http://daikaiju.org.uk/~steve/cnot/2007/10/03/articles/action/misc/articles/action/index.rss I watched C beams glitter in the dark near the Hadamard Gate. en http://daikaiju.org.uk/~steve/cnot/2007/10/03/articles/action/misc/articles/action/index.rss/2007/10/03#tesco1 <p>The campaign to save the Mill Road area of Cambridge from the insipid, depressing big-brand mediocrity that supermarkets bring has well and truly kicked off. Tesco plan to open a <em>metro</em> store on the road, inevitably destroying the smaller merchants and sucking all the character out of the place. <em>Metro</em> is a special code-word that magically reclassifies tesco supermarkets as non-supermarkets (convenience stores) thereby allowing them to bypass the usual competition laws. Tesco control 30% of the UK grocery market - but over 5% comes from <em>metro</em>s so the magic 25% that would otherwise incur the wrath of the competition comission is avoided.</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.nomillroadtesco.org">main site</a> has links to all the relevant resources such as <a href="http://www.tescopoly.org">tescopoly</a>, <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/">indymedia</a> and even a <a href="http://cambridge.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5958441803">facebook group</a>.</p> <p>There's an excellent <a href="http://www.supermarket-sweep-up.com/">blog</a> highlighting the many problems with the decades-long supermarket chain explosion the UK is undergoing. In fact criticism of Tesco in particular is so widespread it even has it's own <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesco">wikipedia page</a>. Another site worth a read is tesco employees' own <a href="http://www.verylittlehelps.com/">Very Little Helps</a>.</p> <p>There is a lively protest planned for this weekend at the proposed site, from 10am on Saturday.</p> <p><b>I fully endorse this product and/or event.</b></p>