They say never work with animals, children and, er, journalists. And they are right. If we are around, things are bound to go wrong. Your PowerPoint presentation will not work, for instance, or your food demo will end in disaster. Pity poor old Asda, then, who invited a party of hacks and City analysts to its Pudsey supercentre last Friday. All was going well until the fire alarm sounded and we were all shepherded out along with staff and hordes of customers. "This is one way of keeping us in Leeds," grumbled one hack who had hoped to catch the 4pm train back to London. But you have to say, hats off to the staff at Pudsey: the store evacuation ran like clockwork. We were impressed. {{COUNTERPOINT }}

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