to ask why everybody hates Tesco on MN

[Charliefarlie1192]

Am I missing something (not very au fait with current affairs, apologies)

My DD isn't rude and unhelpful

'Their staff are rude and unhelpful'

What a ridiculous sweeping statement.

All of them?

In my local Tesco the staff I have come across are very helpful and non-rude.

Yes, all of them.

Tesco are about to build a new supermarket in a local small market town.
This town is tiny. It has a decent Co-Op which supplies everything you need plus local produce. There is a good grocer, baker and butcher nearby. These will all go out of business. The site proposed is at the riverside (just outside a national park) next to some (poor souls) holiday cottage business. This is a town that needs tourism to survive. Once a tesco opens all the local businesses will fold and the town will die. The whole town is up in arms but Tesco have made a deal with the local to pay for a new ambulance station/recycling centre and it is difficult to know how the Tesco steamroller can be haulted. There is a Tesco 20 mins away (that is fairly rubbish).

It is just very sad.

My Dh works for Tesco...he definitely is not rude and unhelpful!!! But some of the customers are.
However, Tesco, as a company, treat their staff like crap.
I don't shop in Tesco much. I shop in Aldi mostly as it is MUCH cheaper, even with our 10% staff discount.

hate involves too much emotion imo, i'm indifferent

I dont hate them either. They employ lots of people, students can usually find work around their studies, they are reasonably cheap and have a good online service. Love the schools vouchers and the help they give to community events.

apols for typos I meant 'doing a deal with the Local Government'
&
souls'

Local Council even. Sorry. I am v tired this evening.

The staff in my nearest Tesco are usually polite and helpful.

It's not exclusive to Tesco though , doing deals with the local council .Sainsburys in my city have just tried to do a deal which included knocking a flyover down to get a bigger store.

I use tesco all the time and am not likely to change as they have me by the short and curlies, which i am sure is their plan, so well done tesco!!

HMHB - which national park?