Sir,
While some may be celebrating the opening of the new store in Tenby town centre, I for one do not rejoice. This ancient town has succumbed and is now scarred by the Tesco logo.
Unlike local shop owners Tesco's will not struggle to pay the crippling business rates. This will be subsidised by its greater billion pound empire at the same time removing profits away from the local community.
It is a fact that town centres throughout the country have slowly closed down. Small enterprises (some which have even survived since the last world war) have gradually been decimated due to the inability to compete with this giant.
It is ironic that building restriction laws via National Parks and the County Council are set in place so that Tenby 'may be sympathetically maintained within its character and tradition', for example, shop frontages and colour schemes of the buildings in Tenby town.
Oh yes! Tenby is not only losing its unique identity and qualities, but is at risk of becoming an uninteresting replica of any other town, defeating the very reason we stand out from all the other holiday destinations in Wales.
Mrs. R. Morris,