Showing posts with label tesco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tesco. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Tesco Overcharging For Out-Of Date Food
Tesco customers are being short-changed by promotions which have expired but are still advertised on the shelves, a BBC investigation has found.
It revealed shoppers were overcharged at two-thirds of stores visited by an undercover reporter.
In 33 of 50 stores visited, multi-buy promotions were marked on the shelf, but the time-limited discounts were not applied at tills.
Tesco said it would double-check the accuracy of pricing at all its stores.
A reporter for BBC's Inside Out visited the stores over a three-month period.
He found multi-buy deals still on display days, weeks and - in some cases - months after the deductions were no longer being applied at the till.
Mistakes only applied to in-store offers, and not those online.
The investigation was triggered when discrepancies in receipts were discovered by a member of BBC staff.
On one occasion, the reporter told customer service staff at a store in Dudley offers for gingerbread and cat food had not gone through.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-38893887
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-38893887
Sunday, February 1, 2015
BBC Panorama Trouble at Tesco Documentary 2015
BBC Panorama Trouble at Tesco Documentary 2015
TROUBLE
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tescno work unexperience
Tesco offers paid placements and jobs to people on work experience scheme
Supermarket acts following claims that it was using benefit claimants for unpaid labour via government programme
Campaigners occupy Tesco in Westminster in protest at the government's work experience scheme. Photograph: Ian Nicholson/PA
Tesco
will offer paid placements with a guarantee of a job to all those
people it will be taking on for work experience through a government
scheme, after claims that it was using benefit claimants as unpaid labour led to a consumer backlash and in-store protests.
Tesco said the 1,500 unemployed people on jobcentre work experience schemes referred to the company over the next six months would now be given a choice of staying on benefits and completing the placement unpaid, or accepting a four-week paid placement with a guaranteed offer of a job at the end if the trial goes well.
Tesco said it was still signed up to the government's work experience scheme but would continue its dialogue with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to make sure the scheme was voluntary and that no jobseeker was penalised for withdrawing from it.
Currently access to the scheme is voluntary, but if participants leave without "good reason" after the first week, they can lose two weeks' jobseeker's allowance. A Tesco spokesperson described the negotiations with the government as "constructive".
The move comes as Superdrug and the electronics retailer Maplin, along with the mental health charity Mind, said they were withdrawing from the work experience programme and similar schemes.
A Tesco supermarket in central London was forced to close on Saturday after it was invaded by members of the Right to Work campaign protesting against a job advert looking for permanent workers in exchange for expenses and jobseeker's allowance only.
Campaigners from the group said they planned to hold protests on Wednesday at a number of Tesco stores, including two in London and one in Kingston upon Thames.
Richard Brasher, chief executive of Tesco UK, said: "We know it is difficult for young people to give up benefits for a short-term placement with no permanent job at the end of it. So this guarantee that a job will be available, provided the placement is completed satisfactorily, should be a major confidence boost for young people wanting to enter work on a permanent basis."
He added: "Tesco committed 3,000 work placements under the government's work experience scheme. To date around 1,500 have been delivered. We will offer the choice of paid work and the jobs guarantee to all of the remaining placements we will deliver under the scheme. Three hundred young people undertaking work experience with Tesco have already found work with us and we are confident that many more will through this approach."
The DWP does not think Tesco's improved offer will mean the supermarket takes on fewer unemployed people. On Monday, Iain Duncan-Smith, the work and pensions secretary, had defended Tesco, saying it was caught in the crossfire of an undignified row, but on Tuesday DWP ministers said they were relaxed about Tesco's decision.
Chris Grayling, the employment minister, has insisted that no one is forced on to the work experience scheme and that the use of penalties is limited.
Grayling said the scheme, aimed at 18- to 24-year-olds who are unemployed for more than three months, had been over-subscribed. "So far, half the people who go through the scheme come off benefits very quickly afterwards and many stay with the company with which they had work experience," he said.
However, it is not clear yet from government figures if those who have come off benefits have done so because they have found a job.
Officials figures show that more than 34,000 young people have been on the work experience scheme. A further 24,000 have been referred to the government's mandatory work activity scheme, which lasts for four weeks and is unpaid.
"No payment goes to any employer. They do it entirely at their own expense and any induction or training is an investment funded by the employer," Grayling said.
He accused some organisations targeting the scheme of pushing their own political agenda. "There seems to be a culture among some of the pressure groups that hate big companies. Do they really want young people to get no work experience? There should be no division about trying to tackle youth unemployment," he said.
Tesco said the 1,500 unemployed people on jobcentre work experience schemes referred to the company over the next six months would now be given a choice of staying on benefits and completing the placement unpaid, or accepting a four-week paid placement with a guaranteed offer of a job at the end if the trial goes well.
Tesco said it was still signed up to the government's work experience scheme but would continue its dialogue with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to make sure the scheme was voluntary and that no jobseeker was penalised for withdrawing from it.
Currently access to the scheme is voluntary, but if participants leave without "good reason" after the first week, they can lose two weeks' jobseeker's allowance. A Tesco spokesperson described the negotiations with the government as "constructive".
The move comes as Superdrug and the electronics retailer Maplin, along with the mental health charity Mind, said they were withdrawing from the work experience programme and similar schemes.
A Tesco supermarket in central London was forced to close on Saturday after it was invaded by members of the Right to Work campaign protesting against a job advert looking for permanent workers in exchange for expenses and jobseeker's allowance only.
Campaigners from the group said they planned to hold protests on Wednesday at a number of Tesco stores, including two in London and one in Kingston upon Thames.
Richard Brasher, chief executive of Tesco UK, said: "We know it is difficult for young people to give up benefits for a short-term placement with no permanent job at the end of it. So this guarantee that a job will be available, provided the placement is completed satisfactorily, should be a major confidence boost for young people wanting to enter work on a permanent basis."
He added: "Tesco committed 3,000 work placements under the government's work experience scheme. To date around 1,500 have been delivered. We will offer the choice of paid work and the jobs guarantee to all of the remaining placements we will deliver under the scheme. Three hundred young people undertaking work experience with Tesco have already found work with us and we are confident that many more will through this approach."
The DWP does not think Tesco's improved offer will mean the supermarket takes on fewer unemployed people. On Monday, Iain Duncan-Smith, the work and pensions secretary, had defended Tesco, saying it was caught in the crossfire of an undignified row, but on Tuesday DWP ministers said they were relaxed about Tesco's decision.
Chris Grayling, the employment minister, has insisted that no one is forced on to the work experience scheme and that the use of penalties is limited.
Grayling said the scheme, aimed at 18- to 24-year-olds who are unemployed for more than three months, had been over-subscribed. "So far, half the people who go through the scheme come off benefits very quickly afterwards and many stay with the company with which they had work experience," he said.
However, it is not clear yet from government figures if those who have come off benefits have done so because they have found a job.
Officials figures show that more than 34,000 young people have been on the work experience scheme. A further 24,000 have been referred to the government's mandatory work activity scheme, which lasts for four weeks and is unpaid.
"No payment goes to any employer. They do it entirely at their own expense and any induction or training is an investment funded by the employer," Grayling said.
He accused some organisations targeting the scheme of pushing their own political agenda. "There seems to be a culture among some of the pressure groups that hate big companies. Do they really want young people to get no work experience? There should be no division about trying to tackle youth unemployment," he said.
Prime Minister takes Tesco's side as he attacks critics of workfare scheme
Defiant: Prime Minister David Cameron has defended the idea of youngsters doing unpaid work experience at Tescos
Protest really does work – just look at Tesco and workfare
Get behind a precise, winnable issue such as workfare and protesters can give the government the bloody nose it deserves
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/22/protest-tesco-workfare
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/22/protest-tesco-workfare
Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/586e7650-5d28-11e1-889d-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1nCaMep00
Tesco slides amid worries over turnround
Defending profit in recent years had cost the Tesco brand its trust and relevance, said Merrill Lynch analyst John Kershaw.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/586e7650-5d28-11e1-889d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1nCaIBiw7
Indian government under attack over plan to welcome Tesco and Walmart
The Indian government was plunged into turmoil on Monday over its decision to allow supermarket giants like Tesco and Walmart to open new stores in towns throughout the country.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/8920617/Indian-government-under-attack-over-plan-to-welcome-Tesco-and-Walmart.html
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Kryptonite and the Super-market
Kryptonite and the Super-Market
When I was only six years old I remember Superman as being the most inspiring character to me, back then, he was a super hero with super-powers to save people from evil, to help them in dire times of distress and disaster, to fight injustice wherever it may surface, and best of all, superman went after the super-villains causing most of the problems in urban city areas and population centers. Superman loved the people, strangers and even some animals.
I wanted to be like superman and I dressed like him a few times when I visited Stourbridge in the early 1980's before the age of the giant supermarket chain-of-tears, before the age of the super-American 'style' shopping mall, and before the (work-consume-die) shopping mall culture came into my life like an all pervasive new fundamentalist religion: capitalism the religion of shopping?
The punchline here is supposed to spell out to you my horror and general outrage toward any decision to invite TESCO into Stourbridge Town Center. I have always opposed the superstore, and have spent many years watching their strategy both locally, nationally and internationally; to many this is a story of super-success, Billions in Profits, millions of new jobs and countless 'services' all from one single pivot, surely any critic of such a great money making and employment machine would be hard pressed to provide any meaningful criticism?
To begin with the relationships between Tesco executives and senior members of the British Cabinet raise concerns to my mind, especially in relationship to Tony Blair, and generally the ease by which TESCO in particular are allowed to buy land, build super-stores and expand into thousands of supermarket services, in fact becoming a mini-government all by itself, a Big Brother store for all your needs. That's what I see, and I see the Government and the private enterprise plotting to exploit the poor and vulnerable generally, in every and any way possible when I look at the last decade and the sordid business warfare operations. Others view this warfare as a successful campaign, defined by the it's profits, the numbers, and the employment figures all evidence that in fact, the supermarkets are enhancing our lives, giving us time and gifting us with convieniance, who can argue with that Mr. Pratt?
Here's some advice if your on the fence about Tesco. Simply look at their wikipedia entry on the internet, and then search for 'Tescopoly' and 'every liitle bit hurts' at your search engine of choice. Ask yourself, will you be the change you wish to see in the world, or do you just want other people to keep doing 'change' for you on T.V.
I'm not such a negative and critical person as to be stupid enough to simply denounce the building of a new supermarket, without providing alternative models for new 'areas' in which my vision for what we could achieve together, can be realized. How about TESCO invite me and bunch of friends to help both design the store and attenuate the local production and distribution lines? to work out how to include all the local producers of goods and services that they might also provide. (email me if your reading this: flyagaric23 @ gmail.com)
Lets create a local supermarket partnership where we share our vision for a really supermarket, a supermarket with a cape and funny shoes, lets build a supermarket vision that sweeps all the others out into the car-park area and into the plastic bins where they belong with the plastic trash.
A Supermarket partnership vision that includes every voice, especially the voice of creative criticism and alternative models, superior in vision to those it opposes and therefore obsoleting the opposition with superior methodology. Here's goes.
TESCO stourbridge, when built shall be designed along the lines of two major principles, for starters, laid out by the greatest design scientist I have ever encountered: R. Buckminster Fuller; these primary two principles are.
a) Tensigrity
b) Synergetics
In short every possible way to use less energy in the design process, the construction, and the maintainance of this super-store should be implemented, to strive to create a super-store, where the word 'super' can be seen as synonomous with 'green' and 'effecient' or 'synergetic' to use Bucky's own terms. Why not? why wouldn't the richest and biggest of the UK Supermarket build us a really super market built upon the the most 'super' archetectual and design principles as laid out by the great Buckminster Fuller?
Also in tune with some other ideas I got from Bucky why not have each product have a signiture that can tell you how far it travelled, from where, when, and details about the growing conditions, and the payment and payment schemes of those who grew, packed, sliced, diced or dialled up whatever goods or services you receive. This is not TOO MUCH INFORMATION, but vital information to keep track of 'values', and a fair request in the face of supermarkets tracking the buying habits and details of their customers, the customers should ask their PRODUCTS and their manufacturers for equal information, or, as I propose, a program could simply display the best performers, or the products that produced the smallest carbon footprint, maybe by travelling the least amount of distance to the store? Therefore, we can begin to provide evidence for the whole principle of synergy from root to the fruit to the ceiling.
When I was only six years old I remember Superman as being the most inspiring character to me, back then, he was a super hero with super-powers to save people from evil, to help them in dire times of distress and disaster, to fight injustice wherever it may surface, and best of all, superman went after the super-villains causing most of the problems in urban city areas and population centers. Superman loved the people, strangers and even some animals.
I wanted to be like superman and I dressed like him a few times when I visited Stourbridge in the early 1980's before the age of the giant supermarket chain-of-tears, before the age of the super-American 'style' shopping mall, and before the (work-consume-die) shopping mall culture came into my life like an all pervasive new fundamentalist religion: capitalism the religion of shopping?
The punchline here is supposed to spell out to you my horror and general outrage toward any decision to invite TESCO into Stourbridge Town Center. I have always opposed the superstore, and have spent many years watching their strategy both locally, nationally and internationally; to many this is a story of super-success, Billions in Profits, millions of new jobs and countless 'services' all from one single pivot, surely any critic of such a great money making and employment machine would be hard pressed to provide any meaningful criticism?
To begin with the relationships between Tesco executives and senior members of the British Cabinet raise concerns to my mind, especially in relationship to Tony Blair, and generally the ease by which TESCO in particular are allowed to buy land, build super-stores and expand into thousands of supermarket services, in fact becoming a mini-government all by itself, a Big Brother store for all your needs. That's what I see, and I see the Government and the private enterprise plotting to exploit the poor and vulnerable generally, in every and any way possible when I look at the last decade and the sordid business warfare operations. Others view this warfare as a successful campaign, defined by the it's profits, the numbers, and the employment figures all evidence that in fact, the supermarkets are enhancing our lives, giving us time and gifting us with convieniance, who can argue with that Mr. Pratt?
"It's just a damned shop, and if its cheaper than anywhere else I'll shop there, god damn it"--Homeless man in Dudley.
Here's some advice if your on the fence about Tesco. Simply look at their wikipedia entry on the internet, and then search for 'Tescopoly' and 'every liitle bit hurts' at your search engine of choice. Ask yourself, will you be the change you wish to see in the world, or do you just want other people to keep doing 'change' for you on T.V.
I'm not such a negative and critical person as to be stupid enough to simply denounce the building of a new supermarket, without providing alternative models for new 'areas' in which my vision for what we could achieve together, can be realized. How about TESCO invite me and bunch of friends to help both design the store and attenuate the local production and distribution lines? to work out how to include all the local producers of goods and services that they might also provide. (email me if your reading this: flyagaric23 @ gmail.com)
Lets create a local supermarket partnership where we share our vision for a really supermarket, a supermarket with a cape and funny shoes, lets build a supermarket vision that sweeps all the others out into the car-park area and into the plastic bins where they belong with the plastic trash.
A Supermarket partnership vision that includes every voice, especially the voice of creative criticism and alternative models, superior in vision to those it opposes and therefore obsoleting the opposition with superior methodology. Here's goes.
TESCO stourbridge, when built shall be designed along the lines of two major principles, for starters, laid out by the greatest design scientist I have ever encountered: R. Buckminster Fuller; these primary two principles are.
a) Tensigrity
b) Synergetics
In short every possible way to use less energy in the design process, the construction, and the maintainance of this super-store should be implemented, to strive to create a super-store, where the word 'super' can be seen as synonomous with 'green' and 'effecient' or 'synergetic' to use Bucky's own terms. Why not? why wouldn't the richest and biggest of the UK Supermarket build us a really super market built upon the the most 'super' archetectual and design principles as laid out by the great Buckminster Fuller?
Also in tune with some other ideas I got from Bucky why not have each product have a signiture that can tell you how far it travelled, from where, when, and details about the growing conditions, and the payment and payment schemes of those who grew, packed, sliced, diced or dialled up whatever goods or services you receive. This is not TOO MUCH INFORMATION, but vital information to keep track of 'values', and a fair request in the face of supermarkets tracking the buying habits and details of their customers, the customers should ask their PRODUCTS and their manufacturers for equal information, or, as I propose, a program could simply display the best performers, or the products that produced the smallest carbon footprint, maybe by travelling the least amount of distance to the store? Therefore, we can begin to provide evidence for the whole principle of synergy from root to the fruit to the ceiling.
"I think its a racket between the local council, private business interests and the devil"--Rev. Benny Henry.
I would utilize the International reach of TESCO to provide a new interactive multicultural shared information and comparative 'values' resource, where different cultures and peoples can interact and share their local successes, both on-line and in groups, discussing their own day to day uses of all the goods and services they use, being encourgaed once again, for creative criticism and alternative ideas and design solutions opposed to rude, meaningless angry grunts, like '*%^k Tesco, the *;&'£*ing Robbing @0&Ts" These remarks get us nowhere fast, Tescno' however, and 'Tescopoly' seem more like it. 'Tescoticular Cancer' seems boarderline insulting and 'Tesco: A crippled Supermarket' once again, does not help us in a partnership. Name calling and insults are simply way below the belt, and I for one am not messing with no Tesco junk, no sir.
Every piece of packaging would be bio-degradable in no less than the time it takes to come back and buy another of whatever was once inside. Every piece of fruit and every vegetable grown as close to the store as possible, and wherever possible actually outside of the store itself.
The New Tesco should employ the goods and services providers and pay them well to continue doing what they are doing, and have people visit them or contact them for goods and/or services.
- TESCO Music could help build a new wave of creativity throughout the land, providing free space, recording facility and International 'in store audiences' to local artists.
- TESCO sports could provide free space for healthy fitness activities and support entire communities in their health and nutrition plan, all in harmony with the foods available at the store, and wherever and whenever possible in the local area.
- TESCO film could trigger a new local journalistic and creative film revolution by simply buying 200 or so hand held cameras per-store and giving them away 'free' to local creatives to record their local environment and feeback on any concerns they have, especially regarding environmental concerns and how 'tensigrity' and 'synergetics' design science principles may assist and solve.
- TESCO god might just be the thing that we have all been waiting for, now, just consider for a moment the greatest strategy I have yet to propose, TESCO GOD, a special god department in the store where you can commune with god and pray for forgiveness, redemption, rapture or some cranberry sauce.
- TESCO time-bank could help revolutionize how we view work, shopping and trade by introducing 'time' as a valuable 'currency' and allowing volunteers to work for themselves and invent their own responsibilities in the local community and have a mean to evaluate and share the fruits of any such work.
- TESCONO would be my idea of a library and global village space, where anybody can ask a question and is encouraged to say 'no, I'm not satisfied with that answer' whenever possible. As with the usual cheesy sauce advertisement I would go with 'Say Tesknow' marketing strategy.
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TESCON'spiracy is an alterantive counter-intelligence operation designed to
creates conspiracy chaos by way of a small (but significant) amount of bad press for
TESCO. Moving the news headlines into crooked and extremely
shallow waters builds a straw man, burns it and then pretends to own it all.
Every supermarket needs a good local fable and the Tescon'spiracy operation may
help to tap into the local community trickster spirit.
--Steven 'Fly agaric 23' Pratt.
Posted 28th November 2010 by FLY AGThARIC
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Introduction to Blog
Hi, and welcome to 'NO TESCO STOURBRIDGE' a simple blog created to enable those who DO NOT wish to have a TESCO 'megatropolis'--in the small town of Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England--to comment.
On a recent search for information about TESCO's bid to build a huge complex in town some friends of mine and I noticed that there is nowhere to pitch objections.
Make your own search to see for yourself how one sided and unbalanced this application process is. In our humble opinion this does not reflect the process of democracy we hold dear in our community.
Please feel free to comment, all feedback is welcome.
Here's a link to the pro-tesco website that inspired this blog:
http://www.tescostourbridge.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesco
On a recent search for information about TESCO's bid to build a huge complex in town some friends of mine and I noticed that there is nowhere to pitch objections.
Make your own search to see for yourself how one sided and unbalanced this application process is. In our humble opinion this does not reflect the process of democracy we hold dear in our community.
Please feel free to comment, all feedback is welcome.
Here's a link to the pro-tesco website that inspired this blog:
http://www.tescostourbridge.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesco
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