Tesco
Here are three of many letters sent to Tesco regarding their decision to use stickers to show the original country of food, where it is specific to that country, with the exception of England. Eventually tired of being fobbed off a letter has gone to The Sun. Hopefully they will take up the case. Meanwhile please add your voice to the many complaints going to Tesco.
Date: 14 March 2006
Subject: Anti-English discrimination by Tesco
Today i am deeply saddened, as a loyal regular customer of Tesco for as far back
as i can remember, and my family before that i see you have adopted the
Anti-English stance of the Scottish run Labour party,ie Tony Blair,Gordon
Brown,John Reid,Alistair Darling to name but a few.I have just read on your
website that you have dedicated buyers in Scotland,Wales and Northern Ireland
with no mention of England,i also notice that Tesco uses national flags on some
products for Scotland,Wales and Northern Ireland but if it's a product made in
England the Union Flag is used.However Tesco views this it is desperately
hurtful, offensive and downright racist to not only myself, but my young
children, my extended family and many many other people i know. Does Tesco need
reminding that 82% of the population of
Britain are in England and are therefore the backbone of their profit? Does
Tesco need reminding that England already suffers enough discrimination at the
hands of new Labour through
devolution,funding and regionalisation? And does Tesco not agree that English
nationalism is on the rise exactly because of this type of prejudice stance?
Your policies are simply stating that there is no England and therefore
committing culture
robbery, this act of trampling on the culture and heritage of 50 million people
will probably come back to haunt you unless you re-address this balance
immediately, the EDP and Campaign for an English parliament have cottoned on to
Tesco's Anti-English stance and are quite simply appalled,they are also growing
rapidly in support..i await your reply,from a very offended Englishman
Jim W
Date:
21/03/2006
19:16:10 GMT Standard Time
From:
customer.service@tesco.co.uk
Sent from the Internet (Details)
Dear Jim
Thank you for your email.
I fully appreciate your comments. We aim to provide the best possible service
for our customers and any feedback or suggestions made are always very welcome.
The reason for placing Scottish & Welsh flags on milk is the exact same reason
as we do for produce and cheese, and that is to display the fact that these
products are sourced, packed and
supplied regionally.
We do not place the English flag on products because we have what we term
generic core lines. We view Scotland & Wales as "Regions" for the purposes of
merchandising and to ensure we give the customers in these areas exactly what
they expect and want (i.e. Welsh & Scottish people have loyalty to their own
products), we like them to know that the products they are purchasing are from
their own countries hence the reason for the flag.
It is more difficult to do this for English products because of the sheer size
and complexity of areas in England.
I hope this information helps.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
If you have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact us at
customer.service@tesco.co.uk quoting TES1941478X.
Kind Regards
Eve Hughes
Tesco Customer Service
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The letter which follows is being circulated around all the proEnglish groups on the internet, and there are a lot of us. You will find that we will start to call for a boycott of your stores soon if you continue to discriminate against us. Please think again. It cannot be that difficult to stick a St.George flag sticker on all products that are home grown and packed. Do NOT make the mistake of putting regional identifiers. England will do just fine.
Val Manchee Littlehampton
The reason for placing
Scottish & Welsh flags on milk is the exact same reason as we do for produce and
cheese, and that is to display the fact that these products are sourced, packed
and
supplied regionally.
We do not place the English flag on products because we have what we term
generic core lines. We view Scotland & Wales as "Regions" for the purposes of
merchandising and to ensure we give the customers in these areas exactly what
they expect and want (i.e. Welsh & Scottish people have loyalty to their own
products), we like them to know that the products they are purchasing are from
their own countries hence the reason for the flag.
It is more difficult to do this for English products because of the sheer size
and complexity of areas in England.
I hope this information helps.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
If you have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact us at
customer.service@tesco.co.uk quoting TES1941478X.
Kind Regards
Eve Hughes
Tesco Customer Service
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Thank you for your
email.
I fully appreciate your comments. We aim to provide the best possible service
for our customers and any feedback or suggestions made are always very welcome.
The relevant department dealing with such matters has been notified and I can
assure you that this will be taken on board at the next review meeting. I cannot
guarantee that action will be taken, however your views and comments are
invaluable to us.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
If you have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact us at
customer.service@tesco.co.uk quoting TES1976326X.
Kind Regards
Jean Towns
Tesco Customer Service
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Anti-English discrimination by Tesco
Date: 26/03/2006 16:46:33 GMT Standard Time
From:
Jimjimmyboy8
To:
customer.service@tesco.co.uk
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Once again i will reiterate that your policies towards England and the English
are RACIST plain and simple,your excuses are feeble and and totally
unacceptable.We are not going to budge on this and will keep up the pressure
until your company changes it's predjudice stance.
You speak of the "complexity of England" and the sheer size is the reason for
not using our national flag on products but still you continue to insult our
intelligence by using the French flag on products,and incase you didn't know
France is a much bigger and more complexed area than England,and if you continue
to do this there is no reason why we can't be informed that the product was
supplied from England.TESCO
IS A RACIST COMPANY AND THIS IS OBVIOUS FOR ALL TO SEE..DO YOU THINK I AM ALONE
IN MY VIEW? YOUR CULTURE ROBBERY OF
ENGLAND WILL BE YOUR DOWNFALL,END THE DISCRIMINATION NOW.
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Letter to the Sun
Re. English
Discrimination By Tesco's
Date: 25/03/2006 21:37:47 GMT Standard Time
From:
JULIA D HOW
To:
exclusive@the-sun.co.uk
Dear Sir,
I write to you to ask if you would consider publishing the truth regarding
Tesco's long-standing policy to discriminate against English produce and
indeed England and its people!
For several years now I have complained and I know many others who are still
complaining to Tesco's with regard to the fact that they refuse to place the
English flag or write English on their products such as their butter cheeses.
They place flags and countries names on all other produce and that includes
Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
We, a large email campaigning group, have been emailing their Customer Services
section based in Dundee, Scotland. We have asked them why they do not support
English food and they just continue reel off a pre written policy statement from
their call centre computer screens and tell us to politely shut up and accept
it!
We have asked them to show support for St George's Day but they refuse to.
Well, with St George's Day approaching on the 23rd April and the fact that the
English are an ethnic group in themselves with cultural rights, we feel that's
not
at all acceptable. NO other ethnic group is discriminated as we English are, it
would not be
tolerated in today's PC Britain.
We know they are discriminating because ASDA, Somerfield, Sainsbury's and
Budgen's
food stores have NO problems putting the English flag on their English products
or highlighting St George's Day.
We don't think that's very spirited considering how many Tesco's stores there
now are in this country, this ENGLAND. They want our custom and they have
created the demise of the small shops, a part of English heritage gone forever
so we think they owe us some English loyalty!
Can you help by running a story on England and St George's behalf?
Yours sincerely
Julia Howman
St George's Day Campaign
Norwich,
Norfolk
Myself, my sisters and
brother who have shopped at Tesco for years and have your 'loyalty' cards will
no longer shop in your stores. Your loss £10,000 per annum. I have also put up
notices in the local pubs using your correspondence and the EDP replies etc. to
let people make their minds up.
Tesco is on a loser here.
Paul McEnhill
The best way to get at
them is to get everyone to write, phone or e-mail them. If the response is the
same as you received, Tesco should be told that allegiance will be changed to
Asda, Somerfield's or elsewhere.
Incidentally, according to the website Tesco's Head Office is at:
Tesco House,
Delamare Road,
Cheshunt,
Hertfordshire EN8 9SL
Tel 01992 632222
It looks as if Sir Terry Leahy, the Liverpool born Chief Executive is based
there.
According to the website, he ascribes Tesco's phenomenal success under his
leadership to his policy of 'listening to the customer'. Although every company
claims to listen to his customers, genuinely doing so
requires a humility that is rare in senior management.
Well, someone there isn't listening to you and perhaps you should bombard Sir
Terry, before 'taking your custom elsewhere'
Hope this helps,
Patricia