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Old 25-09-2006, 16:46
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My local Tesco (Aycliffe) is getting extended into a Tesco Extra, finishing in December. Work started a couple of weeks ago. Yet there is no extension at all.

Here comes the wierd bit: White beams are appearing all over the store so when I asked what they were for, the bloke said: "The extension is going to be a 2nd floor. How do the trolleys get up? Lifts wouldnt be very practical (need 10 or so) so what will they use?
 
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:49
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My Tesco has two floors. Between the two is a kind of sloping travelator- like at an airport, only going up! You can stand on it with your trolley- it's good fun!
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:49
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I got a two storey tesco (swindon) They have these escalator type things that go up at like a 30 degree angle which are flat (i.e no stairs) when the trolley i pushed on it the wheels locked so it doesn't roll back, and up you go!
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:50
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A smaller branch in Hucnall I believe appiled to become a 2 storey only about a year or so after they built it. Don't know whats happening with it though.
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:50
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There is an asda store near me with two floors, it's a big sloping conveyor thing you stand on, dunno what it's called lol. Airports have them as well, altho not sloping one's.
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:51
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Originally Posted by redwolfie
My Tesco has two floors. Between the two is a kind of sloping travelator- like at an airport, only going up! You can stand on it with your trolley- it's good fun!
Same in my local Tesco. That sloping thingy is quite secure as well. Once the trolley is on it, the wheels get locked and the trolley won't move. It's pretty good.
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:51
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The 'Extra' store at Kingston Park, Newcastle has one of these walkways, but 'upstairs' only has a cafe and customer toilets.
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:51
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So thats why one of the aisles has been widened?
 
Old 25-09-2006, 16:53
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So thats why one of the aisles has been widened?
Yeah they take up tons of space like 3 aisles worth
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:53
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They did a similar sort of thing in our Homebase DIY store. They suspended a second floor from the roof. It sways alarmingly sometimes, but hasn't collapsed (yet).
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:53
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My tesco is just a massive one floored place, but i dont think its the biggest.
 
Old 25-09-2006, 16:54
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Our Tesco is 2 floors - with a cool trolley escalator in it. All the clothes and home stuff is upstairs.
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:54
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Must go there on the 5th Dec then! Funny because the Tesco is only 3 on the 3rd Nov and the town is titch! (Pop:22000)

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Old 25-09-2006, 16:55
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Blimey Tesco on two floors, I know some people who would think that's heaven.
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:55
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Originally Posted by PamelaL
Blimey Tesco on two floors, I know some people who would think that's heaven.
oh it is, it really is, wait what am i saying!?
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:57
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Originally Posted by PamelaL
Blimey Tesco on two floors, I know some people who would think that's heaven.
Not including yourself of course...........
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:58
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Originally Posted by CHUTNEY
Not including yourself of course...........
God no, you know I'm a Sainsbury's/Waitrose girl.
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:59
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i work in the ipswich extra and we have loads of white steel beams everywhere ready for our 'mezzanine floor' but its not going up fully for years apparently.
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Old 25-09-2006, 16:59
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Some airports do have the sloping travelators - Munich Airport for example.
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Old 25-09-2006, 17:00
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no wonder there is a huge space at the end of ours if the escalators take up 3 isles!!!

ours has been ion the process of becoming an Extra store since April and will be finished in 2 weeks supposedly! and the cafe there is going up stairs! be interesting to sse it when it all finishsed!
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Old 25-09-2006, 17:04
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We have a HUGE Tesco Extra on two floors, the 1st floor was completed last November. It is great, tons of stuff, it takes ages to walk round it all. All the homeware, clothing and cafe are upstairs. It is a lovely store, I don't know what I'd do without it now! There is a trolley "travelator" as people have mentioned before or an elevator if you prefer, you can't take pushchairs or wheelchairs on the "travelator", I didn't realise this and got told off by a security guard for taking my niece up in her pushchair.

We've just had a big ASDA built too but it seems small in comparison. I expect they'll put a 1st floor in there too someday, there certainly is enough room for it.

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Old 25-09-2006, 17:05
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Originally Posted by PamelaL
God no, you know I'm a Sainsbury's/Waitrose girl.
I knew that.

I've seen you on the checkouts.
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Old 25-09-2006, 17:11
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I knew that.

I've seen you on the checkouts.
I saw her being taken into the manager's office by the store detectives..........
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Old 25-09-2006, 17:17
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The one near me has the car park at ground level and then the store is above it. They have the sloping walkways to take the trolleys up and down as well. Quite a good idea I thought, and it means you don't get wet if it's raining.
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Old 25-09-2006, 17:20
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What is wrong with a country where the most exciting thing that ever happens is a tesco's hypermarket? I saw a questionaire in the local paper which asked "what is the best thing about your town?" the 3rd most popular answer was "two mcdonalds".

Perhaps Napolean was right after all.
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