{"id":172228,"date":"2007-04-03T16:58:01","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T15:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/money\/172228.html"},"modified":"2007-05-14T19:41:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T18:41:50","slug":"tesco-not-so-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/172228\/money\/tesco-not-so-local.html","title":{"rendered":"Tesco Not So Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/tesco-local.jpg\" title=\"tesco-local.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/tesco-local.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"tesco-local.jpg\" \/><\/a>THOSE lovely mega-supermarkets are at it again.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/business\/analysis_and_features\/article2414822.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Tesco <\/a>are being accused of \u201cstretching the definition of local past breaking point\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The retail giant has launched a last-ditch attempt to stop the Competition Commission from focusing on local markets in its new study of the grocery industry.<\/p>\n<p>The CC is investigating whether or not supermarkets are excessively dominating local shopping and in response Tesco is arguing that \u201clocal\u201d should mean as much as a 30-minute drive from a store rather than the traditionally accepted 10-to-15 minute journey.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/retailing\/article1605221.ece\" target=\"_blank\">biggest supermarket<\/a> chain also claims that the UK grocery market should be viewed as one single national market.<\/p>\n<p>Is this what Tesco means by an &#8220;inclusive offer&#8221; to the shopper?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THOSE lovely mega-supermarkets are at it again. The Independent reports that Tesco are being accused of \u201cstretching the definition of local past breaking point\u201d. The retail giant has launched a last-ditch attempt to stop the Competition Commission from focusing on local markets in its new study of the grocery industry. The CC is investigating whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}