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A Campaign Group Is Trolling Tesco’s Shelf Displays To Make It Pay Its Employees A Living Wage

When you’re next in Tesco, keep an eye on the shelf displays.

This campaign is being run by the charity ShareAction. It has launched an online petition asking Tesco, the U.K.’s biggest private sector employer, to commit to paying staff a Living Wage. The petition, already supported by over 2,500 people, will be delivered to the Tesco board at its AGM in London on 27 June.

2. ShareAction says it has “previously asked Tesco to put its ‘Every Little Helps’ slogan into practice when it comes to ensuring no full-time staff are forced to live below the poverty line.”

3. ShareAction CEO Catherine Howarth said: “Tesco insists its benefit package ensures no employee is condemned to poverty, but pension contributions can’t be used to pay the rent and discount vouchers can’t heat family homes.”

She added: “Tesco has often been accused of putting profit before people. This is an opportunity for the company to answer its critics and, as the U.K.’s largest private sector employer, set an example for the retail sector.”

4. The charity is working with Citizens UK on the campaign.

Citizens UK organiser, Stefan Baskerville, said: “With over half the families living in poverty being in-work, it’s no surprise that low pay remains on the Citizens UK agenda. More than 700 organisations are accredited Living Wage employers. They have recognised that the Living Wage is not only the right thing to do, but also makes good business sense.

“Working with ShareAction we are calling on Tesco to consider how implementation of the Living Wage could help tackle in-work poverty for their lowest-paid staff. The best employers are voluntarily signing up to pay the Living Wage now. The Living Wage is a robust calculation that reflects the real cost of living, rewarding a hard day’s work with a fair day’s pay.”

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Tesco has responded to the campaign. A spokesman said: “We pay one of the highest hourly rates in the industry, on average between 5 and 8% more than our major competitors. The Living Wage only recognises basic pay, but our reward package is much broader than that. When our colleague discount, Shares in Success scheme and employer pension contributions are taken into account, all our staff receive above the living wage, both in London and in the rest of the U.K

 

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Businessman’s shock at finding huge poisonous spider floating in a Tesco bottle of white wine

  • Peter Berry bought the wine for his mother and mother-in-law’s birthday
  • A guest at the 90th celebration spotted the spider floating in the bottle
  • The arachnid was identified as a Araneus spider which can bite humans
  • Tesco asked Mr Berry to return the bottle to them so they can investigate

A businessman was horrified when he found a huge venomous spider in a bottle of Tesco finest white wine.

Peter Berry, 66, said the two-inch long arachnid was spotted floating in the wine as a guest picked up the bottle from an ice bucket during a party.

He bought the £7.99 bottle of Vin de Pays d’Oc Grenache Marsanne for his mother and mother-in-law’s joint 90th birthday celebrations.

Peter Berry bought the £7.99 bottle of wine from Tesco for his mother and mother-in-law's joint 90th birthday

 

Peter Berry bought the £7.99 bottle of wine from Tesco for his mother and mother-in-law’s joint 90th birthday

 

Mr Berry's niece spotted the two-inch long arachnid after she removed the bottle from an ice bucket

Mr Berry’s niece spotted the two-inch long arachnid after she removed the bottle from an ice bucket

Mr Berry, of Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, said: ‘It’s disgusting. You’d expect to find a spider in your bathroom, not in a bottle of wine.

‘We were having a great time at the party until my niece found it. Like most people, she’s scared of spiders and it made her feel quite freaked out.

‘We’re just thankful she noticed it before someone poured the contents into a glass and swallowed it without realising.’

Mr Berry, who is a business consultant, bought the bottle at Tesco’s branch in Bradley Stoke, Bristol.

Professor Ian Rotherham, of Sheffield Hallam University, has identified the  spider as an Araneus – a spider found throughout Europe.

Thankfully, it is not dangerous although it does have venom and is known to bite humans.

Professor Ian Rotherham of Sheffield Hallam University identified the insect as a venomous Araneus spider which is commonly found in Europe. The arachnid can bite humans although its poison is very mild

Professor Ian Rotherham of Sheffield Hallam University identified the insect as a venomous Araneus spider which is commonly found in Europe. The arachnid can bite humans although its poison is very mild

After discovering the rogue spider, Mr Berry made an email complaint to Tesco and was advised to return the bottle to the store, which he is yet to do.

A spokesperson for Tesco said: ‘We set ourselves very high standards for the safety and quality of our products.

‘Our customer service team have asked Mr Berry to return the product to us as soon as possible so that we can conduct a thorough investigation.’

Mr Berry bought the bottle of wine from the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke, Bristol, pictured. A spokesperson said they wanted the bottle returned so they could 'conduct a thorough investigation'

 

Mr Berry bought the bottle of wine from the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke, Bristol, pictured. A spokesperson said they wanted the bottle returned so they could ‘conduct a thorough investigation’

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Six Reasons Why Supermarket Giant Tesco May Be ‘Finished’

 

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Tesco has been left reeling after suffering a 3.7% drop in like-for-like sales over the last three months, marking the “worst trading in their history”, according to analysts.

Internationally, the supermarket giant recorded a 2.2% fall in like-for-like sales, including VAT and excluding petrol. Within those figures, sales fell 1% across Tesco’s European operations and 3.2% in Asia.

This comes after Tesco, which accounts for 29% of Britain’s supermarket trade, revealed in April that its profits had fallen for the second year in a row.

The supermarket giant’s chief executive Philip Clarke is under mounting pressure to improve the situation. With Tesco’s share price down 20% in a year, Clarke will have to battle to keep shareholders’ confidence. Meanwhile, experts have pronounced gloomy verdicts about the trading performance of the UK’s biggest retailer.

Clive Black, head of research at Shore Capital, said that Tesco’s strategy in Britain “simply does not seem to be working”, while Bernstein Research’s Bruno Monteyne told Radio 4 this morning: “We thought three months ago that the figures couldn’t get any worse. And here we are three months later.”

“Big supermarkets are finished,” he concluded.

As Clarke rushes to turn around Tesco’s flagging fortunes, HuffPost UK found six reasons why the task may be rather difficult.

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    Tesco can’t shrug off its poor performance
    Clarke blamed the dip in sales on cutting prices, moving away from vouchers and the disruption from refurbishing a large number of stores. However, Bernstein Research’s Bruno Monteyne estimates that if you took out such costs, their like-for-like sales would still have dipped by 2%.
  • 2
    Tesco is trying too hard to appeal to everyone
    Discount retailers like Asda specialise in offering good deals, while fancy supermarkets like Waitrose are without equal at providing luxury. So Tesco is trying to be a mix of everything, other customers are lured away by more specialised rivals.
  • 3
    Others are doing what Tesco is trying, but better
    Tesco “has been increasing prices way too fast over the last few years to keep up earnings growth,” Monteyne points out. As a result, compared to discount retailers like Asda, Tesco is at least 4% more expensive for shoppers.
  • 4
    1 million fewer customers are visiting a week
    The proof that Tesco is having some issues comes in the footfall, as the chain seems to have lost more than 1 million customer visits a week, worth £25 million in sales.
  • 5
    Tesco has never done this badly
    Clarke, who has worked for 40 years at Tesco, admitted: “I have never seen a quarter’s like-for-like sales like this before, that I can remember.” Monteyne told Radio 5 Live the results were “the worst in their history.”
  • 6
    Even Tesco’s boss isn’t confident
    “I see every day the improvements that are coming in the business, but I’m not making any promises about sales improving in the next few quarters,” Clarke warned today.  Meanwhile, other analysts like Julie Palmer at Begbies Traynor think Clarke “doesn’t seem to have a clear turnaround strategy”. He’ll have to work hard to prove them wrong.

 

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