General Chat

Not very big, BP. Biggest I had employed about 300 FT equivalent. Didn't earn huge money then either. Just after my day, managers were on 6 figures in very large stores. One young graduate manager is now CEO - and you should see his remuneration now. Earns in 2 days what I earn in a year. Very nice and modest man though - we are so similar in many ways.

But then, I can often kick a football better than Michael Owen :-D And I never crash like Lewis Hamilton. And they get oodles of money.

Jax. You have a good memory :-D When I moved to N Wales in 1976, 3 of the shops employed less than 12 people. All ex John Irwins stores (small grocery shops with HQ in Liverpool). All 3 I can remember (Colwyn Bay, Old Colwyn and Abergele) closed for an hour for lunch :-D

I was thinking the same thing GP

I am sure John said on another thread how small the Tesco's were in Wales back then.....It was when I said that the Spar in that Welsh place looked like a corner shop to me

I seem to have stumbled into an episode of Fantsy Island.

The Plane! The Plane!

Ignore him - he hates being ignored more than anything :-D :-D :-D

Off to live my life ;-)

but then Hamilton is driving something a tad faster than your mode of transport surely - no comparison

and once more the topic is cunningly monopolised by the preachings of chairman hat

Trust Errol not to take your very sound advice Wend. Cue aivlyS ;-)

FGS John - leave Sylvia alone

John if for once you used your brain rather than your ego you would see that the posts appeared at the same time give or take a few seconds.

And why the Sylvia comment?
Not very christian!

Because it's early morning here I have read all the pages since I left the thread last night (my time).

John - you made a comment on pg 19 at 10.49 quote "the batting expression SueMaid used earlier which I forget but that was new to me."

At no time did I make any comment using that expression so please check in future before making such statements.

I am just so thankful that in my working life (Board room level of large International Companies.,) I never, ever, came across one such as John.

However the expression comes to mind 'if they are bolshy and cause trouble - promote them upstairs'.

Chris of course you never came across anyone like that because they were only there in their own(chip on shoulder) dreams

YOU KNOW WHAT

ITS FRIDAY


PITY ABOUT THREAD WAS SORT OF INTRESTING

JOHN - You keep going on about poor wages. Now were you really a manager or were you a shelf stacker - theres a big difference in wages. If you were a stacker how did you reach the top shelves because you mentioned a while back that you were about 5ft tall.

GP

aha that answers many questions

Well I think John should invite me to pop over to his house and show me his gold plated turnip on the mantelpiece. :-D :-D :-D

I heard Sir Terry Leahy ex CEO of Tesco on Dersert Island Discs last week. He talked about how he was an unlikely success. His parents were poor Irish immigrants. There were no books in his prefab home or academic aspirations. But he I won a scholarship to the best grammar school in Liverpool, which pulled him up and got him to university. He sounded a really decent chap still had his Liverpool accent, very articulate and funny. He said he had three great loves, his wife, his football team and Tesco.

set of steps!!

I listened to that too Paula and, as you say, it was very interesting and he sounded a delightful man, but I can't think for the life of me what it has to do with this thread :-0

Perhaps the tenuous link to Tescos :-S

Yes Wend, I thought someone on here must have shares in Tecso, so I thought I would just mention it ;-) ;-)

As we are now talking about Tesco, I remember 3 CEO's before Terry Leahy:
1. Hyman Kreitman
2. Lesley Porter
3. Ian MacLaurin

Kreitman was husband of eldest daughter of the old man (Sir John Cohen). Porter was husband of younger daughter (Shirley Porter). MacLaurin took over about 1978 and was the first CEO outside family, And Leahy took over from him about 1990, I think - just as I left and joined Budgens. And now Philip Clarke.

Leahy was by far the least nice of them. But he was both ruthless and charming.