Tesco now needs to be broken up. More players in the 'grocery ' market makes for more competition. Where is the regulator?

Raymond , Luton,

Do we want a country where there are just: four supermarkets (and at this rate only two!), four premier football teams (with vast amounts of foreign money), four consultancies running every outsourced operation and every in-house contract, four rail companies, four banks/isurance companies - do I need to go on? The writing is on the wall!

Tony Mann, Bradford, UK

It's simple, perhaps too simple for the politicians and bureaucrats. In the interests of competition, no supermarket should be allowed to have more than one store in each area and that store should be the only site they can own. Any further holdings of land should be sold with no conditions attached to future use and no involvment whatsoever permitted in the development. There should be a tight timescale attached too - no hanging on under the guise of "getting the right price".
That Tesco builds up land banks and keeps out competitors is a manipulation and an abuse of the market and should be outlawed.

Tom Paul, Harrogate, North Yorkshire

I shop at Tesco, Asda, Aldi, Lidl, Netto & Waitrose - I don't like Sainsburys though, overated & overpriced.

Tesco & Aldi have the best quality / price ratio.

Waitrose have some good stuff but why are they so expensive on identical products - they claim that its a myth that they are expensive, I disagree with this completely.

If Tesco were rubbish people wouldn't shop there but the simple fact is they are pretty good at what they do and they are correct, they are only as successful as people let them be. Waitrose just sound scared.

People are worried about the power of Tesco, why? If people didn't shop there then they would be powerless. The fact that people do shop there is their own choice and is not up to Waitrose.

I have a Tesco and Waitrose near by and aside from a few things, I'd still rather go to Tesco.

Peter Hall, Flitton, Bedfordshire

I prefer to shop at Waitrose, as their goods seem fresher and of a better quality, plus they always seem to have what I need. Tesco and Sainsbury I perceive as, maybe, being a few pence cheaper but of driving the farmers out of business and bulldozing their way through the high streets, driving everything in their path out of business. If Tesco represent the triumph of competition, all I can say is, what happens when they’re the only place left to go?

Cirep G Nol, London,

Actually I shop at both - Not so sure I will go to Waitrose any more - they seem a little put out by the fact that its a competitive world out there, no one is moaning about John Lewis!!!! I agree fully with Tescos statement.
Waitrose get real and if your that bothered - try some innovative tactics (like Tesco).

James, High Wycombe,