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    bloody tescos they are everywhere , how many do we really need, seems to be on every bloody corner now


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    Yep, Its like they have cloned milton keynes and implanted it every where, Most towns are virtually identical now with the main shops and outta town shopping areas, Still pepole vote with thier wallets and if there wasnt money to be made they wouldnt be there, Its making me all emotional now, think i will go and by some flowers to cheer myself up and have alittle cry..! !
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    sorry to have upset you , bhut buying flowers is a great thought anyway,what got my goat up was the local farmfoods shop is to close, tesco has brought the land and building there shop there instead, so no more cheap prices,


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    Quote Originally Posted by stevewool View Post
    bloody tescos they are everywhere , how many do we really need, seems to be on every bloody corner now
    Know what you mean, Steve ... we have two huge Tesco 'Extra' Stores [one of them open 24 hrs!] at opposite ends of the town - plus a Tesco Metro in Perth Town Centre.


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    Still ... ... I suppose I ought to be thankful that the open all hours store is located close to where WE live!


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    what would we have done a few years ago, and sundays wow we must all have been so bored before the birth of sunday shopping


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    Quote Originally Posted by stevewool View Post
    the local farmfoods shop is to close
    Shame about that ... we've 2 'Farmfoods' branches ... and used to have an *'Iceland' as well ... but *it's long gone and been replaced by a third Lloyds Pharmacy.


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    Every little helps Thank goodness for 24 hour Tesco



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    Quote Originally Posted by stevewool View Post
    what would we have done a few years ago, and sundays wow we must all have been so bored before the birth of sunday shopping
    ... talking of "goats" #3 ... when I was a kid ... the only shops you ever saw open for business on Sundays, were Newsagents (and only during the forenoon ... to buy your 'Sunday Post') and Italian-owned cafe's selling their delicious ice cream. Changed days!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by stevewool View Post
    bloody tescos they are everywhere , how many do we really need, seems to be on every bloody corner now
    yeah they are everywhere now, i have 4 tescos next to me, all within a 10 min walk of my flat.


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    So ... ... basically, back then - unless you were the type of person who liked a "long lie" on Sunday mornings - your most likely form of "entertainment" was to go to Church and watch the minister/vicar banging on his pulpit as he harangued the congregation with his weekly sermon ...


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    ... and thence back home, suitably chastised ... perchance to swap the "glad rags" for your more comfortable old togs, partake of Sunday Lunch ... and settle down to *reading the 'News of The World' - *alas no longer possible! - as you listened to 'Two-Way' Family Favourites' on BBC Radio's 'Light Programme'.


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    In York (100,000 pop.) we have TWO large Tescos....one close to my home, an Asda, a Morrisons and two Sainburys. That's apart from the Tesco Expresses.

    Oh, and two M & S.

    Glad I hate shopping.


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    I guess the profusion of Tesco's is because they are a caring company and don't want people to travel long distances to be ripped off


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    here in derby we have,1 morrisons soon to be 2,sainburys 4, co op 4, poxy tescos well just loads if you count the 24hours and the tesco express and so on , well the pak shop and aldi are going to be my shops to spend my hard earned money in


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    save you money everyday


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    There's five Tesco's within a 5 minute drive from mine, 2 big stores and 3 of the small ones. None of which I've been in since before Xmas!

    Quote Originally Posted by Dedworth View Post
    I guess the profusion of Tesco's is because they are a caring company and don't want people to travel long distances to be ripped off


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    well i will not use tesco at all


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dedworth View Post
    I guess the profusion of Tesco's is because they are a caring company and don't want people to travel long distances to be ripped off




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    Quote Originally Posted by stevewool View Post
    well i will not use tesco at all
    We also never use Tesco.
    But I can't tell anyone why.


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    my reason is two fold, 1st i am atight git and 2nd it was one of the reasons the divorce came along, live to work thing, a up i should be thanking tesco other wise i may never be here and my new life being so brill too, may even write to tesco to thank them


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    I always shop at Tesco (just been) because it is just up the road, and I'm lazy.

    It is getting harder and harder to stay within my £30 a week food budget for me and my boy though.


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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    I always shop at Tesco (just been) because it is just up the road, and I'm lazy.

    It is getting harder and harder to stay within my £30 a week food budget for me and my boy though.
    Better start shopping at Asda


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    try shopping somewhere differant , pakshop and aldi are great and as i have said farmfoods too


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    Quote Originally Posted by stevewool View Post
    try shopping somewhere differant , pakshop and aldi are great and as i have said farmfoods too
    Plus, walking helps to supress hunger and that extra mile will do wonders for maintaining bodily flexibility.


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    Walk ?

    My local Pakshop is only an off-licence.

    We do have a Farmfoods even closer than Tesco, but of course they don't have the variety of marked down past its sell by date stuff, which is my mainstay.

    I refuse to pay more than £1.50 for ANY item.


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    [QUOTE=grahamw48;305585]Walk ?

    My local Pakshop is only an off-licence.

    tut tut tut, graham, i ment the supermarker chain pakfoods


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    Oh, sorrrrry.


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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    It is getting harder and harder to stay within my £30 a week food budget for me and my boy though.
    i hope thats a joke you sure your not a


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    DO YOU MIND ?

    Yorkshireman !

    Ok, I'll admit to having spent £35 this week....not much on the bargains shelf.

    Nowt wasted in my house, but we do eat an awful lot of cheap spuds it seems, and we eat very little ready-prepared food, 90% all home-cooked to my own recipes.


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