Ok so i generally shop at Iceland or Tesco Metro (down Newbury high street), which i am aware aren't the best supermarkets, however they are the only two places I can easily walk to without resorting to using the local bus service. I'm aware that stock in Tesco Metro costs more than identical products in the megastore 2 miles up the hill, and I'm also aware that some cheaper products are not stocked in Tesco Metro, so customers will be forced to buy a more expensive alternative (value bin bags for instance...). Now that's a little bit of a piss-take seeing as they have pretty much taken over the entire UK shopping industry and make a million pounds profit every 37 seconds, but I can live with that. Something I cannot live with is the fact that Tesco produce is covered in barefaced lies. I can give you an example: On Sunday I emerged bleary eyed from my bedchamber, fragile and hungover - and upon finding my fridge empty undertook a shopping excursion, I decided Tesco Metro was the spot as I had a whopping £1.50 clubcard voucher and was determined to use it before it expired, unlike normal.
So I trot off there and buy a bunch of stuff including a pack of 6 standard tomatoes, the 'Display Until' date on the packet read 24th August 2010 and the 'Best Before' date said 28th August 2010, I used my fingers to calculate that as it was Sunday 22nd August I had at least 6 days in which to eat my 6 tomatoes, which worked out perfectly, one tomato a day keep the doctor away and all that...
So this morning I was rather pissed off to notice the biggest tomato in the packet was not only soft and leaking juice but the underside was fucking mouldy, and today's only the 25th!! Upon checking the remaining fruits I found they are all soft and over-ripe and will be very suprised if my remaining 3 tomatoes will last until Sunday without going bad too... Cheers Tesco, You Fucking Lied To Me!
Now one or two tomato's I don't really give a shit about, but this happens time and time again with allsorts of stuff: Ripen at home Peaches and Plums take ages to ripen then you have a window of maybe 12 hours to eat all the fruit before it goes bad, Tesco brand wafer thin ham never lasts the distance, and the bread!! Don't get me started on the fucking bread, I end up throwing out mouldy slices every single week - partly because they don't stock any loaves with a best before date more than 2-3 days in advance, (thanks you fuckers) and partly cos it always bloody goes off, airtight container or not.
So there it is, I fucking hate Tesco, because for all the money they earn / scam / cheat people out of, they still cannot work out when a tomato will go bad and put the relevent instructions on the packet. Fucking Chumps
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