Thread: Tesco

What was their accusation? If you were simply ensuring the produce you bought was suitable for purpose (ie no duff ones) and were prepared to pay for same at the checkout, there's no issue. If they were pursuing you as if you were switching price stickers, then that's a different problem. Can you expand a little (no punnet intended)

You know what, I would be inclined to pursue this and demand a reasonable explanation as to why they man handled you, & distressed you at such a late stage in your pregnancy. It is appalling that a well known store such as Tesco would behave in such a disgraceful manner. Take it all the way!

I can understand what Tesco are saying, you can't open a sealed container -health and safety etc. I can't understand their response to it, very OTT.

With produce, whenever new stock comes out the staff are always told to put it at the back. Hence some of the stuff at the front is not fresh and has been their the longest.

This would make a great story in the Daily Mail, Tesco have lost the plot a bit and that this incident boils down to that their strawberries are mouldy and poor quality.

I think there actions were quite ott. I can see them pointing out to you that containers shouldn't be opened, but surely they should have apologised for the quality of the fruit. Personally I never buy fruit and veg in Tesco as 1)too expensive,2) rubbish quality,3) the suppliers are screwed to the floor.
I'm lucky tho I live on the edge of a small town and where I am is quite rural so I shop at local farms. We also have a few good local butchers. I like our local Aldi, and we have just got a Morrisons.
The reality is all these big stores, but in particular Tesco are just out to screw as much profit out of us as possible. Just like the banks and many other big companies you have to learn non of them are on your side or interested in you.
Try martins moneysavers site loads of ways to start screwing the big guys back . Check out the Tesco threads.
ali

I hate tesco too.

My reason, damned self check out.

I had a small trolley of stuff. Started scanning my items, BEEP BEEP seek assistance, lady comes over, "you have to be over 18 to buy that, are you?" i'm 29 and look older!!!!!!!
She goes away, 3 items later, BEEP BEEP seek assistance, now she's p**sing around with someone elses BEEP BEEP. She comes back to me a min or so later, manually inputs some nonsense "carry on love". Few more items and my carrier bag is full so i take it off and get another opened on that hanger thingy. BEEP BEEP damn machine thinks i'm trying to steal the 1st bag full and wants me to put it back "you can't take stuff off there love you have to put your whole trolley into 2 carrier bags"
By this time i just want to use the carrier to murder her.
I left my trolley full of stuff at the checkout and in the bags. Walked out. Not been to Tesco for about a year.

Also another point my friend's wife works for them as a customer service manager, they shop at the local market and morrisons even though they are entitled to a staff discount, I think that says it all.

Ben

There is a knack to self scan..something which amused my mother when I used it with her last week.

Basically the conveyer needs to "feel" the item on the belt, which is difficult if you have any light goods such as yoghurt etc. The trick is to slam your item down on the belt as hard as possible. If you cant do this, take a small handful of the free leaflets by the till and slat them on the belt hard. It will then recognise that an item has hit the belt and carry on

My mother thought it was hilarious when I started to hammer down her shopping...

Also another point my friend's wife works for them as a customer service manager, they shop at the local market and morrisons even though they are entitled to a staff discount, I think that says it all.

So true Ben, you wouldn't believe the number of Tesco employees I see-still in uniform, shopping at our new Morrisons .
Hubby laughed recently when he nipped in Tesco late one evening for a bottle of wine and a loaf (unfortunately Morrisons closes at 8pm ). As he walked out of the store he overheard an old gentlemen complaining about how much cheaper the new Morrisons were for some basic items and asking if they could do some kind of price match. The Manager had obviously been arguing for a while as just when hubby went past he practically shouted at the old man "look we just can't compete with morrisons on price, if you don't like it shop there".
Typical Tesco cust service eh lol.
ali

Tesco took over our local convenience store and it's been downhill ever since. They don't stock their own brands, for example Tesco tonic water is 30p but they only stock Schweppes which is three times the price. They don't deliver newspapers, unlike the previous owners, which is a pain for me but even worse for the elderly. They don't stock organic eggs, claiming there isn't the space, yet the aisles are always crammed full of rubbish celebrating Christmas/Easter/Halloween etc or else one of their self created retail seasons such as 'Back To School'.

They're out of control, and there's a growning campaign against them, see:

Friends of the Earth: Friends of the Earth: Campaigns: Real Food: Press for change: Stop the Tesco takeover

as well as Google "Stop Tesco" for local campaigns, and Google "Every Little Hurts".

I have 1 word for Tesco:

SCUM SCUM SCUM SCUM SCUM SCUM SCUM

Yes that is one word repeated several times lol. I had the unfortunate privelege of having my card cloned whilst using a cash machine at our local Tesco, traced it back and confronted the store and the manager shrugged his shoulders and walked away.....

Went to HO and got the we dont care we make £4 billion profit a year so ner ner ner from them.

That incensed me so went to all the media I was on BBC and ITV at the same time and was also asked to do GMTV but sadly that one got pulled :'( I took great delight in rubbing Tesco's nose in it and it made me feel a lot better mwaahaahahahahahahahahaa

I said on TV why cant they put a picture of what the ATM should look like and if it doesnt look like this then dont use it? or at the very least make sure all 3 ATMs on site are identical so you can look at another one for reference, funnily enough Tesco declined to answer the question on TV

The local ex one stop is totally crap now we went there for washing up liquid last night not one bottle in the store and they stock 3 different types...

How difficult is it to have a stock control system that knows what the shelf holds say 3 cases with 24 bottles to a case and flag an alert up to the manager when you've sold say 50% of them? It's not hard ASDA were doing that when I worked there 13 years ago and things have moved on a lot since then ffs......

Has anyone else noticed that you can buy things online that you cannot buy in the store that your online shopping comes from?

For example you cannot buy Clotted cream from Blue Boar Lane Norwich Tesco it's not on the shelf as there's no place for it (looked VERY carefully) and asked several members of staff including a section manager to be told no we stopped selling it..... Stopped selling Clotted cream but they still sell 12 varieties of bloody Creme Fraiche??? bloody idiots!!

Golden Kiwi's thats another one used to be on the shop floor as we bought them now not to be seen

Yet what turned up no probs with our online order? You guessed it Golden Kiwi's and Clotted cream (with all butter scones and strawberry jam - well I had to ok? lol) surely keeping stuff back for online customers is wrong??

Does anyone else object to the horrendous amount of carrier bags the online delivery option uses? I kid you not nearly every single individual item was in its own carrier bag this week.

If we were in the store we would maybe come away with 5/6 bags we had over 20 this time and only £52 of shopping for God's sake, grrrrrrr I know they recycle them and you can give them back the next time but its better to not use them in the first place recycling them is all well and good but still releases a lot of CO2 in doing so all it prevents is them going into landfill they make me so cross why cant they just stick it straight into the boxes they use????


Rant over hehehe

and why do they think its acceptable to dump all their cages in the middle of aisle in the shop floor blocking access - my partner gives them a shove and has on many occassions knocked displays over PMSL!

and if I want to shop around midnight I have to server myself? so where's my discount now that Tesco are saving £5.30 per hour per staff member that they don't need on, grrrrrrrr