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Tesco on 2 floors?
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jaffered
25-09-2006
high wycombe tesco is two floors is brilliant.

on the 1st floor you have all your food/drink etc. - all the usual stuff.

but on the second floor its like a big department store, everything from tellys, to kids toys, household appliances, laptops, phones, books, dvd's, stationary, household stuff (cutlery, vases, kitchen things, candles, etc.), make up things like hair straigtners... etc just everything!
hob-goblin
25-09-2006
Tesco is evil. This thread was started by the Tesco management.
RH Freeview
25-09-2006
How dare you! Everyone knows I'm the manager of Sainsburys!
MRMAGIC
25-09-2006
I hope all tesco's turn into a 2 story building...I visit rarely...so who knows might be one now!
mrvgarg
25-09-2006
"The biggest Tesco in Uk" in Slough is 2 floors. The 1st floor is car parking and a krispy kreme shop and some other shops. The second floor has some more shops and the main tesco store. The escaltors take the trolleys up and down.
PhilH36
25-09-2006
Just thought,South Shields Asda is another two-floor shop,again with the George clothing downstairs and the main shop upstairs.
Charnham
25-09-2006
dot know how unusal this is, but the Goerge section of my ASDA has been moved to a store close by, but branded Geroge, rather than ASDA.
IanDF
26-09-2006
Originally Posted by RH Freeview:
“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?”

Tesco Extra Durham (2 floors) has fancy travellators that tell you to take care when you get to the end of it. However, AFAICT Durham was originally built with a second floor rather than having it added later.

Incidentally, when ASDA at the Trafford Centre in Manchester became ASDA Walmart they did exactly the same thing re putting an extra floor in. Dont think think this worked very well. The ceiling on the ground floor is so low that it makes the store feel cramped.

I think a number of other ASDA stores may have gone this way as they are exactly the same original design (e.g. Metrocentre?)

IIRC ASDA Walmart at Milton Keynes is the biggest supermarket in the country (110,000sq ft). What's really scary is that this ranks as "average" on the Wal-Mart scale .
Last edited by IanDF : 26-09-2006 at 00:18
leeroybrownfors
26-09-2006
What a riveting thread.

Well done people, I'm proud.
Mort Rainey
26-09-2006
Originally Posted by leeroybrownfors:
“What a riveting thread.

Well done people, I'm proud.”

Why is it do you think that really boring subjects like this manage to get so many responses and yet some other much more interesting subjects barely get one page???

There have been a few Tesco threads today.
jen0607
26-09-2006
Barhill Tesco is on two levels......and still it doesn't sell what I'm looking for most of the time!
CHUTNEY
26-09-2006
Originally Posted by jen0607:
“Barhill Tesco is on two levels......and still it doesn't sell what I'm looking for most of the time!”

Exactly, the number of products that are marked 'discontinued' on the shelves is ridiculous. Whatever happened to choice?
leeroybrownfors
26-09-2006
Originally Posted by Mort Rainey:
“Why is it do you think that really boring subjects like this manage to get so many responses and yet some other much more interesting subjects barely get one page???

There have been a few Tesco threads today.”

I have absolutely no idea.

How is your post count so high after only being a member for 2-3 months?
Mort Rainey
26-09-2006
Originally Posted by leeroybrownfors:
“I have absolutely no idea.

How is your post count so high after only being a member for 2-3 months?”

I spend far too long on here, that's why!!!
The Markster
26-09-2006
Originally Posted by RH Freeview:
“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)”

i was at a tesco in durham a few weeks ago on 2 floors (only clothing was upstairs). surely durham isnt getting a 2nd 2 floor tesco
Sudo Nim
26-09-2006
Originally Posted by jaffered:
“high wycombe tesco is two floors is brilliant.

on the 1st floor you have all your food/drink etc. - all the usual stuff.

but on the second floor its like a big department store, everything from tellys, to kids toys, household appliances, laptops, phones, books, dvd's, stationary, household stuff (cutlery, vases, kitchen things, candles, etc.), make up things like hair straigtners... etc just everything! ”

Ah good to know it's still there, since I lived in wycombe until 1986 and definately remember the 2 storey Tescos
IanDF
26-09-2006
Originally Posted by The Markster:
“i was at a tesco in durham a few weeks ago on 2 floors (only clothing was upstairs). surely durham isnt getting a 2nd 2 floor tesco ”

Durham isnt, Aycliffe is

Tesco are by all accounts also wetting themselves to build a store in Darlington.
russnet
26-09-2006
Originally Posted by IanDF:
“IIRC ASDA Walmart at Milton Keynes is the biggest supermarket in the country (110,000sq ft). What's really scary is that this ranks as "average" on the Wal-Mart scale .”

Ahh my local supermarket. Although it looks big from the outside, depending on what you shop for, it's not as big as you think as the George section, entertainment section is completely sectioned off as it were from one side of the supermarket to the other.

It was busy the first couple of weeks but now its just the same as any other supermarket in MK. I Think from memory that this Asda has 60-70 checkouts!
maimou
26-09-2006
My last local supermarket was on two floors but didn't have an elevator or escalator or ramp or anything - just steps. The stupidest part was that almost all of the essentials - meat counter, fridges, cheese counter etc.. were upstairs. I was forever taking old ladies' lists and getting their groceries for them as they couldn't manage the steps. Whoever designed that shop is clearly an idiot!
googleking
26-09-2006
Lots of new-build large Tescos put up in the last few years were planned with the addition of adding a second floor at a later date in mind, over all or part of the store. They are now going ahead with it at lots of stores - two near me are Borehamwood and Osterley (West London). Some that don't have the second-floor support already, need to have it added in.

I presume they are going to fill the extra space with the expanded range that they just started selling through the Tesco Catalogue etc.

Getting to the second floor won't be a problem, as others have said quite a lot of supermarkets in London where the footprint is restricted already use travelators to get you up to the second floor. I can think of the Makro in East London somewhere, the former Safeway in Acton, the former Safeway in Kensington and the Sainsburys in Camden that have had travelators and appropriate travelator-going trolleys for years, perhaps 15-20 years some of them.
googleking
26-09-2006
Originally Posted by IanDF:
“IIRC ASDA Walmart at Milton Keynes is the biggest supermarket in the country (110,000sq ft). What's really scary is that this ranks as "average" on the Wal-Mart scale .”

Have you been to any Walmarts in the USA? One that I went to, either in Houston or Galveston (Texas anyway) actually had a McDonalds halfway round it, not at the front of the store, right there in the middle; seriously, the store was that big you needed a break.

Also check out Where the Heart Is starring Natalie Portman from a few years ago. Her boyfriend dumps her in a Walmart, and she decides to live there. She sleeps in a tent in the camping section at night, it's quite a good film. Anyway it demonstrates that some of these stores are so big you could live there for months!
pericom
26-09-2006
Originally Posted by IanDF:
“IIRC ASDA Walmart at Milton Keynes is the biggest supermarket in the country (110,000sq ft). What's really scary is that this ranks as "average" on the Wal-Mart scale .”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco

Tescos in Slough is the biggest in Europe at 190,000 sq ft.
Charnham
26-09-2006
I got a Tesco Extra near me, not sure of the exact size, but its easly the biggest ive ever been to. (obviously its small than the one in slough) but I see no reason why a supermartket needs to be bigger than my Extra
imno12u
26-09-2006
Originally Posted by PhilH36:
“As is Purley.”

I remember when I went there for the first time thinking it was unfeasibly large and completely outdid the Asda in Beddington (which would have once been considered mega-sized for a supermarket). Rumour has it that they're extending it further out into the car park if they can get planning permission which would basically make the majority of the area of Purley be Tesco Extra!
The Tesco Metro in Birmingham is also on two levels but for some incomprehensible reason they have a normal escalator instead of an inclined travelator so anyone with a trolley looking to purchase anything practical has to squeeze into the lift.
stupidityno1
26-09-2006
I've only been in one Tesco Extra as we're fortunate enough not to have one where I live (they are seeking planning permission for one right in the centre of town though).

I found it ridiculously large to the point where there was just too much choice. There comes a point where you have so much merchandise shoved into your face that it becomes like wallpaper - you just look past it all for the things you would normally buy. There was nothing nice about it either - it felt like a converted aircraft hangar with displays towering at three times my height. I can't imagine why anybody would desire one of these monsters to be built near them and, moreso, why they would want to shop in them.
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