Posts Tagged ‘tesco’

Microsoft tries the “Tesco strategy”

It seems like everyone and his dog has some sort of loyalty scheme nowadays. You can collect points when you shop in your local supermarket, when you take a trip in a plane and now, even when you Microsoft’s Live Search. It’s a scheme called SearchPerks and is designed to...

“Tesco fixed my car”

If you look at the newspaper today, you’ll see that Tesco is offering to pay for? any damage the contaminated fuel it may have sold from it’s pumps may have caused. They are doing this, even though the source of the contamination has nothing to do with them, they just...

Sensationalism gets to me

I just hate people who warp and twist facts in the interest of putting a story together. I suppose I’m a bit of a pedant sometimes; if someone says “Ah .. it was three quarters full”, I’m pretty quick in pointing out “Well actually, it’s only 60% full, which is...

Issue with IE 7

One problem with running Beta software is that other people don’t seem to know about it. Tried checking my Tesco Accounts this morning, and they told me I should switch to a recent version of my browser and recommended I upgrade to IE 6.0 ...

Tesco love

I was reading the FT this morning on my flight to the Isle of Man and there was some sort of comment on Tesco on practically every page. Seems that following a brilliant Christmas, they now rule an estimated 29% of the grocery market. There was even a cartoon with...

Living in a Tesco world ..

The agility with which Tesco penetrates new markets is astounding! Just today I popped out to get some ink for my printer and I found Tesco branded cartridges clones which were 25% cheaper than the official HP ones. I bought one, paid for it with my Tesco platinum card, and...

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