Tesco are a chain of supermarkets selling food, drink, toiletries and other household goods. They also offer a wide range of services, from loans to home shopping. Mobile top up cards and scratchcards are also available. This branch of Tesco is situated on the corner of Cromwell Road and Warwick Road.
When shopping at this store pay careful attention to the products you buy. They have had a problem with rodents and their delivery bays. Also if you have placed an order form tesco and you live in central london then it is more than likely that it has come from this store. My last order showed up with food supplies eaten and rodent droppings in the bags. Not long after we seemed to notice a mouse in our flat, in fact we believe that when the tesco man came around he also brought with him more than we ordered. In fact the manager of the store acknowledges that mice were in the loading bay and that they were also found in the lorry vans. They wont tell you this, however they did tell me. The staff and general attitude with this whole ordeal has highlighted other issues with Tesco. Please be careful making your purchase. There are a number of diseases that can be passed on to humans were food can come in contact with rodents, Leptospirosis is just one of them.
For a central London supermarket, this store is gigantic. It carries all basic fruit and veg and some seasonal oddities. It has a deli section, and a fish monger. It does a line of cooked foods (mostly chicken) and it carries rare lines like kosher and Carribean foods, not to mention the gluten and wheat free lines.
Lately it has developed a whole food range in direct competition with the Wholefoods supermarket down the road and it has also got a limited range of pet stuff, camping/picnic equipment.
There is a cafe upstairs which also sells books , dvds and games. Plus a holistic/health food unit which sells all manner of vitamins and potions.
Walking distance from Earls Court and West Kensington tube stations.
The Tesco store on Cromwell Road, about halfway between West Kensington and Earls Court tube stations, is one of the best i have ever been to. Of course it's big, but the main attraction of this store for me (apart from being really close to where i lived) is the fact that they do an excellent range of "exotic" foods, spices and condiments, a claim that most supermarkets can't make. Want to cook Chinese food? No problem, all the ingredients are here. Mexican? Good to go. Azerbaijani? i should think so (not that i ever tried). Yes, it's a big chain store, and yes, it undermines the efforts of small local grocers trying to sell local produce, but damn are they well stocked! And if you accidentally broke all the crockery in your cupboards, Tesco has that eventuality covered too. And a wide range of crappy childrens' DVDs to boot, just for good measure.
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