The neverending creep of Tesco

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sat 31 Oct, 2009 10:05 pm

With news that The Travellers Rest at Halton (not to be confused with the former Travellers Rest, now Red Lion, at Cross Gates) has been demolished to make way for yet another Tesco, the question has to be asked, how many Tesco stores does one city need?Off the top of my head, there are now Tesco stores at Easterly Road, Seacroft, Cross Gates, Garforth, Harrogate Road, Rothwell, two on Roundhay Road (one about to be expanded massively), Armley, Bramley, the city centre (Bond Street), Beeston, two in Horsforth, Cookridge, Bridgewater Place and Clarence Dock.And I'm sure that isn't an exhaustive list. Add in the soon to be opened store at Halton (within yards of two other supermarkets, one of which only opened relatively recently) and it's like Tesco are taking over.How do they keep getting planning permission for all these stores?You may recall that when Morrisons bought out Safeways they were ordered by the competition commissioner to sell the former Safeways stores at Garforth and in the city centre, both of which were sold to (you've guessed it) Tesco!Morrisons also closed their branch at Bramley, merging it with the Safeway store at Swinnow for the same reasons and guess what - Tesco are now in Bramley too!And of course Tesco have well advanced plans to open a huge Extra store at Middleton, which will strengthen their grip even more.So how come their competitors have to sell stores if they are adjudged to have too much influence in one area, whilst Tesco are allowed to keep opening more?

Post by **chameleon** » Sat 31 Oct, 2009 11:04 pm

The invariable comment about the birth and extension of the Supermarkets is the effect on small local traders, with the call to save the small 'local shop' - isn't that just what the 'Extra' stores are? Small, local, closer to home than the supermarets, handy?They fit the description of what we demand - but who ever thought they would be owned by the big boys. Moral - a reminder to be careful what you wish for.

weenie · Post by **weenie** » Sat 31 Oct, 2009 11:10 pm

i have friends and family in scarborough and they have the same problem lots of tesco's and only 1 Morrisons at seamer and a sainsbury's in town, they are all protesting against them!! and now the Dean Road council refuse place has been bought by Tesco's too

biggee99 · Post by **biggee99** » Sun 01 Nov, 2009 12:09 pm

A big question here now don't take it the wrong way does Tesco belong to the Jews its only a question not that it matters who owns it.

weenie · Post by **weenie** » Sun 01 Nov, 2009 12:17 pm

havent the foggiest

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 01 Nov, 2009 1:18 pm

biggee99 wrote: A big question here now don't take it the wrong way does Tesco belong to the Jews its only a question not that it matters who owns it. It was certainly founded by a Jew - Sir Jack Cohen - pile it high and sell it cheap. Whether it still a Jewish company I wouldn't know. It's funny really, there's a rash of Tescos in Leeds, but the nearest to Morley is in Batley. They were going to redevelop Odsal in the nineties but Morrisons put the kybosh on that. Presumably Morrisons have plenty of pull in Bradford. You'd think the same would apply to Asda in Leeds. In Morley we've got Sainsburys at the White Rose, Morrisons in the Town Centre and Asda on Bradford Road, but none of the others are here. This really p!sses my wife and I off. Lidl, Netto and Aldi have stores in all the surrounding towns, but not in Morley - are they frightened of Morrisons etc or what? Some of Lidl's stuff in particular is very good quality and very competitively priced.

biggee99 · Post by **biggee99** » Sun 01 Nov, 2009 1:30 pm

Trojan wrote: biggee99 wrote: A big question here now don't take it the wrong way does Tesco belong to the Jews its only a question not that it matters who owns it. It was certainly founded by a Jew - Sir Jack Cohen - pile it high and sell it cheap. Whether it still a Jewish company I wouldn't know. It's funny really, there's a rash of Tescos in Leeds, but the nearest to Morley is in Batley. They were going to redevelop Odsal in the nineties but Morrisons put the kybosh on that. Presumably Morrisons have plenty of pull in Bradford. You'd think the same would apply to Asda in Leeds. In Morley we've got Sainsburys at the White Rose, Morrisons in the Town Centre and Asda on Bradford Road, but none of the others are here. This really p!sses my wife and I off. Lidl, Netto and Aldi have stores in all the surrounding towns, but not in Morley - are they frightened of Morrisons etc or what? Some of Lidl's stuff in particular is very good quality and very competitively priced. Thanks for that mate nice one. I do like Lidl my self good stuff theretry it guys

Post by **chameleon** » Sun 01 Nov, 2009 1:51 pm

One well known trick of Tesco - though others may do the same - is to buy small areas or plots of land in likely development areas.These are very carefully placed and usually, for development to go ahead, acquisitionof these little bits is essential. Now, if the developer is a competitor.... yup not difficult to work out is it? They refuse to sell and that's the end of that one.A famous case a few years ago was when a chain had outline permission for a large store, they needed to construct a new access road. one small atretch right through the middle was owned by Tesco and for some reason they didn't want to part with it. End of that one too.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Sun 01 Nov, 2009 7:23 pm

biggee99 wrote: A big question here now don't take it the wrong way does Tesco belong to the Jews its only a question not that it matters who owns it. What exactly are you trying to say here biggee? Does it matter if it is or not? Why does the owners religious back ground even have anything to do with it? If like you say it doesn't why would you even feel the need to mention it!?

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sun 01 Nov, 2009 7:25 pm

I'm sure that Tesco is a plc, so shares are available for pretty much anyone to buy.You'll probably find that most shares are owned by financial institutes such as pension funds.