Post in Tesco's in North Street

Apr 24 07:47 UTC

Hi Esther

Alas it's only too plausible that they'll mindlessly grant permission for the
Tesco behemoth to park 5 minutes from another branch. At present in Broadmead I
can count 4 within 5 minutes of each other, all selling the same dreary
overpriced cloned creme freche. With, I think, 2 more on the way in the new
'hooray for slavery' broadmead - or whatever they'll be calling it. It's the
way they operate to squeeze out the few remaining independents; and pretty
brazen too. And then they have the nerve to bang on about 'consumer choice'.
aagh!

A proper greengrocers - like the glorious Turners' on East St (may it live
forever) or a co-op as somebody else pertinently suggested, would be infinitely
better for the local community. There's an Aldi 2 minutes walk from the site,
so it's not like North St lacks supermarkets... how can we REALLY stop them
from turning our local area into wall-to-wall choice-free identikit marts?

Steph Wardle