Saturday, January 01, 2005

Supermarkets

And they also published this:
In one of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads dramas, someone exposes themselves in a branch of Sainsbury's. "Tesco's you could understand," says an elderly woman tartly. It's a remark that neatly sums up both the British obsession with class and our almost tribal attachment to specific supermarket brands. Tesco, the implication goes, is for commoner people who are slightly more likely to drop their trousers in public than Sainsbury's shoppers. By extension, Waitrose is for those more likely to have second homes in Chiantishire than the first two; Asda is for people who aspire to have a second home anywhere but probably never will; Lidl is for people who have never heard of Chiantishire; Marks & Spencer for those who affect to have never heard of Lidl. That kind of thing ...

I've never heard of Lidl...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I went to a Waitrose the other day, and I've got to say the whole experience was more than a little disappointing. What is it with flash people in the UK and inconvenience?

- Rhys