Tesco Stores

This is a great Tesco superstore. All your needs met. Lots of gluten free and free from products available. The produce isn’t as fresh as it could be which is a little annoying but overall an excellent supermarket.

This is a very frustrating Tesco, it’s well laid out and is thoughtfully dividend into different sections, selling quite a lot of different items considering it’s not an Extra store. It also has an online order pick up point which is handy.
The main problem with it though which really winds me up whenever I go there is the self-​service checkouts, they have 6 which are divided into groups of 4 and 2. So you have two queues, one for each section. For some reason in this store people take absolutely ages to go through them, so there’s always a huge queue, or two huge queues to be precise. Added to this that the staff seem to wander off whenever they feel like it, so once someone jams their machine they’re just stood there for ages with no assistance, and meanwhile the queues get longer.
One morning all four people in the section had jammed their machines and the attendant had wondered off somewhere, so we were all left standing there like idiots with nothing we could do. I don’t think Tesco understands how frustrating this is, and it seems to show a real lack of respect for their customes. It’s not easy to see why they have so few of the machines, the Sainsbury’s at Stratford is much smaller and has around 3 times as many, sensibly with only one queue so that you don’t get annoyed watching the queue next to you going faster.
Every time I’ve been to this Tesco this has been a cause of major annoyance, so I do try to avoid the place.

This is our local supermarket in Leytonstone. We have done our weekly shop there reasonably happily since it opened and it is within easy walking distance (we don’t have a car — we use a ‘sholly’ to cart the shopping home). However, we are seriously considering going to the Asda store at Leyton instead as we are infuriated at the new layout. Three short isles of fruit and veg rather than one easy to negotiate isle. Looking for soy sauce — it could be on any number of isles. Yes, I am probably one of the ‘happy shoppers’ heard swearing by the previous poster as I desperately trying to locate things! When it closed down for the recent refurb we went to Asda instead. Although it can get very busy, the staff there were very helpful when looking for an item and actually took you to the place in the store where the item you were looking for was located. No such service in Tesco — you are lucky if they know where anything is, or even if they stock it and if they do you get no better than a ‘try isle 9′. No longer pleasant shopping there in the pile it high/​sell it cheap isles. I’ve given it 2 stars because we have found it to have a pretty good selection and variety of items.

This Tesco is a medium sized one that sells a variety of food and drink and household items. Most things are competitively priced and there are regular promotions and offers such as Buy one get on free, 3 for 2, mulitbuys. There is also a car park and the store is open till late. You can also take advantage for the clubcard offers and gain points too.

Big tesco superstore between 5 – 10 mins walk from Leytonstone tube station. Big car park surrounds it & has a costa coffee café inside. Small clothing section, very poor gluten free choice for a store that is so big. Prefer some tesco metros around the central city than this store as they seem to have a better selection of food, however this has a pharmacy, better larger toiletries selection than the metros & a side of the shop dedicated to electronics /​books /​homewares.

The Tesco store in Leytonstone is very big and houses a lot of different things from clothes to electronics and a large variety of food.
It is 24 hour which is good and for some reason it is allways busy even at 3 in the morning.
Staff are friendly but some of them are a bit slow and I remember one who could not speak English very well.
Good if you are on a late night