How come Tesco is so dirty and messy?

mick.fr

I am amazed at the level of dirtyness, perpetual lack of stocks, wrong prices etc at Tesco stores. And in fairness this is not the only chain that has this kind of problem in Ireland.
I have seen Tesco in the UK (Mainland) that were a lot more clean with profusion of products, never went out.

Here every now and then they run out of common products, many products are out of stock etc...

I have been shopping for years in different Dublin areas, this is always the same story.

Pretty shameful isn't? It is not difficult to achieve a minimal of stock control and cleaning, floors at Tesco are a disgrace. Any time of the day, looks like they never clean it.

Anyone agrees with me or is it myself only taking notice of this disgrace?

/rant

schween

I agree Tesco stores are filthy!

Davy

This came up before in a thread. A lot of the stores and often the main higher profile ones were the messiest. ClareHall and maynooth i remember came out bad.

Toots

I've always found the Dundrum one to be good. The Nutgrove one, and in particular the Stillorgan one are a disgrace. I'm actually surprised the department of health (or whatever the heck department oversees hygiene standards) haven't been out to these guys. Several times I've seen out of date products on the shelves and have notified the staff who basically couldn't give a toss. :rolleyes:

brendansmith

Tescos tried to get as much stock in the back door and out the front as possible and thus the low prices etc.

They are in business because they are cheap. The main concern is prices and not cleanliness.

mick.fr

brendansmith wrote: »

Tescos tried to get as much stock in the back door and out the front as possible and thus the low prices etc.

They are in business because they are cheap. The main concern is prices and not cleanliness.

Tesco is far to be cheap. Well any shop in Ireland is not cheap lol...
You cannot distribute food stuff to public in a such dirty environment in my opinion. Germs do accumulate very easily.

Plus I do not know where they get their meat from, even at Lidl it looks a lot better. Very often I see purple/brown meat on shelves.
This is just crazy. They don't give a rats.

Toots

I agree, particularly considering that some of them are lovely and clean. As I said, the Dundrum one is great! I'd happily do all my grocery shopping there except that, despite the recession, the carpark in Dundrum is always so jammed on weekends. I usually go to Dunnes, which are also great

mick.fr

I miss my Tesco Extra! in UK though...so much things in one place, very handy.
We are condamned to shop in small and expensive shops in Ireland. Such a pity.

L1011

mick.fr wrote: »

I miss my Tesco Extra! in UK though...so much things in one place, very handy.
We are condamned to shop in small and expensive shops in Ireland. Such a pity.

The Tesco Extra in Maynooth is, food wise, a normal Tesco with more of each product and no extra ranges. Sure, I can buy a firewire cable at 1am when I get the urge to do some video editing like I did last week but I can't get products which are stocked even in very small branches in the North (Irn Bru, for instance). But I can walk past nearly a solid wall of Coke bottles.

mikemac

davton wrote: »

ClareHall and maynooth i remember came out bad.

Clarehall is fine, it's the best branch I've been in

As for Tesco Ballyfermot! :eek:

Sammag

The Rathmines one was always a disgrace. Merrion wasn't too bad.
I just always assumed it was that no-one, not even the managers gave a f*ck because they resented having to work in a sh*thole.

Ste.phen

Sammag wrote: »

The Rathmines one was always a disgrace. Merrion wasn't too bad.
I just always assumed it was that no-one, not even the managers gave a f*ck because they resented having to work in a sh*thole.

That's not far off the truth. A dirty shop (and the one i worked in for years wasn't too bad, compared to what i've seen in other Tescos) starts to wear on you over time. There simply wasn't the time / staff / budget available to keep the place squeeky clean. It was either that, or put stock onto the shelves.
We had contract cleaners for mopping the floors a few times a week, but cleaning on / around / the shelves was Tesco staff themselves, and it wasn't often a priority.
I imagine now the staff hours have been cut even further, which increases everyone's workload and makes it even less likely that non-core things will be done.

kmick

Tesco is a cheap-ish, poor quality, poor service store. I stopped shopping there about 2 years ago due to the really bad quality of the fruit and veg. I use dunnes now and it is no more expensive and a lot better on fruit and veg.

Gauge

Stillorgan Tesco is total rubbish. They never seem to bother putting prices on any of the shelves in the electrical/homeware shop, and the supermarket is just filthy and cramped.

Sammag

*Shakes fist* Bring back H.Williams I say!

jelly&icecream

Tesco on Prussia St is fairly manky aswell. Also any of the times I've ever been in it there have been no baskets at the door and you have to go along the row of tills, often for quite some distance to find one. Staff are pretty rude aswell.
Tbh I avoid it if at all possible and only shop there if everything else if closed or inconvenient to get at.

John Mason

Clearwater is clean but the staff - OMG:eek: i have never met ruder staff in my life, who seem to think it is acceptable to swear at customers.

i will only shop in there now, if it is absolutely necessary. the same with the petrol station - absolutely disgraceful

eth0_

mick.fr wrote: »

I have seen Tesco in the UK (Mainland) that were a lot more clean with profusion of products, never went out.

Trust me, here in Scotland they are JUST as bad in terms of filthy staff, almost entirely foreign staff with bad English and even worse BO.

Waitrose and Sainsbury's are like a parallel universe to Tesco. Even Asda are miles better than Tesco and they're supposedly 'lower' than Tesco/aimed at people with less money!

holly1

This all stems from bad management and as for head office,dont bother they dont care either.
We have a Tesco Express in Clane and it has to be the most untidy shop in the country,unhelpful staff and I wouldent know the manager there if I fell over him/her.

Red Alert

Superquinn haven't been much better. After the refit in Ballinteer where they painted the store black it's hard to figure out where's dirty and where's not.

KTRIC

Maybe we should all go to the "mainland" to shop :rolleyes:

RangeR

KTRIC wrote: »

Maybe we should all go to the "mainland" to shop :rolleyes:

Of course you mean Ireland?

jor el

KTRIC wrote: »

Maybe we should all go to the "mainland" to shop :rolleyes:

A lot of people here on Inis Mór would probably agree with you, choice being somewhat limited.


I've noticed that all the Tesco stores that used to be Crazy Prices tend to be the filthy ones. The old Tesco in Wexford town is one, Lismore shopping centre in Waterford is another, both were Crazy Prices before, both are fairly dreadful.

nowimtalking

Even the ones in the country are terrible, Supervalu is far better, well the new ones anyway!
We always buy from the veg shop and the butchers and all we use the supermarkets for is frozen food(quorn for me) and then bread and stuff in the local shop.

mick.fr

Ste.phen wrote: »

That's not far off the truth. A dirty shop (and the one i worked in for years wasn't too bad, compared to what i've seen in other Tescos) starts to wear on you over time. There simply wasn't the time / staff / budget available to keep the place squeeky clean. It was either that, or put stock onto the shelves.
We had contract cleaners for mopping the floors a few times a week, but cleaning on / around / the shelves was Tesco staff themselves, and it wasn't often a priority.
I imagine now the staff hours have been cut even further, which increases everyone's workload and makes it even less likely that non-core things will be done.

I disagree with that. That is not because a shop is busy that it cannot be cleaned up during the course of the day.
In UK there is Tesco shops making 4 million pounds a week-end. And I can tell you it is cleaned up regularly during the day.
And Tesco shops in Ireland are making a very substential amount of money, so the "no budget", "no staff" excuse, sorry I dno't buy it.

My very first job when I was 20, was to work in a extremelly busy KFC/Pizza Hut in Paris. I can tell you we had the managers behind us every 30 minutes to clean the floor, the toilets etc. And it had to be cleaned up seriously, including getting your hand dirty in the toilet.
Every nights at closure, we had to move all the furnitures (Understand hooven, fridges etc) in the kitchen and clean beneath them.

Ste.phen

mick.fr wrote: »

I disagree with that. That is not because a shop is busy that it cannot be cleaned up during the course of the day.
In UK there is Tesco shops making 4 million pounds a week-end. And I can tell you it is cleaned up regularly during the day.
And Tesco shops in Ireland are making a very substential amount of money, so the "no budget", "no staff" excuse, sorry I dno't buy it.

Hey, I didn't say they weren't making money, the problem is simply that the management (be they store-level or higher) don't place any emphasis on ensuring there's sufficient manpower directed at cleaning.

Toots

Gauge wrote: »

Stillorgan Tesco is total rubbish. They never seem to bother putting prices on any of the shelves in the electrical/homeware shop, and the supermarket is just filthy and cramped.

Me and the guys in work have a theory that the naughty staff from the other tescos get sent to the stillorgan one as punishment.

Max Power1

mick.fr wrote: »

Tesco is far to be cheap. Well any shop in Ireland is not cheap lol...
You cannot distribute food stuff to public in a such dirty environment in my opinion. Germs do accumulate very easily.

Plus I do not know where they get their meat from, even at Lidl it looks a lot better. Very often I see purple/brown meat on shelves.
This is just crazy. They don't give a rats.

seems that if they dont start to clean up they will have to do something about the aforementioned rats

IsThatSo?

I avoid Tesco and only go there to buy one or two things that I can't get elsewhere. The Naas and Gorey shops are maggoty, as is the Stillorgan branch. The one in The Square isn't too bad. Some of the older ones that were Quinnsworth haven't been updated since the Quinnsworth days (same as the Crazy Prices ones) and part of the dirty look, I think, is that they are just plain old.

Their pricing annoys me too, often there are no prices up or items are mispriced :mad:

I prefer Dunnes/Lidl myself.

Lollipops23

the tesco in ballyfermot is just as bad.the fridges that all the pre-packed sambos are in has mould down the back(i know the sambos are protected,but eww all the same!!!)the floor never looks properly cleaned,just enough so that the health authorities are happy. If it was a shop didn't specialise in foodstuff i wouldn't be quite so concerned, but there's just no excuse for it.and we all wonder why we get food poinsoning??!!

Also, the staff seem to vary greatly from shop to shop!the one in ballyfermot is pretty dire,they'd rather carry on their conversations with eachother than serve customers. but the one on talbot st is usually ok.

tbh

Ste.phen wrote: »

Hey, I didn't say they weren't making money, the problem is simply that the management (be they store-level or higher) don't place any emphasis on ensuring there's sufficient manpower directed at cleaning.

you're right - it's too widespread for me not to believe that it's actual policy for tescos. It's so strange, no matter which store I go into it's as described here, dirty, couldn't-care-less staff, and out of stock. And don't get me started on those frickin "Unexpected item in bagging area" tills. IT'S A BAG! that's why it's in the BAGGING area!