Asda and Tesco don't use smaller shops to give staff operational experience, or find and train prospective employees that they then buy from them.
Not the big clubs bailing out smaller ones, but the FA, PL and EFL - the deal negotiated in the first place.... Personally I'd remove fair play rules for promoted clubs, as that immediately disadvantages them, compared to established sides... If fair play worked, then how come the same clubs are at the top now? It gives advantage to rich clubs only....
It's worse than that, Tesco own Booker who I think own Macro the two major suppliers to small independent shops. It's alleged that Booker and Macro have been restricting supplies to independent retailers, favouring suppling Tesco. All in all aiding the demise of the small shops.
They might do sometimes, but I suspect as you say they prefer to develop their own staff through their youth academy. I do actually know of another very large company who actively target employees of well performing shops though. I was told by their Chief Exec although I doubt they’d admit that.
The Prem would collapse without the lower leagues, but the lower leagues could survive in some form without the Prem.
Bang on. I’m happy with using my local shop to buy from, and like it when they provide a good ‘shopping experience’ and employ good staff, without desperately hoping they buy another shop and gradually get bigger until they can challenge Tescos for dominance...and I feel the same about City.
City did the EFL a massive favour by fulfilling that fixture v West Ham. The EFL should have made the decision to play that game or not, not back City in a corner to play or face the consequences. We had to play because the next round games are being played next week. Wonder if it were Spurs and not Orient with three players showing positive the game would have been handed to Orient the other night ? Which is what the EFL should have done to City v WHU.
I think the Premier League would do just fine by scouting and buying players from the rest of Europe and South America.
You’re right. There’s only us that can do something about that though. I’m nowhere near perfect, but I have made a decision to try and shop local where I can (only reason I’m on here is I’m trying to find where I can buy some specific bulbs without resorting to Amazon) If you accept we caused the demise of local shops then by the same logic we must be just as capable of causing their resurgence too? EDIT - I seem to be unusually optimistic here. Might not drive today as I may still be pissed rather than just being hung over. Still think we’ll lose against the local cobblers shop though...
Tesco use the benefits system to their advantage. Not sure of the exact details because I'm not on benefits, ( self employed) but they employ armies of part timers on just enough hours so their employees can top up their wages using the benefit system, is it income support? So we are all subsidising Tesco's wage bill. Is it Asda and /or that firm were you order from a catalogue and your new kettle arrives on a conveyor belt like the generation game where they employ people on just enough hours so they are not entitled to a tea or lunch break ? The future folks is a warehouse as big as Scunthorpe full of part time Government subsided employees feeding cardboard boxes onto a conveyor belt to be delivered to your door by part time van drivers. No need to leave your armchair for anything. Hope City win today.
Didn’t know that, but like lots of things with big businesses I’m not surprised. They also make fortunes from selling the data from your club cards too (some of it to NHS etc as it’s really useful for targeting health campaigns but even so...)
My sons youth football started playing last weekend, initially the other team pulled on the morning of the game as they didn't have enough players... This was then classed as a walkover and we got the 3 points, half an hour later they had managed to get 10 players and the game was back on, when we got there they had 11, our team won anyway...
GU9 40w Halogen (G9 42w would do too I think, basically they need to fit and get hot enough so LED no use as they’re for heating wax in wax burners)
Personal experience. I was buying and selling paint from two local wholesale's in Hull a few years back. I'd buy half a pallet from one place and all the returned, dinted tins and end of line colours from another. Every week, I'd be there. Cash. I'd then sell the stuff during the week cheap. Until one Saturday morning when I turned up and was told by both firms that they don't want to supply me anymore because I was 'under selling' the paint. Seems a bigger customer said they would no longer buy from them if they continued to supply me because I was selling the paint cheaper then they were.The bigger customer was a multi million pound national concern, I'm a one man band.
I think they call it universal credit these days but you're absolutely spot on.Slightly off topic but Wetherspoons employ younger employees on minimum wage ie:-18-20's on £6.45 per hour,21-24 year olds on £8.20 per hour rather than pay a 25 year old £8.72?
