Impact of Tesco on People's Lives

  

Tesco are such a big company that has a really big global presence so they must make some sort of impact on peoples lives for better or for worse. In this post I will investigate the impact that Tesco makes on people's lives in Ireland.

In 2007 Tesco spent €1.28 billion on Irish products and services. This goes into the Irish economy and makes up peoples salary. 50% of the food that is sold in Tesco in Ireland is produced in Ireland. This provides employment for Irish people in particular to the farmers.  Tesco's annual contribution to the Irish economy is about €2.7 billion.  Tesco change children's lives all across Ireland by having Tesco for school and club schemes.  They have invested almost €15 million into Irish schools to date. It is estimated that over half of all schools in Ireland have got free equipment from Tesco since 1997 when they entered Ireland. They directly employ over 14,000 people in Ireland and this is a huge benefit to the national and local economies.

Sustainable Tesco

One of Tesco's main goals is to attract customers and sell produce. To do this they employ a very effective strategy. They source and sell sustainable food which attracts customers because now days people are more and more conscious of their carbon footprint and the effect that they are having on the environment.
I have found some video clips on the Tesco website and have put a link here so you can see them. They explain how Tesco reduce their carbon footprint and how they source their food sustainably.
sustainable Tesco video

Tesco have places in most of their stores where you can recycle loads of different things. You are able to recycle; mobile phones, printer cartridges, batteries and electrical items. By having these facilities they encourage people to shop and recycle at the same time. They can take responsibility for the things they sell like the batteries etc.

Introduction

Tesco is a huge multinational chain of supermarkets in 14 different countries with over  6,234 supermarkets worldwide. They employ over  500,000 people. The countries are the UK, Ireland, the US,China,India,Thiland, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan, Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia. I am doing a geographical blog on Tesco,where it comes from and where it has spread to in the world.. I will try to find out how the supermarket giant Tesco can change peoples lives.