Here in Scunny, apparently, just picked ity up from another website, no details yet, fire engines racing down there about an hour ago, half the roof supposed to have gone.
Hope no-one is injured if it's true.

 

woops!

Teach them to build cheap crap.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer company LOL

 

You got there before the fire engines then

 

Snow - every little helps

 

Nicked the photo from another website, but it's our Tesco alright, cheapest building they could put up, allowed by this "Martini" council: build what you want, any place, anywhere, any time.

 

Think the Structure engineers is in for some grief Monday morning.

 

It was the snow's fault

 

Word has it there ARE casualties. One woman critical

Now, let's see if the Council H&S close them until it's reapired? What odds?

 

Swiss. While enjoy your posts, this is snow laughing matter.

 

It might be a 'cheap' building in your view but the structural integrity has nothing to do with Tesco.
They employ independant structural engineers to design their buildings and therefore i'm sure Tesco will be banging heads as we type. The engineers will now be going through the calcs to make sure snow loading was factored in.....if so, not enough!!!
Nik.

 

I just did a panic, i've just been to Tesco and left my mam in there doing her shopping, I have such bad luck I thought its bound to be ours

 

snow your audience

 

Someone didn`t do his snow loading sums right

 

Apparently someone went in to buy some sweets - all they wanted was a flake....

 

 

 

 

Sorry, what I was alluding to is the total cheap crap that are Tesco Supermarkets, compared to, say, Morrisons.

Tesco: plastic, glass steel, plastic roof, just a featureless box

Morrisons: Attractive brickwork, a clock tower WITH clock.

Tesco tossers!

 

I always pick a supermarket based on its quality of building, who cares about choice of food and deals

 

LOL you d*ck!

Of course no-one chooses a supermarket for it's building, but wouldn't it be nice if companies built their places to LOOK nice as well as do a job?

No reason to have one without the other?

 

It's all academic if they only give them a budget of thirty-five pee to build it with.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ight-snow.html

Couple more photos on there. I imagine its not the only building like that the architects will have designed - bet there'll be some head scratching and worried people about whether it could happen elsewhere!

 

Well 'ark at yoooww, all posh 'n snobbish


*I usually shop at Marks & Sparks and Aldi


New Tesco by us is of identical design.........think I'll avoid it 'til the snow melts (well, I only buy the petrol from there anyway).

 

Tell a lie, it has some extra supports for the roof overhang...which your Scunny one doesn't have.



It must have been built as a Tesco *finest store as opposed to the usual Tesco value.

 

Is the thread title meant to be ironic?

 

 

Is this worth extra club card points?

 

Not necessarily. You only allow for a defined amount of snow, if that is exceeded then structural damage may occur.

 

Architects design stuff like fire escape routes, engineers do structural design.

 

Architects also dictate how the building should look, not structural engineers.