Jobs & Local Producers
Jobs & Our Local Producers
- If you think your job is safe, then think again? Tesco’s own corporate strategy states that it aims to emulate its success in the grocery sector in all of its non-food areas. This means that it will aggressively target all business areas – it has the financial clout to undercut everyone until it gets a foothold in a particular sector.
http://www.tescoplc.com/about-
- RGDATA – the Independent Retailers Association has commissioned a report by Economist, Jim Power. It states that for 38pc of market share that independent retailers have they’ve created about 90,000, jobs. For the 27pc market share that Tesco has, it has created 13,000 jobs.
http://www.rgdata.ie/
- Tesco may say that they are creating jobs, but they may not be safe judging by their previous actions. Tesco Ireland’s head office in Dún Laoghaire has been “transformed” into a country office by redeploying roles to the UK and outsourcing work to India.
- Tesco fails to support local producers:
Richard Bruton tells Tesco to stop ignoring local producers but Tesco Ireland CEO, Tony Keohane failed to give guarantees.
- Tesco’s policy of buying goods from the UK will affect local jobs – this is backed up by a statement from the president of the Irish Farmers’ Association:
Tesco tried to hide its policy from Irish people of buying directly from UK suppliers. An internal document said that a key objective was ensuring its policy of taking deliveries directly from UK suppliers went unnoticed and remained “invisible to the Irish customer”. At the same time the president of the Irish Farmers’ Association said there was deep anger about Tesco’s decision to displace local produce with imports and that it “will inevitably lead to thousands of job losses and will put Irish producers of local, fresh produce out of business.
