Marks & Spencer’s new chief executive, Mark Bolland, thought he should find out how easy it is to shop in his company’s stores. A group of 10 test shoppers were given an hour to find and pay for 10 items each. Not a single one managed it. He has ordered big changes without confessing that [...]
Our immense thanks to Zebu collector Chris who not only spotted but bought a pair of these “ozone friendly” socks in Deptford market. We’d say the blurb was priceless, but we imagine Chris managed to barter them down to a little less than that.
Although it’s almost over. Debenham’s “Summer Spectacular” caught our eye for several reasons. The first, clearly, is the title. By what stretch of a retailer’s imagination can May possibly be called summer, particularly given that the past few days have been the coldest in May for many years? It isn’t that, however, that got our [...]
Professor John Bridgeman, the former Director-General of the Office of Fair Trading, has laid into supermarkets – particularly Asda and Tesco – for giving a misleading impression that they are cutting prices across the board, when the reality is very different. In a full week just before Christmas, Asda cut nearly the price of almost [...]
90% of “pints” of beer are giving short measure, according to Trading Standards Officers Trading Standards Officers conducting a survey of licensed premises in Birmingham found that almost nine in ten pints weren’t pints at all. In the worst case, 11.8% of the beer was missing, effectively overcharging drinkers 40 pence per pint. Ordering 88 [...]
The American clothing chain Old Navy, owned by Gap, currently has a sale on. Among those items with which it is trying to tempt shoppers are some girls’ T-shirts. We wonder how many they’ll sell, given that the price of many in the sale is 10 dollars, whereas they normally sell for $9.50. Click on [...]
A singing toy mouse with a Santa hat being sold as a cheap stocking filler in markets and small shops has been recalled after parents complained that when you squeeze its stomach, the Chinese-voiced rendition of “Jingle Bells, jingle bells” sounds rather too much like “Paedophile, paedophile”. Sceptical? Listen for yourself by clicking on the [...]
It’s been so long since we heard an MP do anything other than complain that everyone is being beastly to them that it took a while to realise that David Taylor, Labour MP for North West Leicestershire, did something useful today. He called on the Government to clamp down on furniture retailers and their “limited” [...]
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