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Something tells me you might want to avoid the Gleadless Valley estate if you ever visit Sheffield. Tesco’s declared it a no-go zone for home deliveries because its drivers and vans have been attacked and robbed. Some people will do anything for a bit of broccoli.
Mind you, I’m sure it’s a lovely place, having never personally laid eyes on the Gleadless Valley estate. Tesco’s blanket ban has upset quite a few though, not least the South Yorkshire Police, who say it’s wholly unfair on residents. That might be true, but if you keep sending vans that way, and they come back slightly missing things, well, wouldn’t you want to steer clear? It’s got to be pretty damn bad to actually block deliveries and cut-off business because of it.
After complaints, Tesco ended up actually delivering one woman’s shopping for Christmas by taxi. I’ll bet that driver was super chuffed. Pedal to the metal, cos I’m outta here. [The Grocer]
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3 bed house for £125,000, is that cheap or am I just used to Surrey prices?
This property would be closer to £500,000 where I am, but then again Tescos and Ocado deliver here
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39294968.html
What bit of surrey do you live in Julian?
I can hear The Derby if I’m lucky
Bugger me, I’m in Horley. not too far!
I know you are not fond of social networks, but do try and join at least the Giz UK (unofficial) community.
maybe one day but at moment too busy getting other stuff done (which is higher up the list)
Agreed, come find us!
Jaysus that’s cheap, if that was in NW London I’d buy it right now.
£550k.. pocket change..
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-24967365.html/svr/2711;jsessionid=ED02C8B8A48C81FFD3F55C5662346770
LOL!!
I just about rent here, i cant buy.. only Asians buy in this area..
Yeah but I live in leafy Surrey, would not live in London if I was given a property!
3 bed house with a large garden start at £90,000 in my village. See there are some good things about living up north.
£90K….! seriously, where the hell do you live and how often does the temp. get above freezing
If you ignore the windchill it’s above freezing right now :p
Oh, £90k was a bit high… try from £60k http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40401371.html
OMG….. (picks jaw up from floor)
ITs epic cheap but then its epic hard to find a job.. I lived in Surrey.. and its about as leafy as west London, I agree with you though, i would rather live outside the M25, but work says otherwise, i like my job and i am not paying 5K a year to ride the train, i can put that into rent and cycle to work.. Plus Ealing Common is pretty green so im ok.. for now..
working from home does have its advantages
but to be honest I’m 1000% more likely to go and live/work in the Canaries than ‘up north’ 
Im surprised they did just say, we dont deliver in your area!
Perhaps the bobbys could get some work done but wait, the budget cuts in force, well done.
Broccoli?
Being a bit optimistic there aren’t we?
More like Greggs!
Tesco don’t sell or deliver Greggs. Iceland do though… I guess that’s another company that won’t be delivering there.
Ahh Gleadless… The shithole end (or at least one of them) of Sheffield. The ten miles that sit between where I live and there doesn’t seem like enough. Unfortunately the dear leaders of our utterly inept council don’t seem to think that there are any serious problems involving crime in the steel city and are convinced that instead of dealing with trouble causers directly, the best option is to sit idly by and twiddle their thumbs whilst bemoaning the sad state of the city centre (that they caused)
Looks lovely >> https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=gleadless+valley+estate&hl=en&ll=53.345956,-1.444314&spn=16.504654,47.878418&sll=52.8382,-2.327815&sspn=16.695408,47.878418&hq=gleadless+valley+estate&t=m&z=6&layer=c&cbll=53.345956,-1.444314&panoid=2FlVQeFxs1DDrQ0-sXaTrA&cbp=12,69.19,,0,12.8
I was half-expecting there to not have been a full 360° shot there because one or more of the cameras was missing
WERE missing! Bah!
Perhaps restrict the delivery windows to 10am and 12pm. Most of the crims will still be in bed from a night of “work” and the scrotes will be getting their dinner made by mum or they’ll be breastfeeding – they get younger and younger after all.
Can’t say I blame Tesco, looks like a shithole.
I grew up in Sheffield. Yes, it is that grim.
The thing with tesco is, as far as i’m aware, they also deliver some electronics with their home delivery vans if they’re ordered together. So if you target a van early on its round and get 5-10 new-release titles that were going to be someones christmas present, theres a few hundred quid right there, not to mention all the other potential nickables that are worth a bit more than groceries.
I find this hilarious being from Sheffield, but trust something like this to be the reason there’s news about us
I used to live in Palo Alto (yes, the home of Facebook once). The pizza delivery people don’t deliver to East Palo Alto for the same reason, and I am sure such things go on in other US cities and have done for decades.
They have guns over there too, so it’s prob a tad worse than Sheffield, and it’s not the vans that the pizza people are worried about, it is their drivers! They need them back alive to deliver to more prosperous ‘hoods!