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Tesco Groceries app for iPhone / iPod Touch – Walkthrough
Let’s take a walkthrough of the Tesco Groceries app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (the latter running in “iPhone mode”). Here is the...
Nick Lansley
Sep 7, 20102 min read
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One Million Tesco Apps Downloaded
Computer Weekly, one of my favourite reads, has as exceeded even their own excellent forecasting abilities. In their article Tesco Finder...
Nick Lansley
Sep 7, 20101 min read
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Who are Ribot, and why did we make them our mobile partner?
Our grocery home shopping application for Nokia phones (and soon, iPhone) was designed and built for us by a Brighton-based company...
Nick Lansley
Aug 6, 20103 min read
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BREAKING: Tesco Grocery app for Nokia now live to customers on OVI store
I’ve just been informed within the last 10 minutes that our Nokia grocery home shopping application for Nokia S60-series phones is now...
Nick Lansley
Aug 6, 20101 min read
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Why have we snubbed iPhone by launching grocery on Nokia?
I have lots of interesting feedback from readers wondering why we we went for Nokia first and (as GoMo News put it, “Tesco snubs iPhone...
Nick Lansley
Aug 6, 20102 min read
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Walkthrough of Tesco Grocery app for Nokia phones
Let’s take a walk-through of our new grocery home shopping application for Nokia phones to give you a sense of what it looks like and how...
Nick Lansley
Aug 5, 20103 min read
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Tesco Friday Frenzy and power of Social Networking
One Friday a few weeks ago, the Clothing at Tesco (C@T) team decided to launch a campaign to increase their Facebook fan base. The team...
Nick Lansley
Jul 16, 20103 min read
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Tesco.com has its own private cloud computing service
A short time ago I responded to our leadership team’s concerns that the grocery API, still very much an R&D project (and on its own...
Nick Lansley
Jul 5, 20102 min read
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Why we all need a Hero (Device)
As you know, at Tesco.com we targeted iPhone first. Yet if I was to draw a Venn diagram containing two circles – one representing the...
Nick Lansley
Jun 18, 20103 min read
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Happy retirement Sir Terry – and thanks for choosing the IT guy!
Sir Terry Leahy announced his forthcoming retirement today; from next March his role will be taken by Philip Clarke, who is currently...
Nick Lansley
Jun 8, 20101 min read
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Tesco Finder gets barcode scanner / remote support from remote countryside
I’m just back from one of my splendid ‘cycling and cider’ holidays in Cornwall – mountain biking through the fantastic trails set up...
Nick Lansley
Jun 1, 20102 min read
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UPDATED: Tesco Clubcard iPhone Competition / App Download Stats
The iPhone Clubcard application has now reached just under half a million downloads and the new improved version of the application which...
Nick Lansley
May 16, 20101 min read
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UPDATED: Tesco Clubcard app for Blackberry launches / download stats
The Tesco Clubcard application, first launched on iPhone, has just become available to owners of RIM Blackberry smart phones. The...
Nick Lansley
May 16, 20101 min read
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New version of Tesco Clubcard iPhone app submitted
We’ve submitted a new version of the Tesco Clubcard app to the Apple iTunes App Store. As well as continuing to feature the on-screen...
Nick Lansley
May 4, 20102 min read
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Tesco.com HQ QR-Code: Android phones are most used decoding devices / QR codes with built-in images
Thanks for the feedback on the QR code ‘experiment’ I tried on my fellow staff members yesterday. Sounds like quite a few of you had fun...
Nick Lansley
Apr 27, 20101 min read
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IMPORTANT: Tesco API Services off air 18:00-00:00 UK (17:00-23:00 UTC) 26 April-4 May
IMPORTANT NOTICE to Tesco API Developers Both the CTP (Community Technical Preview) and Beta editions of the Tesco grocery API will be...
Nick Lansley
Apr 26, 20101 min read
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Square barcode showing on screens at Tesco.com HQ today
I wanted to see how many people 1) noticed and 2) decided to see if they could decode it. If it works, this means that people are taking...
Nick Lansley
Apr 26, 20101 min read
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Order your Tesco.com groceries through a Facebook app
As we get more customers onto our new ‘Project Martini’ grocery service, the time is coming when our army of third-party developers can...
Nick Lansley
Apr 21, 20101 min read
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Interactive corporate tweeting – could there be trouble ahead?
Thanks for the feedback from my article about our ‘Good or Bad?’ Twitter monitoring. Several emailers are asking how and when we intend...
Nick Lansley
Apr 20, 20104 min read
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Are we Good or Bad? Happy or Sad?
Here I am back at work extolling the virtues of a ‘stay-cation’ by having a Britain-acquired suntan without the need for flying (hah!),...
Nick Lansley
Apr 19, 20103 min read
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