Thursday, 12 July 2007

Tesco Effect

Story in this week's South Manchester Reporter that the United Co-op store on Fog Lane, Burnage is to close. It's not been trading well since the big new Tesco opened a year or so ago. Quote from a local shopkeeper "Everybody has been affected. Once Tesco comes into an area nobody else stands a chance. Nobody knows how to stop it – it’s like a juggernaut." Full Story.