[Food] Jack's

AmexRuislip · Sep 21, 2018

Just seen this preview of Tescos new discount supermarket on This Morning, called Jack's.
Raving on how they're saving the customer money, by keeping produce still in its containers, that it arrived in, and basic labelling, not adding any cost to the customer.
Aren't Lidls and Aldi already doing this? (other stores are available)

We've had 'bogof'
Now we're being subjected to 'wigig' :shootself

Two Professors · Sep 21, 2018

Don't know why,but I have a suspicion that Aldi will do a better job, as they've been at it longer.Good luck to them for trying though.

Billy the Fish · Sep 21, 2018

I wish the government would ban all unnecessary packaging on food.

When I'm abroad in Europe I love going into the supermarket and picking from the piles of fresh fruit and veg. Their fish and meat counters are amazing as well, so much fresher than the packet stuff you get over here.

Seasidesage · Sep 21, 2018

Just responding to their loss of market share to the discount chains. It's a sensible business reaction

rippleman · Sep 21, 2018

Billy the Fish said:
I wish the government would ban all unnecessary packaging on food.

When I'm abroad in Europe I love going into the supermarket and picking from the piles of fresh fruit and veg. Their fish and meat counters are amazing as well, so much fresher than the packet stuff you get over here.

Agreed.

I bought some chocolate fudge from M&S yesterday (whole range of chocs for £2 a go).

The fudge was in a sealed foiled bag, contained in a cardboard box with plastic film outer casing. Totally unnecessary.

Icy Gull · Sep 21, 2018

rippleman said:
Agreed.

I bought some chocolate fudge from M&S yesterday (whole range of chocs for £2 a go).

The fudge was in a sealed foiled bag, contained in a cardboard box with plastic film outer casing. Totally unnecessary.

Seems apt to post this in response to this observation :smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwK9aEpaG_o

Bozza · Sep 21, 2018

rippleman said:
Agreed.

I bought some chocolate fudge from M&S yesterday (whole range of chocs for £2 a go).

The fudge was in a sealed foiled bag, contained in a cardboard box with plastic film outer casing. Totally unnecessary.

Keeping the fudge packers in a job though.

AmexRuislip · Sep 21, 2018

Bozza said:
Keeping the fudge packers in a job though.

Oh god, you had to bring 'in your endo' into the subject :lolol:

Gazwag · Sep 21, 2018

rippleman said:
Agreed.

I bought some chocolate fudge from M&S yesterday (whole range of chocs for £2 a go).

The fudge was in a sealed foiled bag, contained in a cardboard box with plastic film outer casing. Totally unnecessary.

On the other side of the scale you always see bread rolls and cakes/cookies on the shelves with no packaging, I would never buy these after 1,000 customers before me had coughed, sneezed and touched those food items. I'm amazed supermarkets can sell these foodstuff like that.

AmexRuislip · Sep 21, 2018

Gazwag said:
On the other side of the scale you always see bread rolls and cakes/cookies on the shelves with no packaging, I would never buy these after 1,000 customers before me had coughed, sneezed and touched those food items. I'm amazed supermarkets can sell these foodstuff like that.

Exactly right, you would've thought the M&S food gurus might have got that one sorted.
A new range of cakes that comes with added cough and bile!

Questions · Sep 21, 2018

AmexRuislip said:
Exactly right, you would've thought the M&S food gurus might have got that one sorted.
A new range of cakes that comes with added cough and bile!

I asked a young girl in Morrisons if they stocked ‘dead fly bisciuts’ the other day. She looked at me like I was mad. I mean what do they call them nowadays then ?

schmunk · Sep 21, 2018

Questions said:
I asked a young girl in Morrisons if they stocked ‘dead fly bisciuts’ the other day. She looked at me like I was mad. I mean what do they call them nowadays then ?

Gary Baldy

LlcoolJ · Sep 21, 2018

Gazwag said:
On the other side of the scale you always see bread rolls and cakes/cookies on the shelves with no packaging, I would never buy these after 1,000 customers before me had coughed, sneezed and touched those food items. I'm amazed supermarkets can sell these foodstuff like that.

Thoughts like that never even cross my mind. What a strange thing to worry about. I take it pick and mix sweets, unpackaged vegetables and anything else that someone might have breathed near are off the menu too?

Jimmehh · Sep 21, 2018

Questions said:
I asked a young girl in Morrisons if they stocked ‘dead fly bisciuts’ the other day. She looked at me like I was mad. I mean what do they call them nowadays then ?

I'm going to throw this out there, but it might be called a 'Dead Fly Biscuit' :lolol:

Thunder Bolt · Sep 21, 2018

AmexRuislip said:
Just seen this preview of Tescos new discount supermarket on This Morning, called Jack's.
Raving on how they're saving the customer money, by keeping produce still in its containers, that it arrived in, and basic labelling, not adding any cost to the customer.
Aren't Lidls and Aldi already doing this? (other stores are available)

We've had 'bogof'
Now we're being subjected to 'wigig'

Lidls certainly do. I saw someone on Breakfast Tv yesterday talking about this, saying it will be local produce, but Lidls also do that. British produce is marked as such.

LlcoolJ · Sep 21, 2018

If it's supposed to be as good quality but cheaper than Tesco's then why should anyone continue to shop at Tesco's? Have they thought this one through? [emoji23]

Gazwag · Sep 21, 2018

LlcoolJ said:
Thoughts like that never even cross my mind. What a strange thing to worry about. I take it pick and mix sweets, unpackaged vegetables and anything else that someone might have breathed near are off the menu too?

Pick and mix sweets are behind covers which are lifted and fruit and veg are normally washed/peeled before eating. I'm quite happy to lift up a lid but a donut sitting on an open shelf at head height, nah.

It probably goes back to a barbecue we did for lots of our neighbours 10 years or so ago. One neighbour had her grandchildren visiting so they came as well. There were a load of freshly cooked sausages and burgers as well as salad etc on the table waiting to be eaten. One grandchild goes to the table and while looking at the meat does a massive sneeze. As you can imagine snot went everywhere.

Would you eat peanuts at a bar which you didn't see placed in front of you.

Tom Hark Preston Park · Sep 21, 2018

AmexRuislip said:
Just seen this preview of Tescos new discount supermarket on This Morning, called Jack's.
Raving on how they're saving the customer money, by keeping produce still in its containers, that it arrived in, and basic labelling, not adding any cost to the customer.
Aren't Lidls and Aldi already doing this?

It's patently a half-arsed knee-jerk attempt to stem the losses from LIDL and ALDI by a panicked management who need to be seen to be doing SOMETHING. Almost certainly doomed to failure unless they go large and consistently undercut the two afore-mentioned masters of the retail art. It's about as rubbish as all ye olde established UK brewers hopelessly rushing craft beers to market as their market share gets increasingly dented. Harveys pitifully-insipid IPA is a prime example.

BLOCK F · Sep 21, 2018

LlcoolJ said:
If it's supposed to be as good quality but cheaper than Tesco's then why should anyone continue to shop at Tesco's? Have they thought this one through? [emoji23]

Jacks will only stock a very limited range of lines, unlike the vast choice you get in the Tesco stores.

BLOCK F · Sep 21, 2018

Tom Hark said:
It's patently a half-arsed knee-jerk attempt to stem the losses from LIDL and ALDI by a panicked management who need to be seen to be doing SOMETHING. Almost certainly doomed to failure unless they go large and consistently undercut the two afore-mentioned masters of the retail art. It's about as rubbish as all ye olde established UK brewers hopelessly rushing craft beers to market as their market share gets increasingly dented. Harveys pitifully-insipid IPA is a prime example.

Can't agree with your 'half-arsed and knee-jerk' comments.
Tesco management under the leadership of 'Drastic Dave Lewis' have gone a long way to restore the company's reputation and so far have made a good fist of it as the profits and share price show.I don't think panic is in his vocabulary, but yes, retail has changed and the discounters have nicked a substantial amount of market share from the established operators.It remains to be seen how successful the rollout of this new format will be, but the management obviously think it is worth a go.
And yes, I am a shareholder in Tesco!

Can't speak for Harvey's IPA as I have never tried it. Of the several so called craft beers I have tried, I reckon only a small percentage are worth the price charged, but hey-ho each to their own. :cheers:

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