Our Produce, supplying Staffordshire with great value local food

I do try and avoid blatantly criticising the supermarkets but I must admit to gasping in horror as I drove through Lichfield last week at the phenomenal scale of the new Tesco’s. I know local residents have been complaining vociferously that planning permission was ever granted for such a huge replacement to the original store and now they have started to clad it it you can see their concerns are justified. I realise that developments like this bring jobs to an area and councils have to encourage economic investment on their patch, but as I drove on to collect my bread from Hindleys, saw the greengrocers up ahead, then went past the market and Walter Smiths, the butchers I just prayed that consumers understand that these local businesses are the heart of our towns and cities. I then passed a woman on a bicycle with bulging white carrier bags hanging off each side of her handle bars….she’d obviously just been to the market. She made me smile and gave me hope.