Everything Lyme Regis ever wanted to ask Tesco and their (PR company's) reply
Lyme Regis residents and councillors had a meeting with "Tesco" on 28 October 2008. However, it appears that their PR guru John Taynton from Tesco-nominated PR Dogs was the person put in the firing line.
Read about it here.
Really, the number of times he said "I don't know, I'll get back to you on that" (between 6 and 8 times depending on how you define his answers) makes you wonder why Tesco can't front their own meetings. But perhaps they think there is no point in having a dog and barking yourself. Though, in this case, it might have been the better way!
posted by Anonymous @ 7:48 pm
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Why does Tesco need a PR company? Surely they are so wonderful and so necessary to any and every town that they don't need to push the point?
Tesco use a PR company because they can afford to and they think it gives them the edge. At the Honiton Inquiry they could afford a top rank QC to do battle with the EDDC solicitors. It was like putting a hen up against a tiger. They think that a PR company can deal with local yokels in the same way. Pay fat fees to smooth tongued professionals and problem goes away irrespective of right or wrong.
Top gangsters never do their own dirty work, they pay underlings to do it for them
I presume that they employ a local PR company so that they have local knowledge.
According to their web page PR Dogs is based in Horrabridge which is somewhere on the edge of Dartmoor and nearer to Plymouth than Seaton. Seems that's what "local" means in Tesco-speak! And it means they have absolutely no idea of the problems that are faced by seaside towns, including Lyme Regis.
The PR company is in attendance everytime Tesco attends a meeting...I suppose it gives them a buffer, rather like those appalling customer care lines where the public vent their spleen and the company concerned acts like it never heard the unrest, is that spin?
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