A friend used to make useful amounts of money to add to her pension by investing in stocks & shares. I do not know how much she meant by useful, but she was happy to spend on holidays & good clothes
She used to make all her own buy or sell decisions & concentrated mostly on the retail sector. She said she could easily check these for herself – you could tell at once if a store was on the up or on the slide
I think my friend would have been selling Tesco before now. Straws in the wind, but there was a niff about them even in the spring. Then there was a CEBR report which put Tescos inflation rate at 6.1%, higher than that of other major supermarkets – they are rowing back now
There was the embarrassing publicity over the refusal of a cashier to sell wine to a customer who was shopping with his 14 year old daughter, & the libel cases in Thailand
My own personal beef about Tesco is the way they show complete contempt for those who may wish to use one of their larger stores without having to go by car
All the Sainsburys I know have level access & a bus stop practically outside the door. The one in Hazel Grove is set a long way back from the road but a covered walkway is provided
The nearest Tesco to me does not have level access, unless you ignore their signs & walk down the access road. Access is otherwise impossible for those who cannot manage steps. There is an unreliable & inconvenient bus service which finishes at about 5.30. And it is a longish walk all along the side of the store with no cover at all. Similar inconvenience attends the only other large Tesco I pass, which necessitates crossing a very busy main road
Add to that their cumbersome & vaguely insulting voucher reward scheme & a seeming determination to ban all full fat from their shelves, & I stoppped ever even bothering to go there over a year ago
