Tesco are 1 of the large supermarket companies in the UK - shareholder owned. IMO Tesco are pretty bad, I'm not sure about their ethics concerning clothing etc. (as the article indicates they're fast moving into non-food sales) but as big businesses can they are pretty willing to use their large cash resevoirs to "shut down local businesses, lobby government, force planning permision (local councils are too poor to continuously fight appeals for planning permision etc.)" . there's more on this here website: http://www.tescopoly.org/ read and enjoy...