Kelso - part 2
As you will see below, Tesco and Sainsbury's have been slugging it out in the small Scottish town of Kelso, each one trying to deliver the knock-out blow.
What is interesting is that in November 2007 (see here) Tesco were promising to build "the most environmentally-friendly supermarket". "Tesco are reported as having said: "We've had some meetings with the council and are proposing to build a full eco-store, the most environmentally friendly store in the whole of the UK, which the council is very keen on and which we are very keen to deliver."
It also seems from another report that Kelso is surrounded by Tesco stores and the majority of people preferred to have a different supermarket in Kelso.
Now isn't this strange, not only because of all the similarities to Seaton but because they are now promising to build the first small eco-friendly Tesco in Ottery St Mary and the first large eco-friendly Tesco in Seaton - that must upset Kelso who presumably want to be first! Anyone else think that "eco" is overused!
posted by Anonymous @ 7:46 pm
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What frightens me is how easily these companies can use towns like Seaton to justify their greed and to fight each other for market share. This isn't about what is best for Seaton, it is about what is best for Sainsbury and Tesco and these are not the same things.
We are just pawns in their game and the end result is that so many of our local shops will be put out of business by supermarkets we don't want or need. We already have a supermarket in the town which has just spent hundreds of thousands of pounds having a refit and stocks everything you could need.
Shop at your local shops and none of these supermarkets would be sniffing around Seaton like animals on heat.
Sorry Windy City, I'm not convinced that by shopping at the Co-op and the smaller shops in town, we would have prevented Sainsbury's and Tesco's being interested in carving up Seaton!
I do agree though, that Seaton is just another notch on the belt for any of the big boys, only to be gobbled up to keep out the opposition.
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