My intervention

So, I was pretty ill prepared for the intervention. There was a massive operation going on in Tesco's and so there were layout changes, however this meant there were more managers around and one of them told I wasn't allowed to take pictures.

Nevertheless I did so secretly, however they were pretty poor because of my camera phone.

The thing I found most interesting was the pharmacy was still open and I believe it is open 24/7. The car park was quite eerie. Did speak to a few of the staff, the general consensus was that they get used to it and it was worth the extra pay. However they did all acknowledge that some nights were difficult and initially starting the job was very difficult.

Another note was the amount of self-service machines that were open, there were about 2 seperate areas of 6-8. Each area was operated by 1 member of staff. I find that this definitely was related to our project. The machines are always in use, have no need for a break and mean much higher levels of profits.

These are some of the photos I used.

I did leave some posters around on benches explaining what we were doing, however the next day while I was on the way to uni I checked if any were there and they were all gone.

On the assumption this would happen I did hand some out to people.

It was quite weird to be declined so many times. Nevertheless I handed some out at Tescos and some nearby in the train station. People were generally intrigued, however all seemed a bit too busy (the irony) to have a long conversation.