Tesco

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. It was an unusually hot summer afternoon when customers started noticing something strange at Tesco. A delivery driver kept arriving with boxes wrapped in old newspapers from the 1980s. Customers began joking that maybe it was a time-travel experiment gone wrong. Soon enough, an elderly gentleman approached the counter, asking for ‘two packets of crisps and some milk, please’. It turned out he’d accidentally been delivered to the wrong decade—and everyone had a good laugh.

2. It was an unusually quiet morning when a Tesco employee noticed something peculiar on the store’s intercom: ‘Attention, shoppers! The tomatoes are now officially riper than your average checkout clerk.’ The announcement caused quite a stir among customers, who started comparing tomato ripeness with staff attitudes. A regular remarked, 'These tomatoes must be from Thailand—softer than our manager!' Soon enough, everyone in line was laughing, and the usually tense atmosphere turned into a friendly banter. The day ended with employees secretly placing their best-looking tomatoes near the cash registers.

3. It was an unusually cold winter night when a Tesco delivery driver asked himself: ‘Why does my truck always seem to run out of gas right outside this place?’ Finally, he noticed an old man standing nearby, tapping his foot impatiently and muttering, 'Tesco’s late again!' It turned out the man's house was directly across from the abandoned warehouse where the gas station used to be.

4. It was a typically busy Saturday morning when a Tesco cashier asked herself: ‘Why do I always seem to ring up exactly seven bags of chips?’ She shrugged it off until her supervisor noticed too. On their break, they joked that maybe there’s an invisible customer who only buys chips in sevens. The next day, an old lady approached the counter with a smile and said, ‘I heard you were selling lucky packets today.’ Turned out she just wanted to buy one bag—she’d been buying from them for years.