Tesco Lotus

[BrooklynKid]

-items placed on any shelf cause people are too lazy to return it to the right place

-the customers shopping there have a certain aura to them. Hard describe it but it makes you both thankful for your luck in life and uncomfortable at the same time.

i feel like i am back in the USA whenever i go into one.

Its a harsh dose of humanity but I think its good for those of us trapped in the CBD to go inside a Tesco Lotus every now and then.

Tesco= Mad Hood....

[petitechevre]

Big C is much better, low prices. the lightening is usualy better. better products and better item placing.

Tesco really makes you sick inside when u go there, i feel like i used to feel at 10yo when my dad brought me to a home-depot kind of place... h8ting life

[JetsetBkk]

Big C is much better, low prices. the lightening is usualy better. better products and better item placing....

Just don't buy any iced cakes from the front row. I saw a little kid standing on tiptoes licking all the icing off...

[Brigante7]

ghetto is a slang word in modern pop culture.

20 guys in the back of a pick up - thats ghetto.

a six pack of yogurt in the tissue paper section - thats ghetto.

a half eaten apple hidden behind the soy sauce display - thats ghetto.

a farang shopping with his teerak who is wearing his over sized 100 baht Thailand Elephant tshirt - thats ghetto.

mom shopping with her five kids under the age of 10 - thats ghetto.

So what exactly is modern pop culture?

Is it just an excuse to talk <deleted>?

[PapiRico]

List of supermarkets from nice to Ghetto in America and Thailand...

America Thailand (that I know)

1)Target 1)Tops

2)Whole Foods 2)Carrefour

3)Sears 3)Big C

4)Wal-Mart 4)Tesco Lotus

5)K-mart 5)7-11

6)Dollar General

7)Mom and Pops stores

8)Bodegas in Harlem

[onnut]

CBD means Central Business District. I assume he's in BKK. If the OP is American, he should know what a real getto looks like. Just check out any major American city. I have seen nothing like such conditions in Thailand.

eeeerrrr, have you ever heard of a SLUM.

plenty of them in Bangkok, open your eyes next time you are in a cab.

[bulmercke]

I went to my local Tesco-Lotus on the last holiday and it was packed with hordes of Thais aimlessly wandering around - touching everything - and seemingly spending very little - if anything.

It must drive the management crazy to have every isle clogged with these window shoppers every weekend and public holiday. Mind you the suki - hot pot restaurant was doing a roaring trade when I last dropped in.

All that looking, touching, clogging and wandering certainly seems to build an appetite!

[ratcatcher]

i cant think of one famous mexican

i must be uncultured

oh antonio banderas

Hugo Sanchez

Moctezuma II

Thalia

Paulina Rubio

Salma Hayek

Now name me a famous Thai known world wide please.....

Hey senor, what about me, Slim Carlos,? I got some pesos you know.

Famous Thai? Thaksin Shinawatra...... err, sorry you said famous not INFAMOUS.!

[paul700]

My local Tesco is near Lam Lukka. It is a big hypomarket and quite pleasant to walk around. My biggest problem is finding decent felang food. One would think that a British company would provide a decent variety of British food, especially in Bangkok.

Example. It is virtually impossible to find a good English pork sausage anywhere, unless you go to Villa Market in town.

[MSingh]

ghetto is a slang word in modern pop culture.

20 guys in the back of a pick up - thats ghetto.

a six pack of yogurt in the tissue paper section - thats ghetto.

a half eaten apple hidden behind the soy sauce display - thats ghetto.

a farang shopping with his teerak who is wearing his over sized 100 baht Thailand Elephant tshirt - thats ghetto.

mom shopping with her five kids under the age of 10 - thats ghetto.

I understand where you're coming from Fella even if many here don't seem to..

[gunnyd]

TL is good for electronics purchases and things that you are specifically there to get. As for regular grocery shopping ala Wal-Mart style Carrefour is the place to go. Gotta love the delivery tuk-tuk.

As for Ghetto, nope go to downtown East Los Angeles and shop at one of their "Ranch" markets. TL is on par with most Wal Marts.