Spinneys CEO Michael Wright first spoke to Executive over a decade ago. We sat down with him to discuss criticism of the company, future growth and his long-term plans. E There have been attacks against Spinneys. What were the biggest challenges of this sort? The attacks that we don’t mind are the competitive attacks. Supermarkets are about market share and you gain market share from each other and those kinds of attacks and counter-attacks are all part of the game. But unfortunately, almost two years ago, we were targeted by somebody as a way to create a political opportunity for themselves and ended up being dragged in to defend ourselves. That was fairly unpleasant; I have never been involved in anything like that in the past and as an organization we have never experienced a one-way diatribe of accusations without foundation, to which when you try and answer, you
