Jack it in?

It’s surely good news that Tesco have bowed to the inevitable and opened Jack’s in competition to Lidl and Aldi. Hopefully it’s the end of brainwashed shoppers paying a premium for the same, or often inferior, goods, at inflated prices just because they have a brand label. No doubt the other supermarket giants will follow.

The logical result of this retail revolution will be revived high streets. The end of huge out-of-town emporiums selling everything from beef to buckets is an opportunity for locally-owned independents selling a wider range of goods, benefiting from a wider, post-brexit variety of products based on quality and price.

The only problem I can foresee is the lack of parking in town centres.

ALLAN SUTHERLAND Willow Row, Stonehaven