Smaller Tesco News Today

Retired teacher bleddwyn lives in the centre of town and is a regular customer. if this big tescos closes, how will that affect you? enormously. it will make my practical life very difficult. im waiting for a knee operation, which makes me immobile to a certain extent. and i cant walk as far as the other supermarkets. there are a lot of disabled people like myself who live nearby and we, we rely on that big tescos for all our shopping and we also rely on it for our social life to a certain exten...

So, whats the secret of their success? the discounters are able to keep their prices low because they have a slightly different model to the other supermarkets. they have less choice. they have fewer stores. and they have less floor space. so theyre avoiding all those costs. thats why its difficult for the supermarkets to price match with the discounters. but they have tried. tesco are by far the biggest supermarket, with more than a quarter of the market share. four years ago, they decided to p...

To choose around £25 worth of food. theres no shame in not having enough money to live on, you know. its not your fault. if people are hungry, theyjust come here and well feed them. we just try and make it a little bit of an event for people. so the half hour that they spend here, if you forget about the woes, it helps. and ive had people come up to us and go, "feels like a day out to us." thats why you hear us just laughing and joking with everyone, just to try and create the right atmosphere....

If you were to buy this exact shop every week for a year, it would cost over £300 more than the shop from the big supermarket. so visiting your nearest convenience shop can be a more expensive option. if you can, itjust might be worth getting to a bigger store. even if you have to pay for the journey. tesco says the urban locations of their tesco express stores mean higher running costs and prices reflect this. also theyve, "locked the price of more than 1,000 everyday staples until 2023" and a...

Prices are typically higher in smaller supermarkets. so if youre somewhere where youve only got access to those stores, maybe in a city centre, particularly if you dont have a car or access to public transport, that would let you get to bigger supermarkets where prices tend to be lower. that can really add up over time. bleddwyn has a teachers pension and gets the state pension too. she budgets to spend £25 a week on food. things were already tight before prices started to rise. i do record eve...

Labour costs have gone up at least 6% in the last year due to an increase in minimum wage, and according to farmers, theres still a shortage of workers since brexit. on top of that, uk potato harvests have been hit by drought. and since the pandemic, packaging and transport costs have also risen. altogether, adding up to that extra 10p on a bag of spuds. its a dizzying list of global factors, all of which have a knock—on effect on the price of food. but what about closer to home, in the shops ...

Didnt work out for them. earlier this year, tesco scrapped its jacks chain altogether, turning some into regular tesco stores, but closing seven completely. like this one on county road in liverpool. this formerjack�*s store in walton sits in the most deprived constituency in the whole of england. robby works for a community group, helping local people who are struggling with their food bills. they collect donations and surplus from the food industry and bring it to locations around merseyside...

To get in on the action, asda are introducing an express shop format for the first time, with 30 new stores opening over the next year. the main reason that supermarkets have moved more into convenience—type shops is because shopping habits have changed. if you go into a supermarket, how many people are now going in and buying a large shop? most people go in and buy a few items and go out. theyre treating the big stores like convenience stores. so in some ways, the supermarkets are responding ...

For bleddwyn�*s shopping bills. i visited the soon to be closing tesco where bleddwyn shops now and a tesco express store at the other side of town. i bought the same list of 15 typical items that many of us buy on a weekly basis. most products were identical in both shops. except the instant coffee. the jar was 20p more in the express despite being 100 grams smaller. and the pizza which had slightly different branding — it was over £2 more in the express, despite being 50 grams lighter. ov...

I visited the soon to be closing tesco where bleddwyn shops now and a tesco express store at the other side of town. i bought the same list of fifteen typical items that many of us buy on a weekly basis. most products were identical in both shops. except the instant coffee. the jar was 20p more in the express despite being 100 grams smaller. and the pizza which had slightly different branding. it was over £2 more in the express, despite being 50 grams lighter. overall, the products from the big...