The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread

[bilky asko]

This brand refresh seems to be on the slow side. Saw a few elements in their back to uni / school events recently but not much else. The new font they introduced (the odd mix of upper and lower case letters) just seems to have been added to the roster of the many existing fonts they use, seemingly at random.

Noticed they’ve also renamed their premium range to ‘Exceptional’ which, I don’t know, doesn’t really work for me. ‘Extra Special’ sounded right as it’s something people would say - “get some of that extra special stuff”. ‘Exceptional’ just sounds a bit.. cold?

Isn't the "Exceptional" range a sub-tier of the premium items? It seemed to be a range trying to compete with the higher end items M&S sells, from what I could tell at my last visit.

[Jacket]

Isn't the "Exceptional" range a sub-tier of the premium items? It seemed to be a range trying to compete with the higher end items M&S sells, from what I could tell at my last visit.

I don't think so - when I was in there a few days ago, I noticed a few Exceptional items that had "Es" on the SEL, which suggests they're a rebranded Extra Special product. And if you search for "extra special sausages" on the website, all the results are Exceptional.

[bilky asko]

Isn't the "Exceptional" range a sub-tier of the premium items? It seemed to be a range trying to compete with the higher end items M&S sells, from what I could tell at my last visit.

I don't think so - when I was in there a few days ago, I noticed a few Exceptional items that had "Es" on the SEL, which suggests they're a rebranded Extra Special product. And if you search for "extra special sausages" on the website, all the results are Exceptional.

It probably makes sense that any new lines had the new branding first, and it just happened to be the more expensive items that had changed first.

It seems like a missed opportunity - M&S's Best Ever range hasn't disappointed so far, for example.

[thegeek]

someone at Lidl has had fun with this:
https://corporate.lidl.co.uk/media-cent ... 24/freeway

[james2001]

Been in Asda this evening and they were playing the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Leona Lewis, have they given up on the royalty free crap?

[barcode]

Trouble is, its race to the bottom for all four of the big supermarkets. You have to wonder why they keep on making stupid mistake, They keep on looking at Lidi and Aidi for employee operations but forget that most of the Tesco, Asda etc are much much much larger, so you need more staff.

Asda for a while was call Cardboard city as the staff never had time to take away the old stuff. Worse still the amount of stock going in the bins because its out of date.. This happens because there not enough staff to put the stock out OR to give them reduce price on the day.

Thankfully Mohsin and Zuber have been kicked out of Asda operations. Mohsin still has shares but it going to take time to overhaul it.

Morrisons, they been on downward spiral for years, and you could see it in the bakery, all those nice cakes replaced with crap, and now they want to shut all of them down.

The American who brought it are trying to run it like an American shit hole supermarket, it will not fly across here.

[all new Phil]

Here’s something I don’t get. My local Morrisons has Christmas wrapping paper… AFTER the checkouts.

A lot of the issues in supermarkets come from cutting overnight staff. I worked briefly for one chain who went through it and standards instantly plummet. There’s no real chance to reset, deep cleaning of shelving can’t happen, and there’s no time to keep things organised while customers are in the store. But it’s a trade off. Stores know standards will drop but the cost savings are deemed worth it.

[WillPS]

Here’s something I don’t get. My local Morrisons has Christmas wrapping paper… AFTER the checkouts.

A lot of the issues in supermarkets come from cutting overnight staff. I worked briefly for one chain who went through it and standards instantly plummet. There’s no real chance to reset, deep cleaning of shelving can’t happen, and there’s no time to keep things organised while customers are in the store. But it’s a trade off. Stores know standards will drop but the cost savings are deemed worth it.

100%. Even with stores open 24 hrs there'd be times when aisles would be blocked off while they did this, and you just had to holler at someone if you wanted something.

The main thing to note about Asda's which have had this recent refit is the shelves no longer look filthy - I suspect by Easter they'll look just as bad again though. And in fairness - Asda are basically the only ones still doing 24 hr trading in a good amount of their bigger stores, so this can't be the excuse.

[Andrew]

Here’s something I don’t get. My local Morrisons has Christmas wrapping paper… AFTER the checkouts.

A lot of the issues in supermarkets come from cutting overnight staff. I worked briefly for one chain who went through it and standards instantly plummet. There’s no real chance to reset, deep cleaning of shelving can’t happen, and there’s no time to keep things organised while customers are in the store. But it’s a trade off. Stores know standards will drop but the cost savings are deemed worth it.

Does it all stem from the growth of Aldi and Lidl and the fact everything for the big 4 supermarkets is based on being competitive on price

Only the supermarkets that don’t focus on price can afford the nice stuff like counters

[WillPS]

Here’s something I don’t get. My local Morrisons has Christmas wrapping paper… AFTER the checkouts.

A lot of the issues in supermarkets come from cutting overnight staff. I worked briefly for one chain who went through it and standards instantly plummet. There’s no real chance to reset, deep cleaning of shelving can’t happen, and there’s no time to keep things organised while customers are in the store. But it’s a trade off. Stores know standards will drop but the cost savings are deemed worth it.

Does it all stem from the growth of Aldi and Lidl and the fact everything for the big 4 supermarkets is based on being competitive on price

Only the supermarkets that don’t focus on price can afford the nice stuff like counters

Who's that then? Booths?

[all new Phil]

Here’s something I don’t get. My local Morrisons has Christmas wrapping paper… AFTER the checkouts.

A lot of the issues in supermarkets come from cutting overnight staff. I worked briefly for one chain who went through it and standards instantly plummet. There’s no real chance to reset, deep cleaning of shelving can’t happen, and there’s no time to keep things organised while customers are in the store. But it’s a trade off. Stores know standards will drop but the cost savings are deemed worth it.

Does it all stem from the growth of Aldi and Lidl and the fact everything for the big 4 supermarkets is based on being competitive on price

Only the supermarkets that don’t focus on price can afford the nice stuff like counters

Who's that then? Booths?

Waitrose still have their counters as well. My local Morrisons still has its hot food counter manned too so not sure the logic quite follows!