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The Tescoisation of Ireland?

miec · 2010-02-15 14:39:45

Hi I just read this article on the Irish times with regards to suppliers having to pay exhorbitant amounts to Tesco's for product placement on their shelves. I think they are holding many Irish suppliers to ransom which will kill of more jobs and transfer money out of the Irish economy into other economies but equally it…

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#32 17-02-2010 4:53pm

miec

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Ultimately, you get what you pay for. Buy everything in the supermarket? They'll have all the market share, dominate and the local grocery/butcher/bakery will close down.

I agree, it is up to us as consumers to support smaller businesses. Like many others here I buy my meat and veg from butchers/greengrocers and the rest of my stuff in Aldi/Lidl or Dunnes or a local shop. I have since learned that Dunnes charge their suppliers even more (it was on Today FM on the last word) so it may be that Tesco's is getting all the rap for this but my beef with them is that they make out they are Irish friendly, I find that Lidl and Aldi do not make such claims, you know the stuff is imported elsewhere, this tends to get hidden in Tesco's and other supermarkets, that is what annoys me the most, in the same way that labelling is giving the image of being one thing (eg: low fat or green or healthy) when in reality it is another thing.

Already there are towns and villages in Ireland whose centres are dying a slow death because of the rise of retail parks and shopping centres, which results in a loss of community. Also if you don't have a car to get to these places your fecked.

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