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Tesco have ruined many high streets. The Labour party are right to raise this although it does show their shallowness, as they facilitated it's growth in recent years.
In terms of a of a business we can all agree it is a 'success' but at what price? From a Capitalist viewpoint it 'works', employs people and puts money back into the economy...well except for the vast quantities it filters off to the Channel Islands and other offshore tax havens. But any success like Tesco can only be measured by another Capitalist obsession, 'Growth'. A variable that can only seem to be calculated in isolation. Unfortunately the 'success', is not weighed up against the effects and anyone that can not see the end result of growth either has no imagination or just no brain (the giveaway being that Britain is of a finite size). Supposedly this obsession with big business supermarkets is providing us with 'choice', but actually where we can buy certain items is fast reducing. Tesco, if they continue will destroy all other competition and ultimately leave us with NO choice.
Where once we saw towns being made around rivers, mines, mills and churches, we now see them being designed around a Tesco, how soulless is this?! Money spent in the store by the people around it. Some earning money from it, using their 'discount' (taking products to a reasonable price) and putting their money back in. And then after all this, the money disappears to some holding company based in Switzerland. Before anyone mentions, I know this 'Tax Avoidance' is legal...but then so is 'Work avoidance' and some reason the same people who think it 'wrong' not to pay into the system think that it's 'right' to not pay in if you are rich.
And people still say ridiculous comments like "I use it for convenience, being able to do all my shopping in one place". If they managed to actually open their eyes they would see that most Tescos are now the size of a town centre. They may as well say "I like to do all my shopping in one place...Kent". It's a joke and you can even get them to deliver...oh joy, reducing human interaction even more, the same mentality as those that say "why go to a pub when I can drink cans at home" another anti-social joy facilitated by Tesco?
Terry Leary (Ex CEO) even has a platform from which to pontificate about education, thanks to New Labour. Now although this man is the sort we like to hold up as a wonderful posterboy of social mobility, we must remember that 99.99999% of Tesco shelf stackers do not land up as the CEO. On top of this, where once the the wage of a shelf stacker could subsidise a business degree course (Which Mr Learly has) you would now need a wage closer to store manager to enjoy such a privilege. Perhaps this is something else Tesco could provide? Anyway Mr Leahy managed to slate the education in this country (of which he is the product) saying that young people do not have the skills required to work in their stores. From someone that is happy to replace till operators with automated self service tills, I find this quite a statement.