“The thing with these small independent shop owners is half the time the service they provide is crap. I know when I go into an independent butchers on Newland Avenue I have to ask the butcher to put all my meat into a bag, instead of him leaving it for me to do! Really though, half the time these small shop owners don't know the meaning of quality service.”

“Holderness Road deserves a massive Netto extra instead. More suitable to the clientele and this would silence the whingers”

“Those who oppose the Tesco, who live in the area, should not simply give up. Sure, you MAY lose if you fight - but you WILL lose if you don't!

In the US, there have been several successful attempts to Say No to Walmart - Google that phrase and look at the towns that succesfully stopped it ..... all done by the people, not local government. Sure the laws may be different here, but they are fundamentally the same.

Don't give up without trying - you will likely regret it!”

“Tesco bashers we've heard just about enough now - you come up with the same old winge every time a multi national operator wishes to open a new store. Thankfully we live in a free market economy where choice is king - we have every right to choose just who we spend our hard earned cash with.
The focus should be brought on the independant trader who in many cases believes they can operate their business under the same model as they did in the 70's. Wrong. The game has moved on - drastically.
Just look how the small deli's on Princes Ave and Hessle flourish by offering quality, choice and service - this is the key. If every independent business owner just spent few days looking at their business through the eyes of the public, how many can honestly say that they've changed over the decades to counter the Supermarket onslaught ? Very few I believe.”

“I quote "Neelam Javed, a sales assistant at her family's clothing business, Stylish, said: "Tesco and Asda don't sell the type of clothes we do, so I don't think we will be worried." Well thats ok then, Just think about yourself.”

“The council should definitely refuse planning permission. Having another huge supermarket will be counter productive to the social improvements they want to achieve with the Holderness Corridor regeneration project,”

“Too right Red Dog
If you ever go to the States, check out Wal-Mart who own ASDA. The number of folk rumbling along on mobility scooters because they are too fat to walk is amazing”

“Jim - there is no price competition between supermarkets - they just pretend there is. How many people have the time to check the prices of their groceries at every supermarket in Hull and then travel from one to another to buy the cheapest? All the supermarkets have different loss leaders to attract people in and then once they are in, they buy the rest of their shopping there as well even if it's cheaper somewhere else.

Most people have no idea of the damage that supermarkets are doing but one small example is, once a supplier (of apples for example) has made a contract with a supermarket they can twist the last ounce of profit out of them. If the supplier protests then the supermarket can cancel the contract and there is no one else to buy those apples so the supplier goes out of business.”

“These supermarkets make shopping to easy,And less interesting,They are also partly to blame for the increase in obese people, You just have to look at the amount of shopping some people stack into the trollys, some have enough in them to store a trawler up for a three week trip to iceland.”

“Sadly, Tesco will get the go ahead ¿ their use the planning laws better than the council and any individual. It all started with out of town shopping centres and looked what happened to our city centres! In the current economic climate the promise of jobs and business rates are a tempting feast to the council when these areas are hit by the economic downturn.”