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    Proliferation of Tesco

    Is it me or are there way too many Tesco stores these days?

    Back in the early 90's Tesco had one supermarket best described today as a Metro type store local to me which they shut.

    Now a couple of years ago they bought an ex-Esso petrol station site which they redeveloped into an Express without the petrol station.

    Lately they bought an old Kwik Save and turned it into a Metro and an old Dixons/Currys and turned that into an Express all within a 3 mile radius.

    Don't get me wrong, I am all for a British company doing well and employing people however I think this is a little too much and reinforces my conclusion that we all shall be working for a supermarket sooner or later...
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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    In my opinion, yes they're too big and yes, there's too many of them.

    There's no doubt they're convenient. You get a huge product range, all under one roof, and you get to park outside the door. But in my opinion, they're too dominant, in many ways offer very poor quality and have stifled competition and, largely, killed the high street. I decided several years ago that I won't shop there, and I don't.

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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    I can count 7 tesco stores close to me.

    There is 3 expresses, 2 metros and 2 large stores. One of the expresses used to be an ESSO station but they still have the petrol pumps there, must have bought alot of ESSO's sites. I don't mind really, convenient.

    EDIT: There are 18 stores within 7 miles - 5 metros, 7 express stores and 6 normal stores.

    In comparison there are 8 asda stores within 7 miles and 1 morrisons within 7 miles.
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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    I think there are a few too many - I doubt it does any good for the smaller corner shops and the likes. However, as said before, I do enjoy a good, successful British company but perhaps they have gone a bit over the top.

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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    I don't really see the problem, we've got a range of supermarkets and local shops here.

    My complaint about the local tesco is they don't keep the shelfs stocked properly, and have far too fewer people on the tills.

    I don't know if this is a whole supermarkets vrs local shops, or tesco vrs other supermarkets?

    Most local shops are horrifically overpriced, and stock a limited range. Their shipping and distrabution channel isn't as effecient as a supermarket, so it costs more (also more co2 and other hippy crap).
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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    Personally never go to the stores (or very rarely just ones in town) use the online Tesco delivery for bulk stuff and wine offers, think there is enough competition out there to keep everyone else interested.

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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    Yes I think there are too many, I saw an Express get built and open in just under a month month near my halls at uni when I arrived. I shop at the Coop food thingy on the same street if I need something, partly because I don't like Tesco for the reasons above and partly because they are actually cheaper on most of the things I buy there. If I'm doing a big shop I'll go to the ASDA in town normally.

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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    I have two large Tesco superstores within a mile of where I live - one replaced an old supermarket and serves a useful function in a large area of new housing with few shops, the other was built within spitting distance of an Asda and two other small supermarkets in a community also served by local shops and a high street.

    At the second location the local shops are struggling - very little apart from charity shops, card shops and a few banks there now. What makes my blood boil is the visual appearance of the building - it's raised up to provide car parking at ground level beneath it, it's absolutely huge with bland white metal walls tastelessly adorned with the Tesco logo in 10 foot lettering. It was very obviously built as an agressive challenge/statement to the rival Asda across the road. What pains me most of all is the visual impact of this monstrosity on an otherwise nice town with normal size buildings. The Tesco building is totally unsympathetic to the local environment and the height of it totally dominates the local landscape. In winter and at night it's brightly lit up throughout the store, no doubt using enough energy to power a small town, ugh! Ugly as hell, I cringe and curse them every time I pass by, and I do not shop in that particular store, I hate it.

    Prince Charles's famous quote sums it up perfectly: "A monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend".

    Yes, there are too many Tescos and we are all the poorer for it.

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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    There's only one big one round here that I know of, but they have bought all the surrounding shop leases by compulsory purchase and are extending the store.

    For the general area, it will mean lots of new jobs and might bring a bit of life to an otherwise dead town. For the hundreds of local businesses that have been forced to close or relocate, it's a real kick in the balls.

    Quality wise, I have to agree, they do sell some truly awful crap, especially their "fresh" meat.
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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    They were all over the Czech Republic when I visited last year.

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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    There is one in the centre of the town near where I live, it's one of those 24 hour jobs, it seems to be populated solely by the morons and fools of the local area; covered in their crap jewellery and nasty asocial behaviours. We don't go there. I have a dislike for Tescos as a company, for reasons stated by others in the thread. Are there too many? Don't really care that much as I don't go there.
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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    Not to bothered really. I i need to buy some food on the way home from work i go the nearest Supermarket and for my main weekly shop i use Tesco.

    Just another brand to be honest. I only use them as they're close by.

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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    We have one large branch couple of miles away which is plenty but they still want to build another out-of-town where I live as well, which will just take more trade out of the High Street, & they would then close the central Metro store. As it is only drivers that will use the new one, any locals in favour are basically too lazy to drive a mile or two further, or too fussy to make do with the range of what you can already get with our combined supermarkets. Doesn't help the rest of us or our deteriorating town centre.

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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    I don't really see the problem, either - even though I'm not for large businesses and corporations, mostly on how they operate. It's not like Tesco are as evil as Wal-mart just yet. Tesco will continue to expand, that's the point of these big businesses, to further expand - and in that respect they are quite successful, regardless of the British aspect.

    Yes, local businesses can and do suffer, but it's not always the case - it's just when it happens people tend to focus on that more than anything else. I have only 1 Tesco in convenient walking distance, and I live close to the city centre. I couldn't even tell you if it's an express or a metro, but that doesn't matter. Not a single convenient store around it has gone out of business (and I'm talking they've been here for more than 16 years, and there's quite a few) since they arrived, and the co-op which has been here before I got here is still standing and doing well.

    What a lot of the businesses have done, is to diversify - you may think that's a load of rubbish since what else can a convenience store offer? Some have doubled up as internet cafes, which to my surprise is working rather well, office supply shops, mobile phone services . . . basically things which the local tesco doesn't offer. And you know what, I think the area's better for it. Prosperous business for all, and plenty of choice.

    I don't make an effort to shop at Tescos, but I don't make an effort not to either. I certainly don't see any aggressive tactics at this end anyway - the 24 hour Tesco is on the outskirts of the city, which has improved the shopping of the local residents in that area, most other Tescos I can think of are situated in areas where there's really not much anyway. And before anyone says "Tescos must've helped close them down", I've known those areas for years and the convenience shopfronts haven't changed much in that respect. Elsewhere it may be different, but I don't see a major cause for concern yet.

    The whole "we will all be working for a supermarket" thing can be applied to any business doing well. I agree with the concept though, one day people may well belong to corporations.

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    Re: Proliferation of Tesco

    I haven't really noticed here in Newbury the local town suffering as the Tesco Extra has been getting bigger and selling a more diverse range of goods.

    If anything the closer Sainsbury's has got more diverse and thus better for me

    I do dislike how tesco have pretty much sent the promotions team in the head office to bangalore though ... But the same can be said about many large companies tbh...

    I also dislike the policy they have on selling cheap factory meat as highlighted by channel 4 last year and more recently again.

    Other then the above issues Tesco's are like any business expanding to survive and to get more profit.
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