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Quarter of a million petition Tesco over inaccessible tills

By John Pring on 2nd February 2023 Category: Independent Living

Quarter of a million petition Tesco over inaccessible tills
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Nearly a quarter of a million people have signed a disabled campaigner’s petition that calls for supermarket giant Tesco to stop introducing self-service, card-only tills in its stores. Pat McCarthy (pictured) says her local supermarket in Osterley, west London, is becoming […]

Disabled activist’s ‘hate speech’ campaign has sweet success with retailers

By John Pring on 13th January 2022 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled activist’s ‘hate speech’ campaign has sweet success with retailers
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At least three major retailers appear to have taken action over their own brands of a top-selling type of sweet after pressure from a disabled activist who has linked its name to disability hate speech. Dr Erin Pritchard, a lecturer in […]

Coronavirus: Tesco ‘opens priority home deliveries to disabled shoppers’

By John Pring on 28th May 2020 Category: Independent Living

Coronavirus: Tesco ‘opens priority home deliveries to disabled shoppers’
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More than 350 disabled people have secured the right to be added to a supermarket’s priority shopping list, in the first success of what is believed to be the biggest legal class action of its kind. Tesco also appears to have […]

Coronavirus: Supermarkets and government must act on ‘food crisis’, MPs hear

By John Pring on 21st May 2020 Category: Independent Living

Coronavirus: Supermarkets and government must act on ‘food crisis’, MPs hear
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The major supermarkets and the UK government must do more to solve the “food crisis” that is still affecting millions of disabled people months into the coronavirus crisis, MPs have heard from a national disabled people’s organisation. The environment, food and […]

Coronavirus: ‘Supermarket discrimination risks lives and causes pain and distress’

By John Pring on 23rd April 2020 Category: Independent Living

Coronavirus: ‘Supermarket discrimination risks lives and causes pain and distress’
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Disabled people have described the pain and distress they have endured in attempting to buy food during the COVID-19 crisis, with many forced to put up with clear discrimination from their local supermarket. The accounts collected by Disability News Service (DNS) […]

Coronavirus: Supermarkets face ‘biggest class action of its kind’ over discrimination claims

By John Pring on 23rd April 2020 Category: Independent Living

Coronavirus: Supermarkets face ‘biggest class action of its kind’ over discrimination claims
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More than 200 disabled people have signed up for a class action against UK supermarkets over allegations that they have discriminated against them during the coronavirus crisis, in what is believed to be the biggest legal case of its kind. So […]

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