Please welcome the newest member of our mobile app family, Tesco Groceries for Android. Yes, I know, you’ve wanted this app to launch for a long time. But the management team, designers and developers were patient, considered, and did things right so that we could launch an app to be proud of. So take my hand and let’s journey together through the delights of this android application. Would you like to be downloading while we walk? Sure, follow this link. We start with the op

We now have a comprehensive ‘sat-nav’ system working INSIDE one of our Tesco stores! The new service is able to show you where all your wanted products are on a store map, show you where you are on that map, and guide you round the store to pick up your products using the shortest route. The prototype system is installed at the Tesco Extra, Romford (Gallows Corner) in north-east London, and we need to recruit a large control group of customers (including staff) who would like

I’ve just sent into live an update to the API service supporting Tesco Finder application. The focus has been on improving performance and accuracy of the service for the ever-increasing number of Tesco Finder users. The “nearest branches” feature is now much more accurate. Before the update, the API tended to favour nearest branches by longitude (east-west of your location) over latitude (north-south), resulting in branches further away but in an east-west direction ending u

If you’re an Emmerdale fan than you will no doubt have seen the excellent and amusing 40-second TV commercial from our marketing department. The commercial shows our “Tesco family” using the barcode scanning facility on their iPhone as they go about life. You’ll see the ad popping up all over the place on commercial TV channels in the UK over the next four weeks. If you haven’t spotted the commercial yet, don’t worry: I watched Emmerdale on your behalf and recorded the commer

Yes we’ve just launched our first (and frankly gorgeous) iPad app – Tesco Recipes. The app was designed of course by our mobile app creators extraordinaire – Ribot, who used the ‘salivation commences’ slogan in their blog post as that sums up for me regarding what this app is all about. Andy Beale, IT Manager into whom our fledgling production mobile development team reports, commented: Special thanks to Sreelatha in India who has worked tirelessly to test the application and

If you have been reading in the media about my proposal to have a form of in-store “satellite navigation”-style location based awareness for Tesco Finder app users, I thought I would take you on a dive into the sort of research we’re doing to see if we can make this work. Now we don’t do ‘tech’ for its own sake so let’s examine the use cases: “As the customer, I wish to be guided to the product I am looking for in the store”. “As the customer, I wish to be alerted by my phone

The BBC’s Technology Correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, has written a nice blog article on the Tesco Groceries app now we have updated it to include barcode scanning. It’s always good when people I respect are enjoying the fruits of the work coming out of Tesco.com! http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2010/10/mobile_barcodes_and_smarter_sh.html #app #barcode #iphone #tescogroceries

Our Tesco Groceries for iPhone app has been updated to enable you to scan barcodes using the iPhone’s camera (the same way that Tesco Finder for iPhone does). Now you can scan any EAN barcode and, as long as the product is sold in your home store, you can see the product’s details and add it straight to your current shopping basket. This should really add to the convenience of grocery home shopping, so enjoy this new facility. To update the app, just launch App Store on your

I don’t get any products, favourites or delivery slots when I use my iPhone or Nokia app – what’s wrong? If you get this problem, it means is that your grocery account is set to an ‘accessiblity’ profile. In order to make your account work with the app it needs to be displayed in ‘standard’ profile. Changing your profile is easy but you do need to go to our web site and make a change to one of the settings. Follow these instructions: Login to your grocery account at http://ww

Tesco.com’s Marketing Director Ian Crook was presenting at Nokia World today, talking about our Tesco Groceries for Nokia app. This photo from Twitter user @jmacdonald captured our man Ian in action (click the image for full size): #app #nokia #nokliaworld #tesco

Thanks to all of you who have downloaded our Tesco Groceries for iPhone application. The app is achieving a continuous top 10 position in iTunes for ‘most downloaded free app’ (it’s at No. 5 right now) and is No.1 in the ‘Lifestyle” category in the time period since it launched last Thursday. Of course downloads aren’t everything – we’ll be monitoring usage to see what customers use / avoid / love / hate about the application and tune it up appropriately. Feedback pretty good

I’ve just been informed within the last 10 minutes that our Nokia grocery home shopping application for Nokia S60-series phones is now live for download by customers from the Nokia OVI store. If you have a Nokia phone model 800, N97, N97 mini, X6, 5230 or 5530 then you’re all set: Download and enjoy! #ovi #nokia #grocery #app #tesco

As we get more customers onto our new ‘Project Martini’ grocery service, the time is coming when our army of third-party developers can unleash their Tesco Grocery API powered applications on the world. One of these developers is James Mills, an IT programmer who came along to our Tesco TJAM day back in August last year. James has developed a Facebook application called ‘My Shopping Assistant’ which allows Facebook users to shop groceries with us. If you’re a Facebook user, t

The following post is my own opinion, not necessarily the opinion of my colleagues or anyone else at Tesco. I should also point out that I am project lead for R&D (Research and Development) at Tesco.com, not all of Tesco as some of the media have stated! — Now maybe it’s just me. Maybe I don’t “get it”. Maybe someone could enlighten me?.. but.. What is the point of a mobile phone ‘app store’ run by a cellular operator? As we build up momentum with our mobile strategy, you can

I’ve just received the artwork for the latest Apple iPhone campaign, and so I can reveal that recently Apple contacted us to ask if they could feature our R&D iPhone app Tesco Finder in their latest poster / newspaper advertisement (see above – closeup of Tesco Finder entry below). I said, “Yes”. Actually, being ever the consummate professional, I may have toned my response down for your benefit. In reality it was more, “YES PLEASE OMG THANK YOU!!!”, knowing me. Thanks Apple

Off we go on our journey to bring a great Tesco Clubcard experience directly to your mobile phone! Clubcard is Tesco’s way of saying thank you for shopping with us – it’s easy – simply scan your Clubcard every time you shop. For every £1 you spend on qualifying products at Tesco, whether in-store or online, we’ll reward you 2 Clubcard points. However if you’re like me, sometimes your Tesco Clubcard sometimes doesn’t quite make it to your wallet, or it’s slipped down the botto