I do find the basket policy to be beyond bizarre. If they think people will nick them, put a security tag on them.
They started allowing it here. Mind you, it's not in the too distant past that there weren't baskets at all!
I do find the basket policy to be beyond bizarre. If they think people will nick them, put a security tag on them.
I would have thought that because of the overheads of running a brick and mortar store, especially a supermarket, the online prices would be cheaper?
They started allowing it here. Mind you, it's not in the too distant past that there weren't baskets at all!
No no, we have night staff in to replen still. The jury is out amongst us lot whether it's worth being open all night, outside peak shopping season anyway.
A Tesco Extra near to somewhere I work is open 24 hours. I happened to visit most nights at about 2am during one recent week (the glamour), and out of curiosity I regularly counted 40 odd cars in the car park, sometimes more. I'd say each aisle had at least a couple of shoppers in it, and the sandwich/snacks aisle was particularly busy with shift workers like myself. It's not like it's the only 24 hour place to get food in the area in question, either.
My suspicion is that it is to save costs. All baskets at the tills = easy to move back to the entrance. Baskets loose all-over the packing area would take longer to assemble and take to the entrance.I do find the basket policy to be beyond bizarre. If they think people will nick them, put a security tag on them.
I know Asda ended 24 hour opening for some of their stores too, such as Newark Upon Trent, but they don't seem to have done it anywhere near as much as what Tesco appears to have done.I suppose the issue for the supermarket is the question as to whether opening 24 hours actually does add enough customers (or steal enough off a competitor) to pay for those 2 members of staff (or thereabouts), or if all it does is spread out the hours that the same customers shop at - i.e. would those shift workers go and pick up a butty and a packet of crisps before their shift instead if it closed at say midnight, or would the custom actually be lost as, for example, they might instead choose to make one at home from items purchased from a different supermarket.
Those pesky Sunday Trading Hours. They caught me out when I was in Scarborough last year - tried to go to the Sainsburys round the corner from where I was staying at 5pm. That didn’t end well.(including Sunday as there is no restriction up here on Sunday Trading Hours) as I discovered on my return.
My local Tesco in Falkirk was open 24 hours a couple of years ago when I moved to Wales.
It is no longer 24 Hours but 6am to Midnight every day (including Sunday as there is no restriction up here on Sunday Trading Hours) as I discovered on my return.
There is another 24 Hour One in Redding a couple of miles away - and that is 24/7 every day including Sundays.
I didn't even realise you had moved back, quite the nomadic existence. Was it the lure of cheap advances from Falkirk to destinations down the East Coast?
Slightly off-topic, but there are some product lines they both sell:I do find the basket policy to be beyond bizarre. If they think people will nick them, put a security tag on them.
Slightly off-topic, but there are some product lines they both sell:
B & Q won't let you take a basket past the tills either. They are fitted with security tags (the baskets, perhaps the staff as well) and the till staff have a standard line of 'you can't take baskets to the car park', to which I reply 'I don't want to take the basket to the car park, I have a bag here'. Some go all helpful and include 'I'll go and find you a trolley'.
Yes, I simply didn't think of it that way. Most places you simply wouldn't need or want to take the basket beyond the till. You pack there and then and what to do with the basket becomes the shops problem.Nor will most other places, but Aldi/Lidl specifically set their checkouts up so you don't pack at the checkout, so it's beyond bizarre that you have to break that policy (and so slow down the checkout) if you do use a basket.
Re baskets, last month I was in leafy Norfolk and popped into a Tescos. The baskets were fitted with security tags, which I have never seen anywhere. I mused that it was odd that it was seen as a requisite here but not back in inner London.
(As an aside - I have some odd habits... if I'm away from London but going back that day, I will often pick up shopping (non perishable) before setting off, or at some point on the way. Equally, I've had a week off work and gone away for a few days and whilst in, say, Bristol, been to a local branch of Screwfix to pick up bits for a diy job I'm planning when I get back. I could do it when I'm back home but often it fits in with other plans).
I'm finding it harder and harder to actually lay my hands on a basket when I go to the shop these days, so maybe a lot of them have walked out the door.I’ve noticed my local Tesco now has same, so perhaps this is something being rolled out more widely. People taking baskets with them because they don’t want to pay for carrier bags?
I must admit that 99% of the time when doing my food shopping, Iceland gets overlooked by me.I'm finding it harder and harder to actually lay my hands on a basket when I go to the shop these days, so maybe a lot of them have walked out the door.
On the other hand, when I worked for Iceland 80% of our trolleys disappeared in a 3 week period. In that case it was almost certainly a competitor trying to make us a difficult store to shop in, particularly since they all turned up at once one day, neatly stacked in a car park across town. Doing the same thing with baskets would be even easier.
I'm finding it harder and harder to actually lay my hands on a basket when I go to the shop these days, so maybe a lot of them have walked out the door.
I must admit that 99% of the time when doing my food shopping, Iceland gets overlooked by me.
Same with Pepsi and a lot of other drinks.The best thing in Iceland is the 3 litre bottles of Vimto cordial which are the cheapest way to buy it.
Same with Pepsi and a lot of other drinks.
Not really.Dont these big bottles go flat ?
How would you tell? lolDont these big bottles go flat ?
Thirty years ago there were probably half the number of Supermarkets that exist today.
Everyone still managed to do their shopping so why is there such a proliferation of different stores now available ?
Perhaps there is to much choice !!
In our town centre we used to have far more supermarkets. I remember at primary school in the 1980s we were doing a project and compared the prices of certain items in each of the town centre stores.
Thirty years ago there were probably half the number of Supermarkets that exist today.
Everyone still managed to do their shopping so why is there such a proliferation of different stores now available ?
Perhaps there is to much choice !!
It was the mid to late 70s when the "big" supermarkets started moving into town centres, i.e. Co-op, tesco, fine-fayre, etc which initially displaced the Lipmans/Redmans breed of chain High St stores as they were bigger and cheaper, so the smaller regional chains couldn't compete. That was also the start of the end for the private corner style "open all hours" shops.