Thursday 29 April 2010

Tesco Town


House-building... a good thing.

House-building, by Tesco, conveniently around its stores, the home purchases funded by Tesco mortgages (it's easy to imagine favourable mortgage terms on Tesco properties)... sinister.

It reminds me of the perspective you get of some medium-sized American towns as you fly above them, really just large consumer machines in which people live, work and mall-spend to feed the corporations. McLives.

Initial plans appear to centre around four "mini-villages" in the south east. Surely 'Tesco Town' has already been done in Inverness, with it's 5 (Five !) Tesco stores, where's Lord Sainsbury when you need him, to throw some orange into the mix.

I wonder if you'll get clubcard points with a house purchase..... Every little helps.

Mr J