The British are coming:
Until now, Britain’s largest retailer has been tight-lipped about its entrance into the United States, where it will first put stores in Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Diego and Las Vegas
The chain’s emphasis will be on fresh produce and healthful, ready-to-eat meals sold for affordable prices, Mason said. It will stock common American brands and Tesco’s private label products, plus beer and wine, but not British food.
“It is not a funny specialty store that sells imported things that a few Brits have a hankering for,” Mason said. “It is very deliberately designed to meet the needs of the 21st-century American consumer.”
Listen you Tesco bastards… You better bring me some goddamn squash or there is going to be trouble!
HOLY CRAP. they’d better open one in chicago! then i won’t have to keep smuggling bottles of squash back from london in my luggage :)
Tesco?!? Healthful?!? The ones I’ve seen were like a small, teeny step above a South Side Dominick’s…
Silly Brits - I might consider shopping at one if they stock those appetizing-looking jars of mince meat pie filling, or dedicate the usual five-meter-long chunk of shelf space for sundry varieties of custard powder…
this must be like the european-american aldi’s disconnect.
That’s right! I used to shop at Aldi’s when I lived in Germany - clean, neat, efficient, well-stocked, and veeery German. I made Patrick Vukovich drive me to one near Evanston some years ago, (Skokie/Niles area?), and it was creeeepy. Though we did hatch a plan to make a movie using only Aldi products as props, as inspired by these *huge* cans of “cola” that were something like a foot in diamater, I kid you not…
There is no denying that Sweet Valley soda is delicious. Particularly the Orange flavor.
only if they swap squash for oreos.
What’s your beef with squash?