11 Tesco stores closed due to security alert??

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What's that about then - anyone know? Sky News have it at the bottom of the screen.

BBC are being a bit vague about it

Ohhhhhhhhhhh - ours was closed today br, with police and everything (and we were all well pissed off, because our Sainsburys closed for a week on Thurs for a refit - DH reckons it was a Sainsburys employee who did the security alert to stop us all shopping at Tesco's!)

The 11 stores are all in different counties - I wonder if any of the others have local Sainsburys having refits...???

There's no real detail at the moment, which is why the story's a bit vague. we are doing this story at work at the moment.

ours never closed when sainsburys was having a refit, if that helps?

The sky news websits says they think it may be a bomb scare

apparently it was TESCO who asked all members of the public and staff to leave, surely the police would be the ones to do that if terror threat?!

There's more than 11 stores.

Some witnesses at a store in Scotland said the police told them it was a bomb scare.

Very widespread isn't it?

link to yorkshire post don't think it's any more detailed. definitely bomb threat. tesco must have more customers than other stores.

That's the PA report, cu - I've just googled news on it and all the sources are using the same report ("at least 11 stores" even though the BBC now say 13)

(We were also told locally that it was a power cut)

It's 14 stores now.

odd timing, wasn't someone sent down for trying to firebomb Costcutters or Kwiksaves or something, yesterday?

Has to be bomb scares surely? They have been shutting off the surrounding streets. Not a "power failure" then

From BBC news:

"Martin Jacklin was shopping in a Tesco store in Hucknall, Notts, when shoppers were told to take their shopping to the tills and leave at about 1415 BST.

He said: "Me, the wife and the children were in there, basically just doing a normal shop and it came over the tannoy that we were asked to leave, basically, go to the cashier, pay for your groceries and then leave"

WTF? There had been a bomb scare and Tescos STILL wanted their customers to purchase their goods before evacuating??? FFS!!!!

oh gosh doesnt sound too good