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Published Date: 03 October 2008
Jobs Tesco's claim to "create" 1,700 jobs in Scotland (your report, 1 October) rings hollow. Can we really believe Tesco superstores result in more employment than the smaller, less efficient, local shops that they force out of business?
Richard Lucas

Edinburgh


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  • Last Updated: 02 October 2008 10:57 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Itchy,

03/10/2008 07:02:38
Talk about thick.

Would this guy rather that jobs were being cut?

And it is the customer that puts people out business, not other business.
2

richard l,

edinburgh 03/10/2008 07:40:27
#1

You don't seem to understand. Opening a shop to compete with another does not necessarily increase total employment in the long term, especially if that shop is very big.

Perhaps you would like to appologise for being offensive and answer this point.
3

Curious Yellow,

Edinburgh 03/10/2008 09:26:20
#2 - #1 doesn't really have a lot to apologise for. You said it yourself : "smaller, less efficient, local shops" so I think the answer to your 'point' is 'yes, it looks like it'
4

James F,

East Ayr 03/10/2008 13:40:36
#3. Wrong. Itchy should apologise immediately. Calling somebody thick is gratuitously offensive and besides, Richard probably is correct. Tesco will employ 1,700 people but inevitably smaller, less efficient (but socially necessary) shops will close and this will result in job losses.

No such thing as a free Tesco job.
5

Shrink,

Dundee 03/10/2008 23:06:27
#1 - "And it is the customer that puts people out business, not other business"...what...like it's the bullet that kills a man, not the person who pulled the trigger?

 

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