Tesco really taking the mick

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Supermarket giant Tesco has angered traders in a north Devon seaside town by setting up a marquee selling beach goods, without planning permission.

The pop-up summer shop in the car park of the Ilfracombe store was "immoral" said one shopkeeper.

Tesco said the marquee was "really popular" with customers and it had applied for retrospective permission.

It can carry on selling goods until permission is either granted or refused, said North Devon Council.

The tent takes up about 10 car parking spaces in a square and sells items such as barbecues, buckets and spades and wetsuits.

High Street shopkeeper Gwynn Churchill said: "They haven't got permission, they have got a big enough store anyway.

"It's sharp practice. Even though it's legal, morally it can't be right."

Other traders said they relied on seasonal trade in holiday goods and could not compete with Tesco on prices.

Tesco said it was "pleased to be offering our customers summer essentials" and said it was "proving to be really popular".

North Devon Council said it would take up to eight weeks before it could consider the planning application.

"Responsible businesses would be expected to apply for planning consent prior to opening, although it is not illegal for them to open before permission has been granted," it said.

The authority added "any enforcement action should normally be held back while the application is considered".
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It's ridiculous that they can get away with this, setting up a shop in a car park and then apply for retrospective permission than will probably take 8 weeks, by which time we'll be past the bank holiday and they'll just take the marquee down.
 
I dont see too much wrong with it tbh, i mean its in their car park. I'm surprised u need permission to add a marquee to your own car park.
 
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It's ridiculous that they can get away with this, setting up a shop in a car park and then apply for retrospective permission than will probably take 8 weeks, by which time we'll be past the bank holiday and they'll just take the marquee down.
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What? they own the land...:confused:
 
They can't come up with a realistic argument as to why it's bad, so wheel out the morality barrow.

It's like the whole tax situation, you've got countless people expressing strong opinions on subjects they don't understand on a basic level.
 
I know they own the land, but if they thought it was such a good idea then why not apply for the permission before hand.
I reckon they knew there's a good chance permission wouldn't be granted, so they get round it with the retrospective permission process that lasts long enough to cover the summer season.
 
Will nobody spare a thought for Ilfracombe's hawkers of overpriced beach tat!? If they can't rip off the public then the local high street will become a wasteland.

Hang on that sounds familiar...
 
Bry said:
I dont see too much wrong with it tbh, i mean its in their car park. I'm surprised u need permission to add a marquee to your own car park.
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I doubt you'd need permission for a marquee, but they they're trading from it.
 
Lunatic Dreyfus said:
Will nobody spare a thought for Ilfracombe's hawkers of overpriced beach tat!? If they can't rip off the public then the local high street will become a wasteland.

Hang on that sounds familiar...
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It's yet more people who believe they have a divine right to profit and or earnings regardless of offering a worse service.
 
"Responsible businesses would be expected to apply for planning consent prior to opening, although it is not illegal for them to open before permission has been granted"

This is a fine example of a non-story.
 
Bry said:
I dont see too much wrong with it tbh, i mean its in their car park. I'm surprised u need permission to add a marquee to your own car park.
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+1

I'd rather have one huge supermarket selling things at reasonable prices, than two dozen butchers, bakers and candle stick makers selling me the same things at ramped up prices.

*I am now in popcorn mode *
 
I can't see the big deal if it is in their own carpark? It'd be a different matter if they'd opened it in Sainburys or Waitroses carpark for example.

I assume that the only issue is that it's an eye sore? Any customer that has gone along to Tesco to get said items will have purchased them at tesco irrespective of whether they were in the store or in a marquee in the stores carpark surely?
 
Presumably people are going to the Tesco carpark, to park and shop at Tesco anyway, so its not really like they're stealing trade as those items would be in the supermarket anyway?
 
OP, If things as trivial as someone setting up a stall in their own park annoy you, you must be in a state of perpetual rage.

Some of the locals who live bang on the Valley football ground have bought small burger stands and use them on their driveways to flog burgers to the fans.

They're applauded and labelled as entrepreneurial because their regular Joe's. God forbid a large company do it though, that is horrific.
 
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