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- Retail Revival Demands Ideas – Not Just Money!
- Now even baked bean tins have celebrity designers!
- Consumer Profiling – The New Censorship
- Revealed – The real ‘hidden persuaders’
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- Wake up and Smell the Coffee – It’s Nescafe!
- So you Think you Know What Social media is all About?
- Name That AD – Prize Competition
- BT roll out new broadband speeds: dead slow and stop…
- Traditional advertising is dead. Long live traditional advertising
- It’s Time to Talk Tough With Litter Louts
- Forget the frankincense and myrrh. Just bring your gold!
- The middle classes are the new poor, reduced to shoplifting in Waitrose
- Nostalgia definitely isn’t what it used to be!
- You think Comic Sans is bad? Bring back Microgramma Bold Extended!
- Coming soon to your high street – tattoos from your greengrocer!
- Dr Who hits the high street – in Harris Tweed!
- Tetley Tea Folk commercial turns out to be a tribute to Norman Wisdom
- Love them or loathe them, you’ve got to admit Tesco’s ads have got style.
- Pretentious? This ad should be entered for the Turner Prize!
- Guaranteed wealth, health and happiness – or your money back!
- St Tescos Calls the Faithful to Prayer
- The Tetley Tea Folk come back as Chavs!
- Skinny Kate, or Busty Mad Maiden?
- Getting an Eco-friendly Package Deal
- Trust me, I’m an Adman!
- Brussels spouts off again!
- New Media? That’s so last week!
- Redesign BP logo competition
Forget the frankincense and myrrh. Just bring your gold!
11/11/2010

Tesco can take over the planet without any help from me, so I was a bit disconcerted to learn that they’d taken my tongue-in-cheek observations at face value and acted on them. I read in today’s paper that a church has exchanged its pews for aisles of food after becoming a supermarket. Westbourne Methodist Church in Bournemouth, Dorset, has reopened as a Tesco Express! No doubt the checkouts will be sited at the altar rail where worshippers can make their genuflections to Mammon.







