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While standing in the queue at Tesco earlier I suddenly realised how much we seem to use Tesco for now. Not just the “can you pop in and pick up a pint of milk” type use either.

I renewed my car insurance the other day. With Tesco of course. Mich has her car insured with them as well. We pay for things on our Tesco credit card. This gives us vouchers that we use to go to legoland etc - Tesco days out. Our hoover came from Tesco. Half of my clothes come from Tesco - most of the kids clothes do as well. Most of our food comes from Tesco. The kids have boxes of toys - many of which come from Tesco. When we started playing badminton at work we didn’t head to a sports shop to find a racket - we went to Tesco. I can’t remember the last time we cooked a chicken - not worth it when Tescos sell them nice and hot and spit roasted for £2.70. Mich’s mobile phone was bought from Tesco - and is on the Tesco network.

I see that they are now offering mortgages. They’ve teamed up with lastminute .com to do holidays. They sell more CDs that Woolies and almost as many electrical items as Dixons. I can even use my loyalty points for my own funeral. They are opening non-food stores to take on whats left of the high street and are starting to open estate agents. With their computers for school schemes they already provide computing kit to schools and in a recent documentary on BBC2 they admitted that they would like to get more involved in education and are currently looking into how they may progress this.

OMG, I’m becoming Man at Tesco - and I’m too sure I like the idea…Tesco nation here we come?

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