Sainsbury’s

My heart becomes sad everytime I see a new Sainsbury’s Local or Tesco Metro opening on a high street. Not content with destroying businesses in town centres with their giant convenient one-​stop out of town giant supermarkets, they’re now apparently not content with that and are now vying to compete directly with small and medium shops on the high street itself.
This new Sainbury’s Local opened opposite my church in the last few months. The prices here are a little higher than in their superstore just down the road but it carries a good selection of goods as well as providing a cashpoint outside. The only negative is that checkout can be quite slow as quite often, only one person is manning the till. There are self-​checkout machines available, which are usually faster.
As a shop, it should garner 4 stars but I’m taking one off on principle. As a nation, I think we have to make a choice about whether we want our high streets to be completely dominated by the big companies. All our town centres are already to look like each other wherever you are in the country and this is only going to get worse if we don’t vote our feet and the government doesn’t legislate.