Supermarkets
A couple of week's ago I mentioned how much I dislike Tesco's colour scheme. This made me sound a bit like Tyler Brule, whose remarkable 'Fast Lane' Weekend FT column* once ranked airports by their flooring (Stockholm, with mahogany, was best).Nevertheless I stand by my comments. There are only two countries that do hypermarkets well -- that's France, which should do as it was Carrefour that invented the concept - and the United States.
With that in mind, and conscious it's perhaps not literally a hypermarket, for my birthday (I know you're thinking -- how long can I stretch it out? Trust me -- longer than you think) I'm off to New York to go to Target's Brooklyn store (and perhap a few other things). I'm not off 'til Thursday, so there might be some posts before.
* Remarkable, and pretty enjoyable. A couple of weeks after it began a reader wrote a letter asking whether it was a spoof. It wasn't, and I think it's grown and grown. The ranking airpots by their floor colouring is pretty illustrative. As is the fact that he only buys his underwear from a particular Swiss department store.
posted by Matthew @ 1/23/2005 10:05:00 AM
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