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My fiends son woke them up the other night when the draw chord of his sleeping bag got tangled round his neck. Luckily they cut him out and he was OK.

Normally on mummy bags the string is sewn at each end and will tear away (at least it would on the three I have), on this one the chord is circular.

They've written to Tescos so hopefully a recall will happen. Check your bags!

In reply to TimR: or just dont buy your gear form tesco lol

In reply to TimR: well worth checking, good on you for bringing it up. There are standards for things like this, so trading standards as well? Outdoorsmagic as well?

In reply to TimR: The big supermarkets are usually very good at recalling stuff.

In reply to TimR: Lesson number one do not trust cheating Tesco bxxxxxxx,I'm glad your sons friend is ok.

P.s I don't think Tesco's give a toss about anything or anybody other than their bottom line!

In reply to grithugger:

Quite possibly but even if I was that cynical I would think that customers dying might not be good for profits.

In reply to grithugger:
As an employee for the last 20 years, I can tell you that is not how Tesco thinks about their customers!!

In reply to liz j:

As a customer for the last 20 years, I can tell you that's not how it comes across. Blimey, I even end up having to work for them as a cashier every time I go shopping, by having to scan, and bag my own goods whilst some robotic machine shouts at me that there is an illegal item in the bagging area. A capitalist dog of a company making even more money out of implementing socialist ideals.

pah!

Rant over.

In reply to Hoppo:



and you keep going back week after week for 20 years?

All large corporations have a moral duty to care for their customers and employees if not a financial one. You guys have a poor view of things.

In reply to TimR: Hey Tim, I hope your fiends son is fine. Why buy a sleeping bag with a string in it, when you can just get a chape duvet...

In reply to TimR:

What, like the banks?

In reply to Hoppo:

All business is built on trust. You lose trust, you lose business.

In reply to TimR: i think that every store is out to make business, not friends. I also think the best bet is too shop at single local shops, no massive chain stores.

however, everyone needs to buy things from massive companys at some point or other

In reply to TimR:

Yep, and replacing stuff.

11 month old 22 inch monitor died on Sunday, took it back to Tescos, they plugged it in, confirmed that it was dead, and swapped it for a brand new one off the shelf which has a much better resolution than the original

In reply to ebygomm:
I'll check my bag out, thanks for the warning.
Down sleeping bag that packs to a flask sized package - £35! Its pretty snug too. Also, I'm impressed with my watch - time/date etc plus electronic compass and thermometer - £7!!

In reply to TimR:
What a laugh. Do you seriously think the executives of corporations like Tesco give a £&^$ for any moral values. All large corporations are interested in are giving what they term 'Value for shareholders' which means maximising profits at any cost.

Just look at the way large supermarkets treat their suppliers. And that's despite the negative publicity they already get for this. They play a very clever game working the line between what they can get away with (which is already morally repugnant)and what they may not (which is the competition commission getting serious: very unlikely anyway as it is almost totally teethless).

They will pay lipservice to their customers and give the absolute Minimum level of service they can get away with in order to maximise profits.

I'm afraid that's just how it is & those who don't think that are in cloud cuckoo land.

Dear TimR,

Thank you for your post. It appears you have opened a can of worms at the same time...

In reply to Patrik:

I'd take it back, it said value beans on the label!

In reply to TimR: Is this about testicular cancer?

In reply to Bahhhhumbug:

Yes I do. Banks like Lehman's lied and lost trust look what happened to them. The bankers are getting huge bonuses and people have lost trust in them look what is happening to them now. Selling bad products with dodgy business practices will lose you business however big you are.

Ok people are in business to make profits, but they have obligations to meet. If they fail to meet them they will lose. It doesn't matter whether you think they care more about profits than people, or whether they think about them because they feel they want to or just because they have to, the law requires them to think about people as well.

If you trust no one how on earth do you get out of bed every day?

In reply to Bahhhhumbug: When you are belaying does your leader know you only don't drop him because 1. You could go to prison, 2. Its your go next and you will need someone to belay you?

In reply to TimR: Apart from the fact that they are probably thinking about diversifying into Funerals. They seem to do everything else.

In reply to Hoppo:

so... why don't you go and use a manned checkout rather than *chosing* to use self-service?

Personally I massively prefer scanning my own stuff without a cashier, so I'm happy that most supermarkets now have those "robotic machines".

In reply to Bahhhhumbug etc

Change the record. Do you think that there is some Bilderburg-esque conspiracy where all the sharp suited execs sacrifice a junvenile shoplifter and chant incantations so they can add half a percent to the bottom line.

There are plenty of indivuuals in local and central government and many a quango and charity organsition with even less morals than your Teso execs.

I also find that those who bleat the most about firms like Tesco, Sainsbury etc, have nice final salary pensions and if they looked at them, would find they hold plenty of shares in the Great Satans they whine and whinge about. THey also tend to support large scale public spending, which surprise surprise, has to be funded through taxation. Taxation of erm er corporate profits.

If you don't like these firms, dig for your own victory and put your pension shares in dolphins and Bangladshi lesbian mung bean co-operatives....and retire at 80..

In reply to Rubbishy:


The way they seem to ballsing everything up at the moment , we'll have to anyway!

In reply to Anglesey Pete:

:O)

Personally, I am buying students and selling crocodiles. Hold aphids and review your holdings in owls and Brian T looky likeys

In reply to John Rushby: Are you using the students to make Crocodile shoes? They're cheaper than Bangladeshi sweatshops these days and the shoes sell very well in Newcastle, Jimmy Nail bought 300 pairs last year, as he will never wear the same pair of shoes twice. The other 65 days of the year he had his footy boots on, hoping to get a game at St James' Park.

Next season when they're in League One, they'll be using jumpers for goalposts.

In reply to TerryB:

many a true word is spoken in jest...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8333198.stm

In reply to Toreador: Seems a natural thing for Wal-Mart to do. After all, they'll already sell you guns and ammunition (but not, in the one I went to recently in Salt Lake City, wine or spirits. After all, they wouldn't want to sell you things which were dangerous).

T.

In reply to Hoppo:

Lots of supermarkets have the self service machines, not just Tesco!

I do see the benefit of buying from smaller, independent shops, and try to do so when I'm visiting somewhere, but for general shopping I'll use a big supermarket. I don't think they're quite the big immoral machines that everyone makes out. And as for respecting customers - I bought a packet of 4 chicoos (imported toffee flavoured fruit) from Tesco, bit into one and almost ate a living grub. Took then back and the lady at customer service gave me my money back, but I wasn't bothered about that so much, I wanted it looked into in case there was something wrong with the import process. She seemed a bit reluctant but said she could send them away for me. Not long after I unexpectedly got a profuse letter of apology saying they'll sort it out, and a £10 store voucher!

In reply to John Rushby:


half a percent to the bottom line of Tesco is over £7million, I suspect that might take a little more than chanting!

But yeah I agree, It's easy to be synical about large corps. but they give us what we want (cheap, convenent etc.)