Hello, QC Lacking, Aren’t We?
One thing I really enjoy about shopping at Tesco is the spacious aisle that I can stroll along comfortably. There is also a wide variety of groceries, although some necessities like my “roti panjang” seem to be frequently out of stock.
Their prices are cheaper compared to other places too. A lot of people say that their in-house brand products are comparable in quality to other more well known brands. Case in point, Mee’s favorite kitty biscuits which is 1/3 the price of its branded counterpart.
However, while I can’t complain about their groceries, they really need to pay attention to their other items.
During the previous baking session, I suggested to a galfriend to get one of those mug sieves favored by the likes of Martha, Rachel and Jaime. Since I’m going off to KL in July, there’s a chance I might get to stop by Ikea so I offered to get one for her there.
But then again, why wait till July? Surely some store in this little island carry the thing as well. I decided to browse around Tesco to see if they have it.
Well, I got good news and bad news.
Good news is, Tesco does have it.
Bad news is, of around 12 of them being displayed, not a single one of them is working. That’s right. A big fat ZERO!
Yet there they are, all arranged neatly and displayed on their little shelf space.
Wow, don’t these people check their stock? I mean, it’s not exactly possible to miss how damaged those things were. And I mean damage as in missing or broken parts.
I think it’s more to do with the attitude of the staff. I remember shopping for a table top Christmas tree one year and saw their promotion. I found that their trees were seriously damaged and when I pointed it out to their staff, all they could tell me was that the trees arrived in that condition. The damage was caused during transportation, so there’s nothing much they can do about it.
And because of the insanely low price, well, people are not gonna complain about it anyway.
Another thing is the lingerie department. I like to get bras for my belly dance costumes from there obviously because it’s cheaper. I can’t really take a Triumph or La Senza then cover them with beads and sequins, can I? That will be throwing money away, especially since I’ll only be wearing them once or twice.
They have quite a good selection but beware of things like mismatched bra straps in particular. If you don’t like the original straps that come with the bra, feel free to grab the ones that you do like. It’s OK. It’s allowed. Try pulling this off at a Triumph or La Senza counter and you’ll get escorted out by security.
But at Tesco, heck you can just take off the strap you like and nobody will blink an eye. That’s what I did for my latest costume, but in all fairness, I took the strap from another bra of the same design. The bra I got had diamanté adorning the straps but several were missing. So I dug around and finally found a pair that was intact. That was all.
So when it comes to buying stuff from Tesco, groceries are fine, but for the other stuff, I wouldn’t mind forking out a little extra to get them from other places if it means better quality.
