Residents of a Cardiff suburb have called for changes to be made to their local Tesco supermarket amid claims of rising prices and the loss of own brand products in-store. The branch of Tesco Express - one of two on Cowbridge Road East in Canton - was previously a larger 'Metro' store, but became an Express supermarket last year.
While Tesco Extra and Tesco Metro supermarkets were designed to cater for shoppers' larger, weekly shops, branches of Tesco Express are smaller, convenience stores and some shoppers say are also more expensive. We bought the same shopping at Extra and Express branches to see the difference in cost for ourselves, and you can read about that here.
In May 2021, the supermarket giant announced a major overhaul of its stores across the UK, with 147 Metro stores either being scrapped and becoming Express branches or revamped as new 'Superstores'. One of those stores was the former Metro supermarket which opened in the heart of Canton, near the Ivor Davies pub, in 1973.
