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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"2000 jobs and 43 stores closing.  "
Over the last ten years I do Wonder how much business and lost jobs has been lost From this country the recession had a big part to play in this, Is it still Playing a part I wonder.. ?  |
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"2000 jobs and 43 stores closing. Over the last ten years I do Wonder how much business and lost jobs has been lost From this country the recession had a big part to play in this, Is it still Playing a part I wonder.. ? "
I don't believe for one second we are out of a recission.
Technically Im sure figures could show how we are but business owners like me will tell you otherwise, or at least just applicable to Cardiff |
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"I think it was primarily the Tesco Express stores they were closing. So the high street might recover some if this is the case.
Although I feel for those that will loose their jobs. "
They are only closing 18 express stores |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I think it was primarily the Tesco Express stores they were closing. So the high street might recover some if this is the case.
Although I feel for those that will loose their jobs.
They are only closing 18 express stores "
43 stores in total.. Source BBC website |
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Tesco got to big for their boots and thought they could take the piss out of the customers .
they stopped opening another checkout if there was more than one in the Que they stopped matching other stores vouchers and then were cutting back on staff and overtime and put prices up.
They have fucked up big time and who pays
the ones that get the sack not the fat cats |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"Tesco got to big for their boots and thought they could take the piss out of the customers .
they stopped opening another checkout if there was more than one in the Que they stopped matching other stores vouchers and then were cutting back on staff and overtime and put prices up.
They have fucked up big time and who pays
the ones that get the sack not the fat cats "
It cost fat cat Philip Clarke his job. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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They announced this a few weeks ago. Won't be sorry to see a few shops go. Where I live management is crap and service is shite. Do most of my shopping at Costco and independents |
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We only have a tesco here and a co op on the outskirts, but we are getting an aldi and tesco will feel it then as quite frankly they are piss poor, I know lots that do their shop in another town rather than use tesco. The only reason I use it is because I live next door.
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I used to work for them and ive seen this coming for years glad i abandoned ship when I did, as my old store is one on the list for closure and so far all my old friends are getting redundancy as they cant relocate them elsewhere within the company |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"2000 jobs and 43 stores closing. Over the last ten years I do Wonder how much business and lost jobs has been lost From this country the recession had a big part to play in this, Is it still Playing a part I wonder.. ?
I don't believe for one second we are out of a recission.
Technically Im sure figures could show how we are but business owners like me will tell you otherwise, or at least just applicable to Cardiff"
Absolutely. Sales of my horse buggy's have plummmeted in recent years. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I stopped going years ago when, on a particularly busy day, with massive queues at the checkouts that were open I asked the manager who was running around with a clipboard whether she thought it might be good customer service to put her clipboard down and sit at a checkout until the rush subsided, she looked at me as if I was an alien and continued to run around like a headless chicken. Unfortunately Tesco forgot somewhere along the line that it is all about the customer. Sad to see people lose their jobs but glad to see Tesco getting a bloody nose. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The local express is closing, feel sorry for the workers but when theres a large tesco, two asdas, morrisons, sainsburys and two sainsbury local with a five mile radius it was bound to hapoen |
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"Tesco got to big for their boots and thought they could take the piss out of the customers .
they stopped opening another checkout if there was more than one in the Que they stopped matching other stores vouchers and then were cutting back on staff and overtime and put prices up.
They have fucked up big time and who pays
the ones that get the sack not the fat cats "
. Everyone pays . Anyone who is a member of private pension scheme probably is an indirect shareholder in Tesco and dependent on Tesco for dividend income . Tesco generally treat staff well , there is a staff discount scheme , a share incentive scheme and a generous pension one as well. |
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By *UNCHBOXMan
over a year ago
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The two things i've never understood with Tesco recently. Why do they hold such little stock so they have so many out of stocks, and why do they waste their time bringing forward the stock on the shelf each day to make it look pretty?. I've been in to my local store and pretty much anyone who isn't on the till, is pushing all the stock to the front, including all the managers. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Customer loyalty means a lot to Tesco. .that's why when I spent £74 quid in there the other night they gave me a coupon for 36p off my next shop."
Not sure where the co-op,s membership card,s future lies was good for getting Vouchers back over the year but that may Stop for every pound you spent it was Worth a 1p might not sound a lot but Soon adds up on regular spend, they still give a voucher out after each spend up to a Given date recently just gone up to £1:50p from £1 off yer next spend in shop If you spend £10 or more.. |
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Call me cynical but I smell a rat...
First they open small subsidised shops driving independent sole traders out of business and destroying high streets across Britain. Then when the competition is destroyed they close the small shops maximising profits, wonder how long it will be before the other major grocery retailers follow suit? |
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By *qua vitaeWoman
over a year ago
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"The two things i've never understood with Tesco recently. Why do they hold such little stock so they have so many out of stocks, and why do they waste their time bringing forward the stock on the shelf each day to make it look pretty?. I've been in to my local store and pretty much anyone who isn't on the till, is pushing all the stock to the front, including all the managers. "
It's a well known practice with all business to 'face up' the shelves when stocking is running low.
Technically, staff aren't being sacked, but will be offered other positions where available, which could be 60 miles away! 
In reality, Tesco has really treated their staff terribly over this matter. They weren't informed ahead of the media about the changes, such as closing stores and changing to the pension plan. The reason given: the stockholders had to be told first!! |
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By *UNCHBOXMan
over a year ago
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Surely you would better serve your customers by using this time spent facing up actually filling the shelfs up and would achieve this anyway?. Tesco can't make profit on a product customers cannot get hold of.
By the way i've been in sainsburys many times and have never seen their staff doing this, and i've never had any out of stocks of products i want, unlike tesco where nearly every time i go in there at least 1 thing i want is out of stock. |
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"Call me cynical but I smell a rat...
First they open small subsidised shops driving independent sole traders out of business and destroying high streets across Britain. Then when the competition is destroyed they close the small shops maximising profits, wonder how long it will be before the other major grocery retailers follow suit?"
. I fail to see how Tesco can be blamed for driving sole traders out of businness or destroying high streets. Shoppers choose where they want to shop and no one was compelled to shop at Tesco. If the independents were as good as some say they are , they would still be in Businness. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"They were converting a local pub into a Tescos express at the time this announcement came and it has become a One Stop whatever that is"
Tesco's bought up the one stop chain a few years ago |
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"They were converting a local pub into a Tescos express at the time this announcement came and it has become a One Stop whatever that is
Tesco's bought up the one stop chain a few years ago"
. I think it was in 2003. |
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I hope they relocate all staff so there aren't job losses. The UK tax payer has propped up that company too much and they should pay a living wage, so staff don't need tax credits and food banks.
They pursued any council through the courts to impose planning approvals when locals didn't want them. It's payback time now they're slumping. Local council tax payers and national tax payers have helped them become the obscene giant it is.
It's a new era and lets hope many staff work for better employers. |
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Tesco are no worse than other retailers and no better. Boom and bust down to capitalist free market issues. Retailers work on a model that can't cope with market saturation.
But feel for those losing their jobs etc as a result. |
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"Call me cynical but I smell a rat...
First they open small subsidised shops driving independent sole traders out of business and destroying high streets across Britain. Then when the competition is destroyed they close the small shops maximising profits, wonder how long it will be before the other major grocery retailers follow suit?. I fail to see how Tesco can be blamed for driving sole traders out of businness or destroying high streets. Shoppers choose where they want to shop and no one was compelled to shop at Tesco. If the independents were as good as some say they are , they would still be in Businness. "
Of course you do...
I am a multi national company who is limited by legislation so my opening hours on Sundays are limited and I am restricted in my expansion into high streets...
So I open small loss leading shops on high streets that circumvent the laws that the restrict on my business driving my competition out of business. (Of course my shareholders take the hit on losses while I drive my competition out of business, so I don't loose.) Then when I have bankrupted the competition I close the loss making stores...
Of course you cant see how any multinational business would either do or have something to gain from that...
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By (user no longer on site)
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"They were converting a local pub into a Tescos express at the time this announcement came and it has become a One Stop whatever that is
Tesco's bought up the one stop chain a few years ago"
So how do they afford to carry on if they are closing other expresses? |
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"They were converting a local pub into a Tescos express at the time this announcement came and it has become a One Stop whatever that is
Tesco's bought up the one stop chain a few years ago
So how do they afford to carry on if they are closing other expresses?"
Because One Stop isnt their trademarked name so the can use much higher prices on products in One Stops than in Expresses as Express stores carry the Tesco name so need to keep to their price promises so basicially put its a money making con. |
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"Call me cynical but I smell a rat...
First they open small subsidised shops driving independent sole traders out of business and destroying high streets across Britain. Then when the competition is destroyed they close the small shops maximising profits, wonder how long it will be before the other major grocery retailers follow suit?. I fail to see how Tesco can be blamed for driving sole traders out of businness or destroying high streets. Shoppers choose where they want to shop and no one was compelled to shop at Tesco. If the independents were as good as some say they are , they would still be in Businness. "
lets assume all the other landlords in your area or one sole landlord with big pockets decide to drive you out of business and they set a lower rent than what you can afford to charge to maintain your property/service any loans etc..
how long do you think you would last before you have to lower rents to stay competitive..
then they all go a little bit lower..
once you are in trouble and have to sell up, they buy you out and they can increase the rent to what they can get away with or what the market allows..
its the same with the multi nationals companies and tesco has been acting the same way for decades.. |
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