[Closed] Tescos. are there companies worse than them?

Err, the local council that sold it to them. Who presumably would have sold it to anyone with the cash. Tesco only making use of an available site, council the one who made it available.

TESCOS ARE EATING OUR SCHOOLS!!!!

All the big supermarkets play the same way, Tescos are just better at it.

Its a fairly modern school. I would say most of it not much over 30yrs. Would they have sold it to anyone else? Trafford has large swathes of brownfield available but of course tescos would have decided the optimum location and then work a way to secure the site?

I love Tesco, in terms of supplying to customers what they want, they are one of capitalism great success stories. I have no idea how they treat their staff though, which I consider rather important. They seem to subcontract out much of their work - which I find worrying.

And I agree that it was rather wicked of them to force the democratically elected council, against their will, to sell them their school playing fields.

Presumably Tesco will now be forcing parents to buy junk food for their kids. So not only will we have obese children due to a lack of school playing fields, but also because of a Tesco enforced diet.

Eventually when the population is made up of grossly obese people who can just about manage to drive down to Tesco to get their regular fix of high calorie/sugar/fat processed food, Tesco will have complete control over our lives. And they will be well on their way to achieving complete and total world dominance.

Their fruit and nut flapjack is nice though. 😀

the local council that sold it to them...

I have no idea how they treat their staff though

they're doing this all over, aren't they the biggest land owner in the country?

aren't they the biggest land owner in the country?

How big do you think the average Tesco store is ?

Tesco are good to work for 10%off your shopping and lots of good benefits and fairly good pay and conditions .Tesco do nothing wrong if people didn't shop at a Tesco they would not keep building them would they?

.Tesco do nothing wrong if people didn't shop at a Tesco they would not keep building them

This. I for one do not have time to go to a greengrocer, a butcher, a fishmonger.

All councils are currently selling off assets as alot have some serious funding shortfalls due to cutbacks. I nearly managed to buy some land for a pound recently.

aren't they the biggest land owner in the country?

I think Boots the chemist are? They own huge amounts of farming land.

Ahhhh - a NIMBY. Splendid. See those terrible chaps off with their supermarket proposals!

So what you're saying is, your locally elected council sells off playing fields to a business. I guess that business bought the land in a business transaction that didn't involve guns, threats, backhanders or other menaces. You can probably check this.
You don't personally like that business, so decide to protest by.........telling the internet mountain biking community, who don't live near you, about this terrible state of affairs?

*wrings hands and wails in support*

Nimby versus apathy

high calorie/sugar/fat processed food

Their fruit and nut flapjack is nice though

snap

How do they treat the farmers who produce the food for them? I would assume like the majority of supermarkets the squeeze them for every penny.

an old story but I doubt too much has changed:

[url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/migrationtemp/2807681/Tesco-Europes-biggest-property-company.html ]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/migrationtemp/2807681/Tesco-Europes-biggest-property-company.html[/url]

property and not land though, £28 billion is quite a bit.

The Duke of Buccleuch is the biggest private land owner in the country. However, there's the likes of the Forestry Commission and the MOD well above him

Who benefits from the sale?

Tesco do nothing wrong

It said some councils were reluctant to object to Tesco applications because of concerns about the costs of legal challenges to any planning refusals.

Other authorities, the report added, were persuaded to grant planning permission for stores in return for other facilities such as housing and sports complexes.

It found that:

· In Bangor, north Wales, Tesco opposed an application by Asda for a town centre store on the grounds that it would damage the town centre by competing with local shops. Two months later, Tesco opened a hypermarket on the outskirts of the town.

· In Stockport, Greater Manchester, Tesco opened a store 20% larger than planning permission allowed.

· In Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Tesco built a large storage depot with no planning permission, prompting one councillor to say: "It seem to me that the planning authority is Tesco and not the council."

· In Babergh, Suffolk, Tesco successfully lobbied the council to alter its local planning strategy to allow more retail development.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/jan/17/communities.supermarkets
also
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tesco-riding-roughshod-over-planning-rules-mps-are-told-518601.html

building a store in Stickport 20% biggerthan aproved

The people who were fitting out the store decided that they needed more space, mainly for back room operation, and so therefore built the store bigger than the original planning permission. I do not know quite why, but they did."

landowners will be public bodies cuch as National Trust.largest private ones will be the landed gentry /aristocracy

Nimby versus apathy

Yeah - I equate posting on STW to direct action as well. I bet the planning proposals are withdrawn first thing in the morning.

Tesco makes 3.5 billion profit a year. The council will have maybe a couple of grand free in petty cash.

I reckon Tesco are aware of this fact and just do what they want all the time.

Seems to me that Tesco's building of a store there is dependent on three things:

i) Your local representatives, elected by you and your neighbours, selling them the land
ii) You local representatives, elected by you and your neighbours, giving them planning permission
iii) You and your neighbours shopping there when its completed

Who's the problem again? Tesco, or you and your neighbours? and if you want to do something about it...

Funny how, in discussions like this, people choose not to include the likes of Chain Reaction, Wiggle, Evans etc....

People want stuff. People want stuff cheaper. People want stuff cheapest price possible.

Local councils rarely get enough money to do all that's necessary. Local councils invest money in offshore banks in order to make a bit extra. Offshore banks collapse. Local councils end up in massive debt. Local councils sell off assets to recoup losses.

Tescos et al are indeed bastards, but there's loads of other stuff which contributes to this sort of situation.

I reckon Tesco are aware of this fact and just do what they want all the time.

They [i][b]force[/b][/i] local authorities to sell their school playing fields to them - and just for a "couple of grand" ? How wicked of them.

Other authorities, the report added, were persuaded to grant planning permission for stores in return for other facilities such as housing and sports complexes.

Yeah I'm fairly sure that Tesco have to comply with Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. And the monies involved in Section 106 are considerably large amounts btw. Which puts incognito's Daily Telegraph anti-Tesco rant about Tesco becoming "house builders" into some perspective - they don't have a huge amount of choice in the matter.

I for one do not have time to go to a greengrocer, a butcher, a fishmonger.

Funny thing is, they could well be closer together at the market or in the high street than they are in the supermarket.

People want stuff. People want stuff cheaper. People want stuff cheapest price possible.

Supermarkets aren't that cheap. Where they really excel is being open when people have free time. And making people believe that they're cheap, clearly 😉

I thought that the church had the most land?
Tescos are very good with their energy use (they use almost half per m2 as many others) and I believe they treat their staff quite well. I think that the rollout of the express stores could have killed them had they failed. The supermarket industry is quite strange in that the management (higher than store level) that works for one has usually worked for another previously, which creates little pockets of "ex-asda", "ex-tesco" etc who all look out for each other. I've never encountered more political organisations so full of empire building.

The oil companies pillaging the Niger delta are probably worse.

I hate Tesco and would love to not have to use them however there are no decent butchers or greengrocers near me. There is a market stall greengrocer that is there are random times of the week and doing shifts it isn't compatible! Plus where I live is famous for having about 8 Tesco's! It's always on the National News when people complain about Tesco's as there is a large on then an express small one on EVERY estate (so a bout 6) then the nearest out of town big store is a Tesco in either direction. Have to drive minimum of 10 miles for Sainsburys or 20 odd for a Waitrose/Asda! GGRRRR to Tesco.

Out Tesco was granted planning permission based on social inprovements Tesco agreed to develop for the local community once it's store was up and running.

Now it is in full operation Tesco, according to local rag, have basically said 'sod off'.

I still use it though as our local high street is really not an option anymore with it's charity shops and cheap tat shops being the only thing there.

The bad news:
People are lazy - if you open a supermarket, they will use it rather than the local independent shops, and the local shops will suffer as a result.

The good news:
People know that they are lazy and are prepared fight to delay the inevitable:
[url= http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news/saying_no_to_supermarket_1_2044608 ]Oddmorden anti-supermarket petition. [/url]

If you can't be bothered clicking, a quarter of the population of Tod signed a petition opposing he opening of a local Sainsburys.
Whether you agree or not, at least some people are trying to do something.

Anyway Hora, thought you were a free market Tory? Shouldn't you be delighted that Tesco is such a success?

And as a Tory, whinging about the sell off of playing fields would seem to be rank hypocrisy of the worst kind, given the previous record of the nasty party on such things.

Not where I live. The tories have stopped the selling off of greenfield to developers which labour tried to push through before the elections. And I'm very happy about it.

Earlier this month, the group released balloons as a protest against the plans.

Yeah! Right On! Stick it to The Mayn! 😈

Anyway Hora, thought you were a free market Tory? Shouldn't you be delighted that Tesco is such a success?

You're making the mistake of assuming Hora has actually thought this one through, Rich. IE, breaking the habit of a lifetime....

Funny how, in discussions like this, people choose not to include the likes of Chain Reaction, Wiggle, Evans etc....

Probably because, in the case of the first two businesses, comparing mail order specialists with supermarkets is a bit, well, you know, pointless. As for Evans, I've never seen them build their own superstore yet. Mostly town centre locations. So - nothing relevant there. Again.

A local crossroads supports 7 grocery based small businesses none of which seem to be making a fortune, out of about 20 shops, none of them high st brands, plus a small Somerfield based service station. Somebody opened a greengrocer a couple of years back but there wasn't enough business to support it and it failed- an indication of the level of business each store must be doing.
The pub at this crossroads closed down a while back- it's now re opening as a Tesco metro. I'm not sure how many, if any of the small family run businesses will hang on. 😥

I hate Tesco and would love to not have to use them however there are no decent butchers or greengrocers near me.

Why the need for a decent butchers and greengrocers ? Can't you use the crappy butchers and greengrocers near you, rather than the better facilities provided by Tesco ? .........that would show them.

Some people appear to be completely unaware that if no one shopped in Tesco, then Tesco would go bankrupt extremely quickly.

So why not stand outside Tesco stores berating and chastising people for shopping in Tesco ?

Or is it as I suspect, just another example of middle-class judgemental and pretentious people, wanting to force ordinary people to do something which they would rather not do ? ......ie, give them no choice by denying Tesco the opportunity of operating a store.

It all fits in rather nicely with telling people what they should eat, watch on TV, read, how they should speak, dress, weigh, and other life style choices.

Probably because, in the case of the first two businesses, comparing mail order specialists with supermarkets is a bit, well, you know, pointless. As for Evans, I've never seen them build their own superstore yet. Mostly town centre locations. So - nothing relevant there. Again.

Ok so I'll explain 'cos you seem to be a bit thick. 😉

Go into any small LBS. Ask them what the main threat to their business is. The will tell you; mail-order internet companies that undercut them by significant amounts. CRC etc don't have shops (well, one 'showroom'), so have less overheads, and can concentrate on buying in bulk to store in massive warehouses. Evans has entered the internet order market now, and is beginning to be a bit more competitive on price. And I've seen bike shops close because Evans have (deliberately) opened a new shop right near an existing bike shop. They do this deliberately because there is already the footfall established by the first shop. Evans pay less than other bike shops do to, and offer less staff discounts. Evans has gone from a friendly local bike shop to a slick corporate machine interested mainly in profit. LBS's are increasingly reliant on servicing and repairs for income, hence why these costs have gone up considerable for the customer.

The cycle business was never that profitable; the newer business models being employed by CRC, Wiggle, Evans etc are more efficient than the nice happy friendly LBS model.

Evans has gone from a small family company with a handful of stores, to a large company with 41 stores and a 'warehouse showroom' in Gatwick. In 20 years. Much of the recent expansion has happened in the last 10 years, particularly the last 5. Evans is now an established high-street 'brand'.

So - nothing relevant there. Again

I bet you hate it when I'm right and you're wrong. 😀

Little tip- don't be so quick to assume I know nothing, just because you are resentful towards me. Try to see past your ignorance and prejudce, and you'll have a happier life.

X

My word Ernie - you seem to be increasingly coming across to the dark side, what, with these libertarian free market ideas 😀

You'll be quoting Old Holborn before long 😆

Me and Ernie have been forming 'counter-protests' at Anti-Tesco protests. We've got little placards that say 'We want Tescos' and 'We fully support the free-market business model as practiced by Tesco and other large companies and we fully defend their legal rights to set up businesses wherever they so choose'. In fact Ernie's even had that second slogan tattooed on his buttocks.

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Yeah...we have a tescos in the town which is just fine, but they want to go colossal with it. Planning was rejected on the first two or 3 attempts and then new even bigger plans emerged and the planning was granted. I bet any money they still wont have anything I want in stock.

Cheeky git ratty. You know damn well that I have always been opposed to self-appointed Guardian readers telling ordinary people what they should do, say, and think. I have a track record of opposing PC language, and defending the rights of people to enjoy whatever they wish to enjoy - including the X Factor. I also defend the right of people to follow whatever religion they wish to follow - in face of the relentless onslaught from aggressive atheism. Despite all that, I can hardly be describe as a "liberal"........I have an uncompromising commitment to a society which guarantees the unalienable democratic rights of all citizens - including the right to political, economic, and state power.

Yeah, sure, my defence of Tesco might seem a little strange, and it seems a little strange even for me, but as I said in my first sentence on the matter "I love Tesco, in terms of supplying to customers what they want, they are one of capitalism great success stories". Capitalism rarely satisfies fully the needs of people, Tesco is an example which is reasonably successful imo. And at least part of the reason for that, is actually the huge size of Tesco's operations - it makes them highly vulnerable to criticism and bad publicity in a way which smaller outfits would never need to worry about.

nyone know of a contractor deciding to build the building bigger rather than the client want?

Perhapse it was a BOO (Build, Own, Opperate) contractor? I.e. TESCO says "I need a distribuion center that can handle XYZ,000,000 items per week, collect form this geographical area, and deliver to that area.

So Tesco have no direct involvement with the opperation, its a 3rd party doing all the work, so Tesco have no real idea whats going on. no idea if that's true or how tesco work, but it counters your point nicely.

Ernie, wasn't having a go - just pointing out the fact that diametrically opposed political opponents [i]can[/i] find common ground 😯

Back on topic...

Look at what that [b]can[/b] take place when money is involved, I don't think that anyone at any level of government but the military could mobilise effort with this efficiency to meet a public need: Tesco store built in workington after the floods:

In fact, myself and Ernie are such big fayns of Tescos, that we'll be at the opening of [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrards_Cross_tunnel_collapse ]the new store at Gerrards Cross[/url]. We hope to see you all there.

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Listen Elfinman, the only reason you like hanging around Tesco is for this :

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hora - Member
Playing fields, beautiful park and adjoing school. Sold to Tescos by your local council. Tescos put in a planning application ....refused so they have submitted more plans for a store double the size......

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Wasnt Whitchurch in Shropshire was it,

Also Tesco have run out of carier bags on friday and the reusable ones have run out as well, andf they didnt grit ther car parks and havent done since the snow started.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/supermarket-ice-on-carpark

Tesco in Stockport was built a lot bigger than plan and causes serious problems for the delivery drivers going there as theres litle room to manoevere and also ever try driving in or out of there in a car, its a weird setup to get out and in.

So Tesco kil off a few small shops employing a few people open limited hours, tesco come along and open 24 hours , in a bright warm shop, with plenty of work for the locals, and drivers etc.Its a win win situation.

So Tesco kil off a few small shops employing a few people open limited hours, tesco come along and open 24 hours...

I've said before on here, that IMO this is the biggest issue, and the key reason behind failure of small businesses and the witnessed rise of express and metro stores.

Lifestyles have changed, work patterns have changed, and, most importantly, women work full time to an extent that never happened before - if a grocery shop is open 9-5 mon-sat then their customer base [b]will[/b] desert them, businesses must react to the marketplace and customer demands

The cycle business was never that profitable; the newer business models being employed by CRC, Wiggle, Evans etc are more efficient than the nice happy friendly LBS model.

You are trying to compare apples and oranges and doing it to make a trite point. I get your point, but comparing mail order to LBS isn't the same for groceries and other fast moving consumer goods. Last time I checked, the biggest threat to the high street butcher wasn't a mail order butcher. Same goes for the friendly neighbourhood baker.

If you want to make a like for like comparison, talk about chains of stores compared to single businesses - like Evans (except Evans tend not to build on green field sites and don't own land to prevent rivals setting up shop). Evans still have shop fronts and high street presence but have the buying power of a large chain. They can spank the indies on price every time, but fail on service and knowledge (usually).

If you want to argue the difference between consumable logistics and the rest, please continue. I hate it when you weasely word things and fail to make a cohesive argument.

Out Tesco was granted planning permission based on social inprovements Tesco agreed to develop for the local community once it's store was up and running.

Now it is in full operation Tesco, according to local rag, have basically said 'sod off'.

Tesco built a store in Stockport. It was subsequently found to be alot bigger than they were giving original planning permission for. They were told to shorten the store (and not to use the extra space in the meantime).

Tesco's response at the time? 'This could result in job losses'.

Nice veiled threat there.

Heres one link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5342914.stm

Seems they received retrospective planning permission so they know they can get away with it doesn't it?

So the kids in Trafford, if they want greenspace they'll have to travel for it wont they?

Meanwhile over in Huddersfield whats going on there then?....

Hora. This in't news. Tesco have been hell bent on having a giant store in the vicinity for years. Here are Two Tesco stories from your locale

The Tesco Metro store on Manchester Road in Chorlton faced enormous opposition. When they applied for planning permission, all twelve local councilors unanimously voted against the application. It went to appeal with the city council and the planning permission was subsequently granted.

Democracy is brill isn't it? I am absolutely sure no palms were greased during this excellent display of local accountability

Tesco have also discovered another nice little scam as you'll notice at the other end of Barlow Moor Road. Namely buy one of the many large pubs that have recently closed. Result: You don't need planning permission for a change of use as it is already a licensed premises. Thus completely getting round any planning objections

Expect to see this coming to a street near you. Wherever you are in the country

If you want results, STW isn't the way to do it:

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This is going to be very interesting if Tesco do manage to open there. The words 'target' and 'sitting' come to mind.

I know. They got round the planning permision by still operating the petrol station. Saying that, the petrol station before was rank and at least the store is within size (i.e. not ****ing massive).

They've gone from 48,000sq ft to 155,000 now. What gives? Its going to create some interesting traffic issues on match and event days isn't it?!

Additional on the Stockport one- Tescos blamed the 20% oversight on fitters out who got carried away..

Yeah, so no builders work to plans nowadays? 🙄

Tesco are absolutely rutheless, they are currently trying to break into the opticians market, so what do they do
..........free sight test and glasses for £10........running at a loss there then considering a sight test alone in wages and equiptment costs about £60.

.........sell contact lenses at less than cost price of the manufactures..........

once they 'break' the independendants the prices will suddenly become more realistic/over expensive

thank god we dont have one round here yet.....

BTW they employ similar tactics with every market sector they enter

THIS is why i hate tesco

There used to be a nice little greengrocer right next to me. It closed because they "couldn't compete with tesco" Absolute bollox. I shopped there at weekends, but it was closed when i left for work and was closed when i came home, so shopping there during the week wasn't an option and I went to the next nearest place - tesco which was not only not cheaper, the fruit and veg wasn't as good. beoing open when people who work can get there would help and it might only mena staying open an extra hour.

Elfin - what are:

"self-appointed Guardian readers"

Sorry but I have to ask - is one meant to wait until one is invited to read the Guardian. Oops well faux-pas me with a rubber spoon.

Elfin - what are:

"self-appointed Guardian readers"

Dunno. Wasn't me that said it...

Sorry Elfin.

Ernie - what are "self-appointed Guardian readers" ?? Do I need a permit to do the crossword unassisted too ?

Don't know why you're asking him hels, since it's me who wrote it. Try and figure out what this sentence means :

[i]"You know damn well that I have always been opposed to self-appointed Guardian readers telling ordinary people what they should do, say, and think"[/i]

If you can't, just accept that it's a post who's meaning you will never understand.

Ernie - sorry mate - just read it again and it still doesn't make any sense.

But I now realise it's the poor literacy of the writer.

Tesco have annihilated any profit in the supply chain leading to them.. all margin is Channelled to there share holders at the end... one vicious company.. small margins on large volume.. "Every little counts" !

it still doesn't make any sense

Well I guess you'll never know what it means then.

And yes, you can put it down to the "poor literacy of the writer"........iirc, grade 4 in CSE English, so hardly someone who could be described as a "literary giant". The fact that I shop in Tesco, should have been a clue though.

And btw here's a TopTip, if you are going to pull someone up on their literary skills, it's probably best if you took your time to read things correctly, like that, you might figure out who wrote what 💡

So you ever shop in Tesco btw ?

Oh don't worry it's just Ernie. He's as thick as pig-poo 'cos he never went to school like what I done.

He's also so ugly, that he's actually banned in Kyrgyzstan, Italy and the Maldives. In fact, Norway is taking legal action. 🙁

His is the only face that's considered an Act Of Terror under the Geneva Convention. 🙁

His lack of pulchritude caused the demise of the British Car Industry. 🙁

Cyberdyne Systems are always getting bad press.

Apparently they're also very generous in terms of charities and local projects etc.

I saw an interesting statistic recently (can't think where, sorry) that butchers do better if they're near a supermarket. The reason for this was that people were more likely to call in and get "luxuries" when doing there shopping than specifically go out and travel to a butchers.

It would be lovely if we all shopped at butchers and greengrocers like the so called good old days, but truth is, I bet the number of people who do is in the single figures percentage wise. Supermarkets aren't so much competing with small local shops anymore, they're just competing with each other now. If Tesco don't have a store nearby, people will just go to Asda, or Sainsburys, or travel to the next nearest one.

self-appointed Guardian readers

What you talking about ? ........I read the Guardian myself.

I just don't think it gives me the right to tell people what they should do, say, and think. Unlike the politically correct Waitrose-shopping organically sun-dried veggie pasta brigade.

I wish they would crack-on and get it built. The field is an eye-sore, it hasn't been used as a school playing field in the 3 years I've worked over the road (okay I know Tesco's has let that happen)..it has been used as a 'travellers' site and car park when concerts have been on near by. The school still appears to have pretty sizeable grounds. The local shop is a newsagent with ridiculous mark-ups...it even sells stamps individually (even if you ask for a book) at above 'face-value' (it also has a cash machine with a £1.50 withdrawl fee !). It wouldn't be a loss.

But have they now got any big bags after running out of most bags last week nat :cry:ionally.

Might get flamed here but here goes:

I work for Tesco, im a Line Manager, my last 2 positions have been in new stores both opposed by the local community.

The first is a big Extra, the community opposed it to the point on opening day no one went into the store until dinner time, store was open 4 hours before the first customer went in. Now the store is a massive success. The contractors and Tesco, promised to rebuild the high street, this was achieved through having a free car-park next to the high street, re-pathing and building a new town square. Built a by-pass instructed by the council to take the bulk of the traffic round the store. Madness i thought when i went there, if the traffic went up the high street it would of moved more trade to the town.

The second new store a smaller superstore, the one i currently work is was opposed for nearly 20 years!! Finally the council granted permission to build the store but even though the Car park was built on the old playing fields, the football pitches left behind have all 8 been relaid, 2 of them are now all weather pitches with under soil heating, and 1 of them is an astro-turf style pitch. Tesco built the changing rooms and also redeveloped the high street, building several new shops, and re-pathing the entire cross section of where the store is.

As a team of managers we do work in the community and that makes the store the place it is, i know its daft but local fairs based on our carpark, car boots, we go to schools and plant vegetable plots, take hampers to retirement homes etc. I feel we make the store and make it work in the community. We even took the local residents who heavily opposed the store on a tour of the store before we opened, they met our management team we talked about our vision for the future and what we could offer 9 months after opening we invited them back and all but a couple agreed the store was actually good for the community.

Our team are made up of 75% staff who had been out of work for more than 12 months, and who where claiming benefits, our management team are 50% local to the store. Its a new direction, im not saying what they do is right, but we try to make a difference. I know some might flame me for the above, and i know i don't have a proper job, but i do feel that retail has changed and its not all about sales anymore, the work we do in the community is just as important.

Yes, yes there are.
I give you:
BT
Talk Talk
British Gas
Virgin Rail
BAA
Delta Airlines
...
I could go on...

[i]but i do feel that retail has changed and its not all about sales anymore,[/i]

Hehe. Your not really that naive are you ? A business exists to make profit. If the business is [u]perceived [/u] to be kind / sensitive / green / helping local farmers etc etc, then Joe public will think its alright to buy from the corporate monster.
tes is than it ever was with local produce / local sourcing.

iron fist in a velvet glove?

Of course not, i meant within my job role, in the past ive been reviewed purely on sales, and like for like growth etc.. now i can score red in KPI's but if my Leadership skills and community work is green i can score an overall green review.

Thats what i meant by changed, sales will always be on the company agenda.

Tesco regularly deliver to a neighbour. One of their driver's reversed across my private drive and blatted my garden wall, displacing the upper half of the wall by at least a foot and knocking my gate off. He was seen doing it and the jolt as he hit the wall made the whole van judder. He gets out, dusts his bumper off and drives off without leaving any note to let me or anyone else know what he has done. In doing this he committed one of the more serious road traffic act offences of failing to stop after an accident.

I phone the store. They refuse to give me the name of this driver thus aiding and abetting the offence. They tell me their driver admits to getting out to inspect his bumper but says there was no damage to my property. After a struggle and a deal of effort Tesco insurers agree to pay out but they don't have the courtesy to tell me, they tell the builder who provided my estimate. I write complaining about their behaviour, they don't bother replying.

They ain't a very nice company boys and girls.

I think that if Tesco are minded to build a store on your back garden then you are doomed. They are connected, this is a very corrupt country and they will eventual get whatever it is they want.

Resist them people, for they are as evil as HMG

@ernie_lynch - I've done a lot of work with Tesco in the past. My former employer was a major none mechandise supplier to them. The people that work there seem to enjoy it. They have extremely good senior and middle management (hardly surprising given how successful they are). They seem to genuinely get 'it' - it in this case being that if you treat your people properly they will deliver success for you. The community engagement that LMT talks about is one part of this. You can be sure that they wouldn't bother with that if it didn't give a return.

LMT WHY HAVE TESCO RUN OUT OF BAGS, its not a hard question to answer, nobody seems to know.Its damm annoying.

Gritting and salting car parks whats the policy.

Billyboy, people have been know to make malicious claims against retailers for damage etc, you may be quite inocent , but its your word against the drivers unless you have cctv.

TEsco related - i worked for a supermarket (which is now a Tesco) as a storeman when at school. Sat i had to be there 5.30am for the major deliveries. Shop had been built inside a historical wall (Dalgety Bay shop for those that care). I was standing out the back having a sneaky smoke waiting for the freezer delivery to reverse in which he did - completely missing the road and driving straight through said historical wall - it was massive as well. V Funny, bloke barely noticed due to weight of truck. Was a mess and they had to pay for it all to be rebuilt. Very funny morning that one.

I write complaining about their behaviour, they don't bother replying