Tesco terrorism
Above: Horaah for supermarkets.....but poor Chipper! 1963.
NB first 5 mins nostalgically amusing the rest about as boring as standing at the checkout.
Why does everybody hate me?
Well lets see. Bad music, strip lighting, subliminal messaging, loyalty scams, bad architecture…more?
If you insist.
Little more than oversized corner shops you stand accused of: destroying high streets, unfair trading with farmers, exploiting African labour, increasing food miles, encouraging intensive farming, deforestation, and (stop for breath) species homogenization.
Oh and today the Times tells us how Tesco is trying to convince the Competition Commission to define “local” as up to 30mins away. So it can continue to build on our high streets and truly saturate our postcodes.
Not finished yet. Apparently Tesco's hypermarkets are in healthy competition with smaller stores; because a “significant proportion” of shoppers spend more than 60 per cent of their weekly budget at Tesco Express or Sainsbury’s Local (source, Times 03/04/07) .
Jeez, I must have some good points, jobs, low prices, convenience?
Hmmm, possibly.
Ps Penguin Island tried one of those self service checkouts the other day. Impossible, gave up and went back to getting served by a human.
Click me if you hate supermarkets
2 comments:
Self check out is not difficult. You should keep difficulties like that to your self.
Of course PI only buys items from the reduced section. You try scanning one of those reduced labels for toilet roll and stand stoney faced when the alarm goes off.
Besides the computer "how to use me" animation annoyed me because it assumed i was a woman.
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