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Buy the right to watch the movie and NOT worry about the format
Tesco has just taken a majority stake in local video-on-demand service BlinkBox with an 80% stake in that business. Blinkbox is the UK’s...
Nick Lansley
Apr 20, 20113 min read


My London 2012 Olympic Games Maker Tech interview
Click on any image in this article for a much bigger version and, where applicable, read some of the detailed text on the boards shown in...
Nick Lansley
Apr 18, 20114 min read
Today is “Email: Say It In The Subject!” Day
Today is “Email: Say It In The Subject!” Day! This is where the emails you write to your friends and colleagues have all the vital...
Nick Lansley
Apr 15, 20111 min read


Take part in our “BIG Collection” for Alzheimer’s Society
This blog is committed to doing its bit to help the Tesco Charity of the Year 2011 – Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Scotland – and I...
Nick Lansley
Apr 14, 20111 min read
Benedictus benedicat!
“Let him who has been blessed, give blessing.” I would just like to thank Professor John Naughton and his team for giving me the...
Nick Lansley
Apr 13, 20111 min read
Tonight’s Lecture at Cambridge (Arcadia Programme)
A reminder that if you are a student at Cambridge University I am giving a lecture on Tesco’s customer-focussed mobile journey (those...
Nick Lansley
Apr 12, 20111 min read


Evolved: The Tesco.com “Can and Hand” logo
Those of you who read the blog via its web page will have noticed the graphical makeover and the appearance of a can of Tesco Baked Beans...
Nick Lansley
Apr 8, 20112 min read


Two of our delivery vans are missing…
If you’ve read the post showing the ‘heat map’ of our Tesco.com grocery delivery vans across the UK, you’ll come away with a great...
Nick Lansley
Apr 7, 20112 min read


Where’s My Shopping?
Mike Brearley is Lead IT Developer at Tesco.com’s Central Delivery Service team. Authoring this article, Mike reveals how tracking our...
Nick Lansley
Apr 4, 20111 min read
Tesco Express opens on International Space Station
Congratulations to my colleagues in the branch team for the new Tesco Express opening today on the International Space Station. It took...
Nick Lansley
Apr 1, 20111 min read


Email: Say It In The Subject – and take part on Friday 15th April!
I’d like you to take a look at a section of my email inbox showing incoming email subjects: Taking a look at the subject list above – ...
Nick Lansley
Mar 31, 20114 min read
Tesco Wine Finder application reaches R&D end-of-Life
After 16 months of loyal service to customers, our R&D project application Tesco Wine Finder for iPhone has now been finally removed from...
Nick Lansley
Mar 29, 20112 min read
Next-Generation Picking Computers
Every morning at 6am, our army of thousands of personal shoppers across our biggest 300 Tesco stores and 3 “Dotcom-only stores” (‘sort...
Nick Lansley
Mar 28, 20112 min read
Ocado admits to scraping Tesco web site to get price-matches
At the Retail Week conference, Ocado CFO Andrew Bracey admitted that they scrape the Tesco grocery site in order to get Tesco prices with...
Nick Lansley
Mar 19, 20111 min read


New version of Tesco Recipes for iPad now live on App Store
The mobile team who created the sumptuous Tesco Recipes for iPad application have just informed me that the new version has gone live on...
Nick Lansley
Mar 19, 20111 min read
See you at the Retail Week Conference 2011
I’m just about to leave home to take the tube to the Retail Week Conference (at the Hilton London Metropole on Edgware Road). If you are...
Nick Lansley
Mar 17, 20111 min read
Techfortesco Extra blog available on internal Tesco intranet
If you work at Tesco HQ and/or have a Tesco computer account then you can read my new blog, Techfortesco Extra (T4T+), where I can often...
Nick Lansley
Mar 10, 20111 min read
Nice Computing article about me becoming an Olympic Games Maker
Hats off to Dawinderpal Sahota, a journalist with Computing, who has written a great article about my application to be a volunteer...
Nick Lansley
Mar 9, 20111 min read


Careers at Tesco.com
Thank you if you are one of a number of people who have written to me about the possibility of a career at Tesco.com. It’s great to see...
Nick Lansley
Mar 8, 20111 min read
My London 2012 Olympic Gamesmaker Technology Interview
I’ve just received an email from the London 2012 organising committee accepting my application to become one of thousands of Olympic...
Nick Lansley
Mar 7, 20111 min read
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