Comments on: Blot on Lichfield’s landscape http://www.ourproduce.co.uk/news/rant/blot-on-the-lichfields-landscape/20090557/ Local food, locally sourced, food shopping Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:43:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Stephanie Parrett http://www.ourproduce.co.uk/news/rant/blot-on-the-lichfields-landscape/20090557/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Stephanie Parrett Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:38:44 +0000 http://www.ourproduce.co.uk/blog/rant/blot-on-the-landscape/#comment-40 I am neither for or against the new store in Lichfield. Though I can't help reading these comments and feeling that the point my have been slightly missed. This by no means the biggest in the U.K., the one at Bar Hill in Cambridge is so big it would be phsically impossible to put a store of that size on the Lichfield site, and also as it is replacing a supermarket that was alredy there I hardly think that it will cause the dramatic loss in small businesses that is being predicted. The type of people that will shop in Tescos are those that work all day and need a place to shop in the evenings. They are not the same consumers who shop at the small businesses in lichfield. The small clothes stores for example, attract the type of people who are very unlikely to buy at Tescos. The butchers and Bakers of lichfield survived the arrival of the previous supermarket and I'm confident will continue to do so. I do feel however that after having written this the question I am left with is what exactly Tescos hoped to gain from opening this expensive new store if it all it will give is mor echoice for its existing customers. I am neither for or against the new store in Lichfield. Though I can’t help reading these comments and feeling that the point my have been slightly missed. This by no means the biggest in the U.K., the one at Bar Hill in Cambridge is so big it would be phsically impossible to put a store of that size on the Lichfield site, and also as it is replacing a supermarket that was alredy there I hardly think that it will cause the dramatic loss in small businesses that is being predicted. The type of people that will shop in Tescos are those that work all day and need a place to shop in the evenings. They are not the same consumers who shop at the small businesses in lichfield. The small clothes stores for example, attract the type of people who are very unlikely to buy at Tescos. The butchers and Bakers of lichfield survived the arrival of the previous supermarket and I’m confident will continue to do so. I do feel however that after having written this the question I am left with is what exactly Tescos hoped to gain from opening this expensive new store if it all it will give is mor echoice for its existing customers.

]]> By: Kate http://www.ourproduce.co.uk/news/rant/blot-on-the-lichfields-landscape/20090557/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Kate Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:36:24 +0000 http://www.ourproduce.co.uk/blog/rant/blot-on-the-landscape/#comment-20 It is a discgrace. We have been promised a regeneration of the District's shopping facilities for years - i.e high street stores, in both Burntwood and Lichfield, for years and years and is still yet to happen. This is what a lot of people in Lichfield and Burntwood want. However.... no-one wanted a huge ugly tesco store to be built and yet it somehow managed to get swiftly through planning permission and is now days away from opening. It's a disgrace and not in any way 'in-keeping' with the character of Lichfield. It is a discgrace. We have been promised a regeneration of the District’s shopping facilities for years – i.e high street stores, in both Burntwood and Lichfield, for years and years and is still yet to happen. This is what a lot of people in Lichfield and Burntwood want. However…. no-one wanted a huge ugly tesco store to be built and yet it somehow managed to get swiftly through planning permission and is now days away from opening. It’s a disgrace and not in any way ‘in-keeping’ with the character of Lichfield.

]]> By: A Nonimous http://www.ourproduce.co.uk/news/rant/blot-on-the-lichfields-landscape/20090557/comment-page-1/#comment-9 A Nonimous Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:18:43 +0000 http://www.ourproduce.co.uk/blog/rant/blot-on-the-landscape/#comment-9 I have heard (although cannot confirm) that the new tesco in lichfield is the biggest in U.K. I can't understand how this i suitable for the centre of what is a small market town (with city status). Surely councillor Mike Fryers experience (being an ex-regional Exucutive of tescos) and also being a local lichfieldian would have put him in good stead to say "i think this store is too big". I have heard (although cannot confirm) that the new tesco in lichfield is the biggest in U.K.
I can’t understand how this i suitable for the centre of what is a small market town (with city status).

Surely councillor Mike Fryers experience (being an ex-regional Exucutive of tescos) and also being a local lichfieldian would have put him in good stead to say “i think this store is too big”.

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