[user104658]

Oh Tesco's intention is self promotion and profit, no ifs ands or buts. It's advertising. I'd have thought that was a given, really, but then I see plenty of people still fawning over the John Lewis and M&S Christmas adverts like those companies are anything but cynical profit machines like any other company, who are only pulling at people's heart-strings to loosen their purse-strings.

........there are good reasons I don't watch broadcast TV and have about 5 different adblocks on my browser and one on my router, I guess .

People are always asking me things like "oh have you seen the ______ advert yet?"... Unless someone has sent me a YouTube link of it, the answer is going to be "no" .