verylittlehelps

I see it has been reported that Iceland are helping their staff by increasing the staff discount from 10 to 15% to help out with increasing prices, wonder if our illustrious company will keep it at 15% during the crisis.

Tesco chairman John Allan said on a Radio 4 programme, that he had witnessed customers asking the checkout operators to stop scanning once they’ve reached their spend limit!
He then goes on to blame the energy companies on their price hikes, and wants the windfall tax implemented!!

So the price of diesel is up…the prices on energy to run the company business is up…the effects of global trading, and food supply shortages is up…this is immediately passed on to the customer in higher prices to maintain profits and keep the shareholders happy, but the customers aren’t spending enough because they’ve got no money, which apparently is all the fault of the greedy energy suppliers!!!

I applaud the Aldi advertisement which ridicules Tesco price comparison match on SOME of their products!

If Tesco hierarchy want to compare themselves to Aldi perhaps start by looking at their trading model, they’d see the top tier of managers is uneconomical. Store and team managers should do away with their ‘phones permanently held with one hand, stuck to their ear, whilst leaning on the nearest fixture! They should all be donning the headset’s and use both hands WORKING THE STOCK!
Do away with huddle meetings every couple hours, in which 10 minutes is wasted waiting for everyone to arrive, and a further 30 minutes discussing what they could easily have done over their headsets whilst WORKING THE STOCK!
Do away with hour rumble ( twice a day at my old store ) and just continually WORK THE STOCK throughout the day!
Remove the senior teams on their overinflated salaries and ego’s, and replace with shop floor workers, on better pay, who do everything and just get on with it…they don’t need a manager to tell them how to suck eggs!!!

And for the record, I don’t mind queuing at a checkout, I don’t mind stepping around a big cardboard box whilst they fill, ( and are available to assist if needed) and I don’t care if the shelves look haphazard and aren’t faced up!! I’m there because I want my hard earned cash to feed my family at the best price, not to pay over the odds, only to be left to self serve at the end!! 

I thought that’s why they scrapped a load of managers lol. You are right you never see some of the managers even now getting their jackets off to fill the shop always on their phones even now there are half as many of them.

Company are full of BS one week they are talking of the record profits and the next they are talking about trying to help those struggling to buy basic essentials. Never thought I’d be able to get some products cheaper at the local newsagent. With costs on the rise across the board more will disappear to Aldi and Lidl never to set foot in Tesco again. Can see Tesco going like WH Smith.

It will depend on what you actually buy.
If you always buy branded products then yes they are more than 15% cheaper, however if you only buy Tesco products then no they are not in my experience, then you have to factor in their product sizes are sometimes smaller too.

Then theres the whole debate about whether their products last as long too, again in my experience their fresh food goes off quicker too, however I do prefer there bake off products.

Some people swear that their products taste better than branded but others don’t.
Best advice is try them for yourself and let yourself and family decide.

Good news for senior management and directors!!