Don't be Fooled by Tesco's Fresh and Easy

Tesco's Record on Business Practices

Tesco turns back on government health labels program April 26, 2008 | BBC News
"Tesco, the UK's biggest supermarket, is turning its back on traffic-light food labels which indicate sugar, salt and fat in products, it has announced." Tesco is insisting on using its own labeling system.
Fined for misleading shoppers February 14, 2008 | Reuters
"Hungary's competition watchdog GVH has fined the Hungarian unit of British supermarket chain Tesco 100 million forints ($546,200) for misleading consumers in its advertisements last year, GVH said on Thursday."
Factory workers in Asia supplying Tesco stores struggle to provide for their families July 16, 2007 | The Guardian
"But last month, employees of factories supplying clothes to all three retailers told the Guardian that their wages were so low that, despite working up to 84-hour weeks, they struggled to provide for their families. Many claimed they were regularly forced to work 12-hour days, and that working through the night to finish an order was not uncommon."
Report claims Tesco clothes made by children October 11, 2006 | The Guardian, The Independent, and Channel 4 News
While Tesco vigorously denies the following claims, they stopped contracting with the supplier involved with the report. "Children as young as 12 have been making clothes for Tesco's own-brand ranges in factories in Bangladesh, according to a report rejected by the supermarket giant."
Fined for poor health and safety June 29, 2005 | BackeryandSnacks.com
"Lax health and safety measures left UK supermarket giant Tesco with a legal bill of £50,000 (€75,000) on Monday, after a member of staff lost the top of a finger in a bakery machine."
Workers on farm supplying Tesco, report being sprayed with pesticides April 10, 2005 | The Observer
"One casual labourer on a pear farm supplying Tesco complained of wages so low that they could not afford school uniforms for their children. Others described how pesticides were sprayed at the same time as women worked in orchards and that they were not given protective clothing. One told how they picked pears while trees were still 'wet' from pesticides."