Has anyone other than this blog noticed ? Tesco is taking over the country - if not the world.
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Tesco controls almost one-third of the UK grocery market. While the company boasts about its commitment to fair trade and 'corporate responsibility', a recent report from Friends of the Earth shows that Tesco's practices are putting many UK farmers out of business; while on the high street, some 2,000 independent stores went out of business in the last year alone, unable to compete with promotions, and planning and taxation policies that favour the multiples over smaller shops.
Tesco controls almost one-third of the UK grocery market. While the company boasts about its commitment to fair trade and 'corporate responsibility', a recent report from Friends of the Earth shows that Tesco's practices are putting many UK farmers out of business; while on the high street, some 2,000 independent stores went out of business in the last year alone, unable to compete with promotions, and planning and taxation policies that favour the multiples over smaller shops.
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Friends of the Earth's anti-supermarket campaigner Vicki Hird right, and rising star in the lobbying movement recently lambasted the retail giant: "Tesco is lauded as a British success story but the image is a deceptive one – and it is beginning to tarnish. Farmers and consumers are paying the price of its uncontrolled expansion here and overseas. MPs must act now to curb the growing market power of supermarkets and ensure that Britain's booming supermarket industry does not kill off farmers, consumer choice and the traditional British high street."
Well indeed we agree, every little fight back will help.
More about this corporate monster later.
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