Tescos open in Stokes Croft. Bristol. Squatters evicted, riot police called in

[butchersapron]

He told me 3 weeks ago that the police wouldn't dare arrest him - such would be the popular anger. Weird how trhat lot have changed from moaning about their statues being torn down and used as bricks to attack the police with to being the face of the riot. Recuperation in living colour.

 

[DaveCinzano]

They have beefed up security though

the company have employed 2 security staff there just in case

Tesco was already using two different security companies at the Cheltenham Road site, which has been under 24 hour security occupation for many, many months - IIRC 'protest specialists' from Shergroup - plus another firm for static guards on the door during trading hours. Other Express & Metro stores use static guards as a matter of routine (eg the Marlborough Street one by the bus station).

 

[teccuk]

The 'chairman of the PRSC' guides the Guardian around Stokes Croft:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/may/24/tesco-protests-stokes-croft-video?CMP=twt_fd

Enjoyed that. Walk past some of that every day and never really noticed it! Lunchtime walks i think.

 

[chazegee]

Fuck me, Stokes was brilliant this weekend.

 

[chazegee]

Apart from getting in a cat food fight with my "mate"

 

[Geri]

Fuck me, Stokes was brilliant this weekend.

Did they give you a free banana or something?

 

[ddraig]

pendant

 

[BlackArab]

T'is open again. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-13516785

Anyone at the big meeting last night?

Yep and the one the week before. Lots of people showboating for the media unfortunately. A Tescos bigwig was there and was available to discuss things afterwards with people which seemed brave at first but everyone was pretty calm. Apparently some of the antis are planning their own food co-op now within the area. What impact this will have on existing independant local traders wasn't mentioned however...

 

[big eejit]

More Chris Chalkley focused national media stuff on Stokes Croft:

"The PRSC is the brainchild of Chalkley and, unsurprisingly, a large part of his strategy involves making and selling china designed by local artists. "It's like Royal Doulton on acid," he says, showing me round his warehouse."

Surely no-one says anything's like something else 'on acid' any more?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/26/stokes-croft-protest-tesco-rioting

 

[embree]

I hope the Guardian's charging him for these advertising puff pieces

 

[Geri]

"Dear Mr Chalkley," begins one comment on the PRSC blog. "Do you think that you could possibly stop parking your van across the cycle lane and the pavement? . . . Your aspiration to the leadership of the Stokes Croft community does not exempt you from normal legal and moral obligations."

Seems like I am not the only person he has pissed off with this. I didn't even realise it was his van until a few weeks ago. I had been considering reporting it to the council.

Maybe he is doing a lot of good stuff, but he is turning Stokes Croft into the sort of place I hate - a drippy hippy middle class enclave.

 

[big eejit]

Evening Post story on how big supermarkets are strangling independent shops in Bristol.

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news...cal-shops/article-3602924-detail/article.html

(The meeting in the story takes place on Whiteladies Road not Stokes Croft so Evening Post is not even insulting about the participants. No mention of work-shy Clifton spongers anywhere!)

 

[Geri]

Independent shops are great, if you live near some good ones (like Gloucester Road, say). But if you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with one overpriced corner shop, a supermarket would be a godsend. In my dad's village all they have is a Co-op and their prices are 20-30% higher than Tesco or Asda. The result is that everyone with a car just drives up to Cribbs Causeway to do their shopping, and those without cars just have to lump it.

 

[big eejit]

Independent shops are great, if you live near some good ones (like Gloucester Road, say). But if you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with one overpriced corner shop, a supermarket would be a godsend. In my dad's village all they have is a Co-op and their prices are 20-30% higher than Tesco or Asda. The result is that everyone with a car just drives up to Cribbs Causeway to do their shopping, and those without cars just have to lump it.

To be fair they probably have higher costs than Tescos etc and can't get their produce at the screwed into the ground prices that Tescos do.

Having said that, when I'm in charge every village will have a state shop selling basic produce at a fair fixed price. And any profiteers will be taken out and shot.

 

[Geri]

Four years ago, says Katy Bauer, curator of the newly founded Stokes Croft museum,"this was a sad, alienated community. People were nervous of each other." The homeless, and those from the local addiction clinic, were some of the most isolated. Now, says Bauer, "they are very much part of our community."

Katy Bauer, curator of the Stokes Croft museum, who lives in Clifton and sells teapots that cost £60.

 

[embree]

Stop quoting these people Geri, you're making me want to kill

 

[Geri]

These are your new overlords.

 

[embree]

*readies flame thrower*

they'll never take me alive!

 

[teccuk]

Katy Bauer, curator of the Stokes Croft museum, who lives in Clifton and sells teapots that cost £60.

Seriously?

 

[Geri]

Seriously?

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/TREASURING-STOKES-CROFT/article-2523775-detail/article.html

http://stokescroft.wordpress.com/20...ew-manufactory-opens-its-doors-for-christmas/

 

[embree]

Mental innit

 

[teccuk]

Hah! Well got to make a living somehow.

 

[BlackArab]

Independent shops are great, if you live near some good ones (like Gloucester Road, say). But if you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with one overpriced corner shop, a supermarket would be a godsend. In my dad's village all they have is a Co-op and their prices are 20-30% higher than Tesco or Asda. The result is that everyone with a car just drives up to Cribbs Causeway to do their shopping, and those without cars just have to lump it.

It might help independent shops if some of them opened later. btw Co-op's seem to be more expensive everywhere. I know a few staff members who won't shop their even with staff discounts.

 

[Geri]

£2 for a packet of chorizo in Co-op, compared to £1.20 in Tesco - big difference!

 

[Gerry1time]

Bit more backstory and photos now it's going through the courts - http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Bris...ouble-jailed/story-13806378-detail/story.html

 

[big eejit]

£2 for a packet of chorizo in Co-op, compared to £1.20 in Tesco - big difference!

Or you could go to Murray's for freshly sliced stuff and pay for as much as you need. And pay less than at Tescos.

Is this a new record for the longest pause in a discussion about the price of chorizo?

 

[Geri]

Or you could go to Murray's for freshly sliced stuff and pay for as much as you need. And pay less than at Tescos.

Is this a new record for the longest pause in a discussion about the price of chorizo?

What/where is Murrays?

 

[Gerry1time]

It's the really good butcher up the glos rd, although tbf I've always found their deli stuff much more expensive that the co-op a few doors down. Their bacon's the best in Bristol tho, fwiw.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Dave Giles is better (and cheaper).

 

[Gerry1time]

Yep, apart from the bacon.