https://thechamberlainfiles.com/why-tesco-is-good-for-us/ Politics, elected mayors, LEPs and economic development in the West Midlands Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:24:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 https://thechamberlainfiles.com/why-tesco-is-good-for-us/#comment-1718 Pheagio Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:33:50 +0000 https://thechamberlainfiles.com/?p=3376#comment-1718 The essence of this article is that "big is beautiful". A premise that few, other than "the Big", accept any longer. It is noted that the article does not focus on Tesco as such, notwithstanding the title. Which was a wise decision. Of all the larger retail stores of its type, Tesco is the one which is the most frequently publicly castigated for failures relating to its business ethics. And this is not simply a numbers game based on Tesco having the most stores. On the contrary, as was amply illustrated in the television investigative programme about food labelling - the one about only selling fish where it was claimed the fish came from sustainable sources. Not only was this found to be untrue in the case of Tesco, but even the type of fish itself within a package was found to be wrong on occasions. (The programme was very even-handed in establishing the facts on this matter of food labelling.) But that is far from the only instance of Tesco misleading the public about the quality of its food, and fresh food in particular. And don't forget the government report about store companies, and Tesco in particular, buying land, not using it, but refusing to sell it so as to prevent a competitor acquiring that land. As their advertising slogan goes, every little helps ... Tesco. The essence of this article is that “big is beautiful”. A premise that few, other than “the Big”, accept any longer.
It is noted that the article does not focus on Tesco as such, notwithstanding the title. Which was a wise decision. Of all the larger retail stores of its type, Tesco is the one which is the most frequently publicly castigated for failures relating to its business ethics. And this is not simply a numbers game based on Tesco having the most stores.
On the contrary, as was amply illustrated in the television investigative programme about food labelling – the one about only selling fish where it was claimed the fish came from sustainable sources. Not only was this found to be untrue in the case of Tesco, but even the type of fish itself within a package was found to be wrong on occasions. (The programme was very even-handed in establishing the facts on this matter of food labelling.)
But that is far from the only instance of Tesco misleading the public about the quality of its food, and fresh food in particular.
And don’t forget the government report about store companies, and Tesco in particular, buying land, not using it, but refusing to sell it so as to prevent a competitor acquiring that land. As their advertising slogan goes, every little helps … Tesco.

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