www.tescopoly.org

For once I have decided not to post a photo but to publish one of the scores of leaflets Tescopoly has been kind enough to send me. Unfortunately they won’t be of any use in France.
Tescopoly is a UK lobby group “outraged that Tesco’s trading practices are putting farmers and local shops out of business”.
In France, the situation is simple: for the past twenty years giant supermarkets and retailers have replaced small shops that were once part of our French culture. Now on the outskirts of our cities there are miles of ugly concrete buildings with long traffic jams especially at the weekend. And still spreading…
In the countryside all shops and related social life have gone.
Often in class, when I ask my pupils what they do/did at the weekend, they answer that they go/went round what they call “shops”. Supermarkets are now the Number One weekend activity for the new generation. Every little hurts…