Does West Ealing Need A New Tesco Store?

[admin]

Let's see your opinion...

[yorke]

It may be true that competition holds prices down .. but my gut feeling is that we have Waitrose and Sainsbury and a number of other traders + the Farmers Market on a Saturday.  There are enough.
The real reason I say "no thanks!!"  to Tesco is based on my perception that they are only after profits, they do not offer much if any "Fair Trade" stuff - and I do not  feel they have a heart.  Sorry to bring out my prejudices in this pole/forum.   It is a good question.

Yorke

[Inge Jones]

I'm pretty selfish really, and as a vegetarian couple who don't like cooking, we find that neither Sainsbury nor Waitrose cater for vegetarian convenience meals like Tesco's do!   So while I can appreciate the points about fair trade, I would be unlikely to vote against having a Tesco locally.   Currently I am paying £5 a week to have Tesco deliver, in spite of a Sainsbury a 2 minute pleasant amble away.

Actually, until a few years ago, there was a Tesco in West Ealing in around the same place, and it and Sainsbury co-existed quite happily on the same side street as well as some market stalls selling greengroceries, so I am not sure it will spell disaster for anything.   More likely get more passing trade for the non-food shops as more people are attracted to the range of well-known food shops.  To my mind, *anything* that will put West Ealing back on the map as somewhere to deliberately come and shop is good news at this stage.

Of course what we really need is something like a Currys and/or a Comet.   It's annoying I have nowhere local to buy reliable home electrics.  Yeah I poked my nose into Seba once but it didn't inspire me to buy and these days I order that sort of thing from the internet.

[Leach]

Rumour has it that the new Daniels ('Daniel Quarter') may not have a new Daniels Store located in it. Stories abound of the owners trying to 'sell' the store space to another store company and even to a Supermarket chain. The latter option may require some more digging as it would appear that the interior height of the store area still being built is too low to meet Supermarket building regulations.

Does east West Ealing need an Asda/Morrisons/other name Supermarket?

Eric Leach

[Leach]

Well West Ealing didn't get a new Tesco in the boarded-up-for-a-year-now base of the Daniel family's historic department store site. In fact we haven't got anything in this currently ugly space yet.

The NHS want to put a sort of Polyclinic into this space. However in order to even attempt this, rumour has it that  all the flat owners in the new flat block (variously called Daniel Quarter or Lovelace House) have all had to agree to new contracts which include the possibility of a health centre on the ground floor of their block of flats. Expect an NHS inspired Planning Application to convert the department store space into the West Ealing Integrated Healthcare Centre early in 2009.