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Thank fcuk they've been avoiding tax for decades then.



And your online element that would combat so much of that? You know, the one where a minimum order went from £25 to £40? Even under your 'money saving' delivery scheme?





This is the usual 'the sky's falling in!' routine every time someone even mentions paying staff a fair wage. It's just especially grating when a scrote like Lewis uses his own staff to do it.

Tesco's poor performance over the last couple of years has nothing to do with taxation and very much to do with simple poor management of the business on their part and the competition doing the job much better than them. Feck me, the Tesco Extra near me has gone from 'OK' to 'bloody awful' in a year or so and their solution to the problem is apparently to have other retailers set up microstores on their shop floor while not changing their own stock range or service model at all. Whoever thought that would turn their fortunes around deserves a slap.

We've been waiting for years for an ASDA store - the planning was delayed by a lengthy dispute - but we're getting one next year, finally!

Tesco is easily the nearest store, but I'll happily travel farther to go to ASDA. I don't rate Morrisons, Co-op is basically corner shop prices, as is Waitrose (and then some) and a weekly shop at Sainsburys always seems to come out £20-£30 more expensive than normal for no apparent reason.

In short: As soon as ASDA opens, I'll never darken Tesco's doorway again.

the big boys in retail always used the excuse of building new stores as providing jobs in that area and also to keep wages low (tax credits never helped wage increases). now none of the big boys are building new stores and have to a pay a higher wage so they cant blackmail any more.
i do hope local areas double or treble rates for the big boys its about time they paid their fair share. be that even at a local level, instead of always getting away with avoiding tax nationally ...