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 Tesco now controls 30% of the grocery market in the UK. In 2007, the supermarket chain announced over £2.5 billion in profits. Growing evidence indicates that Tesco's success is partly based on trading practices that are having serious consequences for suppliers, farmers and workers worldwide, local shops and the environment. Read our demands
NEWS ROUND-UP Competition Commission releases final report on supermarket investigation After a two year investigation the Competition Commission released it's final report on Wednesday 30th April. It has found supermarkets guilty of transferring unnecessary risks and costs onto suppliers and recommends the establishment of a new Ombudsman and stronger Supermarket Code of Practice. For more information please see the Competition Commission press release and read the final report, and a press statement from Friends of the Earth. One postcode left for Tesco According to an article in the Grocer on Saturday 28th March 2008, Tesco has stores in all but one postcode area of the UK after buying three stores in the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland. The stores were bought from Somerfield and expands the supermarket giant's reach into every postcode area of the UK except Harrogate in Yorkshire. The new stores, in Stornoway, Kirkwall and Lerwick, will open in May. More campaign successes - Ilkley and Cambridge Tesco withdrew its planning application for a proposed store in Ilkley but has suggested it may submit revised plans later in the year. The local campaign group, IRATE, welcomed the news, and said that Ilkley residents should feel proud that they succeeded in stopping the development by signing petitions and writing to the planning department in such numbers. For further information please see the Ilkley Residents Against Tesco Encroachment website, and read the campaign case study. And on the 8th March 2008 local residents celebrated as councillors rejected Tesco proposals for an extension to a proposed new store on Mill Road in Cambridge. Over 250 people attended the meeting of the East Area planning committee, and councillors voted unanimously to reject Tesco's proposals to build an extension to the rear of the proposed site. For further information please see the No Mill Road Tesco campaign website, and read the campaign case study. For more information on recent campaign successes please visit our success stories page. |
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