The neverending creep of Tesco

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Mon 31 Oct, 2011 8:38 pm

[quotenick="geoffb"] Leodian wrote: geoffb wrote: Has LCC planning granted the proposed building of a Tesco store on King Lane where the derelict garage is by Nanny Bridge, cant find any info and its gone very quiet. Building work has now started, the footings are cast. this will be the end of Costcutter and the Off Licence on the Avenue parade Aye, I drove past there this morning and noticed work was underway.What's the betting that they undercut the Costcutter for now, despite their well established practice of charging a premium in their own smaller stores. Obviously when the competition are put out of business, prices more to their liking will be reintroduced.On a happier note, I've just found out that a brand new and much needed Co-op convenience store is being built not a 10 minute walk from my house. This hopefully means I need never go to the Tesco Extra ever again.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 31 Oct, 2011 10:36 pm

Leodian wrote: The construction of a Tesco Express has very recently started where the Alwoodley Motors garage was on King Lane (close to The Avenue, Alwoodley). At the rate it has started the building will be up quite soon. I thought it might be of interest to show the photo I took on September 12 2011 when there was still some preparatory work going on prior to the building of the Tesco Express at that location. The photo can be compared to a photo I took on October 28 2011 that is in my next post.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 31 Oct, 2011 10:40 pm

This is the photo I took at the site on October 28 2011. It shows that the building is going up fast. The scene changes virtually every day, as there was work going on even on Saturday October 29 with work on the brick wall seen in the rear.

Post by **chameleon** » Mon 31 Oct, 2011 11:25 pm

[quotenick="raveydavey"] geoffb wrote: Leodian wrote: geoffb wrote: Has LCC planning granted the proposed building of a Tesco store on King Lane where the derelict garage is by Nanny Bridge, cant find any info and its gone very quiet. Building work has now started, the footings are cast. this will be the end of Costcutter and the Off Licence on the Avenue parade Aye, I drove past there this morning and noticed work was underway.What's the betting that they undercut the Costcutter for now, despite their well established practice of charging a premium in their own smaller stores. Obviously when the competition are put out of business, prices more to their liking will be reintroduced.On a happier note, I've just found out that a brand new and much needed Co-op convenience store is being built not a 10 minute walk from my house. This hopefully means I need never go to the Tesco Extra ever again. I remember recently from a TV news item that Tesco had been hauled over the coals once more for breaking the rules which seemingly require a national pricing regime, which outlaws differential pricing over different parts of their coverage. I would have thought that this would also apply to their smaller stores; the downside is that even lower prices would be more competition against the independants.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Tue 01 Nov, 2011 8:27 pm

[quotenick="chameleon"] raveydavey wrote: geoffb wrote: Leodian wrote: geoffb wrote: Has LCC planning granted the proposed building of a Tesco store on King Lane where the derelict garage is by Nanny Bridge, cant find any info and its gone very quiet. Building work has now started, the footings are cast. this will be the end of Costcutter and the Off Licence on the Avenue parade Aye, I drove past there this morning and noticed work was underway.What's the betting that they undercut the Costcutter for now, despite their well established practice of charging a premium in their own smaller stores. Obviously when the competition are put out of business, prices more to their liking will be reintroduced.On a happier note, I've just found out that a brand new and much needed Co-op convenience store is being built not a 10 minute walk from my house. This hopefully means I need never go to the Tesco Extra ever again. I remember recently from a TV news item that Tesco had been hauled over the coals once more for breaking the rules which seemingly require a national pricing regime, which outlaws differential pricing over different parts of their coverage. I would have thought that this would also apply to their smaller stores; the downside is that even lower prices would be more competition against the independants. No, they definitely charge higher prices at smaller stores. We reluctantly use the Tesco Express on St Pauls Street regularly (it's virtually the only place on our route to work where you can park outside and get a paper early on a morning since our local newsagent inexplicably started not opening until 6.30am) and pretty much everything is more expensive there than the Tesco Extra near our home or the adverts (read the small print!). They also don't have many of the BOGOF or 3 for 2 offers on stuff either.Morrisons do the same with their local stores, as do SainsburysAsda are the only major national supermarket to charge the same price at all their stores - they made a big point of this when they started rebranding the former Netto stores recently.

WiggyDiggy · Post by **WiggyDiggy** » Wed 02 Nov, 2011 2:24 pm

I'll be living next door quite literally to the Tesco at Kirkstall and have to say I don't want it, the usual traffic and planning problems aside there is a huge big Morrisons right on my doorstep, with an Asda just opened a short distance down the road.