Tesco and Competition Commission
The Competition Commission has been investigating supermarkets. Today it issued its interim report. In that report it says it is going to pay more attention to whether Tesco has an unfair advantage in the market over other supermarkets.
It can do no worse than look in Seaton. Should Tesco decide to come here to take the 5,000 sq ft of supermarket space (and this is more than SIX times the size of the current Co-op) we will have:
Tesco in Axminster
Tesco in Honiton
Tesco Metro in Sidmouth (hey, why isn't it a BIG supermarket there! and not just a Metro!)
Tesco in Exmouth
Imagine if it were to be Tesco who came here! I wonder who in this area owns Tesco shares?
Fortunately, we have a long tradition of independent thinking in the West Country and I am sure it will come to the fore if necessary.
posted by Fighting for East Devon's future @ 1:15 pm
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....and of course if someone cannot get to any of those 4 locations easily, Tesco will deliver to your door !
Supermarket or?
Concentrate a little on the wording of the Liatris Planning Proposal.
“Re-development of Land to include, housing, retail, petrol filling station, leisure/tourist development with access and open space.”
There has been a little discussion of the open space or drainage ditch. Access to or from what? Leisure/ tourist development :- just about anything you can think of!
There is presently before Parliament a bill that will permit two super casinos one at the Dome the other in Blackpool. Hidden in the small print is permission to create up to 90 smaller regional casinos. Who are Liatris?
My reference :- Radio2, Sunday 21/01/2007 11:00 – 13:00 Clive Anderson Revue of the Sunday Papers.
Watch this very large space that might be a Super Market!
We had already thought of this. Interestingly, EDDC had been thoroughly against being a casino authority until one of the councillors said that he went to Bristol and saw that they were a thriving business(where Liatris used to own one now sold) and he came back converted and appears to have talked the council into reconsidering it.
When asked which casino he had visited and who had paid for it he said it had been a private visit to Bristol and he hadn't been into a casino at all.
So quite where he got his information to convince the council to change their minds is a bit puzzling to say the least.
The EDDC policy on gambling was supposed to have been published on 19 January and will be adopted at the end of the month. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find it on the EDDC web site yet.
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