Reply to: Tesco's £900 million quid in 6 months

[wendigo100]

Of course the real problem is that married women (and especially mothers) work, and therefore have no time to take care of their families properly, no time to shop around, no time to cook properly, no time to socialise with their neighbours/family thereby creating the breakdown of community values (which was always created and fostered by the females in communities).

I am afraid to say that out loud, especially as my last dozen or so managers have been female, but it is true.

The trouble is that they are trapped. House prices and stuff are now geared toward two-income families.

[hyperD]

You are right DundeeGeorge, but it actually doesn't take that long to cook decent food. OK, it only takes 4 minutes to microwave a ready meal and 10 minutes to oven cook a pizza but it only takes 5 mins to boil some carrots, 15 minutes for potatoes, 2 mins to make a salad and any meat or fish dishes can be frozen in bulk for later: 2 mins in the microwave.

In actual fact, a lovely piece of fresh tuna lightly fried in sesame oil with some spring onions, zest of lime, honey takes about 5 mins to prepare and cook - just in time to make a bed of rice or salad.

[Dundeegeorge]

(Zips on flame-proof suit, enters bunker)

"HyperD, I completely agree with you on the food aspect. I too do not shop at Tescos if I can hep it, and I try to be careful at what food I buy, look at the ingredient, avoid hydrogenated fat, salt, E numbers, "vegetable oils" etc. But I can afford it. Lots of people can't really, and Tescos are a godsend for them.

You are right on grand scheme of things level (we'd like every kid to eat proper food, people to cook more, local farmers to have the opportunity to sell good local produce locally, etc.) but as long as the market works the way it works, the Tescos are very useful for a large category of people."

But I bet many of them spend their limited cash on non essentials such as designer clothes, fags and alcohol. Maybe if Tesco wasnt there they would be forced to spend more money on good quality food rather than mass produced rubbish.

Tesco perpetuates teh Chav lifestyle.

Of course the real problem is that married women (and especially mothers) work, and therefore have no time to take care of their families properly, no time to shop around, no time to cook properly, no time to socialise with their neighbours/family thereby creating the breakdown of community values (which was always created and fostered by the females in communities).
I shall fetch my coat.

[hyperD]

Don't shop there then. Problem solved.

I don't, but the problem has not been solved.

You're missing the point: aggressive monopolistic practices remove opportunities and choice. Your choice.

You may say you have freewill and choice, but what is left of your freewill when the choice is continually being eroded despite your best efforts?

[voron]

I'm very sorry that minding my own business has resulted in the nation going down the pan.

It's not a question of minding your own business. If my neighbours want to engage in wife swapping, paint their arses bright blue or use a giant mushroom as a sofa, I don't care as it's none of my business.

It does, however, become my business when the hospitals are clogged with tubby bastards overdosed on fries, when my children can't receive a proper education because the schools are filled with hyper psychopaths, etc. It also becomes a matter of concern when animals are mistreated as a direct result of supermarkets forcing farmers to cut costs regardless of the consequences.

[Mindomoo]

"HyperD, I completely agree with you on the food aspect. I too do not shop at Tescos if I can hep it, and I try to be careful at what food I buy, look at the ingredient, avoid hydrogenated fat, salt, E numbers, "vegetable oils" etc. But I can afford it. Lots of people can't really, and Tescos are a godsend for them.

You are right on grand scheme of things level (we'd like every kid to eat proper food, people to cook more, local farmers to have the opportunity to sell good local produce locally, etc.) but as long as the market works the way it works, the Tescos are very useful for a large category of people."

But I bet many of them spend their limited cash on non essentials such as designer clothes, fags and alcohol. Maybe if Tesco wasnt there they would be forced to spend more money on good quality food rather than mass produced rubbish.

Tesco perpetuates teh Chav lifestyle.

[benn0]

Nice attitude.

The fact is when you do get out more, you can find plenty of local places that do better food and have better services and are cheaper than supermarkets. Oh yes, and wrap and pack for you and know alot about their product.

Our local butchers is great - all food sourced from local suppliers. And you know what? Kids don't seem quite so hyper, people aren't plagued by psoriasis and other immuno response problems and the food actually tastes of something. And you don't get the foul language, stealing, shouting and swearing etc

Problem is Tesco has been looking to take over similar villages resulting in loss of local businesses and suppliers. Tesco will not deal with local suppliers, preferring large industrial farms such as those in Netherlands. Businesses and jobs go bust through aggressive pricing with a reward of some low value jobs being created.

To any large company that is doing well - great. That's the idea. Free market, no rules etc.

But this isn't competition whereby market dynamics dictate market share and prices.

This is being monopolised by giving a large company preferrential treatment and allowances at the expense of all other competing businesses in that market.

Would you feel the same if your clients only picked services from a large agency? And if you were then forced to go through that agency they told you to take a 60% pay drop because they're having a promotion? And if you don't, we'll find someone else? And there was no other agency or direct to go through because the client only uses the large agency?

So, you might say I'll offer my business elsewhere but find whatever you do the large agency either aggresively undercuts your service rate or lobbies the government to bend the rules their way.

They're using their power to breakdown the rules of competition in their market. This was one of the reasons the MMC was created but now, even that seems irrelevant.

And to top it all, their fresh food is tasteless, their ready meals overpriced, overchemicaled and foul. Wouldn't even serve it to my dog.

Don't shop there then. Problem solved.

[benn0]

That's the problem. Not caring what else they do means we have a nation of children, teenagers and adults pumped full of cheap crap and chemicals, and then we wonder why we have so many behavioural and health problems.

I'm very sorry that minding my own business has resulted in the nation going down the pan.

[BoredBloke]

"and do you know how Dixons deals with the suppliers?"

Looking at their prices then they can't be too hard on them. I can't remeber the last time I bought anything from Dixons/Currys etc. Nice to browse to see what is out there and if I should get it elsewhere.

[Lucifer Box]

And how would you know what tulip tastes like?

I take my taste testing very seriously.

[PerlOfWisdom]

It tastes the same but the texture is different

[The Lone Gunman]

Bit late for Dodgy, that happened to him last week - this Dodgy is just one of Milan's bots.

Dodgy, it's not necessarily about eating healthily, but eating tastily (for me, anyway). If microwaved frozen pizza and oven chips floats your boat, good for you. To me it tastes like tulip.

And how would you know what tulip tastes like?

[Lucifer Box]

It could be worse Lucy, you could be a right tit!

I thought I was.

[Lucifer Box]

So you don't die aged 50, slumped on your toilet, looking like a barbecued whale.

Bit late for Dodgy, that happened to him last week - this Dodgy is just one of Milan's bots.

Dodgy, it's not necessarily about eating healthily, but eating tastily (for me, anyway). If microwaved frozen pizza and oven chips floats your boat, good for you. To me it tastes like tulip.

[Guv]

Nobody said life has to be a distance event and to paraphrase, I dont want to walk meekly up to the pearly gates with a tale of a life of abstinance, I want to tear in there in a four wheel slide, bottle of bolly in one hand and a stunning blonde on the other screaming "what a ride".

That's right. These health nutters have got it all wrong. When do you get all these extra years? It's at the end of your life, when you're 90, right? When you're too old to do anything about it and can only spend the remaining days remembering all those years spent in the gym. Now if you got extra years at 19 -19!- it's would be worth it. 19 not 90.