Meaning of mega-shed | Babel Free

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“Still, the amphitheater has virtues. Sight lines and acoustics are far better than you’ll find in larger facilities, the river view and Memphis skyline are unique and, nowadays, a 5,000-seat facility seems positively intimate compared with the modern mega-sheds.”

“First there were the friendly neighbourhood ironmongers. Then came the out-of- town superstore. Now, courtesy of Kingfisher, comes the next generation of DIY outlet, the mega-shed. Called Depot (and appropriately given the American pronunciation Dee Poe), at 70,000 sq ft these are twice the size of typical B&Q stores and stock double the number of lines.”

“With food governance becoming a cosmopolitan and (also) market-based affair, the role of citizen-consumers is no longer restricted to voting for the right party or demonstrating against mega-sheds for animal production.”

“Nowadays presses have become so large and so expensive that they are housed in their own mega-sheds, usually on an outlying industrial park that allows easy access for the lorries that bring in reels of paper and take out pallets of newspapers and magazines.”

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