Retail centres will be competing on unfavourable terms with hypermarkets in an enterprise zone.
Only a small part of that sum goes to community pharmacies; the bulk still goes to the main hypermarkets and supermarkets.
For example, we condemn the proposal - which has been mentioned here - that a hypermarket should be built there.
In the past five years, we have seen a huge growth in the number of large stores—such as supermarkets and hypermarkets—in those towns.
Whether the supermarket chains have 25,000 square feet, 50,000 square feet or have hypermarket status, by and large their outlets are of the larger size.
But if we are talking of a hypermarket or even a very large retailing unit we would have to look at each separate area.
The hypermarket would help subsidise the small business which in some cases has to close because it cannot compete with the hypermarket.
Apart from certain limited controls on hypermarkets and on excessive concentrations of retailing, we proposed to make no restraints.
