happy birthday

to perlmonger, twelvety today.

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Tescowatch (an occasional series)

from 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

worth a read ...