Tescos

S

Songsheet

At the Start
Joined
May 2, 2003
Messages
3,217
Location
Somerset
I've never been a fan of this outfit and now I have achieve an active loathing of them!

I decided to register for online shopping, only to be told that my address wasn't eligible. Not because it's outside the delivery area but because it's a farm and, as such, classified as a business address by the Royal Mail. It would appear that Tesco's delivery service is for domestic use only, so all business addresses are excluded. So, I ask, how can I change this? By contacting Royal Mail, is the response. You mean, you don't have a field on your database that overides the business denominator, I query? No......

Pillocks...

So who do they think actually work in businesses, I asked? Robots? Homeless people?

This is the supermarket that says it actively helps farming. Yeah, right......

A letter to Farmers' Guardian and Farmers' Weekly is now being constructed....
 
Thank you DG - I spotted this too when looking up Tesco's website but in fact the only supermarket that will deliver - according to this site is............

Yup - Tesco. Not :angry:

Sainsbugs freely admit it's not economical to deliver out here - fair enough - but at least they will deliver to my Wellington office address!!
 
One of our daughters has had problems with Tescos at Abingdon re home delivery in the past. Sods law dictated that the very week she didn't check her delivery until after the delivery driver had gone she discovered several items missing. She had the devil's own job to persuade them she had been short delivered and had to speak to a chain of people before they agreed to credit her card.
 
I sympathise with you Songsheet, my home was also my business address and I cannot see the reasoning behind their stance.
 
tesco are assholes in my experience, both online & in the shops. ise use Ocado who are the distributors for Waitrose & there service is 1st class.
 
Originally posted by jft2005@Nov 9 2006, 10:50 AM
tesco are assholes in my experience, both online & in the shops. ise use Ocado who are the distributors for Waitrose & there service is 1st class.
Click to expand...
I think Ocado deliver to business addresses too. I recall a friend who used to have them deliver her shopping to her place of work.
 
You shouldn't need Tescos if you have a farm. Grow a few spuds and carrots, milk a cow and butcher a few cattle and sheep. That should keep you going. These Chablis drinking farmers are too uppity for my liking.

This reminds me of an ex work colleague. He came from a typically large familly surviving on a small farm on the Kerry coast. They couldn't afford such luxuries as breakfast cereals or sausages so every morning one of them would slip down the road to the harbour and drag up a bucketfull of scallops for breakfast.
 
Lidl certainly won't deliver.

I go there a lot but I know what they're good for and what I'd avoid. Their tinned stuff is as good, I reckon, as any of the big supermarkets and generally cheaper. The veg can be cheap (but not always) and you really need to be in before 10am as they don't re-stock during the day, from my experience.

I buy the following regularly there:

Small cartons of apple juice
Cartons of orange juice
'Freeway' soft drinks
Tinned tuna
Cream of tomato soup (the dear one - 29p)
Tinned veg: peas, sweetcorn
Baked beans
Pasta sauces
Curry sauces (occasionally)
Tomato purée
Pasta
Basmati rice
Jars (large) of beetroot & olives (not in the one jar :brows: )
Cranberry sauce (which I can't recommend highly enough)
Tinned custard & rice
9" pizzas (only 99p each - I can't make them for less)
Bagged carrots
Jam (superb)
Coffee (jars / fresh)
Kitchen stuff (Kitchen roll, cleaners, cloths, clingfilm, foil, etc)
Binliners
Toilet roll
Frozen veg - peas, green beans, mixed veg, etc
Bramley apple sauce
Butter (53p)
Cheeses (great variety)
Frozen prawns
Ice cream
German lager (0.5l bottles highly recommended)
Wines

I've occasionally bought other things like frying pans (good quality) & electric kettles and been very pleased with them.

Strictly no frills but I'm not interested in frills when I'm shopping - only when I get home <_<
 
Mobile Phones that play videos
Sat Nav systems
Home Delivery from Supermarkets

The top three worst things about our "advanced" society.
 
:o I really think you can get some real bargains @ LIDL...... when they 1st opened I went on the first day and will use them regularly I just got in now from there and bought some bits and bobs .....

I have posted on here before about the clientele it started off as what one would term ordinary working class people and pensioners. Now the car park has Rollers and Merc's as well as Bmw cars so its proving value for money all right I see traders buying in bulk Indian restaurant owners, Chinese take away people, buying their goods there too barrow boys as well as its cheaper than the wholesale market when the fruit & veg is half price.

My 19" P-C monitor my qwerty board my cordless mouse all bought in there too 3 YRS guarantee, my door bell, torches, A watch for messing about in, ONE OF MY CCTV CAMERAS….3 YR guarantee.

Most foods and household products I buy there...............
Tesco's
Kwik save
Asda
I use too.................

I forgot I bought my Motorolo mobby from there too
 
Like other people have said I always find LIDL good for canned stuff,cleaning products and also buy the carrots for the horses there.
I worked in Tescos and have to say for all the slagging I got I did enjoy it there,even with crazy customers.There asn't whole lot of choice of supermarket round here cos most charge you to park.And in Newmarket i refuse to use Waitrose and it was same as Tescos only more expensive and trainers wifes just shopped there to be seen.If Tescos is good enough for Sheikh Mohammed(sold him dog food!),Saeed bin Suroor and Ed Dunlop its alright by me.I should write a book,the shopping habits of racings elite!
 
Would you spill the beans (excuse the pun) on what some of our favourite jockeys stick in their shopping basket, Spoons? B)
 
Why does that sound dirty!Only jockeys who shopped there was adrian mccarthy,tom queally and chris catlin(who came in almost every evening!)One of funniest moments ever was bumping into Fran Berry in supermarket at home the week after an article in paper on his healthy eating plan involving steamed fish and veg and his basket was full of chocolate and sweets!
 
Originally posted by Desert Orchid@Nov 9 2006, 07:33 PM
Pasta sauces
Curry sauces (occasionally)
Click to expand...
Now those, you definitely can make for less. Even at Lidl prices.

And they'll taste a damn sight better as well.
 
I can't believe that anyone would buy apple sauce. It takes about five seconds to make it fresh and tastes fabulous. I don't like pork, but I've had chops (out of politeness) which have been grilled with slices of apple on them, which has tasted pretty good. The apple cuts the fattiness of pork very pleasantly.
 
Originally posted by simmo+Nov 10 2006, 01:19 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (simmo @ Nov 10 2006, 01:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Desert Orchid@Nov 9 2006, 07:33 PM
Pasta sauces
Curry sauces (occasionally)
Click to expand...
Now those, you definitely can make for less. Even at Lidl prices.

And they'll taste a damn sight better as well. [/b][/quote]
That would surprise me.

I doubt I could, penny for penny, but even so, it's the amount of time it takes to make them that people don't take into account.

Same goes for apple sauce.
 
Back
Top