photo: Martin Mahdal archive, with permission./Bread bought this week in Tesco
The well-known creator of many documentary films, playwright and documentarian Martin Mahdal has given himself a lifetime ban from visiting two Tesco stores in Prague. He decided to take this step after a series of negative experiences. He did the last and decisive one a few days ago. “I bought bread in Tesco in the afternoon. In the morning it was a moldy green lump. I’m quitting Tesco,” he told our editors.
The experience he allegedly had in the stores of a well-known chain a few days ago is not the first. First, he banned himself from shopping in one store. Now, after equally bad experiences, he added a second store.
“I do not understand that. And actually I don’t even want to understand it. I bought half a loaf of bread, which according to the label should have a shelf life of three days. I brought it home from the store in the afternoon. In the morning it was blooming with green mold. I don’t want them to exchange the bread for me in Tesco. I hate them for those few crowns. My point is that they don’t sell such goods. But since I don’t have such certainty, I decided to issue a lifetime ban for the second store as well. Even though I have it a few steps from the house,” said Martin Mahdal to the editors of PrahaIN.cz.
Tangerines bought in February in Tesco. Photo: Martin Mahdal, with permission.
He did not decide to take a radical step right away, but after several years, during which personal experience was accumulated. As a professional journalist and documentarian, he decided to capture and archive some of the experiences.
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One day the cup definitely overflowed. “I’m quite a busy person. I try to save time as much as possible. That’s why I always went where it was close to me. And then one day I said ‘enough’. Different prices on the shelves, others marked at the checkout. Bad quality fruit and the like. My decision stands. I’m done with them,” the playwright declared in a decisive voice.
“Now I go shopping elsewhere and it takes me three quarters of an hour. It’s far away, but I’m sure I’ll buy normal things there. But I won’t tell you the name, so that no one thinks I’m advertising for them,” he finished.
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Martin Mahdal, dramaturg and documentarian, shot a number of well-known documentaries. At home and abroad, his documents The Eternal Sorrow of Genocide, which describes the genocide of the Armenians during the First World War on the territory of Turkey, attracted extraordinary attention. And also the film Seven Stars over Nagorno-Karabakh. He also participated in the popular travel series On the Way (with Jiří Bartoška and Miroslav Donutil) and other documentaries and films.
2023-10-12 07:51:54
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