to HATE tescos?

[pugsandseals]

Haven't been to tescos in about a year. Nothing and I mean nothing is where you expect it to be, huge Q's at the tills, loads of people just leaving their trolley in the middle of the aisle, didn't come out with half of what I wanted!

AIBU or have I just been spoilt by Waitrose and farmers markets? The only thing I came out with was chocolate biscuits and bread (as did everyone else around me by the looks of their trolleys!

Oh and I found ants in the raspberries DH bought me on his way home from work in the summer

i just find our one so huge and confusing, it's the shop that i am most likely to spend fifty quid in and still have bought nothing for dinner, ikywim?

i really love lidl, life is simpler there, and local butcher etc. (lidl dishwasher tabs and laundry detergent for example is a quarter of the price of branded one).

I hate tescos. Their fruit and veg is ready rotted when you buy it. I only go there if I absolutely have to and only for non-perishables. Food is way too expensive to have to throw it in the bin because it's gone off whilst you've driven it home. You have about a 10 second window to eat the strawberries before they turn to sludge

I hate Tesco
It's dirty, the staff are rude and unhelpful, they sell tons of crap, the fruit looks manky, there are always staff trolleys all over the place so you can't get near what you want to buy. Although Waitrose do that last one as well.

I hate Tesco.
Our local one had become an Extra. It's hideous. The lighting is painful. The food is laid out in the most illogical way and the staff are really unhelpful. Everyone looks miserable in there.
The fruit and veg is terrible - rotten and over priced. Lidl veg is amazing value and so fresh. For everything else, Mr Ocado brings it right into my kitchen!

In a nearby town Sainsburys have bought a plot of land suitable for a small supermarket.
Tesco has bought a property next to the site to enable them to stop Sainsburys building an access road. Tesco now keep putting in planning applications for there own supermarket on this site, even though they don't own the land. It's so aggressive.

I don't mind Tesco - hate one of our local Asda which is jammed with out of control kids, chavs and people who randomly stop in the middle of aisles... and "celeb" book signings causing chaos (don't want to find Katie Price down the stationery aisle thank you very much) - but the other Asda's pretty much OK.

Have the choice of three Tescos, two Asda, two Aldi, one Lidl and one small and one large Sainsburys within about 10 minutes drive of our house. Tescos I can be in and out of fastest because I know where everything is in there - although they replaced the in-store Starbucks with a Costa which made me a sad bunny.

The satff in my local tesco are lovely ..well my dd is anyway

Rockbird
I do say no thanks when ever offered but I just want to pay for one item, as another poster pointed out very often these 2for1 offers have the individula priced increased before the 2for1 'offer' starts.

So even if I refuse the 'free' one I am still paying towards it.

As I said all these offers are absolutely there to make us consume more. I personally think tactics enticing people to consume more is never a good thing.
In addition you are right there are offers on non perishables, I never said the offers were only on perishables but the offers are particularly bad when enticing people to take home double the amount they wanted on perishable items.

You may well be able to buy and use exactly what you wanted but the statistics show the vast majority of people end up binning some of these items which is not good for the envirnoment.

The giants making these offers and schemes clearly know that they are increasing consumption or they wouldn't do it.

I had to go to Tescos today...and as usual it was expensive ...such a con