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Tesco: Nothing will stop them …

June 22nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in tescowatch

“Tesco has been accused of using underhand tactics after it used a local retailer to “front” a planning application for a massive supermarket development.

The application for an 80,000 square foot store in Barnstaple, Devon, was submitted in the name of local retailer Brian Ford’s, despite Tesco having acquired the independent retailer a year earlier.

No mention was made of Tesco’s involvement in the scheme, which will, if permission is granted, be built on the site of the existing Brian Ford’s store.”

From The Telegraph.

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the endless sausage

May 3rd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in general, tescowatch

the munched sausage

This is actually perlmonger’s lunch: I loathe raw tomatoes, don’t care for strong cheddar (that’s unpasteurised organic there), and I’m not that fond of kabanos.

But I do always bite the end off his sossidge [fnaar].

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Tesco to monitor millions of consumers around the world.

April 12th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in tescowatch

As perlmonger said, “they don’t already?” .. well they do, but they are extending this to more than 60m worldwide customers. And they will continue to sell this data “in anonymous form” to the likes of Coca Cola and Unilver.

More from The Times here.

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Tescowatch (an occasional series)

March 23rd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in tescowatch

Yesterday, however, the 7,500 inhabitants of the town on the south Devon coast [Seaton] were readying themselves for a new battle after Tesco bought its largest employer, a holiday village, and promptly ordered its closure. The site also houses Seaton’s only nursery, catering for 35 children, and a swimming pool.

… If Tesco builds a store in Seaton it will be its tenth outlet within 22 miles. Residents have to travel 18 miles to reach one of its main competitors (Sainsbury’s, Asda or Morrisons), but there is a Waitrose seven miles away.

More here.

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Tescowatch (an occasional series)

February 6th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in tescowatch

From The Independent comes the story that Tesco have reduced the price of a whole chicken to £1.99.

[...]in a move that critics warned would heap financial pressure on the poultry industry and make it harder to the improve welfare of factory-farmed animals.

Wonderful.

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