{"id":2548,"date":"2012-01-12T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2012-01-16T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T16:28:50","slug":"shares-dive-as-tesco-sales-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/shares-dive-as-tesco-sales-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Shares dive as Tesco sales slump"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Tesco has recorded a disastrous Christmas<\/a> after announcing in early November a \u00a330,000 donation to next year’s divisive, depraved London ‘Gay Pride’.<\/p>\n

Sales in the UK were down 2.3 per cent on last year at Tesco’s busiest time of the year.\u00a0 The figures stunned investors and Tesco shares slumped 53.5p, or almost 14 per cent, to 331.6p, wiping more than \u00a33 billion off its value.\u00a0 (Those in the know did OK.\u00a0 Tesco\u2019s Chief Operating Officer was able to offload 50,000 of his Tesco shares a week before the announcement avoiding a \u00a335,000 loss if he had waited<\/a>.\u00a0 Tesco say he holds 20 times that number of shares, but every little helps.)<\/p>\n

By contrast, Sainsbury overtook Asda<\/a> with like-for-like sales in the Christmas period up 2.1%.\u00a0\u00a0 Morrisons were up 0.7%.\u00a0 Tesco was the only one of the ‘big four’ to see sales and profits drop.<\/p>\n

The news follows a Christian Voice campaign of prayer<\/a>, backed up by emails to directors complaining at the \u2018Gay Pride\u2019 decision and leafleting at Tesco stores<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Just before Christmas a panic-stricken Tesco announced that the 2012 ‘Gay Pride’ donation would be its last.\u00a0 Hours later, in the face of a homosexual backlash, it had to clarify that gays and lesbians were really important and promise that it would support its homosexual contact group ‘Out at Tesco’ in other ways in 2013, which only made matters worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stung by revelations that it dumped Cancer Research Race for Life days before its Gay Pride announcement, Tesco has now made Cancer Research its 2012 ‘Charity of the Year’<\/a>, although it seems to expect its staff, customers and suppliers to do all the work.<\/p>\n

Analysts are blaming Tesco’s ‘Big Price Drop’ idea for the store’s failure, which has led to them issuing a profit’s warning.\u00a0\u00a0 Natalie Berg, of consultant Planet Retail, said: “Tesco has taken its eye off the ball.\u00a0 It has focused too much just on the price of food.\u00a0 We now all expect high-quality food and everyone is claiming to be the cheapest – consumers are much more wary.”<\/p>\n

However, it could fairly be said that Tesco took its eye off the ball even more when it bowed to pressure from its homosexual staff<\/a> and associated itself with the ‘Gay Pride’ brand<\/a>, with all its anti-Christian aggression, indecency, immorality and separatism.<\/p>\n

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today:<\/p>\n

‘Tesco’s announcement that it was giving \u00a330,000 to Gay Pride came in early November and Christian Voice quickly mobilised prayer and action.\u00a0 The action\u00a0included emails to directors and leafleting at stores, making ordinary shoppers aware of the store’s support for depravity.\u00a0 We were already disappointed with Tesco’s secret sale of fresh halal lamb and chicken, and their arrogant refusal to label it ‘ritually slaughtered’<\/a>.\u00a0 But the ‘Gay Pride’ decision was even more serious.<\/p>\n

‘Our prayer – which we said ‘will humble proud Tesco’<\/a> – centred on a desire that the Tesco board would rescind the decision, which has not happened yet.\u00a0 Indeed their announcement on 23rd December made matters worse.<\/p>\n

‘However, bad, confused,\u00a0initiatives have beset the Tesco boardroom.\u00a0 Tesco’s ‘Big Price Drop’, launched in September, was destined to fail.\u00a0 I believe God was anticipating our prayers, knowing from the action we were to take\u00a0that our prayers would be serious, and that the Almighty was behind that disastrous decision.<\/p>\n

‘On top of that, Tesco’s ‘Gay Pride’ announcement, made six weeks before Christmas,\u00a0could not have come at a worse time for them.\u00a0 It was madness to think that such brazen support for the tiny 1% of the population who are homosexual could have a positive effect.\u00a0\u00a0As a result, thousands of Christians and other decent people boycotted the store at what should have been its busiest time of the year.<\/p>\n

‘I now call on Tesco to repent of their arrogance before matters get worse and people lose their jobs.\u00a0 Withdraw the grant to Gay Pride.\u00a0 Apologise to the decent families upon whose patronage their business depends.\u00a0 Deal better with your suppliers.\u00a0 And label halal ritually-slaughtered meat so people can see what they are buying.’<\/p>\n

Exod 10:7\u00a0 And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?<\/p>\n

WHAT YOU CAN DO:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Pray<\/strong> that God will send repentance into the Tesco boardroom, and that they will reverse their grant to gay pride.<\/p>\n

2 Boycott Tesco<\/strong> and encourage others to do the same (see (3) below.<\/p>\n

3 Mount a witness<\/strong> with banners and\/or give leaflets out to shoppers outside Tesco\u2019s high street stores \u2018Tesco Direct\u2019 (they can throw you out of their car park, but you have every right to witness on the street).\u00a0 Contact us for leaflets.\u00a0 The text of the LEAFLET is HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

4 Email\/write<\/strong> to\u00a0the Tesco Group Chief Executive, Philip Clark,\u00a0 philip.clarke@tesco.com<\/a>\u00a0and their Marketing Director, Richard Brasher:\u00a0 richard.brasher@tesco.com<\/a>.\u00a0 You can also write to their new Chairman, Sir Richard Broadbent, at New Tesco House, Delamare Rd, Cheshunt, Herts, EN8 9SL.\u00a0 His email seems to be: richard.broadbent@tesco.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(HERE<\/a><\/strong> is what one ex-Tesco-customer wrote.)<\/p>\n

5 Sign our petition<\/a><\/strong> \u2018Boycott Tesco\u2019<\/a>\u00a0and by so doing, record your decision to shop elsewhere.<\/p>\n

6<\/strong> There are a couple of other really effective things to do as well, but we shall let Christian Voice members exclusively know about them at the proper time through our newsletter which never goes up on the web!\u00a0 For that – and\/or to support us in this spiritual battle – you will need to Join Christian Voice<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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You can send a donation if you do not wish to join:<\/p>\n

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