Every little helps so why can't Tesco sell locally-made goods?

“Well said, Alberus.

And whilst we're on the subject, I suppose I should 'fess up that I have to do a fair bit of recruiting and interviewing myself. Don't like it at all, I have an underling to do it for me usually but he's not always available and occasionally I get pressured into doing it. Now it is a very simple fact of the real world of employment that without experience no-one will touch you. I work in a very technical environment where specific skills are required; we don't expect ready-made people off the shelf and we'll give anyone a chance IF they can demonstrate some essential skills, recent relevant experience, and the right attitude. It's highly unlikely that we'd find someone tailor-made so we accept that it will take six months to a year to get even a good prospect up to speed, and we offer stacks of in-service training and professional qualifications, but the fact is we simply don't get the calibre of candidates very often, even when they have the right attitude and are bright and willing to learn we rarely see any relevant qualifications and experience - even a three to six month work trial would be sufficient. And I am given strict rules to follow that say I can't chance it and take somebody on without at least some relevant experience.

As a rule I tend to favour people from the locality over those from other parts of the country, and Britons over non-Britons. I'm not supposed to but I try to stick up for local people and our country where I can. But the positions still have to be filled and due to the multi-national nature of the business I have to accept people from abroad because they can usually do the jobs with minimal or no training and most of the British applicants can't, and I find that gutting. Even the bright UK graduate applicants aren't as good as the foreign vocationally trained staff. Only the UK staff over 45 truly outshine the newer foreign entrants because we were properly educated and trained; so very, very few of the British staff really cut it these days.”

“Tesco are full of inventive ideas. The reason for this is that they are in business. Because they are full of inventive ideas, they have become the No 1 supermarket. This is a fact of life. This is capitalism in action. I don't think we can comprehend how hard-nosed these people are. Of course they are not interested in helping the economy, the unemployed, or anyone else, apart from themselves and their shareholders. (They'd even shortchange the latter if they could get away with it). But we must remember that competition between supermarkets does help to bring down the cost of goods. A speedy reaction by the supermarkets can be observed by them adjusting marketing techniques to prevailing conditions. For instance, in this recession, they will cut back on ready meals and start to sell more ingredients for home preparation and so on. As for people "working for nothing". It's not entirely for nothing, because nothing is worse than people sitting on their backsides for years or even decades while becoming a permanent member of the benefit culture underclass. That is not good for the human spirit. Our bodies are designed to move and do work, or we atrophy and our spirit dies. Even work without money is surely better than this slow death? An introduction to work especially for the young must be worthwhile. Life is not all about money and that's a fact.”

“Tesco made millions in profit, and yet expects us to believe they want to 'help' the economy and the unemployed, by getting people to 'work' for NO pay,
Now, I have no problem whatsoever with people who volunteer to work for no pay in order to gain valuable work experience, best of luck to them I say,
BUT, thats a million miles away from forcing people to have the 'work experience' of stacking shelves with the 'experience' of NOT getting paid,
I dunno about you lot, but for me, one of the best and most important 'experiences' of working, and the 'experience' most likely to have me getting out of bed and going to work every day, is the 'experience' of getting PAID!!!!

and while we are on the subject, most of the people employed by Tesco are either part timers or on the NMW or both, This means that quite a lot of their employees are claiming 'in work benefits' like some housing-council tax benefit, and working tax credits,
How many of you are aware that these 'benefit scroungers' are next in line for attention from the Tories? OH yeah, they will soon be under pressure to find either full time or better paid jobs,, (I know I know, WHAT 'jobs') and if they don't find these better paid jobs their 'out of work benefits' will be removed,
Thus forcing them back on the dole in order to be able to claim benefits so that they can at least feed themselves and keep a roof over their heads, To eventually be forced to go back to Tesco to work for their benefits only,
The creation of a free 'slave labour underclass' is complete,
Dole figures are down, the Tories chums like Tesco are raking it in now they don't have to pay most of their staff, EVERYONE is a winner, except the low skilled working class of course, but who cares about the 'untermensch' eh?

Of course if companies like Tesco (there are lots of others) REALLY 'cared' about the economy and unemployment and getting down the welfare bill, and thereby bringing down taxes for everyone, They would allow their HUGE profits to 'take a hit' and pay their workers above the NMW so that the government and the tax payers didn't have to subsidise their workers pay through in work benefits,
Just a thought.”

“we brought our bowls for our famous thursdays lobby at noon from poundland, brilliant price”

“We have to remmeber all this is happeing to our city under a Labour council, a labour council... every little helps yeah... every little bit of pollution allowed by a Labour council from a multi national companies, every little bit of intimidation from council departments, every little bit of demolition of good homes, every little bit of corruption.. not a good advert for ones election campaign oh oh want to get elected as prime minister? what with this all happening under a Labour council, Nooooo mate...”

“A couple of points really - Firstly, if you wanted some crockery and your from Stoke - would you really want to buy it from a supermarket?
I guess there are some sales - otherwise the line would be removed from sale, but that's just my opinion, however the reseponse from Tesco was to import large volumes etc without having room for local trading, how many Tesco stores in the UK sell Oatcakes?
I bet every one in Stoke does - and about a 20 mile radius but after that no-one has heard of a proper oat cake... not that the article was anything more than a politics blog anyway and using Tesco as a means of getting the headline...!”

“Every Little Helps, so why then do all the councils in the uk allow new supermarkets to be built, this affects the small trader making them go out of business and making small towns and villages ghost towns”

“Whilst I largely agree with the sentiments expounded in this article, I'm more than a little annoyed that the author chose to turn it into a party political piece for the Liebore party who oversaw thirteen years of industrial decline, mass immigration and an unsustainable credit boom, and particularly that the article is a rather shoddy advert for Mr Millibean and his hilarious misadventures (and even mentioned Manglesbum in a positive light.. ) However no matter what glowing prose is written, nothing can make the Millipede (E or D, I get them confused) look good.”