From Wiki:
David John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, FRS (born 24 October 1940), is a British businessman and politician. From 1992 to 1997, he served as the Chairman of Sainsbury's (a supermarket chain established by his great-grandfather John James Sainsbury in 1869). He was made a life peer in 1997, and currently sits in the House of Lords as a member of the Labour Party.
From Wiki:
John Davan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, KG (Born 2 November 1927) is the President of J Sainsbury, a British businessman and politician. He sits in the House of Lords as a member of the Conservative Party.
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Sainsbury & Sainsbury
My latest blogpost: Sainsbury & SainsburyTweet this! Posted by Mark Wadsworth at 09:57
Labels: Corruption, Politics, Sainsbury's
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Yeah well, this isn't exactly esoteric knowledge. Who says family members need to share political beliefs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainsbury_family
This has just occurred to me:
If I bring a bottle of wine to a dinner party, am I to be required to charge the recipients 40p per unit? And if not, what is to stop an evil megacorp retailer from giving a tin of beer to each customer as a gift if it so wishes?
Classic case of the children of men and women who create business empires being more used to spending money than making it. Which naturally translates into thinking it a good idea to spend other people's money too, aka socialism.
As was said in The 39 Steps [not that I agree]: "Good chaps on both sides, doesn't really matter which you join."
@Blue Eyes: There will be all sorts of loopholes that various people will charge straight through. One that springs to mind is reward cards - if preferential points are given for purchases of alcohol, does that count as selling it at a lower cost? For example 500 nectar points = £2-50 to spend in store. Thus if my £12-50 bottle of vodka has a bonus of 500 points, does that mean it actually cost £10, even though I had to part with £12-50 to get my hands on it?
S, this isn't Socialism it's corporatism and they are not so much trying to spend other people's money as trying to ensure that other people spend their money in the right way (in a supermarket, preferably a Sainsbury) and if that means bribing both Labour and Tory, then so be it.
I like the idea with the double points for buying booze though.
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