[Closed] Crisis at Tescos'

I suspect this;

[i]Restriction on Korean opening hours will reduce Tesco's profits by £100m.[/i]

may have more of an impact...

Nope. Been boycotting Tesco for about 6 months. That will be it!

APF

3 yrs here.

they'll be fine - just need to squeeze their suppliers a smidge

Yeah, especially the greedy Dairy Farmers.

To balance out all the boycotters, we go there a LOT.

😛

Unfortunately I am a proper skint and to be able to keep my bike habit afloat I have to frequent the local supermarkets to get the the best from my hard earned. Lidl has just opened up in the town so I may start shopping there as well.

Tesco express stores are quite handy.

Are Tesco's that bad.? My friend works at the distribution center up the road and seems to like it there.

Are Tesco's that bad.? My friend works at the distribution center up the road and seems to like it there.

All their employees roll around in big piles of cash all day

*pops out to tap him up for a tenner.

Are Tesco's that bad.? My friend works at the distribution center up the road and seems to like it there.

I think the main problem is their unhealthily large market share/power, and their complete disregard/bullying tactics over local planning regulations.

I plan to worship at the Altar of Walmart for years to come.

Keeps the riff raff out of Waitrose! 😉

Keeps the riff raff out of Waitrose!

Ha, Waitrose is for southern plebs. If only you were able to shop at Booths. 😛

complete disregard/bullying tactics over local planning regulations.

They all do this.

They probably do but as Tesco has the most clout/deepest pockets for legal battles I suspect they are the worst of the bunch. In Stockport they built a store 20% bigger than they had received planning permission for.

They sell 750ml bottles of Innes an Gunn Original. They are guaranteed my custom.

" Tescos' "

*ouch*

This economic crisis is affecting even the sectors such as food that were thought to be reasonably immune to it's effects. I won't shed any tears for tesco, or JJB for that matter...

Quite enjoying using Lidl and Aldi at the minute!

We go to Waitrose, we've petitioned to have metal and tattoo detectors fitted at the door to keep the riff raff out, if only someone could invent a Northern Monkey detector...

The new Tesco in Sheffield off Savile Street is too big and in the wrong place. It never seems to be busy when I wheel past, petrol seems a penny more than Sainsbury at Meadowhall. The opening of this store coincided with the slide in performance.

Why boycott Tesco?

You get a better class of out-of-control kids running around in Waitrose. Maybe I'm getting old and Daily Mail but it's getting harder to resist the urge to give the dinny parents a stern lecture on keeping their brats under control in a public place...

Why boycott Tesco?

It's the fashionable, right on thing to do. Apparently. 😐

And the fact Tesco are crap.

Why boycott Tesco?

I think the main problem is their unhealthily large market share/power, and their complete disregard/bullying tactics over local planning regulations.

My lad works for tesco, as a delivery driver, decent wages, good conditions, they give him shares, and treat him well

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So said Stokes Croft.

Any company controlling 30% of the UK grocery market is just not healthy, and they use their huge power to bully suppliers and local planning departments. I'm sure they all do to some extent but as above they are the biggest by far so have the biggest stick to wield.

[i]use their huge power to bully suppliers and local planning departments.[/i]

I know at some level I should care about this, but I'm not sure why? I'm interested in my shopping bill really, and tesco generally have what I want.

Well at least you're honest about it, but surely you can see how the attitude of 'I only care about myself' isn't a particularly great model for a decent society.

There is a reason why planning laws exist, and why farmers shouldn't be screwed over to the point where it's very hard to make a living, by a company making enormous profits. The general principle of 'if you're rich/powerful enough you get to do what you want' isn't really something to be supported.

I work in a business park. The only shop within walkable (or even ride-able, come to think of it!) distance at lunchtime is Tesco. Boycotting would be impractical. (plus it's cheap.)

Any company controlling around 30% of the UK [s]grocery [/s] smartphone market is just not healthy, and they use their huge power to bully suppliers [s]and local planning departments[/s]. I'm sure they all do to some extent but as above they are the biggest by far so have the biggest stick to wield.

So, why no boycott for Apple, then? 😉

Surely that should be a boycott for Android phones, seeing as they dominate the market?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/aug/10/android-smartphone-market-2012-apple

But whatever, nobody's perfect. I try to buy my groceries from local shops/suppliers but I don't always manage it by any means. By your logic presumably everyone has to have a completely perfect and consistent policy of ethical shopping, or not care at all? 😕

Grum, I know, wasn't being totally serious! (Also, Android's share is split across many manufacturers, meaning that Apple are the most successful single manufacturer, rather than operating system)

Has any boycott of Tescos actually worked? I'm thinking of those communities who fight against having one, then find one gets built anyway. Has there even been an instance of Tescos then closing as everyone was still using their local, previously-existing shops?

Heres what I think:

Oh didums,
Daredear,
Never mind luv it'll be alright,
Sit down, have a busbuit,

No sympathy WHAT SO EVA.

Shame it's only the food sector of tescos, the rest of the business seems to be keeping it's head above water.

"will be happy when they fail"

whats wrong with being sucessful?
tesco by the way are NOT a party to the abuse of dairy farmers in fact the NFU recently printed posters praising thier attitude. Tesco are also the single biggest private sector employer in the country by some way.

i suspect many more would boycott stores if prices weree higher as a result of not squeezing suppliers profit margins, typically tesco make 4-5% profit i dont think many other businesses would accept that low a return and they are only able to becuase of size and volume

clearly the current management teams have some serious issues to address not least thier failure to deliver increased sales/margins. perhaps a few fewer folk driving mercs and beemers or walking round stores with mobiles and more folk filling shelves might be a start..

"will be happy when they fail"

Of course you will. As would the 400,000 or so people who'd be unemployed if they did, obviously.....

:facepalm:

Never liked Tesco since the whole Shirley Porter gerrymandering thing.

And their love of manipulating planning process - here in Brizzle we have a Tesco metro/express thingy being built next to a Co-Op store. WTF?!

CFH - maybe a problem in the short term but big supermarkets actually remove jobs from local economies. Per amount of groceries sold they employ far less people than an independent, and the profits are taken out of the local economy too (and probably not taxed properly).

surely you can see how the attitude of 'I only care about myself' isn't a particularly great model for a decent society

hmm.. it's a bit late for sentimentality though isn't it..?
Didn't the society you mention get pushed over and trampled to death in the 80s..?

isn't boycotting Tesco's a bit of a Canuteish gesture..?

use their huge power to bully suppliers and local planning departments.

I know at some level I should care about this, but I'm not sure why?

Ask a farmer.

If you are a supplier (of anything, doesn't have to be food) and a big company buys everything you make, you give them a discount because they have signed a contract to buy everything for X years, so you no longer have to worry about maybe not selling anything some months.

However, because BigCo is so big and they can get their stuff so cheaply, they've squeezed out SmallCo who've gone out of business. Now BigCo are the only people to whom you can sell your stuff, so they can haggle you down on price. You have to accept, you've got no choice.

This is what supermarkets do. They haggle farmers down so much that many farmers end up poor. Average household income from the farm (ie profit) in 2009/2010 was £32k. Which isn't that much when you consider they have to work basically ALL the time. 25% of farmers had a household income of below £20k for each the three years before 2010.

However, there's a huge positive to having big supermarkets, and that's cheap food. If you yourself are poor, this is a big deal.

It's all nice and old fashioned to have loads of independent grocers/butchers/bakers, but I bet the supply overheads would drive up the overall cost of food. Would you be happy with that?

mol grips.. tescos are one of the good guys in this latest farmer crisis.. please seek out the nfu they ll set you straight..

and as for squeezing suppliers i d rather a farmer earnt less if it means my dairy stuffs cheaper.. I ve never seen a farmer signing on, and if farfmings such a bad lot why are land prices so high and farms selling for record amounts..