This all looks great on the surface, however when you look at the impact a store like ASDA will have on the town you start to question their figures even further.

• Alastair Close (GPP) on the 17th September 2008 at the Ware Town Centre Partnership AGM stated "the store would take at least £4 million sales from Tesco".  NAiW would then assume that if Tesco's is taking this much less money a year they may want to reduce staffing levels.
• The impact this store would have on the High Street and Town centre before it arrives is immeasurable, but it will surely be felt after it arrives! Several surveys into the impact these developments have on towns has shown a nett decrease in local employment.
• "On average every time a supermarket opens 276 jobs are lost, the effect is felt up to 15 miles away. £50,000 is spent in a small shop to generate one job, it needs £250,000 to be spent in a superstore to create one job." (The Trashing of Farnborough Town Centre)  http://home.clara.net/heureka/surrey-hants/kpi.htm
• And as with all Supermarkets I am sure that Asda will be employing people who are less expensive to employ than others, such as students and under 18's.

(no reflection on Asda's employment policy but NAiW couldn't resist adding this picture in!!)

So do you think that ASDAs figures on employment stack up?  NAiW is unconvinced.