New Tesco in Calow

[jake]

Thanks for the replies,will mull it over!

[Old Cruser]

Jake if you are from the Calow area it may well be that you welcome a Tesco there. We found it easier when they built the one in Clay Cross with petrol station as we used to have to go across to the big Chesterfield one. However the main street in clay Cross is now a ghost street and businesses are struggling.
Not familiar with the area in question but I think other posters have questioned 'traffic problems'

[Kent]

Hi Jake and welcome to the forum 
I am a bit fed up of Tesco's - even though I shop there  because they seem to be everywhere taking over any  place they can get.
Have been shopping with them for many years more because of the choices they have which suit my shopping trolley.
However I have seen quite an increase in their prices over the years maybe more so than others - but maybe someone else will come along and and say different on that one.
I take it you shop at Tesco's then? and I suppose people in Calow may welcome them as not as far to travel for their shopping

Absolutely, I Also have seen this, as well as new packaging of products and up to 100% increase
in some cases.
Chesterfield Borough Council did the Public a GREAT dis-service by turning
down the planning application for the new Asda, not only in the shop prices
but PETROL prices as well.
SOME COUNCIL WE HAVE....

[Scimitar]

Theres plenty of folks in Calow will welcome a Tesco Express, for example hospital staff on their way too & from work who will find their extended opening hours useful (typically 6am-11pm).
Many people will use it, and it will be - lets say handy, but I doubt they will have the same offers as the "superstores"?
I agree with competition, but it seems that Tesco is the only supermarket supplier with the balls at the moment to take over the pubs and convert them into shops. Surely other supermarket chains could do this as well.
I do feel a bit sorry for the shop at the top of my lane which has been a family run business for decades - its a tiny shop really, but does fabulous cobs/sandwiches to passing trade - which may be the only thing that saves them.
It used to be the Co-op that had village stores (including one in Calow), but it seems Tesco is taking the lead currently.

[España]

From all the retail places that I have worked , a tesco express is the easiest to get robbed.
I hate it when my wife does the shopping at tescos

[Scimitar]

No disrespect to the good peoples of St Augustines, but their Tesco appears to have the Wine bottles next to the doors. So easy for a fleet footed person to just nip in and leg it.

[therealjr]

Do we actually know if this is happening or if it's just a rumour.
Reason I ask is if it is going ahead it seems strange that the new licencees of the Somerset are spending a lot of money advertising on Peak FM

[eabbus]

Probably not costing as im sure sean goldsmith does a quiz night there once a week.

[therealjr]

Peak are a company same as any other and are actually owned by an Irish company called UTV Media. No-one is getting free advertising

[Scimitar]

Do we actually know if this is happening or if it's just a rumour.
Reason I ask is if it is going ahead it seems strange that the new licencees of the Somerset are spending a lot of money advertising on Peak FM

I couldn't get my head round that one either, but I noticed today on a telegraph pole outside the pub what looked like several DCC notices.
Also some residents have had letters from Tesco informing them of their intended take over of the premises.
See   http://planapps-online.ne-derbyshire.gov.uk/online-applications/simpleSearchResults.do?action=firstPage

[eabbus]

Actually we have recieved free advertising from peak before. They do a lot of bits and bobs for local charities and businesses that support theyre fundraising efforts eg local heros do get advertising from time to time.

[Scimitar]

From all the retail places that I have worked , a tesco express is the easiest to get robbed.
I hate it when my wife does the shopping at tescos

I went past the former Angel pub in St Augustine's the other evening, and a police van with several officers seemed to be there for a good couple of hours or so. I don't know what had occurred though.

[Slacker]

Heard the ambulance station is going where CMC was

[Pete]

Well that seems to make sense.

[Scimitar]

Well that seems to make sense.

Until you have an ambulance responding to an emergency call (life or death remember), and, oh we'll just wait whilst the articulated HGV reverses into the Tesco Express.
 The proposed Tesco is on the brow of a hill - not huge, but nevertheless so. There are no parking restrictions on this stretch of road that I know of. There will be 16 car parking spaces in the Tesco. People will park in there to walk to the Hospital - not to use Tesco, because its free.They may well park up on the main road too, and why not. I don't endorse it, but I think there are very few, if any, parking restrictions, which does concern me. It just promotes the probability of further irresponsible parking on a main road, which in turn creates further traffic delays in the rush hour particularly, and if you, or I should be in the ambulance on the way to the hospital hanging on to life where every second counts......need I say more?
Just my thoughts,concerns - am I an imbecile or can nobody else understand these concerns in particular the best possible direct service for emergency service vehicles to the Hospital?