Tesco Metro

There are two major advantages to this store:
1. They stay open ’til midnight
2. They apparently consistently overstock on fresh fruit, veg, meat and fish — which means they then need to reduce these items when not enough of them are bought. So that’s ideal if you’re looking for a something for a cheap dinner the same evening (or if you have plenty of freezer space).
There are issues, though. Although it’s a large store it has huge rushes around midday and 5pm and the crowds don’t disperse very easily. The queueing system seems to confuse a lot of customers (it’s easy, folks, stand to the left if you want a traditional checkout, stand to the right if you want a self service one). Even when they get it right, at peak times these queues obstruct the fresh juices and the fresh vegetables.
The timings for restocking shelves also seem to be far from logical and are usually planned to run right into the 5pm rush. Actually, this seems to be a problem for every Tesco Metro I’ve visited, so perhaps this store can’t be blamed by itself.
It is a fair bit bigger than the other convenience store branches of Tesco in the West End and they do have a good range of products. It is handy for a quick lunch deal or to grab a few items on the way home. Although be careful, being a convenience store means the prices of some items can be weirdly high, sometimes you might be better going to Waitrose or M&S.
So clearly it has its place on Byres Road but I wish they’d find a way to fix those niggly issues.

Good sized store with a good range of goods for a local store. Great location which I suspect explained how busy it was. I queued for ages and was tempted to leave but they opened another till. Good customer service.

Not been here for a while. I came in here looking for a clip lock tub to store my chia seeds in.
They had none so I ended up with a pack of 4 of those cheese sticks things you tear into strings, and a huge packet of chocolate milky buttons £2, I can’t grumble. I’d offer you some, but they are finished.

Horse… seriously, Tesco, HORSE? In your burgers? Ew. Bet it doesn’t do anything to dent the influx of customers, though! Myself included. I guess chewing horse parts is still more desirable than forking out a fortune for swan parts in the nearby Waitrose, though. You can’t blame us. Blame David Cameron. I bet he’s laughing and masturbating with both hands at the thought of the plebs tearily shoveling down our horse bits in our Dickensian hovels as he snatches even more money out of the hands of the working classes as he rides by in a Roller that runs on the tears of teenage mothers. Yeah. How you like that? You came on here for a read of a review and instead got some scathing satire. Ooh, it’s like something Robin Ince would do!
I digress somewhat. What was the point I was making? Oh, yeah, Tesco. Yeah, the prices are fairly decent and there are some not bad offers to be had. I blame Tesco (and Dionne!) for my love of Special K cracker crisps. A quid a box? If I eat enough of them, they cease being healthy and revert to being bad for you.
I get the feeling this Tesco branch is a bit too small for the heavy footfall it has — ever been here on a Friday after work? Jesus Christ. Who wants that much human contact in the supermarket? And old women should STOP GABBING IN THE AISLES and get on with their shopping. Seriously, this place could do with a conveyor belt that goes one way around the shop — grab as you go past, stick it in your basket and if you miss something/​someone, TOUGH! You’ll have to either go round again or just make do with what you’ve got. Then again, that’s probably why I don’t run a business — people staying in your shop for longer than necessary would drive me batty, and they’d run out screaming when I eventually flipped and lashed out with a broom and a series of wild Unilocal.Yeah, avoid Tesco if you’re not a people person…
Also: what’s with the faux-​friendly staff? I’ve lost count of how many times a member of staff has monotonously told me to ‘have a nice day’. I always say ‘thank you, you too’ but it doesn’t seem… right. They’re clearly already having a shit day if that’s their tone of voice. It makes me feel bad that I’m wishing something upon them that probably won’t happen. That makes me feel guilty. Especially when, like last time, I get the withered ‘aye, right, bollocks!’ look from someone. Please, an awkward silence is better than enforced pleasantries!
Oh, and the machines have taken over: I don’t know how often I’ve been in there when it’s 5pm on Friday, there’s a queue like an execution and there have only been two people on the till — but look! Here they are, inviting you to play with the self-​service machine! A great idea in theory (no human interaction) but terrible in reality, when your money gets eaten by the machine/there’s an ‘unidentified item in bagging area’/your things won’t scan properly and you haplessly flag over the assistant, red-​faced when a handsome young lad comes over to help you and pack your ready meal for one and box of Tampax (sadly, a true story). Please, Tesco, you’re the one company nobody expects to go under in this sad economic climate: employ more staff and save the blushes of a technophobic loner!

This Tesco has gotten better in the last couple of weeks, but by better this is just a shouty person directing you to a till or self checkout so you now wait 5 minutes instead of 10.
Its busy, the staff stock up at stupid times i.e. 6pm and its a bit convinience food heavy for me.
Having said that they always have a good selection of 3 for £10 meat which is a great money saver. They also have the £9 bottles of white that are always half price which is pretty good.
Its between the tube and my house, open later than Waitrose and I can get bread milk and cheap meat — and for that it gets 3 stars — 4 if they sort our their till fiasco and replen times.

This does exactly what it says on the tin. A Tesco Metro, slap bang in the middle of Byres Road.
It stocks everything you’d need to cook up good student meals /​busy 9 — 5ers dinners. They’ve also got quite an expansive Christmas cake section up the back mmm.
My only gripe is they’re not that much cheaper than M & S round the corner for a few things. M & S is wonderful but I can’t afford to do my full weekly shop in there. If Tesco are supposed to be the more affordable supermarket, they should re-​evaluate their prices.
I’d avoid this store around lunchtime and 5pm as it’s chocca full of students with massive queues, but the staff are attentive especially on those fame «self-​service» check-​out machines. (Anyone seen the Bill Bailey remix of these? Genius.)

Having grown up doing all our family shopping in Tesco stores and eventually my own, I was pretty disappointed with this new branch of Tesco Metro.
First off, if you’re looking for a ready meal — something you can just bang in the oven and enjoy half an hour later without putting any effort it — you have to buy Tesco’s Finest range from here. So much for saying your Value range is the best value for money you can buy when you don’t even offer it in all your stores!
Second, the queueing system is a joke. Not much thought was put into the design of this branch and the self service is meant to have a seperate que than the proper checkouts, but the only way you would know is if you see the tiny wee sign at the very front of the que! Sometimes the que is half way up the shop and its only when you get to the front you realise you can stand in a seperate one and get in and out in seconds.
Not really a fan of Tesco’s in-​city shops, huge fan of their supermarkets though. Shame as there are some really good deals to be had and the late night reductions can be a steal.

This brand new Tesco seems to be a great hit and my gran keeps telling me how happy she is that it’s there, she also informs me of the bargains they have that I should get when I’m at Uni. A few weeks ago she phoned me to inform me they had large mint aero bars for 50p, what a bargain!
Tesco seems to be a happy medium between Waitrose and Marks and Spencers and Iceland at the other end of the supermarket scale. They have some great lunch offers and if you’re a student living in the area you will be able to get your shopping here at bargain prices and I’ve always found Tesco food to be pretty good quality.
Although this isn’t a mega sized Tesco you will still find all the essentials here and anything that they don’t stock I’m sure you’ll find it in Waitrose across the road.

Prepare yourself for a shopping experience which will without doubt leave you a bit numb, bruised and in need of a good sit down. Christ this place is chaos! Now, like many west end type peep holes, i was quite please to see the addition of a Tesco in this area, given that the only realistic alternatives were M&S or Waitrose… so expensive or really expensive.
The problem though is that the design of this Tesco creates so a ques so large that it ends up trailing throughout the shop leaving isles un accessible. unless you have very sharp elbows and don’t mind offending countless people as you search for those tasty ready made meatballs… mmmmmmm.
Moaning aside though, this is a great addition to this area and whilst it’s not the biggest store in the world, there is still enough to purchase waaaaaaay more than you actually need!

I always feel a bit let down by the Tesco Metro stores. There’s a huge, full size Tesco not far from where I live, and you can easily spend hours trawling the aisles for various food products you don’t want or need. The roasting chickens turning on the spit, the scallops at the fish counter, the bakery…
Sadly, this, and every other Tesco Metro I’ve been to, seems to stock hardly anything of interest, even limiting themselves to the dullest choice of sandwiches, and quite simply can’t compete with the wonderful experience offered by their larger contemporaries.
That said, they’re probably not meant to, and they’re very convenient.

Nice knowing you Waitrose, see ya later Iceland. Tesco has finally arrived in Byres Road and West Enders couldn’t be happier.
So was it worth the wait? Well, not really, in my opinion. Although it is very handy to have a supermarket open until 12am in this neck of the woods, pretty much nothing is left after the teatime rush.
This Tesco Metro is exactly the same as all the others in Glasgow. Handy but understocked.
Minus points for having no checkout operaters present the last time I visited, forcing everyone to use those awful self service machines that seem to require two members of staff per till to rescue shoppers every time the machine does something unpredictable and bizarre (which happens twice on average for every shop I do.)

Welcome Tesco! This is a grand addition to the Byres Road collections of supermarkets. Ever since Waitrose took up home further down the road, Iceland has been very stretched and had the longest queues I have ever witnessed (in a supermarket)!
However, as Paul mentions, the queues in Tesco’s will be pretty long for a while. Though, I am confident that when everyone has had their first noisy this will subside drastically.
Apart from that, this Tesco is much like you’re standard Tesco — apart from being in a more accessible location and greatly needed.

Am I the only person in the West End ever to have seen a Tesco before? Evidently I am, judging by the truly ridiculous crowds which flocked to the new metro store in its opening week.
Situated on the site of the old Woolworths, a visit here at the moment is pretty hellish. Poorly designed, enormous queues make shopping in certain aisles almost impossible while harassed staff appear on the verge of cracking up.
It is, of course, always like this when a new supermarket opens in the West End, and in the long run there can be little doubt the inclusion of Tesco will be a good thing. Although the business offers all the usual fare of any standard Tesco Metro store, the prospect of a pricing war with Waitrose and M&S means the West End may not be quite so extravagantly priced for every day items as it once was.
Best of all, the place opens until 12am seven days a week.