the maoster:
They’ve demonstrated admirably over the years that in their endless pursuit of profit by ANY means that they don’t give a ■■■■ for anyones perceptions or opinions, or livelihoods come to that.
Looks like it’s come back to bite them in the arse, what goes around comes around:grin:
Any muppet can do trolley work? Tesco get what is long overdue! lol
Most of the non tesco lorrys i see on there work are owner driver and small outfits. I know in the run up to christmas its common but this has been for months.
Although from what we hear in thr news the public do serm to have fallrn out of love with tesco.
kr79:
from what we hear in the news the public do seem to have fallen out of love with tesco.
Theybe fallen in love with Aldi because it’s better & cheaper:lol:
I heard some bs that they wanted a 3 way split between their own, subbies & agency.
I was under the impression Stobarts deliver all Tesco’s stuff anyway,there is a massive RDC in Widnes and most of Stobarts units are dragging around Tesco’s trailers.
Peaky Blinder:
I was under the impression Stobarts deliver all Tesco’s stuff anyway,there is a massive RDC in Widnes and most of Stobarts units are dragging around Tesco’s trailers.
They are or were running chilled out of Newark for Tesco.
sco:
Heard a rumour that Stobart taking over most Tesco deliveries in the new year, anyone else heard this?
With a 92% fall in first-half profits it will be interesting to see where Tesco goes from here. Sky News
You can bet Tesco will now cuts costs down to the bone which in turn will affect all their staff, suppliers and contactors across the whole of the company.
Also Stobart Group swung to an H1 pretax loss of £8.8m, from the prior same period’s profit of £1.2m Stcck Market Wire
moomooland:
With a 92% fall in first-half profits
pimpdaddy, try putting a space between your smilies. You’ve been posting here long enough now. That way they actually work and we can all see for definite how joyous you are at Tesco’s downturn. 
Peaky Blinder:
I was under the impression Stobarts deliver all Tesco’s stuff anyway,there is a massive RDC in Widnes and most of Stobarts units are dragging around Tesco’s trailers.
If you
Think the Widnes site is big you should see what they have at Daventry!
At Widnes Stobart liveried trailers heavily out number the Tesco trailer. However at the other end of the M62 at Goole they mostly pull knackered old Tesco trailers.
Few people give a toss about Tesco losing money, or even going to the wall.
It’s the way attention is now being drawn to their regular dark-art style practices of skullduggery that is worrying OTHER retail outlets - because, of course, they’re ALL at it in some shape or form.
If they were not, then there would by now be a shining star out there recruiting all the cream drivers on actual full time contracts that pays similar rates to agencies on tankers. - ie £50k for 4 on 4 off 11 hour shifts.
Wot skullduggery? I hear you cry…
Getting supplier farmers to pay bribes - so their produce is not refused.
This, on it’s own is a very serious matter indeed. Perhaps someone has cocked up the accounts, by accidently including the amounts paid in such bribes into the “full gross operating profits”, when traditionally, it would be black market money, kept under the counter, and strictly off-book.
It’s not the money that’s causing the trouble - It’s the soft underbelly of supermarket cartel standard practices thus revealed! 
Did Warren Buffet lose a Giant’s squirts-worth of money? - Yes.
Will anyone at any supermarket go to jail? - No.
Will any shareholders lose out? - They already have, are, and will continue to do so.
Will any Tesco’s drivers lose out? - Who still doffs the T shirt, rather than works via a contractor/agency? “What could be lost, has already been lost” I’d argue.
Will any customers lose out? - I’d argue in Tesco’s case, the ones who’ve already decided “not to shop there” lose more than those who’ll not be put off spending their numerous vouchers, that ■■■■ all over other supermarkets for sheer amount of them. 
Makes me sound like a Tesco’s firms boy don’t it? - Well, much as I’d like a real and proper job - I’ll never likely get past the “bouncers” that are Wincantons, TRG, and now soon to be Stobarts… 
Reading and Lichfield DC-s have a driver shortage and they are recruiting drivers. Dunno, what about the rest.
selby newcomer:
Phil1979:
the maoster:
Phil1979:
No there isn’t. Half baked responses like that don’t help situations.What■■?
Do you somehow think that would be city investors read truck forums inbetween organising hostile takeovers?
Also, do you really think that any financial bad news for Tescos would be met with anything but a resounding “fantastic” from lorry drivers who’ve had their fill of bully boy tactics employed by Tesco and their ilk?
No. But incorrect insinuations like that won’t help people’s perceptions and opinions of a situation. Tesco may be bad to work for. They may have done everything people say on here. But surely you are not encouraging incorrect negative statements simply so you can revel in discontent?
You sound like a tabloids dream…
Tesco aint bad to work for imo, ive come across drivers that have been at tesco for 20+ years, thats gotta tell its own story. There are people who dont/wont like working for them but its the same in every job. If people say tesco are bad to work for then there must be some seriously cushy jobs about coz tesco aint the best job in the world but its by far not the worst.
The reason I would not like to work for them, their brainwash system. They need robots, not humans and their managers are simply stupid idiots (not all of them, about 75 percent in my opinion).
Dennisthemenace:
Reading and Lichfield DC-s have a driver shortage and they are recruiting drivers. Dunno, what about the rest.
Apparently Livingston are as well.
Does not matter if its tesco,sainsbury, or asda they have this twisted perception that there is never ending “growth”.
Their “share holders” believe that the next years forecast for 3.8 billion has to be reached,if the company only reaches 3.6 billion this somehow equates to a “loss”
This causes a “loss of confidence” in the stock market and it turns into a spiral of decline.
Aldi and Lidl are on the rise at the moment but they will have to run through the same cycle over time.
Greed is the problem.Tesco are too big and even the knobs that run it must have seen that the writing was on the wall (or maybe not)
The world has a shrinking economy and we all better get used to it.
Too many sat on their ■■■ doing sod all ,shuffling paper or “managing” the job (usually useless prats that know nothing but can tell you all about your job)and not enough folk who actually do any real work.
Upside down triangle loads of useless crap at the top and a reducing level of workers that support the “system” at the bottom
sco:
Heard a rumour that Stobart taking over most Tesco deliveries in the new year, anyone else heard this?
Meanwhile, back at the ranch!
I see since they’ve lost the f1 mercedes contract that a fewvofbthose lads have ended up on tesco work ,oh what a fall from grace 