The shop at the end of the road...

Dear Store Manager,
Since opening last year the local Tesco Express store, for which you work, has had a significant impact on the local community. As I am sure you are aware the store has been a hit amongst the local community, one which has a base of around 80% students. The success of the store seems to have been great and I offer my congratulations for this.
In terms of measurable success I point to two major achievements that you have managed:
1. The local convenience store on Park Road shut down late last year and has remained so. The store owner and manager lost 4/5 of his customers once Tesco had opened. He tried to remain open as he had recently purchased a new house for his family to live in but, alas, he was forced to shut down after not receiving enough custom to purchase new stock. A family run business, open for well over a decade was swiftly put out of business.
2. The second achievement that I trust you shall report to your superiors is the recent closure of the fantastic mini mart in Church square, a community centre for Lenton. Tesco’s branding, undercutting, false promise of quality and lack of respect for local communities has managed to force the closure of a second family business. Thank you for providing the residents of Lenton with the choice of 2 overpriced, corporate shopping facilities that have the audacity to use machines instead of cashiers, thus not needing to employ local people.
Please consider your position and the position of the company for which you are employed. Two family businesses closed, local shopping destroyed, bin loads of wasted food and a population fed on over packaged, over priced food that, at the same time, pushes farmers into poverty- that is a record for which to be proud.
Shut the store down. Allow families to have there lives back. Get out of Lenton.
Oh and thanks for the five hundred pounds for a local charity. A huge blow to your finances I’m sure.
Yours sincerely
Matthew Butcher ( a local resident)