Was it something we said…?
As you know, we here at GG are peachy keen when it comes to keeping all you good people informed about all the good deeds – even those done dirt cheap – going on in our town.
And given that the lobby of Tesco is hopping just about every other day with one charity fundraiser or another kooky stall, we’ve been trying dang hard for the past two years to get the nice people at the front desk to, you know, just let us know what’s coming up.
Alas, no joy. Again and again. And again.
Then, a breakthrough. A nice young girl called Lynda was taking over the PR duties for the store, we were told last month, and all would be well with the world.
Truth be told, the English supermarket giant needs some good PR. They’ve come in for a bit of a kicking in recent times, with its £326m accounting scandal last year, and last month’s hacking of its banking system, resulting in 20,000 Tesco customers losing money.
Closer to home, let’s not forget how they upset the good ladies at Greystones Cancer Support earlier this year when they cancelled their annual weekend Super Draw selling spot. Or how they kept the cuddly Mark Mitchell hanging on, and on, and on, for one of those blue token.
Or how they recently let go of many of their longest-serving members of staff here in Greystones.
So, our reporting of those local letdowns could be the reason Lynda informs us that she now has no say or word on what goes on in Tesco Greystones. Despite being their new PR person. “It’s been outsourced,” she told us tonight, as she handed out mini-mince pies in the middle of a Tesco lobby Christmas hullabaloo. “We don’t really have any information on what’s coming up,” she flustered.
Could it be that Tesco hasn’t got a sense of humour? Or is a sense of community that they’re lacking?
Either way, dumb move. Ya big corporate eejits.
Lynda, you’ve got my card. Six times. Some of us around here are genuinely trying to help…