X-Message-Number: 27189
From: "marta sandberg" <>
Subject: Cryonics has been Tescoized
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:06:19 +0800

I'm not sure how to take this, but this is the beginning and end of a 
feature article in the Guardian

 With 250,000 staff, 1,800 stores and the turnover of a medium-sized 
country, Tesco now collects one in every eight retail pounds we spend. So 
how is it affecting the way we live? To find out, Lucy Mangan spent a month 
shopping for everything - from clothes to pet insurance - at the company's 
stores or websites 

<snip quite a lot of words representing a whole month of slowly discovering 
the wonder/terror/frustration of Tescoland>

 I've spent  454, accumulated 711 points, experienced crises of conscience 
and more than a few dark moments of the soul, but the really terrifying 
thing has been how easy it all was. I haven't had to do without anything, 
not for the house, for the garden, for my stomach (and I don't really think 
we can), or for my money.

The only thing more terrifying is thinking where it might go next. Tesco 
small arms aisles? Tesco cosmetic surgeries? Tesco surrogacy agencies? Tesco 
mail-order brides? Tesco cryogenics banks? And knowing that, although I 
think I have emerged from the project a more enlightened and ethical 
shopper, if it offered me enough points to have my head frozen, I still 
might sign up. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/supermarkets/story/0,12784,1586929,00.html

To become Tescoized must mean that we are now firmly part of popular 
culture.  A pity it hasn't resulted in more people taking us serious.

Marta

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