i personaly cant stand tesco's i live in the countryside and much prefer to shop in farm shops and at farmers markets but on the occasions i do have to go to tescos i am hearing more and more complaints about them and also noticing that because of their monopolisation of everything like clothes TVs etc that the quality of their food is falling rather badly and that they have been stopping some of my favourite food!! i think that they are to busy trying to out do other shops and forgetting about thier customers

Of course I don't know where you live so don't know what you hear. Look at the big picture and Tesco is the best at what they do. You can't compare them with farm shops and farmers markets, they wouldn't want you to anyway. The don't claim to monopolise clothes or tv's or the like compared with other specialist dealers either. If you don't like them, don't use them. There are millions who do and still will. If the store you use is slipping then complain to the manager, don't tar every store with the same brush. From a personal view, my local one is brilliant, food, service and all the extras and long may it continue for the people who need it.

i think what i was saying was missunderstood yes some of the services they do are very handy
and i did complain to the store manager and he was very rude to me
but what i am also trying to say is i feel that the supermarkets are destroying rural village shops and farm shops the food you get from them is wonderful and not that expensive maybe the supermarkets could support local produce more?
and i do feel that they are trying to monopolise everything

I expect the store manager misunderstood you as well. When the farmers markets and rural shops open the hours needed then they would get the business. Often I hear local farmers say they wouldn't let the supermarkets sell their produce. Rather go under. Rural Post Offices ran a campaigne a few years ago that said use us or lose us, but they still wouldn't open the extra hours, still closed at lunchtime, people couldn't use them and they closed down. The choice was there for everyone.

The farmers and village shops used to hold the monopoly before the supermarkets came to the rescue and gave us more to choose from. A lot of our ethnic stores are surviving very well, so is this mainly a British thing?