A Quick look at Tesco

Vanja has been researching the international competitor Tesco.

This is what Wikipedia had to say about Tesco:

"Tesco plc is a British-based international grocery and general merchandising retail chain. It is the largest British retailer by both global sales and domestic market share with profits exceeding £3 billion. In 2008, Tesco became the world's fourth largest retailer, the first movement among the top five since 2003.[2] Currently the third largest retailer based on revenue, Tesco is second only to Wal-Mart in terms of profit, having surpassed Carrefour in 2009. Originally specialising in food and drink, it has diversified into areas such as clothing, consumer electronics, financial services, telecoms; home, health and car insurance; dental plans, retailing and renting DVDs,[3] CDs, music downloads, Internet services, and software."

but before I looked at Wiki, I was on the Tesco site: http://www.tesco.com/

My first impression of their site is that it is very busy, and there are soooo many things to choose from that it's overbearing!

But the one thing I was looking for was their 'about us' and I still can't find it!!
That's shocking! I had to go onto Wiki to find that info I wanted.

Next, I tried to 'find the price of dog food' like we did with PnP before, so I clicked on Groceries (I also noticed they had their recipes link there)

Well it didn't want to show me anything unless I registered and I had to enter a valid Postcode.

I tried a fake Postcode, but it told me to bugger off, so I went back to the home page to try to find an 'about us' section again.

I looked at their big navigation menu at the bottom, still no 'about us' but I noticed something called TescoPLC.
I clicked on that and it took me to another site.
I looked up PLC and found out it means Public Limited Company which is a type of company in the UK that offers shares to the public.
This site has an 'about us'
but now the site has frozen so I can't read about them anymore :(

I shall return to the Tesco site soon to have a more serious look at them as a competitor.