Tesco Express

This is just a sad, sad store. It’s often the only option around because it’s open 24 hours, but the food just looks sad and unappealing. The prices are low, but you pay for the quality you get. The food is mostly gross (especially the pre-​made lunches), and the store itself is not well kept and is always a mess.

I live less than a minute from this store and I avoid it like the plague. The place is really cramped and the aisles are super narrow. With that in mind, it doesn’t help that the staff leave crates and boxes in the aisles so you can’t browse without being in someone’s or having someone in your way. The line is nearly always half way around the shop no matter what time you go. The staff are rude and always seem to be pushing large crates around the store getting in customers way instead of opening up one of the (many) empty tills. Even as a local, this is an absolute last resort for me, I only go when Waitrose (a few seconds walk) is closed.

Eep! I feel so mean! This is my first one-​star review.
I work really close to this Tesco… but try to avoid it as much as I can! The staff are rude and the queue is always really long. They also have a tendency to try to scam people out of money by using unclear pricing (or putting expensive items next to labels for cheaper equivalents…) you have to check all labels carefully here!
Today they are selling two cadburys selection boxes for £5, or one for £1.50.
What a deal! *facepalm*
If you value your sanity, go around the corner to waitrose. It doesn’t cost extra (there is more choice, so it nearly always works out cheaper) and the staff won’t make you angry. :)

Oh Tesco… how I miss you. Mostly for being open 24 hours.
I stayed at the International Hall, located just a few minutes’ walk away, for a travel study program with my home university, so it was a very, very nice convenience to have.
I went to this Tesco quite a few times for late-​night cravings, and it served my needs well.
Queues tend to be long, but move quickly because there is always someone staffing each till. However most, if not all, of the breads run out by midnight.
This Tesco Express was a convenience and nothing more. I got what I needed and that was what mattered. It’s not hard to see why people come here at all hours of the day and night.

Wow – a few haters, I see.
I happened upon this Tesco Express before popping across the street to the Russell Sq tube station and making my way to LHR (but not before stopping at the V&A museum first!).
The convenience of having the luxury of picking any last-​minute items up in such a way, queues not being horrible at the hour I went – great. Nothing was in terrible disarray, and I did find most items of which I was most keen.
In addition, they are open at nightttime and when en route back to my hotel, I’d spot many grabbing sandwiches and the like. That feature too is another plus in my book.

I hate you.
Rather than wait in your epic queue I encountered this evening, I walked a mile around Bloomsbury and Holborn looking for another grocery store only to find they’d all closed early on Sunday. I did this not because it was quicker but because of the principal of the matter.
I returned home with nothing.

All of what Larissa said may be true, but their pre-​made meals an