Tesco's "Value" range is exactly that - Value For Money rather than paying over the odds for fancy packaging which will go in the bin instead of recycling in too many cases.
Lidl mightl fail because they started off trying to sell the same (good quality) stuff in Britian at the same prices as they do in Germany.
The brands which make the most profit in Germany are unknown in Britain.
I was delighted when Lidl took over the shop at the end of my road which used to be a Safeway supermarket. For a short while I was able to get good quality stuff from Germany.
It's only fallen down because the Great British Public don't want "that Kraut rubbish", only the stuff they're used to - which they can get in Great British Supermarkets any day of the week.
No it isn't. It's as I said it. Morrisons doesn't meet my criteria for someone with whom I want to do business. That's it. I don't really care about their stock price.
You've made lots of sweeping generalisations based on your perception of the name over the door.
Oh, so you'll accept a crap Sainsbury's, because it's a Sainsbury's?
Point proven.
No, it doesn't. Not in the slightest.
You can have perfect due diligence and still have an untidy store.
Presentation makes things look pretty, no more, no less.
(if you 'face up' a product, it looks pretty, if you 'rack down', it looks less pretty, but makes it easier to rotate and replenish)
Yes, it's for the customer.
It allows them to keep staff costs to a minimum to deliver quality products at value prices.
It also means better availability, as less time is spent on making things look pretty, more time on replenishing stock.
Yes, and your point is?
Other chains also use 'crates', but they use plastic ones, into which they decant product, damaging it in the process. Looks pretty for people like you though.
You've been in one store and made a judgement on the whole chain?
What would you have done if your local M&S Simply Foods was crap? - would you then post a thread on Usenet telling everyone that M&S are crap?
That's just one of the kinds of 'value added' product you can buy.
However, if you shop at M&S, you must buy a lot of value added products, as they make up a huge majority of the products they sell.
Ahhh, I've found your motivation now.
You'll shop at places most likely to give you 'compo' if anything goes wrong, regardless of blame.
M&S did it quite quickly - and against appalling results from their clothing sales - so you are quite wrong to suggest that it can't be done, one just needs to offer what the consumer wants (and M&S didn't need to under-cut their competitors either) and not what you think they might want.
The shop which was my local Safeway when moved here is now a Lidl.
Safeway built a new "superstore" three miles away. Since the Morrisons takeover, it is not worth the effort to go there. None of the Safeway products which I used to buy are available any more, and Morrisons' "fresh" fruit and vegetables are noticeably poor.
It's 30 miles, not 20 and the bottom end of the route is congested. Not only that but I said that it takes 40 minutes to an hour. Do pay attention. You may find this hard to understand, "the driver I make out I am" is someone who knows when and where to drive fast and where not to. You shouldn't believe the shit made up by Pete the Trolling f****it, not unless you're a f****it of a similar order.
If you fondly imagine that where I am has any relationship to Pompey then you are suffering from some sort of delusion. And no, I don't consider 30 miles from here to Porstmouth to be "close". Where you get
That is factually incorrect Andy, some is very much at the low end but it is not all so, some is actually exactly the same product as found in the normal own brand label.
Actually I think he might be getting mixed up between Bejams and Icland, Bejams boomed and then when bust (wrong business model again...), Icland bought them out (as a cheap way of expanding) but have never boomed (wrong business model again...).
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