Comments for The No Clapton Tesco Campaign

Comment on Vandalism at Tesco Express on Lower Clapton Road by kenny

kenny — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:49:42 +0000

it’s just so sad that it’s resorted to so-called ‘direct action’ – have lived in Clapton for 12 years now and though I understand people’s concerns about Tesco’s policies on a national level – this is the first time that that stretch of Lower Clapton Road has looked so clean in years and at least it wasn’t yet another ‘massage’ place or betting shop. I love the people in Palm – but they have loyal customers and I don’t think their customers will let them go under. I’ve had to go to Tesco’s for some things – we’ve got a big family and sometimes it’s actually quite useful to get things there that we can’t get at Palm – we always shop at Palm first though and get what we can locally. The smashing windows harks back to the days when broken windows were a normal occurence around here (and a lot of gun crime)- it seems such a shame – this protest (if as emily points out might not be directly related but it seems likely to be a ‘protest’ of some kind) seems really misguided. This vandalism really, really does nothing for our community (perhaps the vandals don’t live locally so don’t care) – and if the perpetrators are reading this I’d really like them to know that this mindless vandalism in not wanted in our community, close to the school where we send out kids, and certainly doesn’t help local businesses like Palm – it just makes everyone edgy and very, very sad.

Comment on Vandalism at Tesco Express on Lower Clapton Road by emily

emily — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:17:44 +0000

@Davey I have to say as someone who lives in the estate that they are on, that they have been pretty responsive on a lot of elements of the day to day operations, this mainly includes how they are on the estate (the back of the store is inside the estate) – we shall see how the delivery operations improve or not.

I do think that it’s worth talking to the store about how they can improve things for local residents now they are in, this of course helps on a local level rather than national level.

We have no proof that this was anti-Tesco or just general vandalism, but personally I do not agree at all with vandalising the store, I’m not sure how that benefits anyone.

Comment on Vandalism at Tesco Express on Lower Clapton Road by Davey

Davey — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:47:54 +0000

Hmmm, yeah, good luck with that. After fighting them at every stage during planning, you really think they care what locals think? Clapton Tesco is just another balance sheet sent into head office. I doubt anyone with any real authority at Tesco’s has ever been there. There comes a time when only direct action makes a difference.

Comment on Housing association seeks legal advice as Clapton Tesco opens today by salade folle

salade folle — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:24:22 +0000

Still, I think it’s not right for them to get away with illegal trading just by paying a symbolic compensation; that’s not what the law is for, right? or do they get special treatment because they’re Tesco? On the positive side of things, this little incident has made me resent them even more, so they’re even less likely to get my business!

Comment on Housing association seeks legal advice as Clapton Tesco opens today by emily

emily — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:06:48 +0000

Updated above, seems that they did open early and pretty much gotten away with it. They have given the freeholders £2000 for the “misunderstanding” surely a small percentage of the money they made. The freeholders are going to spend this on the estate so the residents directly affected benefit

Comment on Housing association seeks legal advice as Clapton Tesco opens today by emily

emily — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:07:41 +0000

Susannah we don’t know they full details, but as far as I am aware it is still the case that Tesco are trading without permission from the owners of the building. I haven’t heard Tescos side yet and will update when I do.

Comment on Housing association seeks legal advice as Clapton Tesco opens today by Susannah

Susannah — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:08:36 +0000

Do we know why Family Mosaic are seeking legal advice? What is it that hasn’t been completed? This sounds like typical Tesco bullying.

Comment on Planning Committee meeting last night, permission granted by Lou

Lou — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:59:05 +0000

Sorry to hear this. Unfortunately it was probably inevitable given the power Tesco has. Hopefully the local community will continue to support the local businesses and they can find a niche that Tesco can’t fill.

“Such is the power of the supermarkets, they are effectively rearranging the entire landscape to suit their business practices. You don’t need to explain the attraction of cheap food, everybody likes saving money, but the effect of that simple drive to bring down price – it’s massively altering the way we produce food, the scale on which we produce food. This is costing us in our landscape, this is costing us our, our food culture, this is, this is changing, the quality of the land that we walk on, potentially even the quality of the air that we breathe. I mean, this is big stuff.”http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/22/supermarkets-stores-planning-permission

Comment on Tesco Planning applications for 144-146 Lower Clapton Road by Nathan (age 10)

Nathan (age 10) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:56:29 +0000

Palm 2 and other local shops will serve much more variety and friendliness than Tesco will offer but because Tesco is a multimillionare company, it will undercut the local shops if we dont act against them.

Comment on Planning meeting announced: Please come along by emily

emily — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:18:04 +0000

I live on the estate that Tesco Express are trying to move into and there are many reasons I don’t want them there, some are about the impact on residents that live there, some are to do with the impact that it will have on the pond area through deliveries and general mess, others are to do with the fact that the building was built for the purpose of 3 community businesses and never for a Tesco Express and the obvious fact that Tesco Express is opening next to Hackney Downs station suggests that if I really need it I can walk there.