Tesco are planning to tear down a leisure centre in Burton. Meadowside leisure centre will be destroyed if an alternative sight is not found. Tesco claim the sight is not fit for purpose swalling up £1.4 million in subsidies in the last four years.
Asda have been fined £18,000 for letting mice run riot in there Clapham store. The mice were eating chocolate and many customers complained. Other products were covered in mice droppings and urine. The store was fined £5,000 in 2001 when mouse droppings were found in doughnut boxes.
Again Asda have been selling out of date products to its customers and they can stop it according to a spokesperson. Asda trading law manager Margaret Ryan said, "It is impossible to guarantee there will be no out-of-code [date] products on the shop floor at any given time.
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How much longer will our corner shops exist?
Supermarkets are taking over the high street, selling everything from food, clothing and electrical goods. There is nothing left for the little man to sell, they are monopolising our high streets. In the years to come only the charity shop will be left in between two supermarkets and the high street as it exists will cease to exist.
The link below highlights why this blog was created and if you are interested.
- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article732524.ece
The dominance of Tesco in facts
- 2,000 small shop close every year due to supermaket dominance
- One in 240 of the population are employed by Tesco
- £5,000 a minute in sales
- 6% of the country's mail is accounted for by Tesco on the day it sends out details of its clubcard promotions
- One of every Pounds eight spent on Britain's High Streets is spent at Tesco.
- Only four out of 121 UK postal districts are without a branch of Tesco - Harrogate (Yorkshire), the Shetland and Orkney islands, and the Outer hebrides.
- Tesco plans to open 124 new stores in the UK before the end of the financial year.
- The make £77 of profit every second.
- Tesco had global sales of £41.8 billion last year.
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- Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Im a journalism student studying at City University. I have just started my second year an want to explore how the intetnet and especially social networking sites are changing the way journalists operate.
The end?
How much longer will our corner shops exist?
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