The sublimely named, Lucy Neville-Rolfe, Tesco's director for corporate affairs, has an interesting tack on the booze and binge culture, she blames the UK government. She says in the absence of government action, poor old Tescocks have to compete on price.
"As a result there is lots of cheap alcohol, so we thought let's ask the government to look at should there be a minimum price for alcohol, or should there be a ban on low-cost selling.
"Could it be justified because it will deal with the problem at the lower end?"
Now colour me stupified, but does that not sound a million miles closer to what the SNP have been saying in Government? Especially when compared to the stupidity of my local Labour politicians Elaine 'tiny tears' Murray and the diminutive Russell Brown, who envisage booze buses on the Whitesands of Dumfries, all set to invade the pile-it-high-sell-it-cheap booze warehouses destined to be found over the border in Carlisle?
The British Medical Association, police throughout the UK, and the Westminster Health Committee back the idea of minimum alcohol pricing. Now that Tesco have jumped into bed with the same approach, where exactly does this leave Gray, Goldie and Scott?
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The only reason Tesco are backing minimum pricing is because of profit to them, nothing else.
Don't be fooled.
Ah but you know Mark if it is anyone else's idea then they are against it - especially the SNP's.
They used to do that here in Renfrewshire for yonks when they were in power, rubbish the SNP motions, vote against them and bring them forward at a later date as their own and implement them because they had the majority at the time.
Then again they could just be sticking up for the wee buckfast voters who keep them in their cushy troughs.
100% agree wae Rab
There's a lot of things about Tesco I dislike, but I heard Lucy talking about this, and she made a lot of sense.
She said Tesco couldn't go it alone (commercial suicide) and couldn't gang up with their rivals (price fixing). So it is up to the government.
The daft thing about the SNP proposal is that the price increase would indeed have gone into the pockets of the supermarkets and cheap booze producers.
It's better to do it through taxation.
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