tabtab13
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Just been reading online about Tesco's expansion plans for their store. Do we really need this? I see they also plan to extend their parking facilities - but where? Couldn't see any mention of how they were going to do this. To me, I can't see how that can be done without the destruction of green areas.
Then we have the old chestnut 'it will create more jobs and that's good for the local economy'. Knowing two people who used to work there, the policy seems to be when someone leaves there, they are not replaced, the work just gets divided amongst the remaining workers. Morale there was at an all time low but I don't know what it is like now, somehow I don't think it will have improved.
Local shops in town are suffering enough already and personally, if I wanted the 'benefits' of hypermarkets left, right and centre, I'd go live in a city. I have issues with the stranglehold Tesco have up and down the country. Some might say this is progress but I disagree.
Or am I just being narrow minded?
Whoops - too wound up and put this in the wrong place. Can it be moved?
Then we have the old chestnut 'it will create more jobs and that's good for the local economy'. Knowing two people who used to work there, the policy seems to be when someone leaves there, they are not replaced, the work just gets divided amongst the remaining workers. Morale there was at an all time low but I don't know what it is like now, somehow I don't think it will have improved.
Local shops in town are suffering enough already and personally, if I wanted the 'benefits' of hypermarkets left, right and centre, I'd go live in a city. I have issues with the stranglehold Tesco have up and down the country. Some might say this is progress but I disagree.
Or am I just being narrow minded?
Whoops - too wound up and put this in the wrong place. Can it be moved?
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