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Thread: "Tesco should leave Ireland" - FF Euro candidate

  1. 15th May 2009, 03:00 PM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clanrickard View Post
    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.
    Except in your pocket.
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  3. 15th May 2009, 03:05 PM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chrisco View Post
    Except in your pocket.
    No. If you compare prices at Farmers markets and Greengrocers to Tesco you'll find they are cheaper. Also meat is cheaper and better quality in Butchers. I have compared prices and believe me tesco aren't cheap.
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  4. 15th May 2009, 03:05 PM #23
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    And if Ned wanted to link up his nonsensical warblings he should call for us to withdraw from the EU, which is the only way this is possible.

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  5. 15th May 2009, 03:10 PM #24
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    Is this thread a joke? Not even Ned O'Keeffe is that dumb. WHo does he think buys more Irish agricultural produce than all of France? (Not to mention other products.)
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  6. 15th May 2009, 03:12 PM #25
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    You have hit the nail on the head, a lot of Irish producers have put their eggs in the one basket.
    Quote Originally Posted by imported_Déise View Post
    What is also neglected is that economically monopsony, where you have only one buyer, is just as harmful as monopoly.

    Tesco has perhaps too much power as a purchaser.
    A champion of the people emerges with the age-old and appealing promise of "something for nothing" - to be financed through every-increasing taxes. Supply and demand are thrown out of gear - the overhead goes up; the effective use of human energy goes down; the standard of living is lowered because money cannot buy wealth that is not produced.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Clanrickard View Post
    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.
    Ah c'mon now, I think Tesco know that Ireland is not part of the UK.
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  8. 15th May 2009, 03:21 PM #27
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    Quote Originally Posted by Supermanpolitician View Post
    Ah c'mon now, I think Tesco know that Ireland is not part of the UK.
    I'm not sure some members of diet FF or certain journalists know so who knows about Tesco...
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    FF should leave ireland.
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  10. 15th May 2009, 03:24 PM #29
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clanrickard View Post
    No. If you compare prices at Farmers markets and Greengrocers to Tesco you'll find they are cheaper. Also meat is cheaper and better quality in Butchers. I have compared prices and believe me tesco aren't cheap.
    Not around where I live. Tesco is cheaper, with more convenient opening hours, and I don't need a car to get there.
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  11. 15th May 2009, 03:36 PM #30
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    tesco guy saying the other day that tesco were the largest exporters of irish food (to the uk stores i guess)
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