Tesco really taking the mick
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No, some mindless twerp complained and the council pointed out that they need planning permission so Tesco now seeks retroactive planning. That doesn't necessitate prior knowledge that planning permission is required.
All of that tat is no dout sold indoors at the same Tescos stores - this just allows customer the convenience of picking up a few essential summer things without venturing indoors. This is done all the time around here (USA), I can pick up a BBQ/charcoal/soda/snacks fromt he fornt of the shop without even going inside.
Bit out of line IMO. Ilfracombe is a charming little place, those traders have been there for years. Way to go tesco, idiots. I feel supermarkets are the main cause of the recession, we have to use them but why must they move into selling everything? Turning us into a country with a lack of variety.
People in this thread are painting small businesses with the 'hiked up prices' brush, but I find it's the other way around. Most small businesses are far cheaper for many products in my town than larger chain ones.
For example, fence clips:
B+Q= 90p
Homebase = £1.00
Burcarts (small business)= 40p
When your buying 40 of these, that's a significant profit those supposed 'cheaper' chain companies are making.
For example, fence clips:
B+Q= 90p
Homebase = £1.00
Burcarts (small business)= 40p
When your buying 40 of these, that's a significant profit those supposed 'cheaper' chain companies are making.
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I'd like to see Asda or Sainsburys setup a marquee in a Tesco car park. That would be newsworthy 
This, if anything it could be damaging to tesco's business, as you're no longer going in and being suckered by cleverly positioned impulse buys...
But why would tescos selling stuff in their carpark as well as indoors change the profits significantly from simply selling those same things indoors?
Before people would pop into Tescos and buy an instant BBQ and bottle of coke. Now then they drive up and can just grab the BBQ+coke from the marquee and go out.
It i is not like Tescos employees are walking up and down the beaches selling soda and ice cream form cool-boxes which would obviously take sales away form the local shops.
If some one is going to drive to tescos to buy something what difference does it make that it is inside or outside?
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my guess is that they weren't expecting sun like pretty much everyone else in the uk, the sun came out and they left it a week to see it was more then a few days before buying a load of stock. it's not looking to be around for a while longer so they've gone and got stuff, finally arrived at this store and quickly set up a tent to sell it. they couldn't wait for planning permission as the thought is last minute as was this sun we've had lately.
my local tesco has marquees set up frequently selling seasonal stuff, i imagine this permission will fly through, it just takes 8 weeks to be verified and they can sell now.
Not at all, big businesses like Tesco have the brand appeal, the convenience of a one stop shop, the buying power, and the ability to make strategic losses all day long to under cut smaller businesses in order to remove the competition, and profit in the long run.
I'm not saying I like it, quite the opposite, but its reality.
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people seem to think competition, improvements in efficiency are inherently evil
damn that Henry Ford and his motor car - its absolutely despicable the effect he's having on us local horse and carriage drivers
Its disgraceful isn't it - I mean the bloke who owns the book shop can't stock everything and has to rely on people waiting a few days for him to order in books he doesn't have - people have been going online instead to this place called Amazon... how dare a company offer a cheaper, better service to consumers - customers should have to wait longer and pay more for their books because the bookstore owner is 'local' and therefore has an inherent right to a profit, to earn a living from his inefficient and outdated business which he has no desire to change in any way to compete in today's market. What would the world come to if lots of people went to the same website... worse still people are buying books electronically too... it must stop!
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The only issue I can see with this story is the eight weeks it takes the planning department to make decision on a retrospective application. They should be asked to stop trading until the decision has been made. Tesco are still free to trade in store if they wish.
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e: being a wotsit. Maccy threatened a perma.
Yes. That's all lovely and whatnot, but if you've never lived there, you're kind of talking about something you have no idea about.
E2: and by 'you're kind of talking about something you have no idea about' I mean 'you're literally talking about something you have no idea about.'
Yes. That's all lovely and whatnot, but if you've never lived there, you're kind of talking about something you have no idea about.
E2: and by 'you're kind of talking about something you have no idea about' I mean 'you're literally talking about something you have no idea about.'
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No that would be the consumers fault, no one has to shop in the large supermarkets. People can choose to support their local shops and markets etc but they choose to buy cheap produce that look all the same in the perfect shape but tastes of nothing. The consumer chooses to shop for convenience and price then moans the high street is closing down and there is now a lack of choice.