Store manager: Carl Aston
Market share: 19%
Store data source: Analysis by CACI.
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Did you sense a change of attitudes among customers after the easing of lockdown measures this week? I think we have a long way to go before we are anything like back to normal, but we did see some signs that people are changing. We had a massive weekend in terms of sales, helped by the nice weather we’re having.
How does trade compare to this time last year? It almost felt like Easter had arrived already last week. I would say it was our biggest weekend since Christmas. We actually beat our like-for-like figures for last year, which was when people were stockpiling, which says a lot about how well we’re doing at the moment.
Fines handed out following investigations by the PPP OUT-OF-DATE food, forklifts and unsafe freezers these things have all led to hefty fines for local retailers and residents over the years. The penalties have come following investigations from the Public Protection Partnership, a Trading Standards, Environmental Health and Licensing services organisation shared across Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire and Wokingham. Here are a few examples of the PPP’s prosecutions.
Huge fine for Tesco Warfield Back in December last year, Tesco’s Bracknell North superstore was served a whopping £536,000 fine following an incident in July 2017. A ten-year-old boy was electrocuted after coming into contact with a faulty electrical supply in a freezer, leaving him burnt and with pains down his right leg.
File photo dated 26/08/16 of a Tesco sign. Tesco has said it is creating 16,000 new permanent jobs to help it react to exceptional growth in its online business. PA Photo. Issue date: Monday August 24, 2020. It said the recruitment drive will ‘THIS should not have happened’ that’s the message from Tesco bosses after a boy was electrocuted at their Bracknell North store in 2017. The supermarket firm was fined a whopping £536,000 after pleading guilty to two health and safety offences following an investigation by the Public Protection Partnership. The incident occured in July 2017 when a 10-year-old boy reached into a freezer to get an ice lolly but was left burnt and with pain down his right leg and chest having been electrocuted by an exposed electrical supply.
He suffered a small minor burn, pain down his right leg, chest pain and was shaken. This came after staff failed to fix an issue with the electrical supply to the glass heating element under the handrail at the front of the freezer. The Public Protection Partnership, the investigating body, said the supply had become damaged and exposed, leaving a severed live wire sticking out under the rub rail. Subsequent reviews of records showed the freezer’s rail was known to be loose and had temporary fixes of glue or tape some months prior to the accident. Cllr John Harrison, Public Protection boss at Bracknell Forest Council, said: “This investigation which followed an incident where a child was electrocuted in the store revealed significant breaches of health and safety legislation and this is clearly reflected in the sentencing.