Tesco Is Terrible,never Full Shelves

[brewsterbudgen]

Tesco Lotus is also rubbish in Bangkok. Far more choice in Villa or Foodland and worth travelling the extra distance (in both Pattaya and Bangkok).

[theoldgit]

Off topic but I was in Tescos a while back and took a photo of one of the box wines, to post on a TV wine thread. A staff lady comes running over saying "Can not, can not can not!" I was giving them some free advertisng but to her thinking disclosing that Tescos sold wine was some big secret.

Thai logic- I'll never understand, 555

Logic hell, she or any retailer does not want someone posting their prices , so your offer of "free" advertising doesn't cut it, here or anywhere else for that matter

I wasn't trying to post pricing info- if I wanted to do that I would simply photo graph the sales receipt. It is a Thai thing; the other day I was in Tops on Pattaya Klang and a guy had his parrot perched on his shopping cart. Two guys standing behind thought it was funny and took a photo. The security guard became agressive and demanded that the photo be deleted.

But I'm wasting my breath, expressing another point of view

I've also seen this restriction in the UK, other parts of Europe and the US.

[RED21]

It's the same here in Chiang Mai. They always have lack of stocked items. This wasn't the case years ago. Methinks, either the company's hurting or there is a poor management concerning the inventory.

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[jbrain]

It's the same here in Chiang Mai. They always have lack of stocked items. This wasn't the case years ago. Methinks, either the company's hurting or there is a poor management concerning the inventory.

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I doubt the company is hurting, unless anybody has seen their latest profit report (I haven't but would be interested to)?

Also, does anybody know how much control Tesco UK retains over day to day operations here, if any at all? Tesco UK have dropped the ball a bit recently, it would be interesting to know if this is having a knock effect here or not...?

Tom.

As far as I know Tesco - Lotus is since a few years wholly owned by Tesco UK through a shareholder construction with Ek-Chai distribution systems which is also owned by Tesco.

Thailand Tesco entered Thailand in 1998 and operates through 380 stores as part of a joint venture with Charoen Pokphand and named the operation "Tesco Lotus". This partnership was dissolved in 2003 when Charoen Pokphand sold its shares to Tesco. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco

[awayfoe]

The empty shelve syndrome is something every store in Thailand suffers from these days. The shop owners have the luxury that Thai people have the mai pen rai attitude, hence they don't give a fck about.

I have discussed this to lenght with a major supplier to Global house. He has a complete department at every Global house branch only for his products, yet half of the shelves are empty. When you would ask for a missing product they would look in the computer base and tell you there were 128 pieces in stock, yet they couldn't find any or if you were lucky they could locate some an hour later somewhere in a box hidden at the other side of the store.How this is possible is a question to me since every item you buy is scanned. Either people are stealing like rats or the stock management program is worthless, I think it's the latter.

I'm sure stores like Big C, Tesco, Global House or name any must be losing massive amounts of money on a daily base because of this.But they maybe don't care becasue they are spoiled because they have semi monopoly and are making money like dirtr anyway.

I posted a few months ago that one of the big wigs of big c extra visited the shop and went furious when he saw all the empty shelves while all the products were in the Bangkok warehouses waiting to be ordered.Then things changed within a few days.

That was about 2 months ago, I challenge you to go take a look at that shop today

Funny the thing that prompted my post was the fact that we had just been to the big c extra store and i said to my wife how full the shelves were and how fresh everything looked compared to tesco and that i thought we ought to start doing our weekly shop there insead , we also use the smaller stores like friendship and find them to be good as well,another thing i noticed about tesco was that there were piles of boxes all over the floors but no one there to put out the merchandise.

yes agree with you but big C is French ( Casino groupe ) it's why the management is correct

[RabC]

The empty shelve syndrome is something every store in Thailand suffers from these days. The shop owners have the luxury that Thai people have the mai pen rai attitude, hence they don't give a fck about.

I have discussed this to lenght with a major supplier to Global house. He has a complete department at every Global house branch only for his products, yet half of the shelves are empty. When you would ask for a missing product they would look in the computer base and tell you there were 128 pieces in stock, yet they couldn't find any or if you were lucky they could locate some an hour later somewhere in a box hidden at the other side of the store.How this is possible is a question to me since every item you buy is scanned. Either people are stealing like rats or the stock management program is worthless, I think it's the latter.

I'm sure stores like Big C, Tesco, Global House or name any must be losing massive amounts of money on a daily base because of this.But they maybe don't care becasue they are spoiled because they have semi monopoly and are making money like dirtr anyway.

I posted a few months ago that one of the big wigs of big c extra visited the shop and went furious when he saw all the empty shelves while all the products were in the Bangkok warehouses waiting to be ordered.Then things changed within a few days.

That was about 2 months ago, I challenge you to go take a look at that shop today

Funny the thing that prompted my post was the fact that we had just been to the big c extra store and i said to my wife how full the shelves were and how fresh everything looked compared to tesco and that i thought we ought to start doing our weekly shop there insead , we also use the smaller stores like friendship and find them to be good as well,another thing i noticed about tesco was that there were piles of boxes all over the floors but no one there to put out the merchandise.

yes agree with you but big C is French ( Casino groupe ) it's why the management is correct

The perfect reason for any red blooded Englishman to avoid them.......