supermarket architecture

version

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Some of the new Aldi stores look more like server farms.

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luka

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The clock tower thing feels as though they're announcing themselves as the centre of your world. This is where you all congregate. This is your new church, your new town hall.

your public space has been usurped you are under our control
 

version

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There's a South Park episode where a Wal-Mart opens in the town which turns out to be both sentient and evil and poisons the minds of the people until everyone goes out of business due to them only ever shopping at Wal-Mart.
 

luka

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I prefer the big, futuristic ones.

i remember when they started building all the out of town ones. islands in these vast car-park seas. and i remember when the first generation of megastores opened. there was something exciting about it. i still find a really big supermarket intoxicating. i go into a trance sometimes.
 

version

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"Some of the houses in town were showing signs of neglect. The park benches needed repair, the broken streets needed resurfacing. Signs of the times. But the supermarket did not change, except for the better. It was well-stocked, musical and bright. This was the key, it seemed to us. Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip."
 

luka

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i'd go with my dad to the big Tesco in Bromley-by-Bow on Saturdays and i used to push the trolley and put the stuff on the, what you call that conveyer belt thing at the checkout?
 

luka

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"Some of the houses in town were showing signs of neglect. The park benches needed repair, the broken streets needed resurfacing. Signs of the times. But the supermarket did not change, except for the better. It was well-stocked, musical and bright. This was the key, it seemed to us. Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip."

im not going to click like in case it turns out the be David Foster Wallace.
 

version

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Once the supermarkets were empty, people really started to freak out about COVID. The supermarket slipped.
 

luka

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there's been a move away from the brick and clocktower ersatz market town stylings sadly.

it was a reaction to modernism wasn't it. or maybe more accurately a way to disguise modernism. a whole era of architecture and town planning. bricks everywhere.
 
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