Tesco

cricketer

Great store 25th August 2008

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This store is a very good branch of tesco. It has a great isle of cheap bargain products which i use regularly!
It has a specialist meat counter which regularly feeds my family!
The staff are very helpful and always direct me to the relevant isles when i get lost in this large store.
There are always BOGOF deals and many discounts across the store. The store even sells electornics and i picked up a bargain of a TV last week!
There is ample parking for all the shoppers and its a very easy store to locate so i whole heartedly reccomend this store!

deadleg21

tesco - the future? 21st August 2008

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This truly is a one stop shop for all your needs in London, and like most people i do my weekly food shop at tescos. This store is exactly the same as any tesco dotted around the country, and they truly are becoming a global brand. This is where the warning comes into play - the more you shop at tesco's like this one, the less revenue goes to local shops which have their own unique qualities. We could end up with hundreds of towns with the exact same shops etc which would be a great shame.
The pricing at tesco is very reasonable and there are plenty of deals that you come to expect from a supermarket like "buy one get one free" or "three for two". However i do believe ASDA prices are on average cheaper.
The customer service is also very good, with assistants who will help you find any item you desire - very useful if there are lots of different brands and you are looking for a specific one.

brown

Tesco and RODENTS 17th November 2007

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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.

inkognitoh

Tesco Kensington Has Everything 18th July 2007

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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.

NikoTheFinn

Big-ass supermarket 27th September 2006

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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.

niggle at 03/10/06

Certainly won't be taking anything this reviewer has to say, or is he being ironic! What id wrong with You?

NikoTheFinn at 03/10/06

whadda ya want from me? it's a site for reviews, here's a genuine, bona fide review of a very good supermarket in my former locality. not much use to a lad from manchester, granted, but let me reiterate my point, whadda ya want from me?

niggle at 04/10/06

More imagination from such an intellectual! Thats the badger!

Buraco at 04/10/06

enough already. bout time for a beer?

btw - you see tesco's 1/2 yearly profits topped £1billion? Their quest for global domination is well and truly underway. I blame Niko.

dorotti at 07/11/06

as if you both (the ones against tesco) wouldnt go there... of course you can afford the stuff from all the small local businesses. i as a student can't.

NikoTheFinn at 07/11/06

and in this day and age of fast-paced lives and increased need for convenience, having to go to numerous small local businesses to get all your shopping as opposed to just one big ol' supermarket, well, we all know how this battle is going to end...

Buraco at 07/11/06

Ha! Well (unless you're being tongue in cheek) I think you're wrong and living in the past. Times have moved beyond the drive for price and convenience, the new maxims are quality and responsibility. All the big supermarkets have cottoned on already, but I sense a backlash from the ethically-concious consumers (an ever growing group)against the behemoth all-in-one shopping experience, back to a local high street approach where you get all your good home-grown produce from smaller specialist vendors. It aint gonna happen overnight, but a look on any London high street from Clapham to Kentish Town tells you the way things are going. End prophecy.

NikoTheFinn at 07/11/06

one (hyphenated) word: wal-mart. bring those beauties into town is what i say. everything under one roof, even music. and what's better, they don't sell music by those nasty nasty rappers who talk so much about beating their hoes and drinking expensive champage and something about chrome hub caps on a car?

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