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Tesco aaaaaargh!
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I now make a point of not buying from Tesco. Their slow take-over of the retail food trade, their pervading of financial services - it seems that you can't turn around without seeing Tescoisation of the country.
Don't think much of their constant crowing about how much they support local communities - those would be the communities that used to have a butcher, baker, convenience store and newsagent...and now has, Oh convenience itself!, a Tesco Extra no less. And nothing else. The public want choice - not just between Tesco own brand and the branded, but between Tesco and many other small retailers. 30% of the grocery market is way too much. Not in favour of government interference, but this is an area that really needs some form of legislation to curb expansion. Where does it stop? 50%? 75%?
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Gone a bit off thread I suppose. Soz.0
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I didn't think it was off thread. This might be though. At the last general election I was canvassing for a local candidate in an area where almost everyone opened their door and moaned about the local tesco. Funnily enough ,everyone that passed me in the street had a tesco carrier bag though. Open late, cheaper prices, plenty of choice. People vote with the pound in their pocket, and plenty vote for Tesco. More than vote in elections.I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.-David Niven0
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CopperPlate wrote:The public want choice - not just between Tesco own brand and the branded, but between Tesco and many other small retailers.
CP
If that were true then Tescos would not be as big as they are now, you want that choice but tbh i want cheap, conveniant and clean and which i have found all at Tesco.
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Yes, and that's the problem so to speak. The major retailers know that the majority of consumers are price conscious or value-led and market themselves appropriately. The way their advertisements are used it leads you to believe that you are getting good value for money whilst at the same time actually getting something else back from them, e.g. the Clubcard or Nectar schemes that are in operation to name but two. I'm not singling Tesco out - although I do think they are taking over more-so than the others - but the methods these supermarkets use to ensure 'low prices' is simply to squeeze the costs out of the suppliers. The Ecologist has some worrying articles about the purchasing power of supermarket buyers in that they can destroy (not too strong a word, believe me) a supplier simply by switching away from them because they can't provide the quantity of product at the price demanded, demanded I might add, by the buyer. Does it leads to suppliers agreeing to ridiculously low prices just to 'get a foot in the door' in the hope that they can somehow negotiate the contract the following year?0
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...and the small independent butchers don't do themselves any favours when they have the odd outbreak of ecoli desimating their local neighbourhoods.0
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True. But lets be fair - your local supermarket is probably just as likely to have it as well. We've all been into stores where hygiene is probably the last thing on the mind of staff behind the deli/fresh meat/etc counter; where products that should have been kept in refrigeration have been lying on a trolley, waiting to be put out on the shelf, on the shop floor for over an hour while the poor assistant is sitting on a checkout trying to reduce the interminable queues on a Saturday afternoon because the company won't hire any more staff or pay overtime for extra people to work. Is this ringing any bells for those retail-employed contributors..?
I just think that there should be an element of a level playing field - and that will never happen if the large supermarkets are allowed to continue to amass market share. It will eventually be to the detriment of us all - perhaps not in 5 years time, but in 10 or 15 years time we might find that we have a very limited choice in food retailers who can then act like some cartel.
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Copperplate, a lot of the things you say are so true, I work in retail and have had many friends over the years that have done so as well.
People moan at Tesco's but then still shop there as they get good prices from them, they are in convenient places etc.
The way I see it, you can't have it both ways. People moan about local shops closing down but these are the same shops that they pass on their way to go to the Tesco.
Also people moan about staff in supermarkets. I do believe that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. You want cheap prices, so you get them. Something has to give, the cheap labour that works at the supermarket, the suppliers being squeezed and pressured, the list goes on.
Anyway, enough of me ranting.0 -
Now this thread's going somewhere.Four guns yet only one trigger prepare for a volley.Together we can make a difference.0
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CopperPlate wrote:True. But lets be fair - your local supermarket is probably just as likely to have it as well.
When was the last time one of the supermarket chains had an ecoli outbreak? I'm pretty sure it would be higher profile then a small local butcher getting it in the provinces.0
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