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Tesco Express, or as we say in the UK, 'little Tescos'.
Me: all these Tescos look the same, this one looks just like my local one in Dereham.
1 minute later: Oh.
From one angle it looked identical to one near me, but as soon as he turned I was like, oh, it's not that one...
That last location felt so familiar. Then i realised i remembered it from being in the back of my dad's car passing it every now and then. I think it might be from when we used to travel back from seeing my cousins in Gloucester but that would have been the M40/A40. Hmmm. That was a fun game! I got 1 metre away in round 4, I counted the amount of car spaces, figured I was on space #5, estimated the average size of a car on the map and triangulated it within 1m. Awesome. This game sometimes makes me feel like a special ops agent from a 90s spy film hahaha
Thanks for sharing. I love these nostalgic posts!
Often see trolleys in random places. In rivers, canals, etc. Although I think it's becoming less common so that's nice.
One thing you consider is opening hours. The shops in Scotland open longer on Sundays than in England.
I live a mile away from the nearest supermarket and can see two trolleys from my window right now.
Trolleys weren't returned?
First one was immediately Scotland to me from the Arnold Clark adverts. And "MOT" stands for Ministry of Transport, but it's a very old department long since replaced lots of time and now it is Department for Transport, but MOT just seems the roadworthiness certificate.
Also, the SPT on the bus stop sign places it in West Central Scotland (STP = Strathclyde Passenger (or Partnership for) Transport)
MOT does stand for "Ministry of Transport" which WAS the name of the government organisation which administered vehicle licensing and testing. It's had several names over the years and has been known as the Department for Transport (DfT) since 2002. The agency of the DfT which administers vehicle testing nowadays is the DVSA (Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency), but the annual test which vehicles have to pass to test their roadworthiness is still call the "MOT Test"
One of the biggest giveaways to pickup on is the letter codes on the street signs. Most codes are an abreviation of the city name, eg B=Birmingham, but london is so big its codes are often compass directions, when you see SW, NW you know its south west london, north west london etc. Also if its got a number eg. B1, cities usually structure their codes by starting with 1 in the middle and spiraling out to higher (2 digit) numbers on the outskirts.
Most shopping trolleys in the UK have a built-in wheel locking (anti theft) system that is activated past a certain point, these points are often marked with signs as shown. You will notice the ground or road surface is different at these entrance and exit points indicating the installation of the system that activates the wheel lock. These systems are installed by a company called Rocateq and I believe the latest system can active if an alarm sounds when leaving the store.
Metro = convenience, Express = Convenience + Fuel, Tesco = Supermarket (inc Fuel), Extra = Expanded clothing and various departments. Those brick-strips below that "dont take trolley" sign have magnets that lock the trolleys. In my town, Tesco is pretty much the only major chain, theres a regular tesco, a metro and an express. Only other competitor is Lidl
Fuel is irrelevant to naming. From Tesco’s own website, Metro = “Local neighbourhood shopping in predominantly city centre locations”, whilst Express = “smallest stores designed for maximum convenience”. I believe Express stores are also intentionally designed below a certain square footage, allowing them exemption from certain Sunday trading hour laws.
Mate, the first Tesco is literally an express and doesn’t have fuel…….
Round 1: 0141 I think is Glasgow but I can't narrow it down beyond that. The blue signs opposite tell me the town centre is to the north so I head that way and find KwikFit telling me we are in Ayr. I know where that is so I follow the railway line south from the town centre, find the KwikFit and then the Tesco.
Round 2: I don't recognise the phone code, but Victoria Mills suggests we're in the north of England and the road numbers starting with 6 back that up. Signs tell me we're near Stainland and the M62 but the M62 is a long road and I don't know where Stainland is. A bus stop tells me we're near Halifax and that helps, but I still can't find Sainland. Eventually I reach the end of the settlement and find we're in Greeland which I do remember seeing, and that turns out to be all I need.
Round 3: This is a very different part of the country, but beyond that I don't immediately know. I turn left at the roundabout and find Breckland council offices, I've heard of it but can't place it. Signs for Swaffam and Fakenham are similar - I think they're in the east, maybe Essex or Suffolk possibly Cambridgeshire? I return to the roundabout and find the big roundabout which puts us on the A47 between Kings Lynn and Norwich. That brings me to Deerham and the Tesco.
Round 4: No helpful signs until after the bridge over the small river channel (it looks too small to be a canal). The sign though is very helpful - we're on the A308 between Kingston and Staines, and closer to the M3 than Kingston. It's just a question of finding the Tesco on that road.
Round 5: The easiest of the lot - I know where Wimbledon Chase station is so no moving necessary.
0141 is Glasgow yes, but it turns out that wasn't a local phone number, as Ayr is 01292.
Dereham one is in an area of England called "East Anglia"
Is East Anglia a region or county?
East Anglia is a region. -made up of the counties of Norfolk (Dereham is in Norfolk), Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and by some definitions Essex. - back in the time of the Anglo-Saxons it was it's own kingdom.
@alloverthemap23 it's the region on the kind of sticky out bit of eastern England. There are 2 counties in it: Norfolk and Suffolk
Tesco doesn't offer anything unique, that's it's power. It is just dependable. and they provide everything, groceries, gas stations, credit cards, insurance, they are even a cell phone provider.
Are the stores pretty consistent from one part of the country to another?
@@alloverthemap23 yes, virtually identical stock wise
I almost spat out my drink when I saw the second one, thats my local tesco lmao
Same ahahahah
We have the National Trolley Hotline in the UK whereby you can report a stray trolley and it will be collected and presumably returned to the company of it's origin, this along with the mechanism which lock the wheels beyond a certain point is probably why there a not many abandoned trolleys scattered all over the place
Impressive knowledge re Maldon & Tiptree given I think most footy fans here would have never heard of them. The non league game is fantastic by the way, much more of a traditional experience of going to the football compared to the sanitised nonsense served up in the Premier League
IS THAT MY LOCAL TESCO IN THE THUMBNAIL?? IT LOOKS IDENTICAL
haha these days the wheels on shopping trolleys lock up if you go too far. they used to have these metal grids that lock the wheels on the car park exit. stray trolleys used be a thing back in the day but not really now, in my area at least (Croydon. You should do the Croydon map, I played it once and my house, my infant/primary school and my high school all came up in the same round, i was flabbergasted haha!) as for tesco itself, we go their pretty much nightly for a few bits, its really the convenience as we have a huge tesco extra right near us. they don't really do anything special but they always have a good selection of ingredients. you can even pop into the F&F Clothing section for some fresh boxers or socks or whatever :D
I recognised the thumbnail straight away, my local tesco that😂
The footpath sign saying 'kincaidston' was your best clue in the first video. Surprised you didn't use that.
I fear he has yet to experience the delights of Kincaidston….
and that the tesco sign said ayr
hey dude! just a tip for better looking geoguessr vids, hit F11 to fullscreen the game, it helps with the general field of view!! i play along with every one of your uploads :)
Tried doing it and it messed up the recording of the video. Hope to have a solution soon
Haha, this came up in my recommendation for some reason, I recognised the first one and it blew my mind.
Thanks for watching!
@@alloverthemap23 the worrying thing is, it implies the algorithm knows where my deceased grandmother used to live.
You’re good at this! Dereham Tesco Extra is my local. It’s pronounced Deer-am, in the County of Norfolk. 👍
Thanks for watching! Seem a few folks are from Dereham area
Wow, I was there this year, back in the England visiting my mum. I visited the Tesco in Sunbury.
On the trolley question, barely ever. The wheels all forcibly lock as soon as you take them out the car park. I once saw a trolley in a canal that some kids must have carried and dumped in there.
Ayr is pronounced the same as "air".
Ministry is a pretty outdated term, these days, they're all departments but "MOT" (actually properly the "MOT test") comes from the Ministry of Transport which was the name when the test was introduced in iirc the 1960s
Used to see trolleys around the place a lot but it's very rare now as they have locking mechanisms that make them unpushable if you take them outside the car park.
We still have the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Justice, I know I work for one of them.
It's Department for Transport here too, not Ministry. MOT doesn't stand for anything (nobody ever questioned if it stands for something lol), it's just the test your car has to pass every yearr to check it's still roadworthy. If your car is less than 3 years old you're exempt, but it's a notoriously strict test by global standards. 90% of the cars you see on RUclips in other countries are 100% not road legal lol
MOT actually does stand for Ministry of Transport. The ministry was changed to a department but the name used to refer to the MOT test remains to be the Ministry of Transport test.
@@lordluxembourg8777 That may be some of the history behind it and where MOT's original name derived from but it does not remain as the Ministry of Transport test. There is no such ministry. It is officially ONLY "MOT" and it doesn't stand for anything. Just MOT.
Things like that happen all the time, even private companies like BP.
@@Yamezzzzit literally does stand for ministry of transport, the guys comments are correct , as for your comment about BP, it stands for British Petroleum….
@@Yamezzzz I initially thought you were wrong, but I now actually think you are right.
If you look at official documentation or government websites on the MOT test it never lists what the acronym stands for, but they do expand other acronyms.
@@mikegreig3338 It literally doesn't. Show me just ONE source from anywhere official this century that says MOT stands for that. It's the origin of the name but it would make absolutely no sense if that's what it actually stood for. "Make sure your car has a valid Ministry of Transport". "Your car must pass it's Ministry of Transport every year." It doesn't even exist. Or like the French keeping their Royal Taxation Revenue as still meaning Royal.
BP does not stand for British Petroleum and hasn't since 1998. It stands for "Beyond Petroleum" per the company, but is legally ONLY "BP plc." as it's FULL name.
Instead of confidently claiming these falsehoods, you could have spent just 2 minutes doing some research.
Nowadays the trolleys don't work if you venture out too far, like they literally jam up, I have no idea how it works
Baps = bread buns, like what you get burgers in 👍🏼
Been to that Dereham Tesco a few times.
You pronounced it right the first time, and Swaffham, and Norwich, I'm impressed.
That's the county of Norfolk, part of East Anglia (an old medieval kingdom), itself a part of the East of England.
@@PiousMoltar when he dropped the 'ayr, scotland' in a scottish accent it sounded pretty good! he did well!
a lot of folks watching this video from Dereham!
Shop to let. I think they forgot the i in the middle.
tiptree is in essex, its famous for jam.
ATMs in the UK are usually free. It's only ones in petrol stations & airports that charge you.
Not true. In my experience of ATMs in Birmingham. The more deprived the area the more likely an ATM will charge. Glad you've been insulated from this reality
@@TheFriendoftheFunk : This is because the deprived areas no longer have bank branches. Corner shops can thus get a paid-for cashpoint installed whereas if there was a bank branch nearby, people would just go there because they never charge.
even though youre American, this is the most british video Ive ever seen
Haha - how so?
great video idea 🤣
Thanks!
I've come across your UK Geogueesr steams a couple of times. I've not given up watching as you always tell us you have gotten a perfect score. I don't get it. Perhaps you are gauding UK viewers to do better. But it fails for me. The fun is trying to do better.bit if you did a perfect score, there is no point. Just my 2p. I maybe missing something
yeah i think its better if he doesn't say if he got a perfect score, it adds to the play along :)
also more no moving games in UK town centres. and maybe some moving world games too
Thanks for the insights. Working on it. I'm always seemingly missing something :)
congratulations but not most impressive as you moved around the map, would be impressive if you only stayed in the spot you spawn at
I am "All over the map". ha. Thanks for watching!
@@alloverthemap23 Okay that's fair XD