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Parents are left furious at Tesco after it scraps its hugely popular £65 tablet computer just before Christmas

21/11/15 02:45

The supermarket's budget tablet computer was a hugely popular sell-out success, but it has announced that there are no plans for a new model. Parents are now struggling for Christmas ideas. Those still keen to buy one could find themselves out of pocket as current owners cash in by selling their own devices for more than double the normal price. ...read

Twitter mocks Tesco's Star Wars cupcake meant to show Ewan McGregor as Obi Wan Kenobi but which actually looks like NOEL EDMONDS

20/11/15 13:23

The mistake was spotted by Ryan Gavan who pointed it out by posting: 'Hi @Tesco, we bought Star Wars cakes for my nephew. Please can you tell me why Noel Edmonds face is on the icing?'

'It's officially the end of days': Tesco forced to defend its new Christmas chocolate and cherry sandwich after it's slated on Twitter - with fans questioning the store's sanity

18/11/15 19:11

Tesco's £1.80 chocolate and cherry sandwich in cinnamon bread marks a departure from usual Yuletide sandwich flavours and has been condemned by Twitter users.

Someone's for the chop! Tesco website glitch puts knives and pastry brushes on sale for £10,000 (but at least you get 10,000 Clubcard points)

18/11/15 11:47

Penny Reynolds, a finance officer from Gravesend, Kent, was among those who spotted the error.

Tesco dumps £4,000 worth of bikes in a skip despite company bosses' assurances they were cutting waste by donating to charity

17/11/15 13:36

Tesco threw bikes worth £4,000 into a large bin outside one store rather than giving them away to charity despite claims that they were cutting down on needless waste.

Battle of the Christmas fizz: Tesco slashes the price of its award-winning champagne from £14 to £9... but the rest of the supermarkets are bubbling up behind

16/11/15 13:08

As Tesco slashes Louis Delaunay Champage to just £9 (pictured left) for party season, FEMAIL rounds-up more festive fizz bargains, from discounts of up to £96 to sparkling wine from just £1.29.

They're knot holding back! More than a HUNDRED people apply for Tesco's festive 'Christmas tree lights untangler' job

16/11/15 11:08

Supermarket bosses are thrilled with the amount of people who have applied for the job of unraveling mounds of Christmas tree lights and making the festive season easier for the people of Wrexham.

It’s knot a joke! Tesco recruiting for Britain’s first Christmas tree light untangler (But you must be able to unravel three metres in three minutes)

16/11/15 10:16

The supermarket hopes to attract customers in-store by offering them a speedy fix for cables that have ended-up in a knotted labyrinth. It will be tried in Wrexham before being rolled out elsewhere.

Tesco customer is convicted of abusing a mother-of-four in front of her children by shouting 'Why can't I see your face?' at her for wearing a veil as she shopped

13/11/15 18:13

Rahela Chowdhury, 32, from Burnley, was in her local store with all four children when the man approached her and shouted 'why can't I see your face?'

Debenhams and House of Fraser accused of ripping off customers by charging for PAPER BAGS - while Tesco have started giving them away for free

13/11/15 15:10

Major high street stores including Debenhams and House of Fraser have started charging up to 10p for paper carrier bags – despite them being exempt from the new laws brought in last month.

Shopper is attacked by thugs who followed her out of Tesco after she told staff they had stolen sandwiches – then store ‘asked her to pay for frozen peas for her injuries’

12/11/15 16:09

Emilie Martin, 29, was attacked by teenagers in the car park of Tesco in Hackney, east London. She claims she was then told she would have to pay for a bag of frozen peas to ease her pain.

That really is fowl! Family discover their £4.50 Tesco chicken still has its innards, waste and half-eaten corn inside

11/11/15 17:25

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Robyn Stroud and father Michael, from Worthing, West Sussex, make a grim discovery in a Tesco chicken they bought for £4.50 still with its innards.

Tesco worker is sent home after blacking up to dress as 'Big Momma' character for Halloween

02/11/15 10:48

In an extraordinarily ill-advised move, a member of staff put on black face paint and took to the shop floor of the supermarket in Airdrie, Lanarkshire dressed as Big Momma for Halloween.

Tesco van driver becomes unlikely star after impromptu piano performance of the Titanic theme tune stuns crowd at shopping centre

28/10/15 16:21

Tom Moulton, 22, was pressured into playing the tune by his mum, Jane Wood, 50, as the pair walked past a piano in Highcross Shopping Centre in Leicester.

'Go home, Tesco. You’re drunk': Supermarket launches FIZZY Prosecco and elderflower flavour crisps... with customers already poking fun on Twitter

23/10/15 18:15

Retailing at £1.59, the 150g bagful is said to taste like, 'Sweet, delicately fragrant elderberry with the festive fizz of Prosecco,' according to the packaging. It is part of the Tesco Finest range.

The Halloween display that's TOO scary: Parents' outrage as Tesco displays 'terrifying' masks featuring zombies eating rats next to checkouts

22/10/15 17:44

Mothers in Colchester, Essex are calling for the displays and products in their local supermarket to be toned down after children were left in tears

Tesco ends turtle trade: Chain's Chinese stores stop selling reptiles as a delicacy after complaints from campaigners

14/10/15 01:18

Tesco has abandoned the sale of turtles for the dinner table at its stores in China where they were packed alive into plastic bags or butchered in front of customers.

What a basket case! Now Tesco puts security tags on its baskets after a THIRD were stolen from one store in a week after 5p bag charge was introduced

12/10/15 23:51

Bosses at the store in Oldham, Greater Manchester, said they were forced to add the security tags to prevent more thefts as customers attempt to avoid the charge.

Tesco launches new price match promise to cut bills at the checkout if shopping is cheaper at Asda, Sainsbury's or Morrisons

12/10/15 12:59

Tesco has launched a new price match promise, pledging to give customers an immediate discount on thousands of branded items if they could have shopped for cheaper elsewhere.

Mother accused of theft by Tesco security guards after she failed to pay for £2 pack of pills which slipped behind child's car seat

12/10/15 05:35

Kerenza Centini was shopping in the supermarket's branch in Wadebridge, Cornwall with three of her children when she accidentally left without paying for the medication.

Every little helps! Tesco store is so keen to protect its plastic bags that it has started putting SECURITY TAGS on them

09/10/15 14:21

The store in Surrey Quays, London, decided to use alarms normally placed on clothing on every bag for life on the shelf after a spate of thefts since the new law came in on Monday.

The moment Tesco security guard accused a shopper of STEALING a basket after she used it to carry her groceries to her car to avoid paying for a 5p plastic bag

09/10/15 00:26

Khalia Smith, 21, (pictured) had been shopping for her lunch at the Tesco Extra store in Leyton, east London, but decided not to pay for a plastic bag as she had one in her car.

Supermarket giant Tesco reveals profits dropped by 55% to £354m in the first half of the year

07/10/15 09:49

Britain's biggest retailer also said like-for-like sales in the UK fell 1.3 per cent in the six months to August 29 - but this was an improvement on the 4.6 per cent slide seen a year ago.

Supermarkets are braced for hundreds of thousands of metal baskets being stolen as the 5p plastic bag tax bites

06/10/15 14:40

One of the UK's biggest grocery stores has ordered more than 60,000 extra baskets after there was a rise in thefts after the levy was introduced in Wales and Scotland, according to manufacturers.

Tesco removes 66,000 packs of garlic bread from its shelves after some are found to be up to a fifth lighter than advertised

05/10/15 21:16

Tesco has withdrawn 66,000 packs of garlic bread slices after an investigation found some were far lighter in weight than advertised.

Tesco to reduce number of 24-hour stores because low number of overnight customers mean cost of keeping supermarkets open is not covered

24/09/15 01:40

Tesco - Britain’s biggest retailer - currently opens 400 stores around the clock, but shopper numbers are so low that a number are not covering the cost of keeping the doors open.

Bell tolls for 24-hour shopping at Tesco as two stores cease all-night opening due to low numbers of night-owl customers

23/09/15 18:09

The move is yet another sign of the shrinking back of the supermarket, following years of what seemed like never-ending growth.

Police officers who failed to stop a thief claim they didn't hear shopkeeper's pleas for help because they were busy gossiping about office Christmas party

22/09/15 22:05

Police constables Paul Birch, Joanne Parr, Jonathan Webb, pictured, and Mark Higgins appeared at a tribunal in Wavertree, Merseyside today.

Half of British families now shop at Lidl or Aldi as discounters grab £350million of sales from big supermarket chains

22/09/15 19:38

Sales at the budget giants are rising at a rate of more than 20per cent a year as they succeed in wooing middle and high income shoppers. Sales at Tesco, Asda, Morrisons - are falling.

Tesco Bank halves the rewards credit card holders earn for spending in shops and blames EU changes for cut

14/09/15 12:50

From November, Clubcard Credit Card and World customers will see the amount of clubcard points they receive for swiping their cards in shops cut to just one point for every £8 spent.

Boy racers turn Tesco into drag strip as 700 loud-revving cars and 1,000 cheering fans descend on supermarket car park

02/09/15 11:18

In what is believed to be the largest ever gathering of its kind in the West Midlands, hordes of mainly young men descended on the Tesco Extra store in Monkspath, Solihull over the weekend.

Former Tesco boss Philip Clarke summoned for interview by SFO as it steps up criminal probe into accounting scandal at grocer

28/08/15 11:49

Clarke, who was ousted as chief executive after a calamitous spell in charge, has received an interview request from the Serious Fraud Office, alongside the ex-commercial director Kevin Grace.

'You're playing God': Customers are left baffled as Tesco tweets photos of bizarre Scotch egg pasty invention... only to discover that it WON'T be going on sale

26/08/15 15:33

Forget the cronut, pizza-burger and brownie-filled cookie, Tesco are the latest to jump on the food hybrid bandwagon by merging two popular savoury snacks - the scotch egg and the pasty.

‘Don’t scam a Yorkshireman’: Tesco shopper’s online complaint over two-for-£2 drink offer sparks a 1,000-word exchange with firm’s customer services team

17/08/15 18:33

Jonny Spencer's tongue-in-cheek rant about his experience at a Tesco store in Scissett, West Yorkshire, went viral after it triggered a bizarre response from Tesco's customer service team.

Nurse bites into her Tesco vegetable spring roll and finds a 2cm-long metal bolt complete with washer

11/08/15 12:13

Maria Mizzi, 57, from Sturminster Newton in Dorset was enjoying the Chinese takeaway she had bought from the supermarket with her son when she felt something heavy between her teeth.

Tesco poised to end its 'junk' status with £5bn sell-offs of its Korean and Dunnhumby businesses

10/08/15 08:02

The supermarket giant is waiting for the first bids for its South Korean business on August 17, which could net it more than £4billion.

Tesco cuts petrol price - and rivals follow suit: Britain's three big supermarket fuel retailers begin new price war

07/08/15 22:23

Tesco led the way, taking 2p per litre off the cost of diesel and cutting unleaded petrol by 1p at all its 500 filling stations, with Sainsbury's and Asda set to do the same.

It's longer Sunday trading... but only on the High Street: Out-of-town superstores could be excluded

05/08/15 14:37

Plans published today will give local councils the power to extend opening hours on a Sunday, which could see High Street stores benefit from the move but supermarkets excluded.

Dear Tesco, your exploding dog food has ruined my house: Furious shopper posts hilarious rant after stinking pets' dinner is left coating his ceiling and furniture

03/08/15 12:08

Dave Crissell, 31, from Ipswich, came downstairs after a night's sleep to find the food coating his walls, ceiling and floor. The mess was so bad that he even had to repaint his walls.

Tesco goes high-end! F&F unveils its most fashionable collection yet... but some prices have shot up to £150 as supermarket aims to rival premium high street competitors

31/07/15 15:56

The range, which is available online and in-store now, is full of tailored culottes, chiffon dresses worn with lightweight knitted roll necks and draped jersey tops.

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