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| Thread ID: 84479 | 2007-11-07 04:01:00 | Tesco Opens Its First Store In US | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 609128 | 2007-11-07 04:01:00 | Tesco, the UK's largest retailer, has opened its first US store in the small city of Hemet, near Los Angeles. The retailer decided to go for a "soft launch" of the store at Hemet prior to opening a further five stores in southern California on Thursday. (news.bbc.co.uk) |
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| 609129 | 2007-11-07 05:58:00 | Unless they're selling Asbestos underpants can't see them making much $$ | sprinkles (11943) | ||
| 609130 | 2007-11-07 06:02:00 | I dunno Tescos were good and cheap, i used to get my 9p cans of baked beans there, when i lived in london 10 years ago, My Tescos was in the old Hoover building although i can't for the life of me remember where the hell that was | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 609131 | 2007-11-07 14:51:00 | The problem I see with Tesco is that it is running against Trader Joe's stores . . . . which we don't have yet in Hemet/San Jacinto . If you check out the webpage of Trader Joe's (http://www . traderjoes . com/), you'll likely see that the products offered are in different venues, if you will . . . and there might not be a fair comparison with the two . Specialty foods at a low price are not the only criteria . Variety is . . . and then there's the name-brand stigma too . Trader Joe's has not allowed things like "American Cheese" in the shop . . . silly as that may be . . . it is a generic response to foods it considers below it's sales quality-of-goods threshold and marketing target base . Not so with Tesco . They sell Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and other quickie slurpfoods that aren't considered "brow" enough . . . . and yes . . . Kraft Mac & Cheese is an American cheese food . Sorry . It might be unique to a Brit, but we can get all the Mac & Cheese in Wal-Mart to satisfy those cheap thrill and "take me back to my childhood" food urges . We'll see . . . but in the words of C . W . Smalley who owned the first place I worked at in the fast food industry (Sizzler, ca 1962): "People will drive miles for a cheap steak" . Maybe they'll drive a 1/4 mile to see a Brit store . BTW: Oil just hit an all-time high this AM . Bad vibes here! |
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| 609132 | 2007-11-07 22:02:00 | I dunno Tescos were good and cheap, i used to get my 9p cans of baked beans there, when i lived in london 10 years ago, My Tescos was in the old Hoover building although i can't for the life of me remember where the hell that was It's on the North Circular Road at Perivale. An excellent example of art deco. |
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