Supermarkets
– Help my local store is a multinational!
I
have just been doing some research on supermarkets and am very disappointed to
find out Morrison’s is a multinational.
It has a subsidiary in Hong Kong which deals with sourcing etc1. It also has a store in Gibraltar which is a
British Overseas Territory so I am not sure if that counts.2 I like Morrison’s and as I could walk
there and back was really handy for me.
However, I have just done some research Sainsbury’s3
which I was sure was a multinational isn’t so I can shop there instead. Apparently it flirted with the idea of shops
abroad in 20104 then decided not to.
Yeah! It means a bus journey
there and back but the car park is huge so I will some walking done after all.
Tesco is a multinational so I rarely shop there.5 I have one thing I buy in Tesco which is their
frozen vegetable sachets which don’t have carrots in them (I am not a fan of
cooked carrots). I find Tesco meat very
tough and everything is sold in huge amounts which is not great for a single
girl. I will miss the veg. sachets
though.
Asda6 became a subsidiary of Walmart the American
store in 1999 so I haven’t shopped there for years. Apart from anything else, my nearest Asda is
miles away and I was never very fond of it anyway.
Lidl7 and Aldi8 are both German stores
which have fairly recently moved into
the UK market. I never developed the
habit of shopping in either although I do like the “interesting bins” which are
up the middle of our local Lidl. These
are the ones that contain anything from cheap sandals, ski gear, workmen’s
tools and furniture. These were always
worth a look but won’t kill me to give up.- http://www.morrisons-corporate.com/About-us/HK/
- http://your.morrisons.com/Store-finder/Store-Details/?recordid=452
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainsbury%27s
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8124540/Sainsburys-eyes-expansion-in-foreign-markets.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asda
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidl
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi
I did not know that about Sainsbury's either. Aside from Big Pharma I think your biggest challenge is going to be computer hardware and software. Though if you use open source you will be using people-based international cooperation. Kind of the opposite of mutinationals
ReplyDeleteBut as a Scot don't you have problems with Sainsbury having stores in England?
ReplyDeleteYou are going to have big problems with your gas and electricity too. Perhaps your real beef is with the Behemoths the companies that are too big rather than just multi-nationals. It will be hard if you can't take the Stagecoach bus because they have busses in the USA.