Hi Geoff
You've obviously found our website so you can read the concerns we have there in some detail.
In planning terms, we were able to stop Tesco largely because of the impact on highway safety and congestion; Tesco make many more deliveries than any other supermarket, and each delivery, lasting for up to 40 minutes, would have effectively blocked Mill Road, causing not only congestion but danger, especially to cyclists.
They are highly aggressive, as you say, and it is a fair bet that if they open, a year down the line you will have fewer small shops still in existence.
Generally, people who say they are in favour of a Tesco Express do so based on the misunderstanding that it will be cheap. In fact, Tesco Express prices are over 20% higher than in their supermarkets. In our own shopping basket comparison, their prices were also higher than those in the existing independent traders on Mill Road.
Good luck and best wishes,
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Highway safety and congestion?
In Ulverston?
Dont think so! ... a lot of the stuff a Tesco Express sell's you could have already bought in the old Woolworths. No congestion when they were in business.
People will come into Ulverston and use the carparks (for which SLDC will be grateful), do a shop in Tesco on a Saturday and ... who knows...perhaps look in (AND SPEND MONEY IN) the other shops in town!!
As someone else said, its a fait accompli anyway - welcome the fact that Tesco have the confidence to open a store in the town ... the other contenders (Iceland???...eurgghh!!) just wouldnt be the "right stuff" for the town. At least Tesco will present a modern image and draw in people who are likely to shop in the "quirky" premises as well!!
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