The Daily Telegraph sent journalist Iain Hollingshead to spend 8 hours in a Tesco.
He was surprised to find that in addition to selling food, some Tescos now sell vast quantities of clothing and consumer goods, ranging from underwear and a £35 "shiny suit" to plasma screen televisions and home computers. The store he visited in Slough also has an instore optician, hairdresser, travel agency and even a bank offering everything from mortgage advice, insurance and funeral tokens.
If Tesco is allowed ot build on the Evershed site on the edge of central St. Albans, local businesses, shops and market traders won't just find themselves in head to head competition with a dominant player in the retail market - they may very well find their customers siphoned of before they even get a chance to try to compete, with a disasterous effect on our lively city centre and it's thousand year old market.
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