Tesco Filling Station

Seen one Tesco store seen them all.
«Because every little helps.» What a load of patronising twaddle, which sums up the Tesco experience.
Yawn, cars and check outs. An utterly boring chore.

one of the worst shops in carrick, so many bad experiences here that its not even funny! on one occassion i was changing euro to sterling at the exchange counter and the lady serving was to busy talking to another member of staff that she gave me to much money back, i didnt know this at the time beacause she failed to tell me how much i was to
i was walking out of the store i was manhandled like a petty thief and told to empty my wallet!!! foolishly because of the embarresment of the situation i agreed and the manager was called for and i was told to sign a form, this was tescos staff fault and yet i never even recieved an apology!
another occasion the staff in the garage were too busy talking and over charged me for my petrol, an hour later the police arrived at my door, i went back to the garage with my recipts and asked for the manager who declined to meet me, after sevral phone calls to the store and many letters written i am still awaiting a response
needless to say i do not shop in tesco anymore

This is the recently built Tesco, which was converted about a year ago into a Tesco Extra (so its actually bigger now than in the picture on this site).
There are no faults with the place. The staff are friendly. The facilities are clean and modern. There is an onsite petrol station, taxi rank, pickup/​setdown bays, cash machines and a bus stop which gets you on the Carrick town service.
Excellent.

A very good tesco but alas like so many other multi-​nationals they have a tendency to think they can make up there own laws as they go on.
Since the upgrade to a tesco extra store they have added an optician which if you pardon the expression «they have big windays… to see you coming» Optician service itself is good but the quality of the glasses is poor at best. The por of glasses I bought had one of the lenbs fall out after 5 months of very little use. The sale of goods act states that goods must be fit for purpose and it is the onus of the supplier of the goods to prove that they are not within a period of 6 months. As I said eralier tesco dont need to abied by meagre laws of the land and so have told me that there glasses are only covered for 28 days… well if you want to buy spend a couple of hundred pounds on a pair of glasses that potentially will only last 28 days you are as big a fool as me.
Needless to say I am fighting them about it but guess what they have now managed to lose my original (Broken) pair of glasses as well… but i guess that makes my case easier to prove.

Im the guy, who lost his rag at the checkout Saturday 8pm, two wee girls at the self service till, and a line of 7 people behind me, they were deliberatly holding up the line, chatting to each other, so I moved them on, come on tesco staff., if little girls choose to have a girly chat while USING the only SELF service til, I will embarrass them.

love love love this tesco! although its massive i just think that it’s so handy for everything. The clothes, electrical and cd/​dvd sections are great and theres so much choice, and of course, tesco being tesco is great value for money! I think the self service tills are great once you get used to them, and save queuing as a lot of people don’t tend to like using them. Theres also a tesco café upstairs if thats your cup of tea (although it isn’t mine).
I think they’ve done a good job with this tesco, as theres 2 atm machines outside, a taxi pick up rank, a bus stop and also the filling station which offers free water and air for cars.
I think really, as mentioned before, the only negative of this tesco is the build up in traffic that has been caused by the traffic lights set outside it-​not fun if you’re paying for a taxi home from carrick and get stuck in traffic!

Fantastic local supermarket which is massive in size! It is one of those Tescos which stocks everything, from CDs to LCD TVs, Toys to Clothes, everything. You could probably purchase everything under one roof.
Their fresh flower selection is also always beautifully presented.
It has lots of checkouts as well as the self service tills which are good when you’re in a rush to purchase items, as these still don’t seem to be that popular!
Outside there are hundreds of easily accessible parking spaces, and a Tesco Filling Station located on the Left to fill up for the drive home!
The only qualm I have with this store is the road up to this store, as it is only a single road and can become extremely traffic jammed at peak traffic times, which is a nightmare! This isn’t a fault of the store though.

New supermarket built a few years ago brings the full range that Tesco has to offer to Carrick. Plenty of bargains to be had but I like the convience of it, easy parking, abundance to choose from and onsite petrol station.
Keep an eye out for stuff being maked down, some excellent deals to be had!