Oh Tesco's, you old juggernaut of sadness. You bully, you, your just a brand name, behind which who knows how many sit? Yet, I will address 'Tesco's' as if you were an entity, with some of the emotional and physical 'feelings' human beings have. But, I do recognize that your really a ficticious 'business entity' a bank account and a business enterprise company, a tool, an 'operating system'. And a really really really big one at that.
The impersonal nature of 'companies' and the tendency for NEWS groups to write about them like they were people, often without actually writing the names of those 'behind' the company, but making out that they do wonderful 'things' for the society, like a Samaritaine or a even a new god, such is the fever-pitch of those in favor of a TESCO superstore, based on the 'modern' architecture, the new 'job' opportunities, and the redevelopment of the 'eye-sore' that is the Crown Center and Multi-story car park. I can understand these arguments for inviting TESCO into town, but I have something to say about that, something to say about supermarkets in general, urban renewal in general and 'shopping' as a means to attain emotional 'drug induced' neurological states. Shopping releases endorphins 'drugs' into the brain. Shopping malls and supermarkets release endorphins into the brain, and media signals, and smells, tastes, texture and light, lots of lights burning bright, as our fossil fuels cough a last dying breath, every 'lamp' that burns, so to speak, makes me wonder. Are the supermarkets worth it?
Pros and cons, cons and pros?
Somebody, please!
“If it gets the go-ahead we’d be looking to start on site this time next year, and ready to open prior to the 2012 Olympics.”http://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/8195115.Praise_for_new_stourbridge_Tesco_plans/
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