Tesco

[ramtops]

there's been some buzz in the news this week about Tesco expanding into non-food stores. To me, that's a bit like hearing that Hitler wanted to expand into neighbouring countries.

Tesco are a vile and greedy corporate; yes, I know all corporates are thus, but Tesco are worst than most. They have a hugely unhealthy share of the UK retail market already, which *cannot* be good for consumers.

I don't want to buy my groceries and do my banking and buy my insurance and rent my DVDs all from the same company - I want competition in the high street and in the marketplace, if only to give us something other than the boring retail chains we have now. For some time, I've made a point of avoiding Tesco wherever possible; how much longer will I be able to do that, I wonder ...

here's a *very* interesting read from CorporateWatch.

I don't know if anything can be done to stop them, but if so, please tell me where I can sign up.

Comments

[pixiejuice.livejournal.com]

Just curious, and not having a go at all - but if Tesco, Asda and Sainsburies are all dodgy, where are people who aren't able to get to local butchers/green grocers/bakeries/etc meant to go to get food and not harm other industries and the environment ?

If I had transport, and the local shops stayed open past the time I finish work I would much rather patronise them, but when there's a Sainsburies at the end of the street and it's open til 11pm, it makes it far too easy.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

and the local shops stayed open past the time I finish work

...so you work Monday through Sunday?

[pixiejuice.livejournal.com]

I work Monday to Friday and altenate Saturday and Sundays, and the local food shops don't open before I start work and shut before I finish, and are not open on sundays, and the butcher/fishmongers isn't open on Saturdays, and all of them are a bus and a 20 minute walk away.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Ah. Sorry.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

I'm lucky in that I buy my meat in bulk from organic producers, and have a veggie box every week. I do use supermarkets (Sainsburys or Waitrose), but I won't use Tesco.