[Hilton]

Here's a comforting thought for the start of the new year,

Tesco have been trialling a Home Repair Service for the past 3 months out of their Swindon branch, they leaflet dropped 180000 homes in the area offering everything from Glaziers to Locksmiths, they have admitted they aim to roll this out country wide and go into direct competition with British Gas Homeserve and the AA.

As Tesco have their own home insurance I suppose it was the logical next step to offer a one stop shop for all your needs, you even get double points on your card when you use the service. So Mrs Shopper will have her plumber in spend her money get points on her card then go back and shop in Tesco to redeem the points, what a blinding bit of marketing.

A friend of the family is a Tesco area manager and he has told me that there has been discussions about adding a
Soft Furnishings Cleaning Service if this happens and with their marketing power and loyalty brand shoppers, it would blow a lot of CC away for ever you simply could not compete.

Comforting thought is it not ?

By the way they have just launched 'Tesco Tyre's' to go in to competition with Quik-Fit

Tesco really are taking over the world.

[Neil Williams]

A friend of the family is a Tesco area manager and he has told me that there has been discussions about adding a
Soft Furnishings Cleaning Service if this happens and with their marketing power and loyalty brand shoppers, it would blow a lot of CC away for ever you simply could not compete.

A couple of thoughts:
1. Would this be on a sub contract basis to approved people or are they going to create their own Chemdry?
2. There will always be a place for sole trader types (otherwise there wouldn't be any small shops left in the country) but Chemdry, Rainbow, SM etc need to be a little concerned, if they go nationwide because high prices will be a part of history.

[gwrightson]

and in responce to your post Hilton,
Where do youdo your shopping , Tesco,s i guess or some other big supermarket, i hate the places ,biggest rip of going and i get fed up of people complaning about supermarkets when in fact it is themselves who created the problem,
geoff

[Hilton]

I wish I had created Tesco.

Yes we shop at Tesco, and Morrisons and M&S with some local shopping as well.

Whats that got do with the threat that will come from Tesco should they decide to operate a Carpet Cleaning Service, if you are worried that I might use them, rest assured I wont.  :

[The Great One]

In the future (far future0 there will be amajor global rebranding:

earth will be Tesco's

Moon will be Tesco express   

Martin

[from edge2edge]

Hilton Just woken up from a snooze and cant agree more with this thread Tescoland is here and all of us need to get used to it   aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh   we re all doooooooooooooooomed  Regards Alan(Swindon aka TESCOLAND WEST)

[jasonl]

This has been tried in America , and flopped , the ex MD of Chem Dry has just gone over to try and do it again for Homeserve.

The main reason it wont work is that there are too many variables and things that an emplotee can do wrong in someones home. Managing such an operation is too costly.

[M.Acorn]

My bro in law works for the,he is a manager of one of their express stores,it`s all he ever talks about,Tesco this Tesco that,i hate the place.
But like it`s been said already,we created the monster,we were the ones who didn`t want to go to lot`s of different shops,as it was much easier to just do all the shopping at one

[Hilton]

As I understand it and I believe that they have been doing this in Swindon,

They will use 'approved' local contractors not directly employed . Of course this could end being Chem-Dry or Servicemaster but not necessarily so.

With Tesco Tyres they have a couple of local tyre business's in the area who they appoint, the customer picks which one they want to use and also choose the time and date.

Double points all round.

[from edge2edge]

Hilton I will await the call from the Swindon branch then Regards Alan(swindon)

[Tony_Browning]

My local Tesco's are getting rather concerned with my new Green Grocer's venture 

[Matt Seymour]

Tesco considering offering soft furnishing cleaning?

That's not a company I would be wanting to go head to head with.

[Ian Gourlay]

i tried the Lloyds bank home repair service when my heating brokedown

It was not fixed in four weeks

Got british Gas

If Tesco whent into home-cleaning it would be in conjunction with a leading franchise

Just noticed Chem dry is back in my areas=

[PaulKing]

Is homeserver still cleaning carpets?
They used to as they took all the work in house and one of my staff left to join them, he's now doing pest control so guess they aren't anyone hear differently

[clinton]

Did another company try it in the late 90s ???Remmember seeing something in cleaning and higene mag years ago..

[Mark Slaney]

  If they're going to be anything like Homeserve i would'nt worry. I get about 5-10 jobs a month from Homeserve correcting what the're tech's have made a mess of. Good thing about it is there mostly cushion covers and they post them to me so i can work from home. I actually done a job today for them- red wine stain on carpet in Fulham. The're tech had emptied tons of vanish into the carpet on two previous attemps, he even managed to leave some about a meter away from where the mark was.

Mark

[Griffus]

If Tesco whent into home-cleaning it would be in conjunction with a leading franchise

Spot on, so does it really change anything?

[Matt Seymour]

I suppose the major factor would be the scale of marketing Tesco are capable of.

If they do go for it they'd be hard to compete with.

[wynne jones]

They can't compete with me.

They can't build a personal relationship, they can't be as flexible, they can't offer the depth and breadth of experience.

All they can offer is a brand and a price and I don't compete at all on these fronts.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Tesco etc won't go into cleaning, they may go into insurance but not cleaning, WHY you ask? because if a Tesco clean your suite and it comes up 90% of the way then people will complain and therefore the brand will be tarnished.

Shaun