I know that there has been a supermarket thred on here,but most of the Mail's hate seems to be centred on Tesco and only Tesco,any idea why?

They're the biggest one, I guess.

Any criticism that comes their way, from any source, is welcome in my view.

Even if it's completely made up?

I had thought the Mail loves Tesco and vaguely remembered reading an arse-licking article recently. Bit of googling;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... pping.html

A visionary who changed the face of shopping: If our leaders had one iota of Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy's drive and flair, Britain wouldn't be in such a mess

They're also more than happy to give puff pieces about Tesco charity works or promotional drives

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... -test.html

Tesco is capitalism in its purest form, and I suspect the Mail realises this.

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It may be arselicking but its bang on the money

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looks like a case of the Mail wanting it both ways.

Having worked for the company he runs, I would just like to say that that really is about as untrue as you can get. Unless everyone in Britain wants to be treated like exploited, unworthy pieces of humanity.

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Welcome to Daily Mail Britain!

Strange

For all its faults, i didn't realise Tesco used slave labor

If they are so bad, where are all the striking workers and union uproar?

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8127477.stm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesco[/url]
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http://cleanclothes.org/news/uni-report ... ces-abroad[/url]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/03/tesco-migrant-workers-protest
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/b ... 189609.ece[/url]
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www.actionaid.org.uk/doc_lib/14_1_rotten_fruit.pdf [/url]

And that's before we start on Dame Shirley Porter, their actions against the interests of farmers, buying up land 'just in case', the destruction of small retailers, the blighting of shopping centres...

Two points of clarification here.

1. A lot of the workers at Tesco are either there on a temporary basis (parents doing a job while the kids are at school, people between other jobs, students, older people on the verge of retirement etc.), most of whom don't join the Union, which in this case is Usdaw (and which in my experience is more keen on promoting "community activities" in the stores than actually doing anything more militant). These members of staff are often treated worse by the company (one of my contemporaries was given an official warning because he worked three nights a week and had taken one night off ill in a 6 month period, but because that dropped him below the official attendance figure he was "done").

2. Tesco have been exposed as using slave labour several times over the last few years and despite the assurances by the oh-so-brilliant (in the eyes of the Mail) directors have done precisely sod all about it. Why let ethics get in the way of profits? After all, Every Little Helps...

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NFU criticises Tesco treatment of suppliers

War on Want demands answers on treatment of workers

Tesco in Child Labour row

Channel 4 investigates Tesco's use of child labour

Ditto from the Mail

Tesco branded 'unethical and unfair'


Just google it.

People want cheap, quality items all available under one roof, supermarkets give them that. Besides, they were all small retailers themselves at one point, but some were more successful than others. Just economic evolution.

I'm certainly not defending some of the company practices overseas, my slave labor comment was about workers in the UK, but isn't it better, in some ways to have at least some poorly paid work than to be scrabbling on top of garbage dumps?

Malc.
from your links:
the BBC one

thought we liked to deal with evidence on here?
The wiki one:

'action aid' and 'cleanclothes' are anticapitalist pressure groups so most of what they say should be taken with a pinch of salt

Accept the points in the other two links though

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OK - you lurve Tesco, the rest of us don't. That's cool.
Just don't make them out to be saints, because they aren't.

I'm amazed you've never seen this stuff before - have you been living in a box?