Comments on: Tesco Is Good, Small Retailers Are Bad

By: John

John — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:12:25 +0000

Quite, if the businesses offered their customers a more compelling reason to shop with them than Tesco then they wouldn’t have a problem.

By: Jonathon Richards

Jonathon Richards — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:02:55 +0000

In reality it is unfair, but in busineess terms i would say it was survival.
Because if tesco don’t grow then they won’t be as successful.
Complaining about it, i don’t think, will affect anything that tesco do.But it aint tesco that chooses the customers,customers av a choice of there own so tesco must be the favoured if other chains or small family business/supermarkets are seemingly struggling to make profit.

By: John

John — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:17:16 +0000

I have to admit I don’t enjoy going to the supermarket either. The point however is that small local stores have to try to compete (and they can do so successfully) not just stick their heads in the sand while complaining about how “evil” Tesco is.

Fortunately locally we have a very good, small chain family run supermarket, which offers great local produce.

By: Phil Connolly

Phil Connolly — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:56:59 +0000

The grocers and fishmongers round here closed a long time before Tesco turned up with their Express store. I went into the main Tesco store for the first time in ages a month or so ago and it was awful. There were so many people there that it was a case of constantly trying to avoid trolleys. They might have everything you want in there including clothes and electricals but unless you go regular you’ll have no idea where anything is. I’d rather stick to smaller shops which don’t involve a mile trek to the cheese counter.