Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Tesco pays out £8 million!

Remember the beginning of the year when "contaminated fuel panic" reached every forecourt in the South-East of the UK? Well, if your car suddenly stopped working or had something strange happening under the bonnet, filling up with fuel at one of Tesco's or Morrison garages may have been the reason for it.

In a result Tesco has just paid out £8 million to reimburse about 18,000 victims (...cars), mostly in the South-East. The supermarket giant had to set up a special help-line for the people who complained or had problems with cars.

Mind you, that's probably the most common result for supermarkets giants when they try to save up money on not having enough staff or cutting out on some deliveries. So empty shelves with some products, massive queues to checkouts on Sunday afternoons, no towels or gloves on the forecourt - where do we know it from..? May be it would be better for Tesco to change the fuel storage company for a more trusted one? Together with code of practice as it seems like there are some serious misunderstandings too...

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