Working for Tesco

Advantages: Good pay, great benefits package
Disadvantages: Crap uniform, crap managers

...package has to be one of the best things about working for Tesco, and makes it worth sticking with the company. Privilegecard - You get a Privilegecard after working with Tesco for a year. The card acts as your Tesco ClubCard, earning you 1 point per £ on all your shopping at Tesco, as well as acting as a discount card, giving you a 10% discount when you spend £3 or more at Tesco. The discount can be used on shopping up to the value of £6750 in any one year (1st April to 31st March), allowing you to save up to £675 a year off your shopping. If you are not the person in your household who does the shopping, you can transfer the card into your partners name, so that they can claim the discount. Shares in Success - After working for Tesco for a year, you are eligible for the Shares in Success scheme. This is a scheme in which Tesco gives you...

tia_bailey 09.06.2006 (26.06.2006) · Read review
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Tesco trains

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: As good as original brands

...Santa bought my four year old the lovely mountain train set made by tesco. He desperately wanted a train set and when we were in Toysrus we would look at the brio sets and then look around the other toys. It was not unitl near to Christmas that I actually decided to look at the price. I was horrified to discover how expensive brio train sets were. I looked in several other shops ELC etc but they too were too expensive. I found a cheap set in ASDA but it did not seem to be compatabile with brio or even near to the quality, so I decided not to buy the train set from there either. When we were shopping in Tescos my son pointed out the train sets and took a real interest in a lovely mpuntain train set which had had a wooden train set, a little bridge, wooden animals, trees, tunnels, trains, carriages,sign and mountains all for £24...

classicmum 16.02.2006 · Read review
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Tescos

Advantages: Great Value
Disadvantages: Puts local businesses under stress

...Tescos is King of all supermarkets and I think that they are best for value in the long term or in the big shop as well. As a student I have found that the tesco down the road from me is my new home, as opposed to the Centre up the road that can be so expensive some times in comparison. Tescos sells your average grocerys as well as dvd's and electricals, clothes, office supplies, tobacco and confectionary, alcohol, cards for special occassions and toys. Everything you need seems to almost be in one store, there is also a tesco value line that provides Tescos own products at a cheaper price. The staff in Tescos are always friendly where I come from in Cookstown, they always help you find something if your not quite sure where it is and always strike up a pleasant conversation at the help desk, though I understand that some...

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Tesco supermarket

Advantages: A wide variety of well priced goods
Disadvantages: Toilets maybe need cleaning a little more often

...Tesco plc over the years has become a household name. A gentleman by the name of Jack Cohen who hailed from East London founded the company in 1919. The Tesco brand first appeared in 1924,when Jack Cohen bought a shipment of tea from T.E.Stockwell..he combined the first three letters of the name (TES) along with the first tow letters of his own surname (CO ) and formed the word `Tesco`. Tesco started life as a retailer of food and drink,but recent years have seen Tesco diversify into other areas such as clothing,consumer electronics,financial services,CD`s ,music downloads,Internet service,telecoms,health insurance,dental plans,software and DVD`s. In 2008 Tesco became the World`s fourth largest retailer,with profits exceeding 2 billion pounds. The Tesco company employ over 273,000 people. The Different styles of Tesco : Tesco...

Sarahjh1 07.11.2008 · Read review
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Surfacing (verb): To become apparent; To come to light...

Advantages: A good follow-up to the breakthrough "Fumbling Toward Ectsasy"
Disadvantages: A bit samey. A little too introspective. Some weaker tracks.

...INTRODUCTION Having at last emerged into the international spotlight with her previous album ? Fumbling Toward Ecstasy ? Sarah McLachlan consolidated her growing reputation as a stand-out singer songwriter with her aptly named follow-up ? ?Surfacing?. As a long standing fan starved of new material for four years, I had great expectations. It was time to find out whether the raw but sparkling gem of talent revealed in her debut ?Touch? (1988), refined with ?Solace? (1991), and polished with the excellent Fumbling Toward Ecstasy in 1993, had developed into the perfect diamond her fans hoped for - or whether the weight of expectation and newfound attention would prove too heavy a crown to wear. THE ALBUM Surfacing, her fourth studio effort, was to go on to become her best selling album, selling over 11 million copies...

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Review of Surfacing [ECD] - Sarah McLachlan

Suffocating on Surfacing

Advantages: Lush production; "I Love You"; "Sweet Surrender"; "Full of Grace".
Disadvantages: McLachlan's most conventional, unexciting, uninspired, monotonous, dangerously anesthetizing disc; lyric-less booklet.

...I hate to downrate anything by Canadian songstress Sarah McLachlan, but "Surfacing" (1997) simply pales against the rest of her impressive discography. Might she have been submerged for far too long before coming up for air to record this? "Surfacing" feels as if it's stuck in one deep, long groove, and "Suffocating" might have been a more apt title. Despite what producer Pierre Marchand and Sarah say about "Solace" (an album of "unfinished" songs), that sophomore effort from 1991 far outstrips this later one in terms of novelty, excitement and inspiration. While the lush production values equal those of "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" ("FTE", 1993), "Surfacing" lacks FTE's originality and diversity. To top it all, one cut was already out there before "Surfacing", having been released on the (mostly) wonderful Canadian "Rarities, B...

zerbine28 05.04.2003 · Read review
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All aboard the Tesco train

Advantages: Cheap, well made, compatible with other brands
Disadvantages: none i can see

...I have 6 young nephews all are train mad and the all have the ELC train sets. You know the ones I mean wooden tracks and engines that cost a fortune. Well come Chritmas and birthdays buying for them all is a nightmare so i usually end up getting them additions to their trainsets but find the early learning ones a bit pricy, a single engine is around £5 and a set of 4 wooden people will se you back £4. So while doing me grocery shopping I decided to stop off at the toy secion in Tesco to see if there was anything suitable for nephew who was turning 3 years old. It was here I discovered that Tesco do a wooden train set which is compatible with other brands. After very close inspection I decided it looked just as good quality as the ELC and for a fraction of the price. On this occasion I bought a zoo train which included an engine, 3...

tarara 05.12.2003 · Read review
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chho choo lets play with our tesco wooden train

Advantages: cheaper than brio
Disadvantages: nearly as good as brio

...Tesco wooden train set. Imagine a little boy kneeling on the floor his head down and his fair hair shining he is saying chooo choo brrrrrrrrrmmmmmm . This boy call him Adrian is so involved in his train set he is pushing the wooden trains around and joining carriages and trucks to the engine. He reaches into the plastic tub we store the train set in for another piece of track it is wooden track this piece is a straight section. Adrian fits this section in it fits with ends like a jigsaw piece mmm that's not right , he reaches for a curved piece with trying to fit this he makes his circle bigger now he sits on floor head down bottom in the air chooooooooo choooooooo Adrian is now trying to fit a bridge in the track so that his trains can go over and her can push a car under it. The wooden train set Adrian is playing with is...

mumsymary 15.10.2005 (14.12.2006) · Read review
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TESCO

Advantages: Friendlly people, easy job
Disadvantages: pay,staff benefits

...Having worked for Tesco at some point I have an employee and also a customer's perspective. I was employed when I was 16; it started off as part time work because I was at college. This suited me because my hours were convenient, the pay was good - above the minimum wage, overtime was available at the drop of a hat and it was a really easy job. For a young person the training was a breeze - everything was easy to pick up and the local store where I worked had friendly older women to guide me through all the millions of questions I asked. (Best way to learn - asking all the questions under the sun) I was initially trained on checkouts - the system was old but manageable and the main focus was being polite to your customer, offering to pack their bags, building rapport and of course SMILING. TESCO do monthly checks on you...

stephyfishy 12.11.2007 · Read review
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Scratch Underneath the Surface

Advantages: Jaw-Dropping Lyricism, Awesome Subject Matter, Outstanding Production
Disadvantages: TOO Many Skits, some weaker production

...One of the greatest emcees in the history of hip-hop, in this reviewer's humble opinion is The Genius a.k.a. Gza, from the Wu-Tang Clan. His lyrics are complex, well-written, thoughtful, intelligent, and not to mention, loaded with metaphors and similes. His debut album, which predates the Wu-Tang Clan debut, is 1991's Words from the Genius. Though on-point lyricall, this album suffered due to poor sales and the fact that it is extremely rare, and underrated. Gza didn't strike gold until his sophomore LP, Liquid Swords hit stores in 1995. Backed by step-brother Rza and his unique and fabulous production methods, this is considered to be one of the greatest albums in Hip-Hop history. It was only a matter of time before the Genius would return with a third album, and he does with Beneath the Surface, in 1999... Track List & Rating...

bigdiship-hop 10.08.2004 · Read review
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