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Archive for October 2008

Big box stores go small

www.ft.com/ministore
Audio slideshow: Wal-Mart and Tesco are opening mini-stores across the American West in a bid to draw customers who have had enough of giant supercentres. Jonathan Birchall visits Wal-Mart’s Marketside and Tesco’s Fresh & Easy stores in the Phoenix, Arizona, area to see what customers think of this new model.

FT.com video: “A Year in a Tin Hat”

One of the last projects I worked on during my FT internship in London was this video, a guide to the first 12 months of the credit crunch.