Are Supermarkets Taking Over the Retail Sector?

Over the past few years, Tesco have headed a supermarket revolution. The chain of stores has got to a point where they are almost the central attraction in many small towns across the country. You want to post a letter, buy new clothes, get a DVD player, get new hardware or ah yes, buy groceries, Tesco have it all. There is no need to go anywhere else. They even deliver to your door! Tesco are slowly but surely taking over the UK.

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Does Product Packaging Significantly Influence Buying Behaviour?

Mr Smith walks into his local supermarket with his wifes' shopping list. He looks down it and notices 'Neutrogena' so goes to try and find it for her. There are various Neutrogena products on the shelf, each with similarly coloured packaging and no way to tell the difference between any of them apart from something called 'Beta Hydroxy' which of course he had no idea what it was. The only difference between the products was the price, so naturally Mr Smith chose the cheaper option.

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Is 40 Really the New 30?

So, it has been suggested that turning 40 is the new 30. What exactly does this mean? Are we going to see Club 18-30 holidays replaced by Club 28-40? In which case is 30 also the new 20? What it means is that where once turning 30 was where we looked and pondered at our lives and set aside all the childish things that we do, we can now do when we are 40. Fantastic. The most irresponsibly fortunate in Western society have managed to prolong their apparent immaturity for a further ten years and suffer even more monumentously when hitting their half century!

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Were the Beatles Bigger Than Jesus?

John Lennon made this comment now over 40 years ago and I am in no doubt that he was correct for the context in which he intended to say it. He received a great amount of flack for his comments that The Beatles are 'more popular than Jesus now' mainly because they were quoted out of context in a US Teen Magazine. People reacted by both burning Lennon's albums and to a greater extreme, sending him death threats.

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Should Smoking be Allowed in Public Places?

I'm going to tell you the story of a young jolly chap named Dave. Dave is twenty three years old and has never touched a cigarette or, god forbid, any sort of illegal substance in his life. Dave enjoys sports and likes to keep himself healthy but does occasionally indulge himself with a drop if light beer at his favourite bar every so often. He gets to the bar on what is usually a busy Friday night and notices that the usual smell of stale smoke seems to have gone. Ah, yes its non-smoking here now, hasn't that smoking ban worked wonders? Dave looks around to find his mates and goes to sit with them. Shouldn't be too hard, it looks quite empty, I suppose its still quite early though.

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Is Chivalry Dead?

"Save me, save me Robin" shouted Maid Marion as she was held captive by the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. Without a second of thought Robin Hood leapt over the castle walls, no worry for his own life to save the one he loved. After an epic battle with the Sheriff, Maid Marion was safe. "Come on Marion, jump on my horse and I'll take you home," said a relieved Robin. "Do you think I'm totally incapable of anything, I'll get a cab thank you very much!" said an angry Marion at Robin's outrageous offer.

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Which are better, fast or slow zombies?

The older Zombie movies such as Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead and Day of the Dead all featured slow zombies. The rotting flesh, stiff joints and probable lack of limbs naturally makes them slower. However, what about a recently turned zombie? Surely they don't instantly turn into this clumsy reck of an ex-human being? A freshly turned Zombie sprinting past the old decrepit Zombie is far more fun and to me makes far more sense. I can't understand how somebody can be scared of a Zombie walking towards them at a snail's pace, why can't they just run away? Ok, so Zombie movies aren't supposed to be realistic but I would like to see some sort of feasability.

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Does Technology Impoverish the Mind?

In the beginning there was no technology but man was able to survive. Unfortunately though, man got a little fed up with walking across the lands for miles so started to use a donkey. That was much easier. Some of them even tried using camels. Man had a problem when he came to a river though as donkey's don't like swimming so he built himself a boat out of wood. Of course, this was too small to go across oceans so man started to develop ships so he could travel. Unfortunately, when he got to the other side of the Atlantic, the donkey's and camel's had died as they do so were no good. Man invented the car, all he had to do was sit there and let the wheels do the work. Brilliant. He looked cool in his car while the others were still riding donkeys. Driving in style started to get a bit slow though so man wanted to fly. The aeroplane came. What he had was never enough and man got greedy. Soon man built buildings, phones and bombs just to be safe.

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Does Video Game Violence Contribute to Real Life Violence?

As I completed my game of Doom I went out into the garden to grab a breath of fresh air, delighted that I had finally done it. I don't know if it had made me a more aggressive person but as a went into the shed, grabbed my raygun and begun my journey to distant planets to slay those evil mutants I thought that I could have become slightly deluded. It just happens all the time.

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What is the most Famous Name in the World?

When I was travelling through the dark and deep parts of Eastern Asia I stumbled across the answer to what is the most famous name in the world.

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