This is spooky. A journalist from The Guardian newspaper reports that he was accosted by Tesco staff last week for the “crime” of writing down prices on a notepad.
The manager told him that Tesco policy forbids people writing down prices. Presumably, they’re afraid that people will discover they’re not such good value after all.
I’m going to assume that the idiotic manager in England was simply being over-zealous and that Tesco do not, in fact, enforce such a creepy, Orwellian policy. I look forward to heading to my own local Tesco to write down prices and take photographs; I encourage others to do likewise. If they try to stop me, I’ll write the prices into my phone, or speak into it. Unless they want to confiscate my phone.
(I’ve filed this under “Food News” and “Miscellaneous/ Insane”. Insane seemed like the appropriate category. Thanks to our friend Regan for the heads up.)