The "Village Postmaster" is an independent retailer, town postmaster and Blogger -- the "Village Counter Talk" Blog -- in the lovely and bucolic village of West Chiltington, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
He's also a longtime observer of and posts often about United Kingdom-based global retailer Tesco, which owns and operates El Segundo, California (Southern)-based Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, which currently has 113 small-format (10,000-13,000 square foot) grocery and fresh foods markets in Southern California, Metropolitan Las Vegas, Nevada and Metro Phoenix, Arizona, in the Western United States.
Tesco plc is the leading food and grocery retailer in the UK. It controls about a 31% market share in the nation. Tesco is the third-largest retailer in the world, after number one U.S.-based Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and number two Carrefour, which is headquartered in France.
As a longtime independent retailer, as well as having his store in West Chiltington, West Sussex UK serve as the town's post office, "The Village Postmaster" offers his experiences and insights in his "Village Counter Talk" Blog from the perspective of an independent entrepreneur. The Blog is followed closely by many in the United Kingdom and beyond.
For example, here's what columnist Vickie Woods of the London Daily Telegraph newspaper says about "The Village Postmaster" and his "Village Counter Talk" Blog: "The 'Village Postmaster' is a curmudgeon, and 'Village Counter Talk' is one long enjoyable moan about the somewhat embattled job of keeping a business going in the face of desperate odds."
The United Kingdom's "Village Postmaster" read our piece in Fresh & Easy Buzz published yesterday in which we reprinted a brief report from today's Sunday London Times about Tesco Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market CEO, and Tesco PLC senior corporate officer, Tim Mason being quoted as saying the grocer "got it wrong" from the start about various aspects of its Fresh & Easy chain, and then we detailed in the post how Mr. Mason's comments, as attributed in the Times' report, sound like they came right out of the pages of Fresh & Easy Buzz, in terms of our analysis, arguments and suggestions over the last year-plus. [You can read our piece from yesterday here: A Healthy 'Mea Culpa': Tesco Fresh & Easy CEO Tim Mason Says 'We Got it Wrong;' Comments Tend to Agree With Fresh & Easy Buzz Analysis and Arguments.]
We weren't surprised to see today that longtime Tesco-watcher, independent retailer and Blogger "The Village Postmaster" has already offered his own view of the issue today in his Blog in a post titled: "Tesco Own's Up At Last." He does follow Tesco and its USA Fresh & Easy venture rather closely, after all.
You can read what "The Village Postmaster" has to say in his post today in the "Village Counter Talk" Blog here.
He's also a longtime observer of and posts often about United Kingdom-based global retailer Tesco, which owns and operates El Segundo, California (Southern)-based Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, which currently has 113 small-format (10,000-13,000 square foot) grocery and fresh foods markets in Southern California, Metropolitan Las Vegas, Nevada and Metro Phoenix, Arizona, in the Western United States.
Tesco plc is the leading food and grocery retailer in the UK. It controls about a 31% market share in the nation. Tesco is the third-largest retailer in the world, after number one U.S.-based Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and number two Carrefour, which is headquartered in France.
As a longtime independent retailer, as well as having his store in West Chiltington, West Sussex UK serve as the town's post office, "The Village Postmaster" offers his experiences and insights in his "Village Counter Talk" Blog from the perspective of an independent entrepreneur. The Blog is followed closely by many in the United Kingdom and beyond.
For example, here's what columnist Vickie Woods of the London Daily Telegraph newspaper says about "The Village Postmaster" and his "Village Counter Talk" Blog: "The 'Village Postmaster' is a curmudgeon, and 'Village Counter Talk' is one long enjoyable moan about the somewhat embattled job of keeping a business going in the face of desperate odds."
The United Kingdom's "Village Postmaster" read our piece in Fresh & Easy Buzz published yesterday in which we reprinted a brief report from today's Sunday London Times about Tesco Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market CEO, and Tesco PLC senior corporate officer, Tim Mason being quoted as saying the grocer "got it wrong" from the start about various aspects of its Fresh & Easy chain, and then we detailed in the post how Mr. Mason's comments, as attributed in the Times' report, sound like they came right out of the pages of Fresh & Easy Buzz, in terms of our analysis, arguments and suggestions over the last year-plus. [You can read our piece from yesterday here: A Healthy 'Mea Culpa': Tesco Fresh & Easy CEO Tim Mason Says 'We Got it Wrong;' Comments Tend to Agree With Fresh & Easy Buzz Analysis and Arguments.]
We weren't surprised to see today that longtime Tesco-watcher, independent retailer and Blogger "The Village Postmaster" has already offered his own view of the issue today in his Blog in a post titled: "Tesco Own's Up At Last." He does follow Tesco and its USA Fresh & Easy venture rather closely, after all.
You can read what "The Village Postmaster" has to say in his post today in the "Village Counter Talk" Blog here.
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