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party claims of other supermarket chains tend to push competition law more difficult to thwart Tesco

Tesco has become "a powerful conglomerate" abuse their market power to dominate unfettered cities at the expense of small traders, workers report calls on government to deal with the chain.

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also warned that the review commissioned by the government in the future of Main Street, led by the speaker and guru Mary Portas retail is likely to include the supermarket chains lobbying other increased competition laws to prevent the greater prevalence of Tesco.

shadow minister of local government, Jack Dromey, said: "Tesco want to govern retail, in particular, the southern fringe of England, not only the right, you can have a powerful conglomerate using their If market power. expense of the street, and other retailers, marketers are struggling particularly small. "

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is unusual to select a supermarket to criticism, but Dromey said Tesco was the worst part of a chain of events that destroyed the community. He said: "The streets have become ghost towns high, and with local retail, with serious consequences for communities, the poor, the elderly and people without access to cars is a very apparent in throughout the UK .. "

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Portas asked to review recommended a "competition test" to prevent food retailers to develop a dominant position in one locality.

He said: ". I think that Tesco may be in a minority of one who tries to oppose this, and the government must have the courage of their convictions to deal with Tesco"

Dromey said the government is facing pressure furious at Tesco. But he added:

"If you want a healthy diversity of the street, you can not have a dominant retailer in the exercise of their own interests and not the interests of the street."

He questioned how Tesco "sold as a major job creator." He argued that the net effect of the expansion may have been to reduce total employment in the retail sector. "We are not against the supermarket, but one in six shops are empty, so it's serious," he said.

Since the general election of the four major supermarket chains have opened 407 new stores, adding over 5 million square feet of retail space. Many have received building permits before the election.

In a sign of the government's concern, the Department of Communities and Local Government announced a policy of domestic city'','' in his first statement of national planning policy last week . The communities secretary, Eric Pickles, relaxed the rules centrally imposed restrictions on parking, and boards may create additional space to attract buyers supermarket parking.

Dromey said the measures were a start, but that planning authorities should have to design plans for the diversity of detail that puts so much emphasis on small stores of major chains, and control tend to convenience stores in urban centers, pushing the self out of business.

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