland. Ever present. Warehouse-style stores.
Yep, that's Tesco. And that's why I will no longer be doing my wedge in their stories again.
I'm sick and tired of being taken for a ride. My local village has seen a recent resurgence, with a new butchers opening up and new delis offering decent stuff. From now on, I go local and get stuff I can't get locally from somewhere that does reasonable quality stuff like Sainsburys.
They can keep the 'Club Card' and their £7 vouchers of stuff for every £700 spent or whatever it works out as at the end of 6 weeks.
If they want to be cunts, and if they want to market to pikeys with no brains who think they are getting a deal when they aren't, that's all good by me.
They can sell their solitary jacket spud for 50p. I'll go to my farm-shop up the road and pay 25. They can mass produce shitty tomatoes and cucumbers in some massive warehouse near the Essex coast and flog them for a 5,000% mark up. They can post up their bullshit, fake-arsed 'special offers' and discounts, which are a total joke and not representative of what the pre-deal prices were.
These arseholes only do big business, because us mug punters go there and hand over the debit card. They clearly don't deserve to do big business, so I can only assume people still go back because they are lazy and it's habit.
You're better off at anywhere else, bar Asda and Tesco in my view. And yes, that would include supermarkets where you can't actually buy a meal because everything is so random and weird. Like Lidl.
Saturday, 13 February 2010
Fuck Tesco
Posted by John Demetriou at 12:57
Labels: fuck tesco, rip off supermarkets, tesco supermarket
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I haven't shopped at Tesco since the cunts banned me for wearing nothing apart from flip-flops, England shorts and a pair of fake tits.
What really gets me about Tesco (apart from the bastards having no sense of humour), is the snobbishness of the people working on the checkouts. Hey, I DO have a job, you bastards - the only reason that I sell drugs rather than work as a test pilot or a physicist is because I don't believe in paying income tax.
In short I'm being persecuted because of my political beliefs, and because I'm a white, working class male. Bet they wouldn't object to the fake tits if I was a female muslim wearing a burqa.
Twats.
Hear hear.
HAHAHA!
Fucking hate the place, total shit hole.
Weirdly my only local place - that is I don't need a car to get to for the weekly shop - is Waitrose. It used to require a small mortgage to get lunch, but now they have their essentials range a lot of it is very reasonable indeed. Like good marmalade for 65p, or the loaf I just got for 93p.
And if you get there at the right time the lovely yellow labels appear which, as far as I'm concerned, is the nuts. And all the 'small bits' from the deli end up in a section at reduced prices - sausages, pies, meat, fish the lot - simply because it's an awkward size and what not.
Altogether a much nicer place to spunk ya wedge if you play it right.
Where I live our Tesco's is particularly bad. We had a Sainsbury's for a long time, but they packed up a few years back, and Tesco got sloppy with no competition (it was pikeyville to start with, so you can only imagine what it became). Anyway, a big new Sainsbury's opened recently. Loads of room, everything from shoes to cooking stuff to stationary to a broad range of wines/spirits/beers and good veg and meat. Tesco's beat the small specialists like the butchers and green grocers into total submission, so thank fuck there's now a proper alternative.
"Expensive. Heavily-marked up. Residual, gradual decline in quality. Fewer lines of decent and different products."
"They can sell their solitary jacket spud for 50p. I'll go to my farm-shop up the road and pay 25."
Off you go then. That's the beauty of having a choice. In your own rant you tell us the problem is sorting itself out. That's why other shops are (re)opening in your village.
If that's not the answer you wanted to see, what's your alternative?
State controlled food outlets? (with empty shelves and long queues)
Traditional corner shops with rosy-checked purveyors of the finest local comestibles? (at prices that make your eyes water)
For goodness sake, get a grip.
I may be biased, (I work for a bunch of tight Bradford based cunts), but Tesco is incredibly dangerous.
They have more than played their part in destroying town centres.
Did you know they sell the clubcard data to the gummint? After some serious nagging from me my wife rarely goes into Tesco and she never uses the club card.
Very interesting comments, all.
Thanks for contributing.
The market will always create. Might not be a real free market, but Tesco's is a reflection of the market that there is. So if you don't like it, good. It proves that government mandated markets are a bad thing.
cunt
John R, are you a moron? At what point has JD said anything about state controlled shelves? In fact he has argued the exact opposite and is using the market to express his point ie, not using tesco.
Anon, nice. You too treacle.
I actually quite like the convenience of our local tesco and am know the staff quite well; got a brilliant section on eastern European and foreign foods. Ho hum - insert talk on *markets*, *free-choice*, *pro-libertarian platitudes* ad nauseum.
JD,
You might like this: google the phrase "Goosemoor"; should be close enough to deliver to you.
Rab, you clubcard is a trade off though isn't it.
Did you know that everything you write in an email is used to target you? Do you stop using the internet? Everything that is free, from search engines to email to clubcards, are not 'free' at all.
Many of these things are a case of weighing up what you again agaisnt what you lose, as is life, I don't see the information I give to sainsburys via my nector card negates the small once a year cash rebate I get for spending the money I would spend there anyway.
Any motion to promote Lidl is fine by me. I love Lidl and its associated materials, from the multi-tasking staff, right down to the Dartboards and Ski-helmets that appear in the middle “household goods" isle.
Incidentally I went to Tesco for my big monthly shopping on Saturday past. I left £180 lighter, but I was also simultaneously weighed down by the empty feeling that I didn't actually get that much good stuff. Also, the people who frequent are mostly ugly fuckers.
I hereby move to christen Lidl the libertarian’s supermarket of choice
Good old Liddage.
No fiscal competence here then.
Double club card points then quadruple leverage means I get £56 worth of value per £700 spent.
OK they're selective where they give the leverage, but it's better than a kick up the arse.
Tesco are god awful. The staff are too often rude, haughty, ignorant. The passive-aggressive walk in your way, stand in your way mentality.
The food is overpriced, stingy portions, the illusion of choice if you rampantly spend. Spend 120 odd quid and come away with fuck all to be honest. They're too big to give a shit now. People are trained to shop in these big supermarkets plus they often are trapped into having to shop on the card and so do it in one hit for convenience.
The eXpress stores are even worse. There's usuallya resident sociopath manning one of the tills, playing mind games with customers who want to just pay and go. Dreadful!
People generally in southeast england seem collectively mentally ill these days anyway. So much aggressive, me me me confrontational ignorant attitude abounds everywhere.
15 years of Labour and their 'common purpose' champagne socialist comrades have turned this country into a dysfunctional shithole. the kids are ignorant and aggressive, the adults are either low to the ground chavs or bourgeois selfish assholes. thats more than 50% of the South East of England these days i'm afraid.
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