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Tesco
and
Climate Change
Below are
extracts of letters between the supermarket company Tesco and Peter Shullot
about climate change. The letters in full are at the bottom of the page. This is
one of 65 sets of letters so you can find out what your supermarket, energy
supplier and car manufacturer, and oil companies, airlines, house builders and
other companies really think about climate change. The name Peter Shullot
is made up – it is an anagram of The Polluters.
To Terry Leahy, Chief
Excutive –
You must be proud. Tesco is Britain’s Favourite Supermarket in the Grocer Gold
Awards. How many people can say that? Not your rivals. What’s more one in six
every pound is spent in your stores, and you’ve successfully exploited your
position in the retail market. Mrs Shullot and I always shop in your
supermarket. The wife likes the meat counter and I go for the magazine display.
So we know it is all fully deserved. I can’t understand it when people say Tesco
stands for Takes Every Single Corner Off.
You’ve also shown you hold no truck with the system. Look how you push the
planning rules to the maximum to bring us new stores and more choice. As a
successful businessman myself – computers are my game – I applaud you for what
you’ve achieved.
Why I’m writing is this hullabaloo about climate change. I’ve got no time for it
myself. To me it’s a cooked up plot for governments to interfere in profitable
businesses like yours and mine.
And let’s face it self-regulation is doing the minimum to keep the bureaucrats
at bay.
Tesco replied –
I was pleased to learn that you and your wife enjoy shopping in your local Tesco
store.
While I do not wish to detract from your comments regarding climate change,
perhaps I can direct you to our website
www.tesco.com/corporateinfo and our Corporate Responsibility Review 2007.
Letter to Tesco
Reply from Tesco
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