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Also, perhaps more generally useful, Amazon.
(I do not work for these firms either, though I did once do some freelance for Amazon years ago)
Positives:
* Whilst there are a few things they have that Tescos don't (soft drinks, sandwiches, and I *think* higher-end wines), there are few things Tescos have that they don't. Given the different sizes of store, I see this as a positive
* A lot better presented
* Polite and helpful staff (in particular relative to Tescos)
* Smelled nice
* There's a strollability to the store - it's relaxing, and even when you have got what you want, you want to check out what they have. Big difference to the stress of Tescos
Negatives:
* Already have a leaky roof
* Narrow aisles will be hell when it starts filling up
* I think they're going to find it difficult to keep it looking nice when it gets busy - whilst there's a broad range of products, there isn't much of any one product.
I'll carry on going there for the next few weeks to see how it turns out. For now I think they have the edge for most kind of food shopping trips.
KRS: Tesco send me my points quarterly in the form of Tesco vouchers at the rate of a penny a point. I know they can be converted at a better exchange rate for holidays and such, but the vouchers have always seemed plenty useful to me.
Was sadly hoping there might be something to welcome the locals in - coffee and a muffin? Oh well.
I miss Woody's. But did notice Tesco's wasn't half as busy as usual at around 7pm.
Hello, Tesco? Hello?
The manager seemed to be following me round the shop and every time I took something off the shelves he was magically behind me replacing the stock with an identical product.
Unfortnately it didn't seem to me to be much competition to Tesco. As mentioned by others it's just a convenience store really; somewhere you pick up something for dinner on the way home or pop in to buy something you've forgotten to buy somewhere else. The only mental price comparison I made in my head was the Heinz beans were about 20p more expensive than in Tesco.
On the plus side there was no queue, 4 self service checkouts (the same amount that are usually working in Tesco) and no queue at the cash machine which unlike most prints out mini-statements for you.
As it has the same opening hours as Tesco I can only really see it getting busy on Sundays when Tesco is shut.
Pretty poor selection of fruit and vegetables and bagged salad items. Woody's was ace for fruit vegetables. Not so many Sainsbury's branded items as I wanted ... and why all that booze?
I was asked to use the self-serve rather than the checkout. For those of us who don't see too well, it is a bit stressy to be put on the spot to explain your check-out strategy.
How come a small store like the Londis on Stapleton Hall seems to be able to supply a supermarket range, and this one doesn't?
Perhaps it is too soon to tell ...