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Tesco Value

Tesco Value

3.5
A cheap brand of food and home items sold by Tesco with very simple packaging
  • noun
  • /ˈtɛskoʊ ˈvæljuː/
  • Archaic
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  • Many students buy Tesco Value products to keep their grocery bills low.

Examples

  • He stocked his pantry with Tesco Value canned goods before the long winter.

  • The packaging on Tesco Value items is usually plain and simple.

  • I bought some Tesco Value pasta yesterday.

  • Have you tried the Tesco Value baked beans?

  • Many students buy Tesco Value products to keep their grocery bills low.

  • The packaging on Tesco Value items is usually plain and simple.

  • He stocked his pantry with Tesco Value canned goods before the long winter.

Surface Forms

Tesco Value singular
Tesco Values plural

Morphology

Tesco + value

The meaning is directly compositional: Tesco (the supermarket brand) + value (indicating low cost or basic quality) yields a budget/product-line meaning. A B1 learner who knows the brand name and the noun 'value' can infer this refers to Tesco's low-cost/basic products; similar "value" lines in other supermarkets make this pattern familiar cross-linguistically.

Etymology

Tesco Value comes from the supermarket Tesco using the word Value for a line of plain, low-cost items. Because the packaging was simple and the price was low, people began to use Tesco Value to mean 'cheap, basic' goods.