Yeah! Dunnes always have had a great reputation for their benevolence to Irish Workers.

Exactly. Afaik the only large retailer with a decent reputation for employee relations was Superquin. Dunnes was always the pits to work for - I should know . I once got fired from Dunnes for wearing a sweatshirt under my uniform in an unheated store in November.

Was it a Tescos sweatshirt?

Wait didn't diet FF euro candidate Sean Kelly have something similar to say a few months back, not quite that Tesco should leave Ireland, but definitely outlining a negative impact?

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The man is a dolt - not to mention incomprehensible. It baffles me that he's elected but there's the electorate for you.

Here it is.

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too.

Up the Irish Republic!

Kelly was talking about out of town superstores and not Tesco in isolation and I'd agree with him. Whether it is Dunnes or Superquinn or whoever the out of town developments hurt communities.

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if Tescos left the south, that would only encourage the other brands put their prices up.
So its a no-win situation for the consumer.

but there will always be northern ireland to shop it, a consumers market.

Still though, it's hardly worth screaming about O'Keefe when your own candidate is saying something very similar. Stopping these stores could also lead to job losses in the same way Tesco leaving Ireland could lead to job losses.

I happen to agree with both in a way.

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Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall. Is Féidir Linn!

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too.

Up the Irish Republic!

There is also the social dimension to tesco. They are a vast multinational trying to impose a one size fits all idea onto the Irish market. To them we are another part of the UK and will treated as such with all that entails for our identity. If Tesco was replaced by smaller locally owned shops then it would be better for us all round.

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