The Anonymous Widower

Targetting Businesses that Avoid Tax

If you read this blog regularly, you’ll see that I tend to shop and purchase with I hope an ethical dimension.  Other things come into it like good service and convenience.

So if I need something quickly here, I’ll tend to use local shops or the two small Sainsbury stores within walking distance.  As one has a good Free From section and sells Green’s beer, I use it a couple of times a week.

As I said in a previous post, I never use Tesco, except when it is totally to my advantage, as the store’s attitude gets up my nose in so many ways.  But I am a free man and can have my own prejudices towards business.

So when it comes to the protests against the likes of Vodafone and Arcadia, because of tax avoidance, I have a certain sympathy with the protesters.  But these two companies have been on my don’t buy list for years, as I don’t like their attitude.  My cheaper clothes usually end up being purchased in such as Gap and Marks & Spencer, if possible.  But lately, it’s been Gap, as they have a small size that isn’t made for the obese. Fit is important to me.

So if these protests cost Philip Green some money, I’m not bothered, especially, as I never use his shops because they don’t have what I want.  I’m also annoyed with British Home Stores for effectively cutting out the dry way of getting from Oxford Street tube to John Lewis, by reorganising their store. But that doesn’t bother me now, as I can take a 73 bus to right outside John Lewis.

I tend to use John Lewis a lot, as I get service and goods that last at a good price.  But then could the service be so good because John Lewis is a partnership with everybody’s bonus on the line?

December 18, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | World | Buses, John Lewis, London, Shopping