Email campaign regarding Irish language in Tesco

An Sionnach Glic

An email campaign has been started on Facebook to pressurise Tesco to improve the status of the Irish language in their stores, after they recently removed almost all the Irish from their signs inside their shops. This is in the context of Tesco improving their bilingual services in their shops in Wales and making corporate statements such as the following:

“We in TESCO fully realise that people like to shop locally and that is why we ensure that there is a ‘local’ feel to all our shops. In Wales, this naturally means that we offer services in Welsh, brand ourselves accordingly and have bilingual signage and self scan tills. Where possible, we also have Welsh speaking staff.”
Enfys Fox, TESCO http://new.careerswales.com/16to19/server.php?show=nav.6908

For example, Tesco introduced bilingual self-service checkout counters in their stores in Wales due to consumer pressure in 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7636177.stm


To support this campaign, simply cut and paste the English language message at the following link , add your name to the bottom and email it to Tesco at the email address provided. Indicate that you’ve done it and pass it on to your friends and family, by sharing on Facebook or otherwise. Go raibh míle maith agaibh!
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=440962115949776&id=329177173794938&notif_t=like

Insect Overlord

You've already posted about this campaign in Teach na nGealt. Please don't start the same thread in multiple forums.

Link here for anyone who's interested: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056772154