Leader Price's partners feel left out in the cold

However, the company has not taken into consideration the fact that those who participated in franchises invested a lot of money and  could be now left with nothing. The owners of companies FOR PEOPLE and JMG said that the they spent about zł.200,00-600,00 for every shop and they deserve to get that money back. The companies have to leave the shops in February 2007. Until then, LP has to provide the shops with products. Tesco is not worried about those irregularities and is still interested in buying the network. Tesco believes that LP will soon clarify these problems. The smaller companies see their hope in the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection which has not yet granted its permission for Tesco's to take over LP. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B3) M.M.