Think of "Tesco Towns" and you tend to think of places like Truro, Twickenham, Cambridge or Perth: postcodes where, infamously, more than half the local housekeeping money passes through Tesco's tills.
But the real Tesco Town is not decked out in vine-ripened tomatoes and cocktail beetroots. There is a windswept office park outside Cheshunt in Hertfordshire which looks like the land that hummus forgot. It is here, in deliberately drab company headquarters, that a small clique of capitalists holds up a mirror to modern Britain.
The reflection we see is not pretty. Our fear of Tesco is almost as endemic as its blue and red signage. Barely a day goes by without a fresh delivery of accusations: that this rapacious retailer is pillaging our farms; homogenising our diet and ethnically cleansing the high street.
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Look to Tesco to see the real Britain - Telegraph
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