Monday, 30 June 2008
Rumours Abound Tesco
Its been rumoured that Tesco are in talks with Calmac the ferry operator that currently provides the only transport link between Stornoway and Ullapool.
Not only are Tesco taking over the town of Stornoway which has put the only competitors nose out of joint as they will now have to lower prices to compete but they are looking to be the first supermarket in Europe possibly the world to operate its first freight and passenger ferry service.
Nobody was available or willing to comment on this rumour at such an early stage but I am sure that a local islander will be able to furnish us with all the facts very soon.
Labels: Calmac Ferries, Stornoway, Supermarkets, Tesco, Western Isles
Friday, 28 March 2008
Tesco hits Stornoway!
It has been announced that Tesco has bought the Somerfield store in Stornoway. We shall have to wait and see if the prices will match that of a mainland Tesco store but its a step in the right direction.
Since moving to the Western Isles the store has been owned by Safeway, Morrison, Somerfield and now Tesco. At least now the store may lose it's nickname of 'Scummerfield'. If you have shopped there you would know why.
Be interesting to see if Tesco decide to take on the archaic church beliefs of no shops open on sundays!
Labels: Supermarkets, Tesco, Western Isles
Monday, 14 January 2008
2 Famous 'Twats' Preach To The Masses
I couldn't believe the rubbish that Hugh I'm a preacher from Dorset and Jamie not working class Oliver have spouted over the past few days on the TV. It never ceases to amaze me how these TV stars think they have the right to preach to us.
Lets start with Hugh shall we...
Not only does he kick people off his forum for complaining about the porn on it but he now thinks he can pull the wool over the eyes of the general public with his latest rant about farmed chicken.
What does he do? Get an old shed and tries to show how farmed chicken is produced in such terrible conditions. Funny Hugh how you totally forgot to show the 3 days filming you made at varios farms owned by Lloyd Maunder. Even Peter Bradnock, chief executive of the British Poultry Council, criticised the documentary as 'seriously flawed'.
So Hugh why is it that you made a biased program? Is it that it makes you out to be the 'White Knight' of farming? Or is it to promote your overgrown organic ego.
Lets put this in a different light shall we. If you can buy 2 chickens for £5 who is making the money? Its not the farmer, paying out for ever increasing feed costs etc. It's the supermarket that is squeezing the producers of this country so they can but it cheap and still make a massive profit. Was it not Tesco that was the first supermarket to make £1 billon profit! How many farmers scraped by or made a tiny profit.
So lets move onto Jamie Oliver the 'Essex Boy' who's lost his lisp!
Good programme about killing chickens. Are people that niave to think there is no distress to an animal that is killed. It's stunned, throat slit and its innards ripped out. This is what happpens to all animals.
Most people do not know anything about the meat industry. I do as I have worked in a Pork abbitoir producing for Tescos and another producing Beef and Lamb for Asdas.
Maybe it is the public that need educating to the fact that animals do not come from little plastic trays. All animals are slaughtered humanely.
Take a pig, stunned, shot in the head, throat slit, and then chopped up. They even take the blood and seperate the plasma from the red blood cells. This is then used by humans. The red blood cells are then pumped into the ground for salad crops to grow in.
A cow is shot in the head with a captive bolt, throat slit, bled, skinned, disembowelled all in the space of 5 minutes from being killed.
So Jamie how do you intend for animals to be slaughtered? There is nothing nice in watching an animal die.
Its not farmers or meat producers that are to blame for cheap meat, but the supermarkets making huge profits and forcing suppliers to sell teir product far to cheap. They are forcing farmers to make little if no profit while they reap the rewards.
Where possible buy your produce from a 'Farmshop' where meat is locally sourced. This way more of the money can be ploughed back into our suffering farming industry.
These TV preachers make me sick!!
Labels: Farming, Meat Industry, Supermarkets
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