Taming Tesco
Tesco is not a popular company. Not popular with its rivals, who envy its dominance of the grocery trade and are leading a campaign to slow down its expansion and stop its below-cost pricing of certain goods. Not popular with small farmers, who feel ripped off by the company. Not popular with people who have lost Post Offices and other small shops as Tesco’s supermarket building programme transforms Britain’s high streets. It is sometimes not even popular with its customers, when they find the promise of cheap food does not hold good beyond a small number of items. Above all, Tesco is not...