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• “Totally ruthless” Tesco?

  September 9, 2009 @ 10:12 am | by Conor Pope

  Paul Cullen has an interesting story about Tesco being held responsible for the near total collapse of a large-scale vegetable co-op earlier this year. An Oireachtas committee was told that Tesco withdrew its business from the Dublin Meath Growers (DMG) just two months after it opened a €5 million facility to meet demand from the retailing giant. Employment at the co-op subsequently fell from 80 to just two or three voluntary members after Tesco pulled out. At yesterday a representative of the co-op accused the the multiple of being “totally ruthless”. Tesco rejected the claims and said DMG had simply lost out to a competitor.

• Every little helps, a lot

  April 21, 2009 @ 10:53 am | by Conor Pope

  Tesco, the largest retailer in Ireland – and one of the biggest in the world – posted a 10 per cent rise in its annual profit to a staggering £3.128 billion this morning. As usual, the shop did not break out the figures for its Irish division and instead included them as part of its international business arm. Now I am sure there is a perfectly innocent reason why Tesco is reluctant to say how much money it makes in the Republic as opposed to the North, it’s just that I have no idea what it might be. Every time I have asked them, they’ve declined to answer. All they would say is that their Irish operations reported a solid performance, what ever that means.

• What’s going down with Tesco prices?

  March 24, 2009 @ 10:15 pm | by Conor Pope

  Tesco has just announced its latest round of long-term “price cuts”, but a Rathfarnham reader called Darragh is less than impressed .

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• Price hikes at Tesco?

  November 27, 2008 @ 10:36 am | by Conor Pope

  What is going on at Tesco? A number of readers have got in touch with us expressing concern at price hikes in the store in the run-up to Christmas. First up was Darragh from Rathfarnham. “Is it just me or has Tesco increased the price of a huge range of items in its stores over the past month or so?,” he asks.
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