Tesco is a Leicester institution. From what I managed to gather, it started out of a little jewish guy selling teabags on a street corner and is now a huuuuuuuuuuge superstore chain. Imagine a weird cross between Zellers, Canadian Tire, Future Shop and Loblaws and you get Tesco. It's a place where you can do your groceries, shop for clothes, get your tires aligned, buy oil for a lube job and buy a big screen TV all under one roof.
Food shopping, while different from my usual jaunts with Sara, was still nonetheless fun. I'd brought my camera with me and delighted in teasing Katy by taking pictures of everything and generally embarassing her :) My favourite quote of hers was oh dear lord, he's taking pictures of the cheese followed by a shake of her head. Heeheehee!
It still unnerves me that their grocery stores have a better scotch selection than the neighborhood SAQ. They also have tesco brand EVERYTHING! Tesco vodka, Tesco VSOP cognac, even Tesco Champagne!!!
I have photographic evidence of these outrageous claims, but it'll have to wait a bit until I can upload them. In the meantime, look for yourself here: http://www.tesco.com/
So basically, it's like Costco :P
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I do all that at costco :P
minus any hard stuff
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no, not really.
Costco is a warehouse-style store, with huuuuuuuuuuuuge bulk quantities. This is like a big loblaws, but on steroids.
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read above :)
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And here I am thinking that Loblaws is just a mini version of Costco. Have you seen some of the stuff at Loblaws? They've got packs of 999 toilet rolls.
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no I hadn't, but now that you mention it, ya, it's pretty much the same.
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