Glandford Park untouched ...

[Donnywolf]

...FFS

Had a bright idea to do the Shopping yesterday at Scunny Tesco

After trudging leaden footed filling a trolley full of stuff - I thought well at least that is done for another week and then .... BANG

The front part of the roof from the left end to the middle just came down. Fire Alarms go off and everybody has to leave. The staff did well actually

Trollies full of stuff are of course abandoned and it was obious that nobody was going back in there anytime soon so I got Mrs DW in the car before everyone else cottoned on and made my way home

Now got to do it all again ! S**T

Good pictures on here

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335528/Roof-Tesco-store-collapses-weight-snow.html

[BLIR]

I'm sure that in the panic you could have sneaked through with your trolley? Would have had 2 bonuses:

1) You don't have to do the shopping again

2) FREE shopping  

[BillyStubbsTears]

Oh dear. That'll be some structural engineer out of work. Even with the snow we've had this week, there's no way that canopy should have been overloaded if it had been designed properly.

How many Tescos are there in the country? All designed pretty much identically. So presumably all those big canopies are under designed and liable to this sort of collapse.

Somebody will be having a shit Saturday morning.

[Filo]

I wonder if top quality Scunthorpe Steel was used for those supports, or cheap Chinese imports?

[mushRTID]

BLIR wrote:

I'm sure that in the panic you could have sneaked through with your trolley? Would have had 2 bonuses:

1) You don't have to do the shopping again

2) FREE shopping  

Dont think anyone would have checked your receipts, id have tried!!

[Filo]

mushRTID wrote:

BLIR wrote:

I'm sure that in the panic you could have sneaked through with your trolley? Would have had 2 bonuses:

1) You don't have to do the shopping again

2) FREE shopping  

Dont think anyone would have checked your receipts, id have tried!!

Yeah but what about your club card points?

[RTID75]

Cheap, shitty building design to maximise profit. I suspect they'll spend a little more next time they put a new one up.

A couple of years ago the Tesco Extra next to the Ricoh stadium in Coventry sprang a massive leak after a serious downpour, which pissed into the front of the shop by the check-outs, forcing the shop to close and emergency services to attend. That sounds amazingly similar to this story:

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Tesco-Roborough-shuts-roof-collapses/article-1194075-detail/article.html

[Donnywolf]

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/Tesco-shoppers39-roof-collapse-drama.4439508.jp

Does not sound like they have much luck with their roof design whichever style they pick

Hartlepool does not look the same as the Extra at Scunny though. I checked out Balby yesterday and it looked to have only a small thickness of snow so whether it had been attended to earlier I dont know

Whether Managers at Tesco have a bit of independamce I also dont know but the Car Parks Walkways etc were much better defined too than Scunny BUT that could have been down to less snow in the first place

Probably rewriting their procedures for snow clearing now after snowfall. THAT was the odd thing for me as the snow at Scunny was deep but no more was falling and had not for a couple of days - so the roof load should not have been rising. I was looking for something (like a car) that had bit a pillar causing it to collapse and causng a domino effect for some of the others but no reports of that.