WANSTEAD: New Tesco Express to open within weeks (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

Oh well, bye-bye all the great independent shops in Wanstead, as all the idiots flock to Tesco thinking they're saving money (hint: look at the small print, dullards - the 'cheap' prices Tesco advertise only apply to the giant stores, not the little Express or Metro ones. Anyway, I suppose Tesco will use its usual tactic of price flexing (which is also illegal) to undercut the butcher and greengrocer in order to put them out of business. Sad times. I'm proud to say I've never set foot in Wanstead's Starbucks (I wouldn't want their watered down, overpriced crap anyway). I'll never set foot in Tesco, either. www.tescopoly.org.

Yes, I agree with the Gus. Bye bye over priced Somerfield, bye bye overpriced Londis. Bye bye overpiced Boots. Let's just go back to weekly markets rather than having a high street. **** these multinationals, **** them...............u
ntil you need some milk after 10.30pm or until you fancy a quiet coffee without being surrounded by yummy mummies and their monstrous children eating GI Gluten Free pastries hand made by Bolivian octogenarians whilst Daddy reads the Guardian telling him not to shop at Tesco, man.

Get a life. Wanstead needs a Tesco to stop the daylight robbery that occurrs on the highstreet everyday.

You get a life. Clearly you know nothing. You have no arguement - just a load of pathetic, second hand comments that your tiny brain thinks are funny. Sadly, Tesco will probably succeed because idiots like you will take what you're given, go there and pay way over the odds.

monkeybradders wrote:
Yes, I agree with the Gus. Bye bye over priced Somerfield, bye bye overpriced Londis. Bye bye overpiced Boots. Let's just go back to weekly markets rather than having a high street. **** these multinationals, **** them...............u ntil you need some milk after 10.30pm or until you fancy a quiet coffee without being surrounded by yummy mummies and their monstrous children eating GI Gluten Free pastries hand made by Bolivian octogenarians whilst Daddy reads the Guardian telling him not to shop at Tesco, man. Get a life. Wanstead needs a Tesco to stop the daylight robbery that occurrs on the highstreet everyday.

quite clearly , you are clueless , i have no doubt that you have no knowledge on quite a wide variety of subjects


hope this helps x

Larry Green wrote:

monkeybradders wrote: Yes, I agree with the Gus. Bye bye over priced Somerfield, bye bye overpriced Londis. Bye bye overpiced Boots. Let's just go back to weekly markets rather than having a high street. **** these multinationals, **** them...............u ntil you need some milk after 10.30pm or until you fancy a quiet coffee without being surrounded by yummy mummies and their monstrous children eating GI Gluten Free pastries hand made by Bolivian octogenarians whilst Daddy reads the Guardian telling him not to shop at Tesco, man. Get a life. Wanstead needs a Tesco to stop the daylight robbery that occurrs on the highstreet everyday.

quite clearly , you are clueless , i have no doubt that you have no knowledge on quite a wide variety of subjects hope this helps x

aahh the internet home of argumentum ad hominem .

Larry, love. There are 6 maybe 7 independent coffee houses, 3 banks, 1 post office, 4ish restaurants. 1 chinese take away (from which i got food poisoning) 1 pet/plant shop,, 1 shop selling "white goods" 1 cat house eeerrmm sorry massage parlour, 3 estate agents, a boots, a londis, a somerfield, a chip shop and so on.

Picture the scene. I get home from work late, it's 10.30pm, i need milk, sugar, flour, eggs, ham, cheese, potato, bread, The Times, 4 AAA batteries, some deodrant 7 apples, 2 chicken breasts, some pasta sauce and a carton of orange juice. I will not travel to Leyton/stone at night.
What am i to do?? as you say, i'm clueless.

rude.

monkeybradders wrote:

Larry Green wrote:

monkeybradders wrote: Yes, I agree with the Gus. Bye bye over priced Somerfield, bye bye overpriced Londis. Bye bye overpiced Boots. Let's just go back to weekly markets rather than having a high street. **** these multinationals, **** them...............u ntil you need some milk after 10.30pm or until you fancy a quiet coffee without being surrounded by yummy mummies and their monstrous children eating GI Gluten Free pastries hand made by Bolivian octogenarians whilst Daddy reads the Guardian telling him not to shop at Tesco, man. Get a life. Wanstead needs a Tesco to stop the daylight robbery that occurrs on the highstreet everyday.

quite clearly , you are clueless , i have no doubt that you have no knowledge on quite a wide variety of subjects hope this helps x

aahh the internet home of argumentum ad hominem . Larry, love. There are 6 maybe 7 independent coffee houses, 3 banks, 1 post office, 4ish restaurants. 1 chinese take away (from which i got food poisoning) 1 pet/plant shop,, 1 shop selling "white goods" 1 cat house eeerrmm sorry massage parlour, 3 estate agents, a boots, a londis, a somerfield, a chip shop and so on. Picture the scene. I get home from work late, it's 10.30pm, i need milk, sugar, flour, eggs, ham, cheese, potato, bread, The Times, 4 AAA batteries, some deodrant 7 apples, 2 chicken breasts, some pasta sauce and a carton of orange juice. I will not travel to Leyton/stone at night. What am i to do?? as you say, i'm clueless. rude.

i would recommend that you organise
your shopping habits better and get an early nite :-)

larry g wrote:

monkeybradders wrote:

Larry Green wrote:

monkeybradders wrote: Yes, I agree with the Gus. Bye bye over priced Somerfield, bye bye overpriced Londis. Bye bye overpiced Boots. Let's just go back to weekly markets rather than having a high street. **** these multinationals, **** them...............u ntil you need some milk after 10.30pm or until you fancy a quiet coffee without being surrounded by yummy mummies and their monstrous children eating GI Gluten Free pastries hand made by Bolivian octogenarians whilst Daddy reads the Guardian telling him not to shop at Tesco, man. Get a life. Wanstead needs a Tesco to stop the daylight robbery that occurrs on the highstreet everyday.

quite clearly , you are clueless , i have no doubt that you have no knowledge on quite a wide variety of subjects hope this helps x

aahh the internet home of argumentum ad hominem . Larry, love. There are 6 maybe 7 independent coffee houses, 3 banks, 1 post office, 4ish restaurants. 1 chinese take away (from which i got food poisoning) 1 pet/plant shop,, 1 shop selling "white goods" 1 cat house eeerrmm sorry massage parlour, 3 estate agents, a boots, a londis, a somerfield, a chip shop and so on. Picture the scene. I get home from work late, it's 10.30pm, i need milk, sugar, flour, eggs, ham, cheese, potato, bread, The Times, 4 AAA batteries, some deodrant 7 apples, 2 chicken breasts, some pasta sauce and a carton of orange juice. I will not travel to Leyton/stone at night. What am i to do?? as you say, i'm clueless. rude.

i would recommend that you organise
your shopping habits better and get an early nite :-)

I know the High Street and being on a budget would always choose a Tesco express than a local shop as the food is always fresh and they do buy 2 get one free and other special offers and as for Guy Tovind, why are you cutting your nose to spite your face? If you do like your coffee stronger the ladies in Starbuck always will make the coffee stronger or give you an extra tea bag without further cost. Are people just jealous because Tesco are successful and do people really want rubbish shops like Hoe Street or closed down shops like the Deli in Orford Road? I try to buy local but the sausages in Orford Road are nearly 3 times as much as Tesco's basic ones and are ok to eat and quite tasty if you need a quick snack. Wanstead High street is a posh area but have down to earth shops which I am pleased about because it is a safer area to shop that Hoe Street and Orford Road. There is still a killer and rapist on the loose and many people are concerned for this reason alone may I say.

I cannot organise my shopping habits any better. I work from 6am until 10pm 6 days a week. I really don't feel like shopping on my day off. Ergo, there's a gap in the market that Tesco are going to fill. If the independent supermarkets (sic) stayed open later, i would patronise them instead.

monkeybradders wrote:
I cannot organise my shopping habits any better. I work from 6am until 10pm 6 days a week. I really don't feel like shopping on my day off. Ergo, there's a gap in the market that Tesco are going to fill. If the independent supermarkets (sic) stayed open later, i would patronise them instead.

sorry, but thats your problem, i work 75-80 hrs a week too, and if i have to shop on my day off, thats what i have to do., and as for hoister vestry you new incarnation will also soon be suspended along with all the others

I know it's my problem, and I'm grateful for Tesco helping me solve it. I really don't see how you can take issue with me for that. I don't know what you people want. You want shops, but only if they are indenpently run, you want coffee but only if it's from somewhere "cool" you want to be ripped off and you want to shop when your told. YOU are the customer YOU are right. If the other shops on the high street understood this then maybe your campaign the stop Tesco would carry more weight. As it is, every little really does help.

monkeybradders wrote:
I know it's my problem, and I'm grateful for Tesco helping me solve it. I really don't see how you can take issue with me for that. I don't know what you people want. You want shops, but only if they are indenpently run, you want coffee but only if it's from somewhere "cool" you want to be ripped off and you want to shop when your told. YOU are the customer YOU are right. If the other shops on the high street understood this then maybe your campaign the stop Tesco would carry more weight. As it is, every little really does help.

you are correct to a point, but Tesco's have a history of closing down all the competition around them, with regard to coffee, i prefer my own made from my own machine.

My problem with them, ( and all the others sainsbury's etc ) is that they vacated the high streets years ago,( to large out of town sites ) which left many a town centre a ghost town
.the small independant grocers opened up and worked 24/7 to serve local customers, only for the supermarkets to wipe them out , when they opened their extra express stores

just think that they are morally wrong

Morally wrong how? They don't owe anyone a living, they're in business.
I'm quite sure the greasy spoon cafe's had the same issue when all the deli's opened. Did anyone complain then? doubt it.

monkeybradders wrote:
Morally wrong how? They don't owe anyone a living, they're in business. I'm quite sure the greasy spoon cafe's had the same issue when all the deli's opened. Did anyone complain then? doubt it.

a million light years away , most of the greasy spoon cafes are still there, where the mediocre delis have all but gone....


this years fad '' belgique'' will soon been overtaken by next years.

Gus Tovind wrote:
You get a life. Clearly you know nothing. You have no arguement - just a load of pathetic, second hand comments that your tiny brain thinks are funny. Sadly, Tesco will probably succeed because idiots like you will take what you're given, go there and pay way over the odds.

i missed this earlier.

Gus, my comments are not second hand or intended to be funny.

I find it odd that in both your comments you have lowered yourself to name calling and yet you say I have a small brain.

I will go to Tesco if I need to and if they're competitive. However, i don't think the coucil have allowed Tesco to install the tractor beam and my tiny brain is capable of deciding to go somewhere else if i feel i'm being "ripped off"

Yeah but that's just the point - you won't go elsewhere. Like I said, people like you take what you're given. That's what Tesco rely on - unquestioning customers. Regarding your ill-informed denial of Tesco being 'morally wrong' - where do I start??? Take a trip to www.tescopoly.org and open your eyes. And for someone bleating about all the time they have to spend at work, you certainly spend a lot of time here!

Gus Tovind wrote:
Yeah but that's just the point - you won't go elsewhere. Like I said, people like you take what you're given. That's what Tesco rely on - unquestioning customers. Regarding your ill-informed denial of Tesco being 'morally wrong' - where do I start??? Take a trip to www.tescopoly.org and open your eyes. And for someone bleating about all the time they have to spend at work, you certainly spend a lot of time here!

standard internet forum flamer is being a Gus Tovind !!

You don't know me. You don't know what I do or how i shop.

FYI - i'm entitled to a lunch and breaks !!

Bleating? honestly!!

Poor effort at a straw man argument.

Yup, more bleating about your work, I see. Bored now with your 'chip on your shoulder' antics. Don't bother to reply

Who the hell do you think you are?? I agree that Wanstead needs a store to offer competition and better server the community. I am entitled to my opinion and i'm entitled to use this forum as per it's rules. If the best you can do is make pointless personal attacks that are frankly laughable then it's no wonder nobody listens or cares about your point of view. You've yet to make a valid point that hasn't ended with some sort of childish mudslinging.

These mini Tesco marts are the future I think, at least it is quality assured.

Hoister Vestry E17 wrote:
These mini Tesco marts are the future I think, at least it is quality assured.

in your new guise, of chief agent provocateur,(forum idiot to us all) do you intend to talk about chicanes, speed humps, rescue greyhounds, pie/mash/liquor?

thanks in anticipation of your pointless answer

Gus Tovind - I'm with you on this. Unfortunately, the idiots are winning - which is why practically every high street in the country is a wasteland of estate agents, chicken shops and tanning salons.

'Monkeybradders' - are you too scared to go to Woodford after dark too? Plenty of choice up there already.

Thank goodness for Tesco! Better than a police station or allnight nightclub, every strip of shops locally has now got one to save us from those nasty petty shopkeepers, CCTV council parking money-grabbers and community minded do-gooders. Roll on, Eoin Dardis; carry on believing your corporate bilge, moving onto your next acquisition to ride roughshod over another group of pointless protesters. Isn't this great, Britain? No longer a nation of shopkeepers; now just a legacy of corporate greed. And special offer this week, 2 for the price of 1! Vote with your feet if you actually care; but thousands of neighbours won't unfortunately. ho-hum.

jef costello wrote:
Gus Tovind - I'm with you on this. Unfortunately, the idiots are winning - which is why practically every high street in the country is a wasteland of estate agents, chicken shops and tanning salons. 'Monkeybradders' - are you too scared to go to Woodford after dark too? Plenty of choice up there already.

No, but i don't like Budgens. They're a cancer on the high street. Overpriced, poor quality produce and very limited lines invading every London High street and putting smaller businesses in the gutter, just ask the independent supoermarket owner, i did. Blockbuster is ok though.

I don't think i said i was scared of going to Leyton/stone after dark. I just said I wont.

stop moaning you old bags. tesco is a great shop, you should be happy

Normally I don’t comment on these things as it is very pointless however after reading through what has been said here I feel I have to say a few things.
How is Tesco going to ruin the high street we already have one supermarket with Summerfield’s which Tesco will sell pretty much the same items as. Which considering the level of customer service you get at Summerfield’s and the prices will hopefully mean I never have to enter Summerfield’s again.
As for the other stores it’s an express so there will be no pharmacy so that nice locally owned boots will stay open, they won’t have a full meat counter so the way way way over priced butchers that no one is ever in will be fine although I have no idea how they stay open as it is. There will not be a cafe so the ma and pa coffee shop Starbucks will continue to make money, they won’t have many magazines and greeting cards so Bennets will be fine. I don’t think Tesco express sells cooked Chinese food, fish and chips, pizza or kebabs so they will all be ok and you can still eat all the fried food that screams traditional Wanstead.
The only other shop who has a problem is Londis, oh no not my local favourite the shop my family have been going to for generations the very non national franchise where the store policy says never clean the shop and sell fireworks to anyone who looks like they were born before yesterday.
Just get over the Tesco hating yes they are not the most wonderful cuddly eco friendly company in the world but they are not the worst by far and yes it does mean that maybe you will have longer hours to shop so the people who work long hours can go there and its is ridiculous to say that’s there problem because someone has to do those jobs. I myself work 6 days a week and on my day off I don’t want to get out of bed let alone spend hours queuing in Summerfield’s and believe me when I say you want me doing the job I do.
So if you don’t want to shop at Tesco don’t but let the people who do want to do so without calling them idiots because let’s face it when you stuck one day and you need something and only Tesco is open you will go in there and be grateful its open (if you live in the area and if you don’t then you have no say anyway).