Tesco closing meat counters.

kmo

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E. Wales
A message from Dave Lewis, Tesco CEO
"In order to allow Tesco colleagues to focus on stocking shelves, helping to provide the essential groceries you are looking for and to avoid waste, we will close all meat, fish, deli counters and salad bars. "
 

Cowabunga

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Ceredigion,Wales
A message from Dave Lewis, Tesco CEO
"In order to allow Tesco colleagues to focus on stocking shelves, helping to provide the essential groceries you are looking for and to avoid waste, we will close all meat, fish, deli counters and salad bars. "
I do believe that it has long been announced that Tesco were soon to close all deli counters.
Here you are, news from over a year ago....

Local Tescos, both of them, have only opened their meat and deli counters part time for the past nine months.

My family have not bought anything from Aberystwyth's counter since just after it opened, when we saw the rather senior male server wiping his streaming nose with the back of his gloved hand. Yuk!
 

Hindsight

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Location
Lincolnshire
So you agree with Tesco, fresh food is no longer an essential?

I am not sure how to take your question. But I will take it as I read it. C'mon. there staff are under pressure and it will be much easier to sell FRESH prewrapped meat etc. Plus the food will be protected by a plastic overwrap.. And not manning those deli counters will allow the individual supermarket to operate with less staff and overnight.
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
I do believe that it has long been announced that Tesco were soon to close all deli counters.
Here you are, news from over a year ago....

Local Tescos, both of them, have only opened their meat and deli counters part time for the past nine months.

My family have not bought anything from Aberystwyth's counter since just after it opened, when we saw the rather senior male server wiping his streaming nose with the back of his gloved hand. Yuk!

And therein lies the problem. It is much harder to train, and keep, good butchers & fishmongers than it is to pay a spotty youth minimum wage to put pre-packs on a shelf.
 

bovrill

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Mixed Farmer
Location
East Essexshire
I just got 10lb of sausages and 30lb of mince for the dog at the butchers. I normally get 100lb of mince, but that's all they had.
The lad was reluctant to let me have all the sausages, but I pointed out I was dressed like I was because I'd just dropped 4 fat cattle to the slaughterhouse at the back of the shop, and the girl that normally serves me agreed that was my normal order, not a stockpile attempt, (I always get 5lbs for myself and 5lb for the Aged Parents).

And they seemed extra keen to get the cattle in there too! (Not paying anything extra though?)
 

Pennine Ploughing

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Mixed Farmer
So you agree with Tesco, fresh food is no longer an essential?
here is pictures of Tesco Carlisle tonight of the meat deli Counter, and the shelves where the pre packed meat is,
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and while a stood for 5 mins watching, people were not happy the shelves had little on them, yet walked right past the deli, so wake up and smell the coffee, and sell what your customers want,
oh sorry, bet your just the type that finds fault with most things, and yet don't do anything yourself,

and just for the record, i don't shop in Tesco as a rule, but i had to go there to get some stuff, as my 83 year old mother has not been well for some time, and you cant get everything at local butchers, FFS
 

wdah/him

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Location
tyrone
I would imagine, its more to do wit costumer handiness, walk in and lift a pack, see price and walk on, as opposed to wait to be served and for an unknown price. quite a few now don't understand weight amounts, just price if you can understand what I mean- a pack of mince is £2.79 but a lb/kg is?
 

TheTallGuy

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Location
Cambridgeshire
is there any difference between the products? do they just open the packets and put them in the counter?
Different products - counter stock comes in bulk packs.
I don't know about that, but the man on the Deli counter said it all comes from the same place
Counter staff are unlikely to know know where stuff actually comes from beyond the fresh distribution centre - Tesco obtain stock from multiple suppliers for fresh products!
 

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