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To: customers

waitrose refusal to repay covid related government funding

1.stop using waitrose until they agree to pay back the government Covid-related support they received earlier this year.
2. write to waitrose explaining why they will stop using waitrose.

Why is this important?

The UK Chancellor announced in March that all retail businesses would be given a business rates holiday for 12 months in order to help businesses who were in trouble because of COVID. Supermarkets, have seen sales rise and have all made increased profits during during UK lockdown periods.
On 4 December, 6 of our largest supermarket chains (Tesco,
Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons, Lidl and Aldi) agreed to pay back the government Covid-related support they received earlier this year (a total of almost £1.81bn)
Waitrose have so far refused to follow suit. Legally they have the right to choose to retain this money, but they cannot justify the decision in the grounds that their business was in trouble because of Covid.

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2020-12-09 12:25:17 +0000

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