I had a very spooky experience when I happened to pop into Tescos in Bexhill a couple of days after popping into the Eastbourne version.

Déjà vu on every aisle and every display. Wine sales, plates, signs were exactly duplicated, even to where they were placed. I could have been in either store. It may not be news to some of you, and I know stores are similar in layout, offers etc but never dreamed they tried to be as identical as possible.

How dreadful that someone in Scotland or Cornwall can enter a store and see exactly the same layout, products and prices as I do in Sussex. Thank goodness the staff are different,  although the uniforms keep them as anonymous as possible and  the store would clone them too if they could.

Tesco’s is obviously not the only one, but how awful that Britain with our individuality, quirks and eccentricities should have shops that have none.