howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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What a difference from when this thread started 4 years ago, the supermarket giants are crumbling in the face of discounters, convenience stores and independent retailers.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/26/supermarkets-reign-is-over-hail-the-independentsGuest 1103- Registered: 3 Nov 2013
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well been to Tesco fairly recently... and these prices are shocking .. so expensive and make you wonder why People still shop there.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I have always found them much more expensive than Asda or Morrison's, maybe that's why they could afford luxury private jets.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2809281/Inside-Tesco-s-luxury-private-jet-sale-23million-profits-92-little-helps.htmlJan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Since Morrisons opened I have not had to visit Tesco once, something I am very grateful for.
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Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
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I think the food prices are quite expensive at Tesco but they are very good for clothing and electrical goods which is about all we use them for.For food shopping we find Farm foods and Aldi are the best.
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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A bit late to this subject, but I remember that a part of Bristol (St. Paul's) successfully stopped a Tesco supermarket being built, although this area is well known for its high profile community activities so the reputation of the area may well have given tesco food for thought. We have three tesco stores within walking distance, a large supermarket, which through poor planning causes quite big traffic jams, a tesco 'metro' in the town centre, and a tesco 'express' recently built less than a mile away. By sheer coincidence, there is a brand new community centre very close to the express store, and by even more of a coincidence, this is where some local politicians hold their 'surgeries'. A new 'express' has been built near my son's school, about 3 miles away, already causing traffic problems on a fairly narrow and busy 'High Street' type of road, and is hitting local businesses very hard. We have a local bakery which supplies most of the local independants in the area, and some of the shops they deliver to have lost up to 50% of their bakery sales as a direct result of the new tesco store.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The penny has dropped(no pun intended) with Tesco and they are joining the fray with the discounters.
https://news.sky.com/story/tesco-takes-on-aldi-and-lidl-as-first-jacks-store-opens-11501402Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Back to the Jack Cohen days I suspect “pile it high, sell it cheap!”
Do nothing and nothing happens.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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After the 2008 crash many people who weren't short of a few bob went over to Aldi and Lidl because they thought they ought to and never went back to Tesco when things improved. There are a lot less people doing the traditional after work weekly or fortnightly shop now and using convenience stores regularly instead. Prices may be a bit higher but people have found that they don't end up throwing things away that were bought on impulse in a large supermarket. The Co-op sussed this out by closing some of their bigger outlets and opening smaller ones near to homes so no travel costs involved.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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From ONS.
The relative affordability of food can be measured by the share of the household budget that goes on food. Low income households are of particular concern as they tend to have a greater percentage of spend going on food.
Food is exerting greater pressure on household budgets since 2007 when food prices started to rise in real terms.
Averaged over all households 10.5% of spend went on food in 2016, the same as the 2007 level.
For households in the lowest 20% by equivalised income 14% of spend went on household food, 5.6 percentage points below 2007.
Good news. Especially for the lowest 20% with the new IPhone being released.
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