Tesco [Edited by Forum Team]

Mnoee

Mickey666 said:

Mnoee said:

If you want to get even angrier at Tesco, I'd recommend the book 'Tescopoly' by Andrew Simms.

It's no secret that to get as big as Tesco (or Amazon, or Walmart/Asda or Apple) you have to be at least a little bit evil - but if I didn't shop anywhere a bit evil, or buy any products that are a bit evil then there'd be very few options left! 

I suspect it's more a case that any business that becomes as large and dominant as Tesco (or Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, etc) is automatically deemed to be evil.  Just for becoming large and successful. 

Especially in the UK where we seems to have a particular distrust of anything or anyone successful . . . . with little or no consideration of how they became successful in the first place - ie, by doing something consumers actually want.

I guess the only explanation is that all us consumers are too stupid to know when a large and successful company is behaving in a way we don't like.  Or are not supposed to like.  Or shouldn't like.  Simply because they are large and successful.

We should all be grateful that the tin-foil-hat brigade OP has provided a pointless rant thoughtful and well-reasoned argument to help us see the errors of our ways. 

I don't think it's automatic - they're scrutinised far more than smaller businesses, because fewer people would read an article or buy a book about how a local corner shop was doing something questionable. There's just fewer incentives to criticise the little guys.

There's also the fact that some people have more morals than others. While I'm recommending books, 'The psychopath test' by Jon Ronson goes into how CEOs and other successful businessmen are statistically more likely to be psychopaths. Even if morally bankrupt people aren't at the top of the company, the more people working for the company, the more likely they are to be in positions of power to allow questionable things to go on.