Wal-mart vs. Tesco

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I realize they're not quite the same, but how do these retail behemoths stack up?

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

walmart owns asda, isn't that a better comparison?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

According to the Economist, Tesco is the largest retail employer in Britain. I guess one thing I'm wondering is whether they exploit this status the way Wal-mart does.

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

for real?

what's a "convenience format"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 24 February 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

A mini-supermarket where frills like "rice" are dispensed with

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 24 February 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

gabb always posts the stories i'm too lazy to post myself

― the bitchy guy in the pince-nez from the old films (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 February 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Tesco are horrible (even though I shop there all the time). This is what they've done to my home town.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 25 February 2006 11:30 (twenty years ago)

maybe people shouldn't shop at tescos

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 25 February 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

my hometown had the first safeway in the whole uk! now it is only an asda :(

i prefer sainsbury ftb i am an middleclass hypersnob w.ideas above my station

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 February 2006 12:03 (twenty years ago)

People be shopping where it's convenient (I shop at Tesco most because it is about 200 yards from my house), but I also shop at markets and other shops in town, and sometimes Asda or other supermarkets if I am passing one. Trouble in Inverness is that you just don't have the choice any more, due to people liking the idea of having Tescos there and therefore using it, and then they complain when everyone else does the same and the wee shops go away. So Tescos go "woo, everyone loves us" [conveniently ignoring the fact that there is little alternative] "let's open another store". Petrol in Inverness is dearer too as a result as there is no supermarket price war driving the price down.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 25 February 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Tesco is expanding at about 9 times the rate that Walmart is, because they are spreading internationaly in places like china. It owns 34% of Britains Retail Market Share compaired to Walmarts 11% of the American Retail Market share, Tesco is set to expand into America aswell. You can not say that Tesco is as bad as walmart, Tesco pay there employeys alot more, they pay all overtime, they allow all unions. And you can hardly say they are using there Monopoly to push prices up because, they could but instead they still choose to lower there prices below that or Asda, Morrisons and Sainsburys.

― Pete I, Sunday, 30 April 2006 11:33 (twenty years ago)

plus at least they put their polythene vegetable bags where you expect them to be as opposed on the edge of each aisle like what Sainsbury's do.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 30 April 2006 13:25 (twenty years ago)

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