The evil one has arrived (well some time ago actually)
Our local store in Czestochowa
This Cargo is still running and belongs to a local fella in the village, fixes everything with a hammer. BTW its not a new way of towing a trailer he has invented.
The main route from Katowice heading west and that is just ice really
Our local road covered in ice, no 4x4 here, but everyone keeps going with little problem.
Andy
I was there Mat, a terrible few days, a couple of friends Lars and Lars were killed by a shelving attack after an ambush with armored shopping trolleys.
Still after a while the Danish stores Bilka, and Føtex hit back and the final nail in the Tescos coffin was that Danes love quality. Anyway no Dane is going to drive a truck like Tescos have, they are real men.
The Tesco stores in Poland are very big, but expensive compaired to Real or other Polish supermarkets, but no baked beans. We have animals to kill for food and grow veg and potatoes and the local shops are cheaper than supermarkets anyway , so we don’t go often.
BTW the missus does the killing and cooking and I wash up.
Andy
Lifted directly from the pages of Wikipedia
A little bit of History if you believe everything you read.
Tesco was founded, as a one-man business, by Jack Cohen in London’s East End. He came from a modest background, being the son of a Polish tailor. He began selling groceries in Well Street market, Hackney, in 1919 after World War 1. The £30 demobilisation money he received after serving in the First World War was spent on purchasing goods for that first stall. At this time rations and supplies were low, so he would buy damaged goods from other businesses and resell them at reasonable prices.[citation needed]
The Tesco brand first appeared in 1924. The name came about after Jack Cohen bought a large shipment of tea from T.E. Stockwell. He made new labels by using the first three letters of the supplier’s name (TES) and the first two letters of his surname (CO) forming the word “TESCO”.[7]
The first Tesco store was opened in 1929 in Burnt Oak, Edgware, London. Tesco floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1947 as Tesco Stores (Holdings) Limited.[8] The first self service store opened in St Albans in 1947,[citation needed] and the first supermarket in Maldon in 1956.[8]
During the 1950s and the 1960s Tesco grew organically, but also through acquisitions to the point where it owned more than 800 stores; the company purchased 70 Williamsons stores (1957), 200 Harrow Stores outlets (1959), 212 Irwins stores (1960), 97 Charles Phillips stores (1964) and the Victor Value chain (1968) (sold to Bejam in 1986).[9]
drew128:
Our local road covered in ice, no 4x4 here, but everyone keeps going with little problem.
Andy
if you consider everybody driving 30-40kph as keeping going with little problems, well…
winter tyres are not mandatory in poland and thats what causes the cars to park on international routes in poland during rough weather.