Supermarket sweep
I know times are hard at Sainsbury's at the moment, but clearly they've now got someone on work experience to knock off their hugely expensive new marketing campaign:
I'm not convinced this is going to get them back to top of the supermarket pops, particularly as we learned recently that apparently one pound in every eight spent on the UK high street is now handed over at a Tesco till. Just one of the many reasons why I have developed an aversion to Tesco that now borders on the pathological (don't get me started on those bloody "Metro" stores that are all over London like a particularly unsightly rash).
In other news, entirely unscientific evidence from the Finchley Road branch of Waitrose* suggests that sales of the Guardian have picked up nicely in the north London area of late
Good to see there's life in the old woolly Hampstead liberal stereotype yet.
* for people who like to think that paying that little bit more for their food means their supermarket isn't quite as evil as the others
posted by Pashmina @ 11:17 AM
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25 Comments:
That'd be you honey wouldn't it. ;) I loathe Tesco with a passion but being an inner city girl there isn't a lot of choice. Treats at M&S not withstanding.
That said I do try very hard to get my fruit'n'veg from the local markets.
It might explain the 3 pounds of tomatoes I'm not sure what to do with in the crisper.
Yup, that'll be me. I'm a sucker for all those ads with slow-motion cows, misty fields and an easy listening soundtrack.
3lbs tomatoes + garlic + chilli + a little sugar + your herb of choice = my favourite pasta sauce. Well not necessarily 3lbs, 300g ususally suffices, but you get the idea.
"pathalogical"? Hmmm? Tsk.
Normally I wouldn't bother, but it's like finding your granny dipping her hand into the poor box.
Besides which, I'm trying to commit 3 acts of mindless pedantry a day.
(I've always had a soft spot for Morrison's, because no-one else seems to like it.)
sainsburys says: try something new today - 100's of new ideas
UC says: try taking english 'o' level and stop putting apostrophes where they shouldn't be
zghdab = how george bush spells the iraqi capital
Oh my God! It's my client! But absolutely nothing to do with me or my company. However you'll be pleased to hear I've just emailed the marketing director with the photo. Don't know how pedantic she is stuff, but the guy who did it until recently was very passionate about punctuation.
Stef: hanging my head in shame, thanks for bringing that to my attention. Duly corrected.
UC: glad I'm not the only one enjoying the strange new words thrown up by the word verifier
Cello: It was perhaps inevitable that I'd end up being rude about one of your clients one day. Glad to think the photo is being used for the powers of good though.
I hate Tesco, too, not least because ours has so many leaking chiller cabinets that it's like looting in New Orleans to shop there. But it's five minutes away. I drove all the way to Sainsbury's on Friday to find, what? Empty shelves, that's what. They still have not solved their supply chain problem, which is something I would have done before launching the new campaign.
I Love the Waitrose. But when I shop there, I'm guaranteed to spend £50 more on non-essentials.
aatkk... how George Bush spells attack?
There's a scary stat I heard last week that runs along the lines of: 90% of UK residents live within 10 minutes of three supermarkets. Most of them Tesco's*, obviously.
* for the avoidance of doubt, that's supermarkets belonging to the company Tesco, not another hand-in-the-biscuit-tin episode
ejcul: propriety forbids...
hand-in-the-poor-box, even.
My subconscious thoughts are obviously running to custard creams. Possibly in packets of three.
Wouldn't having *no* Guardians left be a better indication of sales picking up.
Arguably, yes; I was wondering if anyone would spot that slight flaw in the logic. But then I'd never have known about all the extra copies they'd ordered in, and this *was* quite early in the morning.
Possibly I should have done was return later in the day to make sure they'd all sold, but even I have more of a life than that. Just about.
Well you *could* use the info to deduce a top share tip for your receptive audience before the official post Berliner figures come out. Unless they have already - I haven't really been watching.
I have nothing to say on the subject, I just wanted a word verification word.
I got bakfdft, which might be how you'd spell the sound of breaking wind.
but what were you doing out and about at the time of the paper deliveries and how did you have the mental power to think 'i'll just get out my digital camera/mobile and take a picture?' i am seriously impressed/worried about your seeming lack of sleep, or is this normal life in gp's londonville?
I am happy to report that I now have enough points on my Nectar card to get me a crate of fine wines. am I the only person left still collecting points (but paying through the nose for them at Sainsbury's?
I'm happy to say there are plenty of other mugs like you around. Whoops! No, of course what I meant to say was that the very small amount extra goes to ensure Sainsbury's produce finer quality without exploiting anyone - well, at least not as much as everyone else. And *that* is true.
tussuke = a method of weaving silk, specific to the island of Formosa. Good game.
Lauren: a) it wasn't *that* early, and b) the sad truth is that these days I rarely look at anything without assessing its bloggabilty;
Wyndham: excellent, those drinks are at your place, then;
Cello: You've upped the stakes of the game considerably there.
ejxjzdr: a Tunisian necromancer
wadafugriddum: The art of wittily and beautifully describing the joy of wallowing in mass 21st century consumerism edged with enough guilt to big up left wing media who apparently disapprove.
That's so weird because there isn't a Tesco in walking distance near me, so somebody's obviously been stealing my eighth pounds and driving down to Tescos with them.
Jzeppq - a small but fast Italian moped type thing. Well it made sense at first.
Heres a better one
bhttmh - the noise heard whilst breaking the sound barrier.
There's a cartoon in the new Private Eye of two NASA types, one saying to the other "We have to get to Mars before Tesco does!" Tesco are clients of ours, so I get a secret subversive pleasure out of this (my world is very small and rather dull)
wqzavg: The noise Terry Leahy makes on seeing Tesco's latest sales figures?
Just couldn't resist this authentication word.
cekdo: the next stupid number game we will all be hooked on (briefly).
You do realise we could just as easily make them up and no-one would be the wiser.
Darn it, I assumed that's what everyone had been doing.
Marsha - I heard Tesco had bought up all the empty units on Mars and were in development with a big out-of-planet superstore...
uhtfhapx: The Milk Marketing Boad after its recent rebranding exercise
Haha, Pash, yes - just wait till the branding agencies start tapping these word verification thingies as a rich new seam of company names. I mean, all those cod-Latin gerunds (?) must be running out by now. Shudder.
I visited a small art exhibition while in Johannesburg at the weekend where the work was in exactly the style of that Sainsbury's ad. That is, childishly exec uted (although lifesized) figures in a scribble sort of landscape. On four walls. In the visitors' book, I was delighted to find the following comment :
"Wonderful! And how clever to get all those little ones to draw such big pictures!"
iwdbogrw the lot of ye!
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