Monday, Apr 26, 2010
Every little helps
Times: Tesco planning four ‘mini-villages’ complete with supermarkets
Tesco already provides everything you need to stock a home, from groceries to garden furniture. Now it is going to build the house as well. The supermarket chain plans to develop four “mini-villages” in the South East along with “mixed-use living and leisure” schemes in Ipswich and northeast England.
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1. mark said...
tesco britain been saying this all along...
2. icarus said...
They've been watching The Prisoner. "London? There IS no London. There's nothing outside The Village.
3. letthemfall said...
There is but one Shop. Everyone will be happy.
4. icarus said...
There is one restaurant, supplied entirely by the supermarket. What else do you need?
5. sneaker said...
Sounds more and more like South Korea, where people's employers provided housing in corporate-logo-emblazoned apartment blocks.
It'll never catch on for the masses - so for those who are foolish enough to want to let one company provide for their every need, let them.
6. nomad said...
Be very careful! Every comment is being collected.
7. mrmickey said...
How long will it be before their workers are paid in Tesco credits.
8. tenant super said...
Jeff Noon explores this in "The Shoppers" (written for Waterstones diary and included in his collection pixel juice). The town has been absorped by just 7 shops which seamlessly run into one another. Noon was responding to what he saw what he saw happening to the shops of Manchester, which he felt was becoming a kind of shopping theme town (during the gentrification of the nineties). I think his writing has a totality about it... rather like Poe's 'house of usher', each detail is loaded with meaning ...
Ideas of imprisonment and escape feature heavily.
Despite the convenience that supermarkets provide, a valid criticism is the army of experts they have to negotiate planning permission. Planning permission is a big part of the housing problem in this country and using Tesco as a vehicle to get housing built shouldn't be necessary.
9. gone-to-colombia said...
Tesco, wasn't that the the pile them high, sell them cheap philosophy?
And.... Didn't the Tesco heiress gerrymander the housing allocation in Westminster to ensure
perpetual Conservative victory.
Frightening combination.
10. icarus said...
nomad @6 - Yes, but not by Tesco. Google is at the heart of the surveillance industry.
11. Theemperorhasnoclothes said...
Tesco are doing what the government are failing to do ... building new houses to meet demand. Good on them. Not sure I would personally buy one.
On the downside Tesco hold onto a lot of disused land that could be made available for housing, which is wasted and could be used for more housing.
12. charlie brooker said...
Every Lidl helps.
13. drewster said...
mrmickey said...
How long will it be before their workers are paid in Tesco credits.
Might be better than sterling.....
14. tyrellcorporation said...
I realised quite a while ago that although people moan about Tesco destroying Mrs Miggins local pie shop, etc they actually don't give a fricken stuff and spend £100 a week there because it's convenient. It's a sort of nimbyism at work. Everyone wants nice little shoppes but can't be arsed patronising them.
In short I bought a bucketload of Tesco shares because they will one day rule the Earth - and we'll have let 'em.
15. Crunchy said...
Waco, Tesco.
16. tenyearstogetmymoneyback said...
I wonder if they will do a Tesco Basics house. It's what most FTBs need.
17. enuii said...
Tried some Tesco basics once, truly awful, soylent green came to mind so I vowed never to shop there ever again, that was eight years or so ago.
The Tesco Express junk food emporium is also the nearest conv store to me but I will intentionally walk another 400yds to use the Coop Lateshop.
Ethical shopping.
18. alan_540 said...
Tesco tends to do things well so I imagine their village might be a rather pleasant place to live.