About 4yrs ago there was a Tesco superstore put up in Atherton town, Nr Derby.
Nobody wanted it there in the first place, they either bulled or bribed homeowners to get out, then tore a street and a half down.
And now...... and this is only the tip of the iceberg !.
There's loads of Anti-Social Behaviour there with kids driving their pimped up crapboxes like there on a formula 1 race track in the car park, others young nobheads have thrown bricks, etc at homes opposite where the shop is, their are kids hanging about in general involved in underage drinking, and what are Tesco's doing about it - Nothing, not interested in what resident's are having to put up with.
And there is evidence now starting to gather quite a pace that a few of the town councilors did in fact take 'back-handers', and one or two of the Councilors have either retired early or moved post !!.
Though like everyone else has already said (and it's not just Tesco doing this to), they buy up land and no-one stands up to them, and never will a Tesco planning application be refused full stop.