Posted on 07/14/2007 11:25:30 AM PDT by pacelvi
Edited on 07/14/2007 12:37:16 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
LONDON — British police closed at least 11 Tesco supermarkets across the country Saturday because of a security alert, authorities said.
The manager at a in Barrhead, near Glasgow, told Britain's Press Association that staff were sent home around 12:30 p.m. (1330 GMT) after a power failure. But an unidentified employee at a neighboring shop said police had told him there had been a bomb threat.
Police in Hertfordshire, where Britain's largest supermarket has its headquarters, said no one had been hurt and that the move was a precaution. Police did not immediately give further details.
They’re a major corporation, sort of the upscale Walmart of the UK. Interestingly enough, they’re expanding to the US, opening a whole slew of stores on the west coast.
Those damn pork products, again.
Celebrity shopping spree away from the riff raff?
Strathclyde is the part of Scotland containing Glasgow, so perhaps this is related to the events of the past few weeks.
haha good one.. whatever happend to “The Rock” anyway. I did see him in a few movies but that was about it.
Wal-Mart, Kroger, Safeway better watch out. The British are coming!
Analysts say U.K. grocer Tesco’s entry into the U.S. with a “mystery” format could shake up traditional food retailing.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/24/news/companies/tesco_us/index.htm
Merrill Lynch analyst Patricia Baker said Tesco’s arrival could only be viewed as a “negative” for the conventional supermarket channel.
“The coming of Tesco represents not only a new player but one that is a quite accomplished retail entity with the ability to attack this market in a much more meaningful fashion over the long term, should it choose to do so,” she wrote in a recent research note.
Based in Cheshunt, England, the Tesco Group currently runs about 2,500 stores in the United Kingdom and 12 other countries in Europe and Asia.
Tesco operates four different retail formats. Tesco Express, a smaller store format of up to 3,000 sq. feet, sells fresh produce, wine and in-house baked goods; mid-size Tesco Metro stores range between 7,000 to 15,000 sq. feet; larger Tesco supercenters of between 20,000 to 50,000 sq. feet also carry non-food items like DVDs and books and Tesco “Extra” stores of over 60,000 sq. feet have a more varied product mix including clothing, housewares, electronics, cosmetics and garden furniture.
That cartoon of Rosie kinda looks like Fat Teddy.
LOL
Stores Shut In Security Scare
Updated: 19:57, Saturday July 14, 2007
At least 11 Tesco supermarkets across the UK have been closed by police in a security scare.
There are reports at least some of the stores were shut after receiving bomb threats.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1275244,00.html
Areas where islamic nutcases are more likely to be ....
I cant’ believe how contentless this news is. Is this the result of Thou Shant Mention Muslims rule? We have to live in willing ignorance of the basic facts of the news.
Drudge is slow on weekends.
Yes, but if the moslems pull that, they will probably be going back to Pakshitistan quite soon.
Awwww, I wuv puglets.
Extortion threat?
Ah, Nottinghamshire, its that Robin of Louxley I tell you. HE and his band of merry men! bwahahaha!
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