"Leading the witness, Your Honour!" This particular current issue is interestingly phrased, don 't you think? Are you against?
Not: Are you for or against?, not How do you feel about…?, but the extremely presumptive Are you against?
So, let me answer the question very directly.
No.
I am not against Tesco banning sugary drinks. I would not be against Tesco banning vegetables, bread, meat, fish, books, knickers, alcohol (in possibly rough order of necessity?) TV sets or anything else that they current sell. Tesco is a shop. So long as it stays within the law it can sell what it wants. There are no laws which say it has to sell anything in particular. It can choose.
And so can everyone who currently shops there.
Which, mostly, I don 't.
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These will be replaced with branded and Tesco’s own brand no-added-sugar alternatives. Some of the other-choice purchases will go to competitor products, but clearly the aim is to sell more of their own-brand alternatives i.e. to increase the profit margin.
Also: look closer at what it is they are intending to do. They are not actually banning sugary drinks at all. They are opting not to sell some "added sugar" variants and then only those aimed at children. It seems that they are targeting the lunchbox market in particular. Apparently the larger bottled versions are "aimed at adults" and that 's fine, because apparently once we get to the age of being the one actually doing the shopping, we 've suddenly gained an obesity-avoidance-gene. At least we weight-train by lugging big bottles around.
And like a six year old couldn 't work out: hey mam, what say we just decant it into my juice bottle?! With mam going: actually this is cheaper than what I was doing
Not: Are you for or against?, not How do you feel about…?, but the extremely presumptive Are you against?
So, let me answer the question very directly.
No.
I am not against Tesco banning sugary drinks. I would not be against Tesco banning vegetables, bread, meat, fish, books, knickers, alcohol (in possibly rough order of necessity?) TV sets or anything else that they current sell. Tesco is a shop. So long as it stays within the law it can sell what it wants. There are no laws which say it has to sell anything in particular. It can choose.
And so can everyone who currently shops there.
Which, mostly, I don 't.
Also, …show more content…
These will be replaced with branded and Tesco’s own brand no-added-sugar alternatives. Some of the other-choice purchases will go to competitor products, but clearly the aim is to sell more of their own-brand alternatives i.e. to increase the profit margin.
Also: look closer at what it is they are intending to do. They are not actually banning sugary drinks at all. They are opting not to sell some "added sugar" variants and then only those aimed at children. It seems that they are targeting the lunchbox market in particular. Apparently the larger bottled versions are "aimed at adults" and that 's fine, because apparently once we get to the age of being the one actually doing the shopping, we 've suddenly gained an obesity-avoidance-gene. At least we weight-train by lugging big bottles around.
And like a six year old couldn 't work out: hey mam, what say we just decant it into my juice bottle?! With mam going: actually this is cheaper than what I was doing