A problem for councils trying to resist Tesco planning applications is that Tesco has very deep pockets and can keep re applying and appealing, so do you want our council tax spent on fighting of endless Tesco planning applications.
The easiest way to stop Tesco is don't shop there, which is a little of what is happening these days with the help of the internet and savvy shoppers, the power has shifted a little way towards the consumer.
I think Tesco is suffering from shoppers like me, I use mysupermarket.co.uk and put together my shopping list, and then I do one of 2 things depending where I might be during the week, I
1 Buy all my shopping from the cheapest store
2 Pick and chose the cheapest products from the various stores.
Option 2 I take fuel into consideration that's why I try and work out where I might be in the week as it's not worth a trip to Morrison up Brampton to save 50p on the other hand Aldi Tesco ASDA and Sainsbury are all close together.
I also only buy stuff on offer where I can, I stock up on the on offer stuff, then stop buying until its on offer again if I can last long enough on my stock pile.
According to a TV program I am a little behind the curve as some people have mysupermarket.co.uk App on their phone and check the prices.
I also heard that it costs the super markets about £15.00 to prepare and delivery a online shopping basket order which has to be eating into profits.
I suppose when u are the biggest the little guys will always be nimble enough to take bites out of you.