Tesco

Tesco faces defeat on store plans

BBC News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

A proposed new Tesco store in southern Scotland is recommended for refusal by planning officers.

Tesco Ireland seeks to raise €70m in property sell-off

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

TESCO IRELAND is planning to offload a number of its properties here in a move to generate up to €70 million for future expansion.

Tesco in more property deals

Financial Time (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Tesco has bolstered its cash position with a £605m sale and leaseback of properties to insurers and pension funds. The decision to use the vast portfolio of...

Tesco security guard tried to eject blind pensioner for bringing guide dog in

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday

A blind pensioner was ordered to leave a Tesco store because security guards took exception to his guide dog.

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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

Empyrean Energy, the oil and gas exploration company, said that its pilot hole at the Kowalik 1H well, in the Sugarloaf prospect in Texas, had been logged and plugged back and the logs from the well had shown the expected correlation to previous wells. Plugging back involves putting cement in or near the bottom of a well to exclude water, or to allow production from a geological formation that has...

Tesco car-jack terror for OAP

Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | yesterday

A PENSIONER has been subjected to an attempted car-jacking in Penicuik.

• Tesco car-jack terror for OAP - News Scotsman

Tesco delivery driver sues customer after twisting his ankle on driveway | Mail Online

Safety Joke (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tesco delivery driver sues customer after twisting his ankle on driveway | Mail Online : "A Tesco delivery driver is suing one of the supermarket's customers after injuring an ankle while dropping off groceries at his home. Estate agent manager Paul Singleton, 40, has used the company's online shopping facility for years and regularly spends £250 a time. Last April the delivery man Andrew Britton mentioned...

• Tesco delivery driver sues customer after twisting his ankle on driveway - Daily Mail on Sunday
• Tesco delivery driver sues customer after twisting his ankle on driveway - Daily Mail
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Tesco home deliveryman seeks compensation from customer

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008

A Tesco customer is being pursued for compensation by one of the supermarket chain's home deliverymen months after he slipped on a driveway during a routine dropoff.

Tesco sells property as it eyes expansion

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tesco PLC said Thursday that it has sold $1.1 billion worth of property in leaseback deals, filling the coffers of Britain's biggest grocer for potential further overseas expansion.

The Anti-Tesco

StroudGreen.org - All Discussions (Free subscription) | yesterday

This isn't terribly local, but close enough. The last few weeks I've been buying our groceries from Yasar Halim on Green Lanes. We discovered it purely by accident, but now I go out of my way to shop there. Half of the store is a fantastic bakery. They do lots of tasty Turkish/Mediterranean things like boreks, but also good, cheap bread. Every time I've been in there, it was busy. They must have a...

Tesco Porter's Five Force Model

Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | yesterday

INTRODUCTION[1] Founded in 1956, Tesco has come a long way since its first-opened store in a converted cinema in Maldon. Today, 51 years after it was founded by Sir Jack Cohen, TESCO is Britain’s leading retailer. Despite being a market leader, the organisation is not yet resting on its laurels...

Tesco signs GBP605 mln sale, leaseback deals

Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- British supermarket chain Tesco said that it has signed four sale & leaseback transactions involving 605 million pounds of property assets. Four separate purchasers were involved and the deals included 13 Tesco stores, accounting for approximately 2.4% of the value of the U.K. stores portfolio, and a distribution centre. The four purchasers were the Universities Superannuation...

Stabbing at the Tesco...

StroudGreen.org - All Discussions (Free subscription) | yesterday

On the way home tonight, I stopped in at the Tesco - there was a police cordon and a couple of cop cars outside, and the main door was shut. They were letting people in around the side, and the security guard said that the Big Issue man had been stabbed - by an old lady?! Anyone know any more? A bit freaky, and hope Big Issue man is okay.

Tesco Selects RedPrairie´s Enterprise Workforce Management Solution for Managing Its Global Store ..

EuroInvestor.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008

RedPrairie Corporation , a world leading consumer driven optimisation company, announced today that Tesco , one.. - Read more

• Tesco Selects RedPrairie's Enterprise Workforce Management Solution for Managing Its Global Store Staff of 350,000 Employees - The Earth Times Online Newspaper

More tomfoolery with the credit cards....this time with Tesco MC [Robin Myers]

Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008

I took advantage of Tesco's 12 month interest free period and paid in full the balance at the end of the offer period. There is no dispute about that. So I use the card this month for new purchases. I receive my statement in which I have made GBP175.40 of new purchases and I am charged GBP9.46 for that so called privilege. I called their so called 0845 customer help line this evening (vonage has yet...