Why Tesco Keeps Failing Abroad
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- This sounds like the least interesting video we've ever made here at Business Blaze, but it's actually a fascinating tale of a company that gets things incredible right at home, and then goes and forces that "right" on other cultures, with predictable results.
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Their excuse for failing in Japan was that Japanese prefer a "personal touch"? Tell that to the massive vending machine industry.
try doing your weekly shopping in a vending machine!
Actually that makes sense to me. I’ve lived in Japan and self service type set ups are only now making inroads (and not by choice, but due to lack of employees). Service in stores is generally expected to be done to a high standard. More than almost anywhere ‘the customer is god’. Unfortunately rude customers are a very common complaint.
Their excuses for failing in America are even worse. Self checkout and healthier foods are a big success. The truth is that it's a tougher market and they weren't ready for it. American groceries are a low margin high volume business.
@@Jordan-Ramses in all fairness they did enter in 2007 one year before a financial crash which is not the best time for more expensive alternatives.
And the 7/11's everywhere
I'd love a Tesco where I live. I think part of the problem re: international expansions to the US market is they always start out by expanding to cities they've heard of because they think they'll make more money due to population density etc. The problem with that is, few people are going to bother going to a new store when there are already 5-6 known quantities within the same mile. If Tesco and the other big international supermarket brands would research the many American "food deserts," they could make a very tidy profit, by virtue of being, literally, the only place the locals have to buy actual food. ... but they repeatedly make the mistake of "poor/working class areas = no profit" instead of realizing "wait, everyone needs to eat, so if we come in and offer affordable food, *everyone* will shop with us (there are no other options!) and we'll be heroes for saving a community - and then we can build our US brand around "X supermarket is eradicating food deserts!" and then we can expand to big cities because rich people will love how virtuous we are."
Take away the international aspect and that's exactly what Dollar General's business model is.
I want to do this... with Aquaponic farms that will also provide jobs... I first need a research facility to expand the selection of aquatic species and various plant cultivars that are practical in aquaponics (leafy greens and tomatoes will only go so far).
Aldi has been doing something like what you suggest, go into markets that are underserved by the US chains and develop customer loyalty then branch into the bigger markets.
Going into a major market that is highly competitive and has several well known chains already competing is a recipe for losing money by the barrel.
Dollar stores more likely to cover food deserts, would be hard for a full service midmarket grocery to make a profit in "desert" urban/rural locations. Some analysis indicates that the dollar stores wind up creating "deserts" for healthy food because local full service groceries (even small ones) can't compete.
@@miles_thomas Several US cities have tried passing zoning laws to limit the number of Dollar Stores for exactly that reason.
I think the problem in the US had more to do with the price than the fact it was healthier. People will get "healthy" food but not if it costs more than the alternative.
Zman Jace I agree. The food was pricey and everything was set up for single servings. This didn’t work for my family of 5. Also I found several items moldy on the shelf, that was unpleasant.
Looking at any grocery store in the US, there must be somebody buying the frozen foods marketed as "healthy" at that higher price than regular frozen food ; otherwise that section labeled as "healthy" wouldn't take up so much of the frozen food section.
@@orangebpumpkin5676 that's what I heard that they failed because it was pricey and small servings. Whole Foods was a better alternative to many, and that grocery store can be expensive
@@PRDreams Whole Foods was exactly the store I was thinking of when he was describing the strategy they tried in the US. I've never shopped there, and I probably never will (I have... issues... with the way the organic industry presents itself, and can't afford to even if I did want to), but I do pass by one regularly.
@@familywilliams4058 I had some specific things I used to buy there because it's the only place that would sell it "per lb" like quinoa and oats. Their breakfast and lunch buffet-style selection is also by weight and was delicious, so I ate there constantly until the company moved the headquarters to Boston proper
This is like the most personal of all your channels lol, like this is the first I’ve ever heard of your wife 😂
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Just wait until you find out he also has a daughter. Biggest twist since the last avengers movie.
And an affinity for CENSORED
How many loyalty cards can you have before you technically become disloyal?
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“I don’t think there are any Walmart’s in the UK”. Walmart owns Asda!!!
didn't they have that they were owned by walmart on there signs for a while
Isn't Wholefoods an Asda subsidiary?
@@petercarioscia9189 WholeFoods was bought by Amazon in 2017.
@@jarzz3601 "Part of the WalMart family", originally they were going to have the WalMart side of things more prominent in the UK via signage but realized the British don't really like WalMart.
@@WmAHughes Walmart has been trying to leave the UK market for a while, despite Asda's continued growth they know their style doesn't work that well over here. That's why they tried selling Asda to Sainsbury's.
Well, you know "organic" in the US just means "double the price for the same thing."
...same thing plus brown spots and insect damage too.
A fool and their money...
That's the general definition all over the world.
I mean, nah...
There are plenty of empirical articles floating around the science world that show how various insecticides used on the food you eat can have effects like making your testicles smaller and causing you to produce less testosterone and you end up with erectile distinction, just for one example. And even if you just don't care about erections, they also cause Alzheimer's disease, so you're still not good.
So yeah, definitely not "ThE sAmE tHiNg" lmao. Science is true whether or not you believe it, bro.
@@CNSninja Have you ever heard of water?
Simon's sassyness is killing me
In a good way though
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try Half As Interesting. It's run by the same guy as Wendover Productions but he puts more jokes and more sarcasm in HAI videos. Rather entertaining and quite interesting
@@jur4x RE&QI exactly 🤠
@@sailingsolar I enjoy watching all of Simon's channels.
Different strokes for different folks
I recall hearing about Fresh and Easy on a financial format radio program around 2009-10. They stated it was a lower cost version of Whole Foods. I like to eat healthy if I can afford it so I was interested and looked them up. I thought perhaps I could interest them to come to my town if I added it to a list of good locations in a nearby city. A major supermarket pulled out of my town because Walmart moved in. A few years earlier, a large local supermarket went out of business and left many prime locations empty all over the state. I compiled the list complete with addresses, realtors and phone numbers. Emailed them and received a cookie cutter response thanking me for my interest.
I think they would have done well in my state. The lesson here is you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him ice skate.
Instead they mostly placed them directly between a whole foods and a trader joes.
No wonder they were having trouble getting established. Too much competition. At the time I sent them the information, there was very little competition in my state for natural/organic markets. They could have made a fat stack of cheddah here.
See, I just asked Siri the same thing you did, and she gave me an answer: "In 2019, the population of Luxembourg was 613, 894." I think Siri just hates you.
Apple hates everybody.
The feeling is mutual.
Are you British? Siri does best with General American. Even when they try to tailor it the most generic accent in a non-US country, it still never seems to be as good as it is in America with its generic accent (basically Midwestern).
@@ZipplyZane I'm Canadian, but my accent is odd because I'm hearing impaired.
Are we really surprised Tesco had a hard time understanding other cultures? British history is full of that. 😂
Hah, indeed. My alternative title for this episode was "Tesco's: Colonial Style Expansion"
@@brainblaze6526 same comes true when looking at why walmart basically failed in europe - just the other way around.
Tesco has a patchy rep in the UK as well they tryed to expand into Huddersfield where I live only to leave about 18 months later, they had to buy a local supermarket Co. to enable their return about ten years later.
Frankly, Walmart did even WORSE trying to expand into the German market, so Tesco is not alone there.
@@swanpride Doesn't Walmart own Britain's #2 grocery store brand, Asda?
This makes me think of Target’s failure in Canada. Some of which was due to the fact that “ the deals “ just did not feel like they were on the same level as the ones south of the border.
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There are great articles on the internet covering why Target failed in Canada. Botched IT systems (unique to Canada, not shared with US) had a lot to do with it.
Personally, I think Tesco and Target should do more joint ventures (in the same way that Tesco now does some joint buying with Carrefour). Or maybe even merge. Similar stores and customer offer in their home countries, similar customer demographic, complementary strengths and weaknesses.
@@miles_thomas It's kind of ironic but had Tesco set up in Canada their US strategy may well have worked; the Ottawa-area chain Farmboy was and is doing something vaguely similar with decent results. When Simon mentioned the stores at transit stations I was like "well that would be great here where enough people take transit in the large cities but that'd never work in the US". Our grocery store market is like a cozy little virtual monopoly with the assorted Loblaws empire and not a lot else of any size - Metro and Sobeys combined never amounted to Loblaws alone, and at the time of Tesco's US misadventure Walmart hadn't really got into selling groceries in Canada. Tesco could have picked up Sobeys or Metro as a starting point and might have made a go of it.
Target failed in Canada because it was absolutely awfully run. Their supply chain was a mess which led to many stores having literally no stock when the opened. They also paid like a billion dollars to lease a bunch of retail spaces that were in need of renovation.
@@AD-df5tm one of the targets where I live forced the mall it joined to renovate which raised the rent causing a bunch of the other stores to close. At least they filmed a Stephen King movie there because the mall was empty
As an American who lived in Glasgow for awhile, I fell in love with the ease of Tesco/Tesco Express. Honestly the idea of getting a decent sandwich at a "gas station" blew my mind. Also I'm all for self-check out and not interacting with people. I think that's an older American thing to want a personal touch.
Seriously, the sandwiches! U.S. citizens in the U.K. are always impressed by the inexpensive, quality sandwiches. If I could bring anything back to the U.S. from the U.K. (well, healthcare) it would be the ‘meal deals’. Including Simon’s hated prawn crisps!
Nearly all of the Fresh & Easy stores that were in my general part of the Los Angeles area were in rather economically depressed sections where the people were not real interested in
Trendy "Healthier" shopping options.
When it first opened I told my wife, "this chain will not survive because it seemed to choose store locations based on cheap per square foot prices rather then focusing on the demographics that would appreciate what it has to offer."
We shopped at the Fresh & Easy that was closest to us and really liked it. Though it did mean driving out of our way and past 3 other well known Supermarkets to get to the smaller Fresh & Easy store.
Also, while most stores in the greater LA area do have self checkout.
Those sections have been scaled back because of customer complaints.
So now many supermarkets where I live offer a self checkout section while staffing far more checkers at any given time then before the advent of the self checkout sections.
F&E got the locations they could rent in some cases, not always the locations they would have ideally liked. Perils of entering a competitive market.
Personally I think Tesco made a mistake by not joint venturing with Long's Drug, to divide up existing stores where there was footfall and underutilised space.
I didn't like it much. Many comparable items were way more expensive than Vons, and people were required to total up their own bill. It was not a totally bad concept, except it needed some tweaks and moderate changes, but it was already too out of touch during a severe downturn from the beginning. The markets they chose to test were not the best. California is definitely not a great place to test anything that you would want to bring out elsewhere in America. It's expensive and inflexible to accommodate different and new business models. The culture is also substantially different and is the butt of many jokes from other Americans. Had they targeted an area with a significant amount of expats, they might have been able to weather a slow start with only a familiar base, but this would have required branding and advertising changes.
It was doomed before it even got started and is an extreme example of how not to start up a brand new concept in the US! I have no doubt that this fiasco is subject matter in business schools today. This is why you seek out experienced locals who know the market and business conditions through and through but aren't so rigid that they won't suggest or try radical concepts.
I think most people would prefer fresher, healthier options, but the reality is that those do generally cost at least a little more up front and when people are barely getting by they will go with what is cheapest in the short term.
God I love this channel. Getting to see you be so genuine and real is so entertaining. You seem like a genuinely awesome person. I'm a fan of all your channels, but this one is by far the most unique and I just love it.
And we do have self check out, which I use as often as I can lmao. Unless I'm buying a large amounts of groceries, in which I find the rather small space self checkout provides to be inconvenient for a large quantity purchases.
Thank you :). This is the most fun to make, glad to hear you are enjoying it :)
@@brainblaze6526 :D! Thank you for replying!! I'm glad you're enjoying making these videos as much as we enjoy watching them ^-^
I'm thinking of ALL the channels Simon does, this is his fav!😉🐩 and I FULLY agree! Love it all! Thank you!
Agree....this light-hearted, more goofy and sassy Simon is a joy to watch 😁
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Agreed! Surprisingly, if you listed all the subjects covered on those channels, business would probably tend toward my least favorite to learn about.
That's kinda why I started watching this one. I started with Today I Found out then Biographics and geographics. And all of those had some amazing well worded scripts but I wanted to see Simon's like a bit unscripted.
There are Walmarts in the UK. They are the owners of Asda.
Yea! Its sooo weird!
Randall Flagg , pretty basic research would have found that out. Not sure I’ve got much faith in the information in this video
Empire Entertainment , when did they sell it, and to who? They’re still the owners on Wiki
Empire Entertainment , they still own it
@Empire Entertainment It was blocked by the government because they saw it as monopolistic
Reminds me of when Walmart failed in Germany, because they were ignorant of local culture, laws and underestimated the competitiveness of the market.
Walmart owns ASDA, However they did attempt to sell it to Sainsbury's but I believe they weren't allowed due to monopoly laws
It was more that sainsbury's tried to buy asda rather than Walmart tried to sell it. Either way it fell through, thank goodness.
@Stephen Hill really? That's not what I heard. Just glad it was stopped. There isn't enough competition in the market.
Walmart is like Disney, they'll soon own everything.
@Hungarian Guy Woah Hungary doesn't mess around.
No it was because the CEO of Sainsbury’s was filmed on the news saying “we’re in the moneyyyyy”
I cannot believe how much the quality of BB videos has SKYROCKETED in just 3.5 months. Everything has: the scripts, Simon's reading them and the editing. Gorgeous.
We're not fat over here, we're doomsday prepping for when we get stuck in snowy woods for months during the winter, happens all the time.
Or when we get layed off, tyranny or just to shorten lives because of political reasons.
Buying in bulk saves money too. The more you buy the cheaper per unit price so if you can store 100 lbs of meat and you know your family will eat it before it spoils you’re simply better off stocking up.
Most American's I know have had this most years.
People say American's are fat... yet here in the UK we have a bigger obesity problem than America
" Fat fuck"? Really Simon? America does love it's fast food, but I have three large natural food markets within 10 miles of where I live, and shop for organic food frequently. Many Americans can say the same. Even Walmart has some of that now.
To be fair, as a Canadian I wouldn't shop in a place called Fresh and Easy because it sounds suspiciously sleazy and creepy to my Canadian ear.
All our Walmarts in the US have automated self-checkouts now
Personally, I still prefer the personal touch.
In the US, basically every major retailer and grocery store now has both automated self checkout sections (for people like me who just want to pay and get out) and traditional lines (for those that want to wait in check out lines.) Except that Home Depot might be 100% automated self checkout now.
One limitation in self checkout section I saw yesterday was the process coming to a halt every time someone buying alcohol went thru them and prompted for the supervisor to wait and check their driver's license.
I far prefer the automated self checkout and I'm from the US. So I'm an aberration, maybe? (I'm pretty introverted and I think the US's personality is a lot more extroverted.)
Name thief.
@@ewestner we have those in many stores in my country too. I love them. In and out of a supermarket without having to talk to anyone
Perfect!
I personally hate the automated checkouts in Walmart because they only have a few and not enough cashiers to deal with the high number of people. I've waited longer at the automated ones over traditional checkouts. Other company's like Krogers or HEB in Texas do it a lot better because they are not sacrificing customer satisfaction for a few bucks and having all regular lanes closed.
From what I've heard of Tesco, it's basically the Walmart of the UK. Tesco failed here in the US because they tried to be a healthier Walmart, but in worse locations and in big cities with saturated markets. A lot of comments have suggested Tesco try opening in smaller, rural towns. But they'd still have a lot of competition with Walmart, local grocery stores and farmer's markets, small grocery/home goods stores (like Dollar General) and pharmacy/convenience stores (like CVS and Walgreens).
Btw... Loyalty/club cards and self-checkout are very common in the US. Some older people are opposed to more self-checkouts, but it's less about the human interaction and more about the free labor they're "forced" to give.
"get ready for a heart attack" lol.... Seriously this is my favorite Chanel / person on TH-cam. Keep it up, always there for a good laugh 😊
"Oh no darling! I could never shop at Safeway, I only shop at Whole Foods!"
Warren Buffett is from Omaha, Nebraska and still owns the 2 bedroom house he grew up in.
@Stephen Hill Hahhaha.
@Stephen Hill He still *lives* in that two bedroom house in Omaha, Nebraska. He doesn't flaunt his wealth...
Stephen Hill nope, I live near him. He’s very low key.
@@alexdhall then what's the point of making all that money? Seriously? What's he gonna do with it if he's not gonna use it?
@@mammajamma4397 Buffet doesn't care for the lavish lifestyles many of the rich and famous lead. What he enjoys is frugal living and managing a highly successful business empire.
My suggestion is the failure of Target stores in Canada.
Warren Buffett: The Oracle of Omaha
That's the badger.
Which isn't saying much. If your met people from Omaha... 😉
I think you’ll find he has always been known as ‘The Sage of Utah’
Not to be confused with the ‘Wise man of Wyoming’
@@frmcf or the mage of michigan
I live in a condo in a suburb of Montreal, Qc and in the storage part of the building, we have a Tesco trolley... Every time I walk by it I wonder how the heck it ended up here...
Ah, memories of shopping at Tesco in Scotland... It's the store that rearranges itself every 6 weeks so you never know where to find what you desire.
That makes you spend more time walking around looking for that thing that used to be right here, during that time walking around looking for the new location you're more likely to make an impulse purchase.
Happy New Year Simon, the rest of the team and all your wonderful writers!
Thanks, to you as well :)
Healthy foods expensive bruv. Rent is nearly 70% of my check, stateside.
We have self checkout in Canada, still my favourite thing to go to the Home Depot and watch people try to scan lumber themselves
I love it. You just grab the scanner thing and hit all the barcodes without even taking it off the trolly!
trolly = shopping cart
I like using self checkout when I only have a few items. I live in Hamilton, ON and one of our Dollaramas has a new self checkout. It was amazing, the nicest and most high-techy one I've seen in any store...the next generation of self checkouts I guess. 😁
Business Blaze yeah they have finally started introducing the handheld scanners at places with big items. Was a bit of a learning curve.
One point you brought up about the U.S. is that we don't take public transportation. Speaking as someone who lives in a small town (population 3500) broadly available public transportation is not available unless you live close or in a large population center.
When I was an international student in the UK I remember the first thing people told us is that we needed to go to Tesco. I still miss their great value ginger biscuits and Jaffa cakes. Asda is owned by Walmart btw.
Fresh and Easy failed yet Whole Foods, Sprouts, Trader Joe’s, etc use essentially the same concept and are succeeding?
Location, Location, Location.
Fresh & Easy targeted low income and immigrant neighborhoods. Whole Foods and Sprouts are found in upwardly mobile areas with yuppie gentrifiers & such.
They were expensive and offered single serving foods on neighborhoods where poor families lived in.
Why buy something for one person at $10 a pop when you can buy grown beef, sauce, and a box of pasta at Whole Foods/Trader Joe's to feed five people for a few bucks more? They needed to go where the single trendy crowd eat their avocado toasts and drink their kombucha.
I think this is kinda what the video is about...
Trader Joes is one half of Aldi if I remember correctly, 2 German brothers that fell out. It’s an interesting story of business. It’s Aldi in Europe and Trader hoes in a lot of the US
You saying ‘Hey Siri’ activated my Siri 🤦♀️
I'm gonna troll you with this some day.
Hah, during phone calls I have to avoid mentioning “the S word” in case I accidentally draw his attention and he interrupts. Much confusion ensues when I’m talking to non-Apple people.
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I was on the fence before, but this is absolutely my favorite channel on TH-cam.
Oh Simon, nothing you and Danny serve up to us is boring! Happy New Year to all 🎉💜🌟
Next: Tesco is going to sell pizzas on the north pole, no competition!
Do one on the Hudson bay company, they once had canada on lock down now they struggle while their old nemesis the northwest company is still going strong. The fact that these 2 companies were literally at war with one another is reason enough.
By the way, I'm pretty much subscribed to all your channel's, you guys do fantastic work, thank you for that.
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In germany and austria we have Payback which is basically a tesco clubcard but it works with like every store even non-grocery and online purchases.
That's cool. I could get into that.
Organic is an unregulated term in the US, so a bunch of brands slap "organic" on their label and charge 2x the amount. Also, the vast, vast, vast majority of rail is for freight. Tire companies and car companies lobbied really hard to kill off public transport so everyone would need to buy a car and they've been extremely successful. It's actually illegal to have any form of public transport that doesn't use a certain type of tire, and the price is 5x the cost of a regular set, so the buses only run two days a week.
An interesting case study is why Target failed miserably in Canada. Perhaps a future video ?
Warren Buffet is "The Oracle of Omaha", he is from Omaha, Nebraska
One of the reasons some of us in the United States don't like self checkout is we would rather someone else ring up the items and bag them, instead of us the consumer. I don't crave the interaction as much.
I love how much more raw these videos are VS your other channels. Also I couldn't agree more about your feelings on really self check, why would I want to talk to anyone?
"I don't think there are Walmart's in the UK" They've owned ASDA for a couple of years now Simon
A bit more than a few years, just over 20 years now.
Asda is owned by Walmart in the UK
I'm a Brit living in the US and I miss Tesco and some British foods which us ex-pats might have been able to get from their US stores. Incidentally, the town I lived in the UK has a tesco store (which down doesn't) but it was going to do a massive redevelopment on a piece of land containing a rotting building that desperately needed demolishing. When tesco failed in the US they scaled back all development plans in the UK and our store never got built and my old town is left with an eyesore that years later still has not been bulldozed.
I remember Fresh and Easy, it was a great store that my family really liked. This was in Central California, and the store seemed to being doing well until picketers became a nuisance. (ALLEGEDLY a competitor hired people to protest outside the store to drive them out of business) We did talk to a few, to find out what they were protesting and nobody seemed to know, they just said they had been paid to be there.
The grocery store I shop at in Oregon is employee owned and operated, and has low prices with a good selection.
I will stand in line twice as long just to use self checkout. Lol
Nice, you are making less jobs in your community, paying the same or more for the groceries, and wasting your own time ;D
I live in a suburb of L.A., and I didn’t shop at Fresh and Easy because: (1) once I did, and the food was expired; and (2) the range of items was too narrow. It’s a quirk of American shopping that we’re used to buying groceries, shoes, TV’s, underwear, etc. all at the same store. We don’t actually enjoy obesity. We’re busy, and there’s a fast food place on every corner. However, we do enjoy talking about healthy food as if we eat it.
I'm typically uninterested in business related videos, but the sassy, quippy, sarcastic delivery is what makes me watch. Also, Buffet is from Omaha, around an hour from where I live in Iowa. The general attitude of people here is genuine niceness, but most of us lack the bank account that makes that particular trait surprising.
Thanks :). Yeah, this channel is supposed to be like 60-70% entertainment, while throwing some facts in there, because that's what people know me for :)
"Thankful for her fine fair discount, *Tess co* -operates"
I worked there. I was a “baker” at one of their stores.
*they had stores everywhere and it was ridiculous... and there were actually more snacks and stuff then only had one aisle of fresh produce, and the self checkout was ... interesting
A Baker? So you defrost doughnuts and bread and "modify" use by dates? At least that's what my store does.
Joel Kenway basically. Except the last part. “Baked “ fresh daily then taken to a food bank.
@@erishinto4906 really? Ours gets wasted off and eaten by rats out the back lol
I work for Walmart, and they're dabbling with the idea to use the Walmart app to log in when you walk into the store and get a "smart cart" and put the number off the shopping cart into the app so itll track what you put in the cart and take out of the cart so that you can just walk towards the exit and when you pass a certain point itll register that you're done shopping and just charge your card on the app. Hence completely bypassing even the automated checkout stations. The level of disconnect is getting ridiculous
Warren Buffet is called the Wizard of Omaha, like the Wizard of Oz. And he does seem like a genuinely nice guy! He wasn't born into any kind of wealth, and he started in the mailroom of a company he eventually became president or CEO of, by working his way thru the ranks and positions so that he actually knew the business inside out but also knew the people and experiences of those positions. Yet it was done organically, not like a week-long job-swap to "get to know your peons."
He also has some amazing quotes about life and business and family. One of my favorites is something like: leave your children enough money so that they can do anything, but not so much that they will do nothing. Coming from a man who has already pledged about 99% of his wealth to charitable organizations, and who has encouraged (inspired? harangued?) other billionaires to pledge similarly, I can only hope there are others being cast in his mold.
I remember my grandmother telling me all about how Fresh and Easy is both Fresh and Easy. I was just like "I'll just go to Ralphs".
That Fresh and Easy is long gone at this point. I think it might be a CVS now.
The name is weird. Not quite hipster, not quite boomer.
Add to that the fact the generation that grew up on the internet will find a bunch of ways to make it into a NSFW joke, and they really had no reason to change the name. Aside from "Tesco" sounding like a gas station name, it would have worked better in general. Costco certainly has done well for itself.
Walmart is in the UK, Walmart is ASDA's parent company. You can pick up the ASDA George clothing range in Walmart stores in the USA...........
Well, the more you know!
I wish they'd open stores in Europe.
@@AdZS848 Wal*mart tried and failed (Germany), Tesco already had (Eastern Europe) and briefly France (but won't compete with big european chains like Carrefour, Auchan, Metro, Ahold Delhaize etc.)
@@miles_thomas Shame! I love George clothes especially for my kids. I know you can order them online from Germany but they are more expensive. I buy them from the UK site using my UK bank account and mum ships them to me. These clothes are nice, inexpensive and long-wearing
There was an Fresh and Easy right down the street from my house. They built a new building in an already dying shopping strip. They were there for less than a year.... Now, it's a plasma donation center... Was not in the right part of town for raking in the "Healthy Food" premium they were peddling.
Self checkouts have made a huge comeback in the US. Almost every Walmart now has more self checkouts than actual lines.
Yay another episode! Great script Danny! And Simon I was watching your other channels and was gonna leave a comment but didn’t think you’d see it.. great video tho!
I love Dannys scripts, must be the influence of Cornish humour 😂
Vanessa Smith Danny’s scripts writing fits perfectly with Simons humor! I love it lol 😂
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Not only is Asda owned by Walmart, they for a period called their biggest store format "Asda Walmart Supercentres". Although they phased that out the signage can be found on old shops in this category.
I'm American but Tesco kept me alive during my short period in Dublin.
It's like our 7-11, but without the disgustingness of 7-11.
Healthy food? This is America, we don’t do that here bro
Whole Foods: Really? Hold my beer.
@@HadToChangeMyName_TH-camSucks Also, club cards? We don't do that here! *Costco has entered the chat.*
Most supermarkets are self-check out now with very few actual people working registers...
Here in California, you can buy alcohol in grocery stores BUT you cannot use self-checkout when buying booze. I usually buy at least one bottle of wine or whiskey just because I hate automated check out.
With automated checkouts in the US: They definitely exist, and I can find one. Personally, I prefer the regular check-out though, since I'm too lazy to scan and bag everything myself. It's easier to just sit in line a while and go through the scripted conversation of "Hey there, how are you? -> Good, I'm fine too/Oh, sorry to hear that -> Thank you, have a nice day".
I'm a Canadian and I will often do the same thing when people ask me if I'm from America. I'll reply "yes I am." They get very confused when they later find out I'm Canadian. A lot of people from the US have a very difficult time understanding that America is a continent, and they are the United States OF America.
No Walmart in the uk but they do own British retailer asda.
I use self check out all the time. Live in Michigan (USA). I only use it because the store I shop at, Meijer, has the slowest cashiers on Earth. Coincidence that they are union? If anyone from Meijer corporate reads this please fix. Make your managers actually train the employees instead of standing around with a damn clipboard doing nothing productive.
Same location, same experience. I can get through the self-checkout in about half the time it takes a cashier to ring me up (and inevitably ring an item twice, forcing me to take even more time at Customer Service). Besides, with the jobs that have been created in creating, installing and servicing self-checkout machines, AND the fact that all the stores are perpetually short-staffed and always hiring, I know they're not taking jobs from anyone.
Ditto (in Michigan even!) unless I’m buying booze or have a lot of items because it’s just easier to go to a regular cashier then. I don’t shop at Meijer all the time, they’re often more expensive than WalMart/Sam’s Club in my experience (but not for seafood of all things!)
In US, there isn't any one grocery chain. There are regional ones and we buy in bulk for one trip vs Tesco's UK daily shopping style.
In the US we have self checkouts (which I use whenever I can). We also have club cards (at least the supermarkets where I shop), however, instead of rebates, we get discounts on certain items. Also, when Tesco tried to enter the US market, those of us who wanted healthy and/or organic foods would shop at Whole Foods or local organic markets.
Was in Hungary last month there were Tesco stores everywhere.
Dollar General in America. They have a goal of one store for a 5 mile radius.
Heh, it's been a while ago now, but I worked in downtown Seattle where there was a Starbucks on three corners of an intersection at one point. The 4th corner was Tully's or Seattle's Best Coffee.
I am in the US and would probably consider shopping somewhere like that. The problem is I feel like if one popped up in our area, it would be competing with PCC, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and a couple local farmer's markets which all are considered healthy alternatives to the regular grocery stores. The healthy stores are pretty pricey and if they offered cheaper healthy food I could see it doing well in my area. There's a few other cities I could see it failing. I lived in a less affluent area for a while and the food options were 90% fast food, and the grocery store options were Walmart and Fred Meyers.
You missed the fact Tesco are very successful in South Korea, they cater for cultural foods and their name is Homeplus, yet the same company. Sometimes products in the stores have Tesco written on various products.
Walmart own Asda. thats why u dont see walmart here in the Uk
When it comes to self check out I flat out refuse. If I do the work of an employee I should get an employee discount. I walk out of a store when there aren't enough normal check out lines operating.
In Thailand Tesco is known as Tesco Lotus. They have large super stores that remind me a lot of Walmart and they also have Tesco Lotus Express which is more like a 7-Eleven. The latest news is that Tesco will be selling off their Thailand stores, one of the possible buyers is CP Group (Charoen Pokphand Group) which is a Thai conglomerate based in Bangkok.
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Costco uses similar logo at a quick glance, and it sounds like Costco sells the same products. Thats my guess before end of video as to why it did not do good here in the USA.
Costco is a pretty different kind of store, though. You have to buy a membership to shop there, and most things are sold in large, bulk package sizes.
Indeed; there's definitely a market for Costco like items in smaller quantities that is sold there for those not wanting to buy an 8 month plus stockpile at a time.
I went to Tesco with my friends in the UK a while ago I wish we had something like it here earlier
I remember Fresh and Easy, as an American. It was rumored to possibly take over Trader Joe's, a beloved small grocery chain, but they ended up failing miserably.
I remember fresh and easy, I'm not doubting his sources, but I knew a guy who worked in their corporate office, he said it was over expansion too fast, and you know, THE RECESSION.
Noone wanted to spend more money when they had no money.
We had lots of them in my state (AZ) they were great, we loved them. I remember when one was built near my work, and when it didn't opened, then after a few years it became a clinic.
Please keep in mind that businesses that closed during the Recession might have been struggling due to the Recession.
Fresh and Easy sounds like a feminine hygiene thing
Walmart is called asda In the uk
In the USA, I have a Kroger card. Kroger is very effective in providing incentive by ridiculously inflating the price of nearly everything in the store then discounting prices for card holders back down to a decent level.
I shopped at Tesco in Thailand. It was very popular.
What's particularly funny is that Germany's Aldi Süd has been quite successful in establishing the ALDI supermarket brand in the US, despite being a quite different shopping experience for Americans. Other European chains chose to buy up US regional chains and expand them: Aldi Nord with Trader Joe's, and Ahold Delhaize with multiple chains like Food Lion, Hannaford, Stop & Shop, Giant and (different chain) Giant. Before Walmart and Target started selling groceries, Kroger and the now-defunct A&P were probably the only coast-to-coast chains, and neither was truly "national", favoring particular regions. Interestingly, there are other videos on TH-cam detailing the failures of multiple US retailers in penetrating Canada, despite proximity and a generally similar culture.
1:48 I think you mean billions, not millions.
Yes. Misspoke. Apologies.
thought so lol
Utah, Omaha, meh same difference to a Brit.
Lol. Happy New Year
Omahaaaaa, somewhere in middle America...
@@brainblaze6526 Which Utah isn't. There's a huge mountain range separating Nebraska from Utah. Silly Simon.
* gives myself 70 lashes for not knowing US geography *
The first Hypermarket was opened by the French retailer Carrefour in Caerphilly in 1972, then branches in Chandlersford, Telford centre, Minworth, Patchway and Swindon were opened (Chandlersford, Minworth and Patchway are now owned by ASDA).
The ironic thing here is, self checkouts, fresh food, and low prices are practically requirements for supermarkets in the US nowadays.
The moment I heard "America" and "public transportation", I already knew why it failed. Did that market research team just embezzle the money or something? Because almost anyone could have told them that plan was practically set up to fail.
Makes you wonder why they didn't target rest stops and petrol stations instead. Everyone knows that most of the U.S. is a public transport wasteland.
I never use the automated check out. I use the regular check out, even though they cut most of the employees from them.
Joe rogers yeah, someone on Facebook said, “I deserve an employee discount if I have to ring all this stuff up myself.”
@@cameronmealing3622 I totally agree. How long before they want us to stack the shelves as well ?
Even before stores had automated check out; it was fairly rare for major stores to have more than 50% of the lanes open at one time. And near 100% open was only seen between Black Friday and Christmas eve.
I shop in Lotus and Tesco Express here in Thailand and yes, I use my club card. It is only accepted when the total bill is over 100 Baht. Years ago, I shopped at Carrefor which was a French competitor to Lotus, and now gone from the scene in Thailand. Another good vdo Simon!
OMG, I miss Fresh & Easy. We shopped there a lot for my mother's needs for fruits and veggies. I had stocked up on credit points which helped us with sales on meats, etc. We even got our chocolate from there since it was peanut & dairy free, works well with our food allergies. Their mistake in Las Vegas was to open too many stores. If they had 1 main store, they would have fared better. They opened 6 shops, iirr. They were doomed from the start with opening so many at the get go. We miss it dearly. And they were part of our shopping diversity.