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Bottom of the shops

Paul Owen is distressed that Computing carried a story about Tesco ‘wanting to replicate the feel of a local supermarket in cyberspace’.
‘The thought of being virtually held up by people exchanging life stories in the aisles, blocking shelves with temporarily abandoned trolleys, and berating their ill-behaved progeny fills me with dread. I thought the benefit of online shopping was not having to mix with humanity while you buy your milk,’ he says.
‘I look forward to the Web 2.0 bubble bursting so we can get on with life without being forced to be sociable,’ he says, effortlessly, and accidentally, bounding to the top of the shortlist for the job of landlord of The Stack.

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