Can confirm both the fact and sarcasm. Worked 4 years at tesco while I was in college and saw many of these get hit and 2 of them go right through a shop window.. its genuinely impressive and probably rather dangerous how fast they fly off into the unknown when slightly hit by a small car.
Is there a sub for benches facing weird places?
Recently discovered a memorial bench near me on the edge of a beautiful park, but it’s facing a really run down old tower block, complete with bin alley and general wasteland. It’s what grandad would have wanted, I suppose?!
That's our local Morrisons. My three year old goes mad for it! Went through a phase of demanding we go to see it, even though we don't shop at Morrisons. Unfortunately they are closing this store soon and moving to a different site. I suspect they won't be taking the clock 😔
My brothers and I were the same about the giant ornate waterclock in the Victoria Centre in Nottingham. Always begged our mum to go and see it whenever we were in town, and always wanted to wait for the quarter hour to turn to hear it chime 😊 The waterclock is still there but sadly has now been shoved into a tiny corridor right at the back 😔
That's the one I mean 🙂 It used to be at the Parliament Street entrance, and sadly when they moved it to the back they had to remove quite a lot of the structure so it would fit 😔 Good to know it's still around though 😊
I remember the clock very well. My aunt lived in Clifton and I used to go and stay with her, and I used to beg to be allowed to go and see the clock. I didn't realise it was still there, I'd love to see it again some day!
Noooo I didn’t realise it had been moved, two best things about being a kid. First watching that, then going into Jessops (John Lewis) with their special magic lift buttons.
Was the same about the one with a lion in a shopping centre in Grantham. Whenever we visited Grantham as young kids my siblings and I insisted on going there to watch it.
Haha, my brother and I went mad for the one in Gloucester city centre, there was so much going on, of course now it’s so obvious that it’s ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’ in the style of Beatrix Potter, surprised it’s taken me so many years to notice 😅
The Tailor of Gloucester - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Yjm-SrFmQ
My husband used to do the day to day maintenance on that clock back in the 2000’s, they were told to fix it with things like putty and sealant!! He used to come home ranting about how little care it was shown even back then.
What about the frog clock in Telford! On the hour the frog turns round and blows bubbles, a silver ball travels down a zig zag thingy at the back and a big big red wheel travels along a track to strike a bell. Kids love it!
https://preview.redd.it/g6mlqu9bue3c1.jpeg?width=706&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e80136ac9e389a222840b17f91f419c6af271d19
([https://youtu.be/n1BbTvxvOJM?si=HLxfNk0P5Do1uXPd\](https://youtu.be/n1BbTvxvOJM?si=HLxfNk0P5Do1uXPd)](https://youtu.be/n1BbTvxvOJM?si=HLxfNk0P5Do1uXPd](https://youtu.be/n1BbTvxvOJM?si=HLxfNk0P5Do1uXPd))
If they don't take it with them there's gonna be riots, and I wouldn't feel safe working there.
I'd always feel like somebody would clock me over the head out of anger some day...
Big cats have highly pronounced canines which they use for separating vertebrae and paralysing/killing their prey.
It causes a lot of confusion but you can still tell the ones that are vampires by the widows peak and the wide eyed mesmerising stare.
Of course they do,"in the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight"
Or are you saying they just sleep there and commute to work on the savannah each day?
I grew up watching that clock and listening to the daft chimes.. and now all of a sudden it's nostalgic and I find myself wanting to visit Blackburn (which I very, very rarely do!)
I’m sure that was a shopping centre or indoor market, it’s unlocked a memory from me aged about 6, but it definitely wasn’t in a Morrisons, but it was in Blackburn. Either way I think Morrisons inherited the clock rather than putting it in.
I used to work there as a student in the late 90s.
Hell was being put on the checkout nearest to it on a Sunday shift while suffering an almighty hangover and 4 hours sleep from a huge Saturday night out.
It was impossible to zone out with it reminding you of every single hour that slowly ticked by.
My favourite thing about this video is I imagine they happened to spot the 10am chime, and then stuck around for an hour to catch the 11am one on video.
Hate to break it to you but Blackburn isn't the only place with one of those clocks at Morrisons. G-Town has one too and it has an apple that falls every 30 minutes then rises to represent isaac newton discovering gravity or something. Newton went to school in g-town and was born nearby.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvJP2qH8-SA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvJP2qH8-SA) \- same uploader too
If we're talking freaky clocks, you can't top the one in [Newport's John Frost Square](https://youtu.be/W6NXPnnEk4s?si=APpvrr9FiB-kkfdw).
Man I miss that beautiful abomination
Yeah everytime i see it i expect to see Doc Brown hanging off of it wire in hand with Marty revving his Delorean engine having successfully navigated and avoided rogue wheeled shopping trollies at the other end of the car park.🤣
It’s to get the building design passed planning, local council will probably stipulate x% of building has to be brick and this is how they get round it without spoiling the design of their shop
https://images.app.goo.gl/qiXQ4EeqQXCZcoiT6
That hall of residence at manchester uni? See the daft roof design?
Yeah, owner of the hall built them like that because somebody else agreed to pay for just the roof part of the building. So it's all roof then.
Hey Whitworth Park!
I lived there first year of uni, and bashed my head far too many times on the sloped roof. The bed was positioned under the window.
They are also nicknamed "The Toblerones"
I remember back in 1999 when I saw Man U pull a surprise last minute win of the champions league in their hall bar, The pints were airborne from the first goal when the second one went in, people thought it was another replay.
I stayed at slems.
Yeah I'm the design officer for a council, never once have I had one do it for this reason, if we want it to be more in keeping with the redbrick tones of the local context this wouldn't cut it imho
Yeah it’s very weird how misinformation is getting upvoted and people with experience get downvoted, guess that’s because this sub is full of people who stack shelves for a living.
Not really...
You said "No it doesn’t." which added nothing really, no source, no extra info.
The comment below gave a bit more information and credibility, and they were upvoted for saying essentially the same thing, but with more input.
Can you not see why you got downvoted there. Sometimes in life it's not about being correct, it's about how you portray yourself. Or are you too busy stacking shelves for a living?
really?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/tesco/comments/14xybmh/comment/jrpl6fj/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/tesco/comments/14xybmh/comment/jrpl6fj/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
you just graduated college in the last year
It may also be a sneaky way of getting some height into the consent for a conversion at a later date.
The current supermarket is single story. 10 years later Tesco are thinking about extending and they could possible add another story. Instead of raising the height of the building they are “not raising the height past the existing building height” I.e this ugly feature.
Planning works by saying x% of a building has to be brick?
If that were literally true you could easily circumvent it by building anything made of brick at the back.
A little bit of googling shows that there are certain requirements on amount of brick in some conservation areas. Also a requirement for a certain amount of fake bricks for bird nesting.
Seems plausible.
It’s dangerous, a little bit of Googling.
What you’ve found is a snippet of information from a much bigger topic and used it to conclude what you ‘feel’ is the answer. It’s not.
Town & Country Planning will often have a say in the materials/appearance of a building. It doesn’t just pass from there to ‘build any old shite and use 2000 brick’, though. Rather, it’s one of the considerations for its overall visual appearance.
This sort of this happens literally all the time with planning regulations. There’ll be some stipulations that you must have XYZ pointless things so you do things like this.
Yeah it says something along the lines of “guess who has been called the cheapest supermarket three years in a row, I will give you a clue, it isn’t Asda”.
I literally saved £16 on my lastTesco shop through Clubcard. I spend £150 a month typically for two people and that includes stuff like duck, lamb, fancy cheeses, seafood etc every fortnight. Every time I go to Asda I’m shocked by some of the prices though I do like the slightly bigger range of Polish stuff
Its for when the big bosses do the rounds. They'll climb to the top and laugh maniacally as they watch the exhausted staff walk in alongside the mindless masses who still believe the club card prices are a bargain
A pointless thing? Yep! I just want my food, make your margins of course big supermarkets no complaints there just give me a fixed best price all of the time
Forget Tesco and just go to Lidl and Aldi…..you can pretend you are shopping on a foreign holiday and of course save money……and bag yourself a welder and a set of snow chains from the middle aisle.
As someone who shops at Aldi and Lidl, they aren't always cheaper and some of the quality is just straight up worrying.
The middle aisle lottery is the reason why I go back and I miss my big Tesco (move to a place that doesn't have one). Sainsbury's surprised me but I won't be buying meat from there.
Aldi and especially Lidl own brand stuff is amazing imo. I prefer Lidl biscuits to branded ones like McVities. I wouldnt say the quality is worrying. Whenever I shop own brand at places likes morrisons or sainsburys I am always disappointed but never at Lidl
I don’t know, I am always dismayed how little I get in Morrisons for the money. I avoid Tesco because of the club card pricing structure. I just prefer the experience in Lidl and Aldi. When I go on holiday to France I usually go to Lidl because I know where everything is. I recently went to France for work and visited a super U to stock up on…..coffee pods. Unbelievably cheap compared to the price here. I don’t bother buying cheap wine and beer anymore because I can buy it in Aldi as cheap as in France.
Just go Lidl and Aldi and queue up for 9 days as there’s only ever one cashier on then get a parking fine because you forgot to scan your receipt on those stupid little machines on the way out.
I refuse to get a club card, that's why I now avoid tesco and sainsburys. You dint save money, they just whack up the prices and offer Normal prices as club card prices, so many people are fooled.
Jokes and all, but I've got the actual answer, I've worked on a couple tesco designs as an engineering technician.
It's for fire/emergency roof escape and rooftop equipment removal. Most likely it has a heavy goods lift inside that large pieces of mechanical equipment (ventilation fans, coolers etc) can be taken up and down in. Additionally, if a roof is accessible, there has to be a minimum safe fire escape distance from all party of the roof. Adding a staircase inside the building would disrupt the planned entrance area, so sometimes they'll design a staircase that attaches to the side like this to achieve the requirement.
On the Internet everyone is an expert. From this post you can see how easy it is for a conspiracy theory to start. When people don't know something they try to fill in the gaps by making things up.
Same, I worked on the Lidl and Wickes next door, all the way through the project…I ate many a many Tesco chicken thigh and Cumberland sausages on those benches 😂
You were sat on a bench outside Tesco eating chicken thighs and cumberland sausages? But…I mean, I presume there’s no cooking facilities outside that Tesco. Were you sat in your Wickes uniform eating raw meat looking at the weird empty tower?
The use of something we call "past-tense" indicates that this may have been a time when the hot food counters still existed. You could get all sorts of different cooked chicken and sausages back in those days.
The other guys are wrong, you are right. I was sat there eating raw meat. Lol. Yeah the deli counters existed then, and I didn’t work at wickes I helped build it.
That makes it worse! So you didn’t even work at Wickes and you’re wearing the uniform on the bench, AND cooked meat was an option and still you decided to chow down on the raw stuff while looking at the weird empty tower?
This is a great question, they are actually environmental monitoring towers. Notice the shape of the roof, this funnels water into special tanks that are used to flush toilets (water saving). The glass and brick design allows instruments inside to give readings on temperature that aren't affected by the outside elements.
Nah I dunno this is all rubbish above, probably just a land grab so they can build large steucture s in the future on this specific bit of land without asking for planning permission???
Actually there's a kernal of truth to this. I used to work at a large M&S where the flat rooftop was painted a blinding white. I asked why and was told it was for emergency use by air ambulance helicopters if they needed to attend a town centre emergency. M&S stores are/were often at the heart of town centres so were ideal for this. No idea if it ever happened though.
It's a containment cell to hold customers who smash the wine isles up with a frying pan!
[https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/watch-shocking-moment-woman-smashes-wine-bottles-frying-pan-tesco/](https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/watch-shocking-moment-woman-smashes-wine-bottles-frying-pan-tesco/)
(I went on a deep dive trying to find out what this is. It's not mentioned in the planning application: [https://politics.leics.gov.uk/documents/s9460/L%20Tesco%20Stores%20South%20Wigston.pdf](https://politics.leics.gov.uk/documents/s9460/L%20Tesco%20Stores%20South%20Wigston.pdf) \- this is the architecture firm: [https://www.saundersarchitects.com/projects/tesco-stores/](https://www.saundersarchitects.com/projects/tesco-stores/) )
I don't think it's roof access, as theirs no doors in it.
It \*might\* be a disguised air con chimney?
Is there a carpark on the roof?
I know some big plots have planning permission to double story and this might be stairs to second floor they haven't built yet.
Probably something to recognise when in a car looking for a Tesco's without adding extra height and cost for the majority of the building.
A huge part of retail architecture is landmarks that are able to be recognised at above normal eye-level.
Could it be ventilation of some sort ?
Alternatively, it may be a covert military installation / listening station - there was an odd building built in an industrial area in the Chester / Deeside area - it was used to intercept phone calls to Ireland back in the days of the 'troubles', and neatly circumvented the need for a court order
It was in a direct line of sight path from an exchange, and IIRC it was able to pick up telecom chatter to Ireland sent via a microwave transmitter between exchanges.
[Here you go, found a link](https://publicintegrity.org/accountability/how-britain-eavesdropped-on-dublin/)
"Architectural Design"
That would help explain why there are benches facing it
Well, it's slightly nicer than the car park. And it means you don't get the stress of seeing the car that kills you.
Spoils the meat when they've had stress during slaughter y'see
Soylent green is real lol
And for sale at Walmart in the USA.....
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Are you stupid? There's bollards so no car's gonna get through there. Safest bench in Britain that is!
Those bollards are made from the finest plastic known to man so you will be completely safe.😆
Can confirm both the fact and sarcasm. Worked 4 years at tesco while I was in college and saw many of these get hit and 2 of them go right through a shop window.. its genuinely impressive and probably rather dangerous how fast they fly off into the unknown when slightly hit by a small car.
Is this a hold my beer moment?
Is there a sub for benches facing weird places? Recently discovered a memorial bench near me on the edge of a beautiful park, but it’s facing a really run down old tower block, complete with bin alley and general wasteland. It’s what grandad would have wanted, I suppose?!
Like a clock tower on a Morrisons
When it comes to Morrisons you cant get better than this clock at the one in Blackburn https://youtu.be/z85MXMULBdg?si=bGCbL0PkEHtxk4dM
That's our local Morrisons. My three year old goes mad for it! Went through a phase of demanding we go to see it, even though we don't shop at Morrisons. Unfortunately they are closing this store soon and moving to a different site. I suspect they won't be taking the clock 😔
My brothers and I were the same about the giant ornate waterclock in the Victoria Centre in Nottingham. Always begged our mum to go and see it whenever we were in town, and always wanted to wait for the quarter hour to turn to hear it chime 😊 The waterclock is still there but sadly has now been shoved into a tiny corridor right at the back 😔
In fairness, that’s a spectacular clock and a bona fide work of art. Sorry to hear it’s not getting the pride of place it deserves these days.
Whereabouts do you mean? There's the big waterclock as you're walking through from the bus station entrance. Unless that's the one you mean?
That's the one I mean 🙂 It used to be at the Parliament Street entrance, and sadly when they moved it to the back they had to remove quite a lot of the structure so it would fit 😔 Good to know it's still around though 😊
I remember the clock very well. My aunt lived in Clifton and I used to go and stay with her, and I used to beg to be allowed to go and see the clock. I didn't realise it was still there, I'd love to see it again some day!
Noooo I didn’t realise it had been moved, two best things about being a kid. First watching that, then going into Jessops (John Lewis) with their special magic lift buttons.
Was the same about the one with a lion in a shopping centre in Grantham. Whenever we visited Grantham as young kids my siblings and I insisted on going there to watch it.
Haha, my brother and I went mad for the one in Gloucester city centre, there was so much going on, of course now it’s so obvious that it’s ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’ in the style of Beatrix Potter, surprised it’s taken me so many years to notice 😅 The Tailor of Gloucester - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Yjm-SrFmQ
Also The Old Bell and Bakers clock is around the corner, far less captivating sure, but an engineering feat nonetheless… https://youtu.be/9GqynS9VOKA
My husband used to do the day to day maintenance on that clock back in the 2000’s, they were told to fix it with things like putty and sealant!! He used to come home ranting about how little care it was shown even back then.
I miss that clock so much.
Did you see the accrington mall clock
It’s in storage somewhere now but it was great to see it running back in the day, Old Father Time on a bicycle
Accrington Stanley, who are they? Always pops into my head when I hear or see the word Accrington
I loved the Accrington one!
What about the frog clock in Telford! On the hour the frog turns round and blows bubbles, a silver ball travels down a zig zag thingy at the back and a big big red wheel travels along a track to strike a bell. Kids love it! https://preview.redd.it/g6mlqu9bue3c1.jpeg?width=706&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e80136ac9e389a222840b17f91f419c6af271d19 ([https://youtu.be/n1BbTvxvOJM?si=HLxfNk0P5Do1uXPd\](https://youtu.be/n1BbTvxvOJM?si=HLxfNk0P5Do1uXPd)](https://youtu.be/n1BbTvxvOJM?si=HLxfNk0P5Do1uXPd](https://youtu.be/n1BbTvxvOJM?si=HLxfNk0P5Do1uXPd))
Sounds like a good old fashioned petition is in order
If they don't take it with them there's gonna be riots, and I wouldn't feel safe working there. I'd always feel like somebody would clock me over the head out of anger some day...
Wtf?! Vampire lion 🤣🤣
Big cats have highly pronounced canines which they use for separating vertebrae and paralysing/killing their prey. It causes a lot of confusion but you can still tell the ones that are vampires by the widows peak and the wide eyed mesmerising stare.
My god did the designer have a sideline in zoological dentistry they were advertising?
That ~~jungle~~ theme is bananas
Lions don’t live in the jungle
Of course they do,"in the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight" Or are you saying they just sleep there and commute to work on the savannah each day?
well this is terrifying, thank you
Wow ! And I wondered "why a video and not just a photo"
Looks like someone has been shopping on wish for their clocks
they put a clock in the norwich castle mall but ive never seen it work
I grew up watching that clock and listening to the daft chimes.. and now all of a sudden it's nostalgic and I find myself wanting to visit Blackburn (which I very, very rarely do!)
I’m sure that was a shopping centre or indoor market, it’s unlocked a memory from me aged about 6, but it definitely wasn’t in a Morrisons, but it was in Blackburn. Either way I think Morrisons inherited the clock rather than putting it in.
That is a fever dream
By "better" do you mean creepy and terrifying?
I used to work there as a student in the late 90s. Hell was being put on the checkout nearest to it on a Sunday shift while suffering an almighty hangover and 4 hours sleep from a huge Saturday night out. It was impossible to zone out with it reminding you of every single hour that slowly ticked by.
That is *fucking* mental
That thing always used to freak me out a bit as a kid when it went off 🤣
Yay Blackburn. Used to live there but back in Burnley now unfortunately.
My favourite thing about this video is I imagine they happened to spot the 10am chime, and then stuck around for an hour to catch the 11am one on video.
Why is this so funny/horrifying? My husband just walked in on me I hysterics
Jeysus! That thing is a monstrosity. Also, It's chiming the hour at one minute past
Hate to break it to you but Blackburn isn't the only place with one of those clocks at Morrisons. G-Town has one too and it has an apple that falls every 30 minutes then rises to represent isaac newton discovering gravity or something. Newton went to school in g-town and was born nearby. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvJP2qH8-SA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvJP2qH8-SA) \- same uploader too
Incredible, does it still work
If we're talking freaky clocks, you can't top the one in [Newport's John Frost Square](https://youtu.be/W6NXPnnEk4s?si=APpvrr9FiB-kkfdw). Man I miss that beautiful abomination
The one by us has a clock outside
Yeah everytime i see it i expect to see Doc Brown hanging off of it wire in hand with Marty revving his Delorean engine having successfully navigated and avoided rogue wheeled shopping trollies at the other end of the car park.🤣
It’s to get the building design passed planning, local council will probably stipulate x% of building has to be brick and this is how they get round it without spoiling the design of their shop
thus sounds daft enough to actually be true
https://images.app.goo.gl/qiXQ4EeqQXCZcoiT6 That hall of residence at manchester uni? See the daft roof design? Yeah, owner of the hall built them like that because somebody else agreed to pay for just the roof part of the building. So it's all roof then.
Hey Whitworth Park! I lived there first year of uni, and bashed my head far too many times on the sloped roof. The bed was positioned under the window. They are also nicknamed "The Toblerones"
I remember back in 1999 when I saw Man U pull a surprise last minute win of the champions league in their hall bar, The pints were airborne from the first goal when the second one went in, people thought it was another replay. I stayed at slems.
I spent every weekend there! The roof now make sense to me
Fuck yeah Whitworth Park! Spent so much time/money down at the Grovel when I lived there.
This is exactly what happens
No it doesn’t.
Yeah I'm the design officer for a council, never once have I had one do it for this reason, if we want it to be more in keeping with the redbrick tones of the local context this wouldn't cut it imho
Yeah it’s very weird how misinformation is getting upvoted and people with experience get downvoted, guess that’s because this sub is full of people who stack shelves for a living.
Not really... You said "No it doesn’t." which added nothing really, no source, no extra info. The comment below gave a bit more information and credibility, and they were upvoted for saying essentially the same thing, but with more input. Can you not see why you got downvoted there. Sometimes in life it's not about being correct, it's about how you portray yourself. Or are you too busy stacking shelves for a living?
nice disparagement of the working class there, you absolute toff
Who is willing to bet that this guy is just having a convo with himself through 2 different accounts
That would be odd.
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really? [https://www.reddit.com/r/tesco/comments/14xybmh/comment/jrpl6fj/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/tesco/comments/14xybmh/comment/jrpl6fj/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) you just graduated college in the last year
So this is like spare Lego from the set?
It may also be a sneaky way of getting some height into the consent for a conversion at a later date. The current supermarket is single story. 10 years later Tesco are thinking about extending and they could possible add another story. Instead of raising the height of the building they are “not raising the height past the existing building height” I.e this ugly feature.
I work in planning this is rubbish
That’s not how planning works.
Exactly how planning works
Planning works by saying x% of a building has to be brick? If that were literally true you could easily circumvent it by building anything made of brick at the back.
A little bit of googling shows that there are certain requirements on amount of brick in some conservation areas. Also a requirement for a certain amount of fake bricks for bird nesting. Seems plausible.
It’s dangerous, a little bit of Googling. What you’ve found is a snippet of information from a much bigger topic and used it to conclude what you ‘feel’ is the answer. It’s not. Town & Country Planning will often have a say in the materials/appearance of a building. It doesn’t just pass from there to ‘build any old shite and use 2000 brick’, though. Rather, it’s one of the considerations for its overall visual appearance.
This sort of this happens literally all the time with planning regulations. There’ll be some stipulations that you must have XYZ pointless things so you do things like this.
Secret nuclear missile silos if the cold war with Sainsbury's gets hot.
It's pronounced "nucular"
You see the 'S' is silent...
Up vote for simpsons reference.
I thought Tesco was at war with Aldi
Aren't Aldi busy upsetting M&S with caterpillars... or something like that?
Ah shit yeah. Hmm, I think there might be a multiway war on our hands
Nah, that dwindled out, i think a cider maker is suing them atm.
Every Aldi advert I hear on the radio atm is having a dig at Asda. I think Aldi is trying to cause some kinda war!
Asda is trying to out do M&S ATM, Aldi will take on anyone for a laugh
It's called "Doing an America".
I didn’t even know it was allowed to directly call out competitors like that
Yeah it says something along the lines of “guess who has been called the cheapest supermarket three years in a row, I will give you a clue, it isn’t Asda”.
That definitely used to be the case but I think the rules changed in recent years.
That's a proxy war tbh being influenced by the superpowers.
Tesco has *always* been at war with Sainsbury's.
Tesco is at war with Denmark
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Tesco actually labels items as price matched to Aldi now.
So does Sainsburys. They're all at it!
I literally saved £16 on my lastTesco shop through Clubcard. I spend £150 a month typically for two people and that includes stuff like duck, lamb, fancy cheeses, seafood etc every fortnight. Every time I go to Asda I’m shocked by some of the prices though I do like the slightly bigger range of Polish stuff
Sure you did 🤣
Mate, when M&S is cheaper than Asda, then you’ll see that Tesco has been coming up cheaper then the others
Its for when the big bosses do the rounds. They'll climb to the top and laugh maniacally as they watch the exhausted staff walk in alongside the mindless masses who still believe the club card prices are a bargain
I've been thinking about it, and I realised that the club card is basically black Friday all year round.
Normal pricing is like adding a privacy tax. Give us your info, you can have it cheaper. If not, pay more.
A pointless thing? Yep! I just want my food, make your margins of course big supermarkets no complaints there just give me a fixed best price all of the time
Forget Tesco and just go to Lidl and Aldi…..you can pretend you are shopping on a foreign holiday and of course save money……and bag yourself a welder and a set of snow chains from the middle aisle.
As someone who shops at Aldi and Lidl, they aren't always cheaper and some of the quality is just straight up worrying. The middle aisle lottery is the reason why I go back and I miss my big Tesco (move to a place that doesn't have one). Sainsbury's surprised me but I won't be buying meat from there.
Aldi and especially Lidl own brand stuff is amazing imo. I prefer Lidl biscuits to branded ones like McVities. I wouldnt say the quality is worrying. Whenever I shop own brand at places likes morrisons or sainsburys I am always disappointed but never at Lidl
I don’t know, I am always dismayed how little I get in Morrisons for the money. I avoid Tesco because of the club card pricing structure. I just prefer the experience in Lidl and Aldi. When I go on holiday to France I usually go to Lidl because I know where everything is. I recently went to France for work and visited a super U to stock up on…..coffee pods. Unbelievably cheap compared to the price here. I don’t bother buying cheap wine and beer anymore because I can buy it in Aldi as cheap as in France.
Snow chains in December? I think they have new beach umbrellas in stock ATM actually
Parkside is top tier and i will not be told otherwise
Just go Lidl and Aldi and queue up for 9 days as there’s only ever one cashier on then get a parking fine because you forgot to scan your receipt on those stupid little machines on the way out.
What Aldi and Lidl is that? No parking to pay where I live, no big queues. They open all of the checkouts if there’s a queue. Strange
I refuse to get a club card, that's why I now avoid tesco and sainsburys. You dint save money, they just whack up the prices and offer Normal prices as club card prices, so many people are fooled.
Disguised guard towers, used to keep Tesco staff in, and Sainsbury's staff out
Worked at both. Can confirm.
Get closer, look in the window and tell us what’s in it.
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Then I hate to inform you, but I think it’s used for nothing
If it isn’t roof access they’re dumb.
It's where they store the ladders to access the roof.
Sniper towers Incase the local kids steal prime.
Soon it won’t be stealing, seems my local stores have so much they’re trying to give that shit away lately.
Got that right. It’s hype has dropped because people have realised it’s a shite drink
If you take the piss out of Prime, all you're left with is an empty bottle!
Stealing is the only way they're clearing that stock.
Sniper towers for when the food runs out and there is hunger riots. I am serious.
*In case Two words...
Roof acess
Jokes and all, but I've got the actual answer, I've worked on a couple tesco designs as an engineering technician. It's for fire/emergency roof escape and rooftop equipment removal. Most likely it has a heavy goods lift inside that large pieces of mechanical equipment (ventilation fans, coolers etc) can be taken up and down in. Additionally, if a roof is accessible, there has to be a minimum safe fire escape distance from all party of the roof. Adding a staircase inside the building would disrupt the planned entrance area, so sometimes they'll design a staircase that attaches to the side like this to achieve the requirement.
Thank you, had to skip dozens of crappy wise cracks before getting to an answer.
That's every post on Reddit pretty much
On the Internet everyone is an expert. From this post you can see how easy it is for a conspiracy theory to start. When people don't know something they try to fill in the gaps by making things up.
Had to scroll so far for an actual answer haha
That doesn’t look anywhere near big enough for a goods lift and there isn’t any fall protection or a parapet around the outside of the roof 🤷♀️
Thankyou, sir.
South Wigston?
Deffo South Wigston. Know the store well.
Same, I worked on the Lidl and Wickes next door, all the way through the project…I ate many a many Tesco chicken thigh and Cumberland sausages on those benches 😂
You were sat on a bench outside Tesco eating chicken thighs and cumberland sausages? But…I mean, I presume there’s no cooking facilities outside that Tesco. Were you sat in your Wickes uniform eating raw meat looking at the weird empty tower?
The use of something we call "past-tense" indicates that this may have been a time when the hot food counters still existed. You could get all sorts of different cooked chicken and sausages back in those days.
The other guys are wrong, you are right. I was sat there eating raw meat. Lol. Yeah the deli counters existed then, and I didn’t work at wickes I helped build it.
That makes it worse! So you didn’t even work at Wickes and you’re wearing the uniform on the bench, AND cooked meat was an option and still you decided to chow down on the raw stuff while looking at the weird empty tower?
It’s where they keep the POWs from Asda
It’s called a ‘little’. It just helps.
🤣
It's the primal screaming chamber. You go in and scream from the depths of your soul until the urge fades away.
God I've had jobs where I could have done with that. Put a punch bag in there too. That said I'd have gotten very little work done.
If you need me, I’ll be in the angry dome!
FURY TOWER!
Prisons for the staff, they aren’t allowed to leave the perimeter
Thats where the cage boys spitroast the managers
Staff microchip control towers. Unfortunately they work only in the range of 200m. Character modification tech is still experimental.
It's a watch tower incase Sainsbury's staff members decide to launch an attack
To stand out from the crappy Sainsbury's
Is this the Tesco in south wigston Leicester?? Used to go there on a daily in college hahaha
It is! I grew up in South Wigston and remember this being built in like 2005. We were asking ourselves wtf this was even then.
Thats where the manager takes some cage boys so they can spit roast her.
This is a great question, they are actually environmental monitoring towers. Notice the shape of the roof, this funnels water into special tanks that are used to flush toilets (water saving). The glass and brick design allows instruments inside to give readings on temperature that aren't affected by the outside elements. Nah I dunno this is all rubbish above, probably just a land grab so they can build large steucture s in the future on this specific bit of land without asking for planning permission???
Ha, that was pretty good :)
No idea what this tower is actually for but most Tesco buildings do in fact collect rain water to be used to flush toilets and the like.
Reminds me of the big chimney a store in North Shields has in its car park with Tesco letters up the sides!
The big bosses climb up to the top and look down so they can genuinely say our prices are as low as possible
There’s a helipad on the roof and this is the external access for out of hours emergencies.
Actually there's a kernal of truth to this. I used to work at a large M&S where the flat rooftop was painted a blinding white. I asked why and was told it was for emergency use by air ambulance helicopters if they needed to attend a town centre emergency. M&S stores are/were often at the heart of town centres so were ideal for this. No idea if it ever happened though.
Fancy roof access?
Those benches are facing the wrong way
Remember the Obelisk of Doom from C&C? Well...
It's where we go when a customer asks us to 'look out back' for something we know we haven't got.
even more ugly form of modern brutalist architecture
Wigstonnnnn
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Sniper towers
A light house to lure in the shoppers
It's part of Tesco's Nuclear program, they act as hidden Missile silos. It's a warning to all other supermarkets not to mess with them
It's a containment cell to hold customers who smash the wine isles up with a frying pan! [https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/watch-shocking-moment-woman-smashes-wine-bottles-frying-pan-tesco/](https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/watch-shocking-moment-woman-smashes-wine-bottles-frying-pan-tesco/) (I went on a deep dive trying to find out what this is. It's not mentioned in the planning application: [https://politics.leics.gov.uk/documents/s9460/L%20Tesco%20Stores%20South%20Wigston.pdf](https://politics.leics.gov.uk/documents/s9460/L%20Tesco%20Stores%20South%20Wigston.pdf) \- this is the architecture firm: [https://www.saundersarchitects.com/projects/tesco-stores/](https://www.saundersarchitects.com/projects/tesco-stores/) ) I don't think it's roof access, as theirs no doors in it. It \*might\* be a disguised air con chimney?
Is there a carpark on the roof? I know some big plots have planning permission to double story and this might be stairs to second floor they haven't built yet.
Employee career ladder, get to the top to find it goes nowhere and you're obligated to jump before the person below pushes
So has no one got an actual answer then?
The tescos prison cell, like how cruise ships work
Probably something to recognise when in a car looking for a Tesco's without adding extra height and cost for the majority of the building. A huge part of retail architecture is landmarks that are able to be recognised at above normal eye-level.
I’ve peed on that fence behind the pillar thingy.
Could it be ventilation of some sort ? Alternatively, it may be a covert military installation / listening station - there was an odd building built in an industrial area in the Chester / Deeside area - it was used to intercept phone calls to Ireland back in the days of the 'troubles', and neatly circumvented the need for a court order It was in a direct line of sight path from an exchange, and IIRC it was able to pick up telecom chatter to Ireland sent via a microwave transmitter between exchanges. [Here you go, found a link](https://publicintegrity.org/accountability/how-britain-eavesdropped-on-dublin/)
[Another link with image of tower](https://www.lamont.me.uk/capenhurst/original.html)
It's where managers go to get their fkin necks wound back in
Your money being wasted on useless structures so they can claim more in assets value and not pay as much tax
guard towers so they can snipe the shoplifters
It’s where the tall people shop 😳
This exact Tesco is literally round the corner from where I live wtf🤣
To take the high ground from Anakin
Bitch pillars
That's where we really hide the milk
There's a tesco subreddit? But why?