I laughed heartily at Tesco’s marketing blunder “Find it cheaper at ASDA and we’ll refund twice the difference”.
Wise punters then scoured the net for the item which had the largest price difference – just to get the Vouchers from Tesco. One punter bagging a whopping £600.
Just like Hoover, offering the free flight to USA if you bought a Hoover. They didn’t realise some people would buy a Hoover just for the flight ticket, and sell the hoover for half price in the paper.
How on Earth these big compananies keep underestimating the buying behaviour of the public is beyond belief, especially as they spend millions designing stores and shelves to sell the maximum of a given product due to location to the door, shelf height, smell of fresh bread etc.
By: Last Lightning - 2nd April 2011 at 01:16
“Who” should not be used as a predicate nominative in the written. It can be used in the spoken to suit a dialect, but still isn’t strictly correct.
say what????
Its all a con look carefully at some of the tags with these offers and things dont make sence, for example Iceland were selling two chicken breasts with that reggae reggae sauce rubbish for 2 quid but further round the shop 6 (exactly the same product in a bag)were on offer for £2.50, the difference, the 2 breasts were in a box in the bargain freezer the 6 breasts were hidden away in a bag next to other chicken products….
By: tornado64 - 30th March 2011 at 22:46
Those in the know are aware there exists ‘interesting’ images of Ms Humble :diablo:
Moggy
eeewwwwww perv !! carol or rachael from countdown and it may be worth a search !!:diablo:
By: PeeDee - 30th March 2011 at 18:18
“Any more” and “this month’s bath”, surely?
“Month” not taking a capital letter due to not being a proper noun, and “month’s” denoting the possessive rather than the plural “months”.
Live by the sword, die by the sword…… :p
Hoist by my own petard!
I’m usually a geek on the possessive apostrophe too!
By: Moggy C - 30th March 2011 at 10:28
An exhaustive search reveals that nothing of interest can currently be found on the interweb.
However may I heartily recommend the purchase of the movie
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Moggy
By: Sky High - 30th March 2011 at 10:18
Has Andy been playing sandcastles with her……?:D
Moggy – care to share your knowledge?;)
By: Moggy C - 30th March 2011 at 10:16
Ooooooooooooooooh… I’ll be there
Those in the know are aware there exists ‘interesting’ images of Ms Humble :diablo:
Moggy
By: Arabella-Cox - 30th March 2011 at 10:05
It might be possible that you will see her covered in mud and sand ‘ere long! 😉
By: Sky High - 30th March 2011 at 10:02
The only type of humble which I enjoy is the Kate variety to be found on wild life television programmes. Nio idea what she would be like covered in pastry, though.
By: Moggy C - 30th March 2011 at 09:52
I’m always eating this, however, is it not ‘umble’ pie?:eek:
You can’t get humbles in Waitrose 🙁
Do Tesco sell them?
Moggy
By: spitfireman - 30th March 2011 at 09:48
I eat my words and Humble pie.
I’m always eating this, however, is it not ‘umble’ pie?:eek:
By: Sky High - 30th March 2011 at 08:24
Rejoining this thread this morning I am delighted to see that my job has been done for me, leaving Mr Dee to bathe his syntax in the bath. Thank you, gentlemen!:D
By: Grey Area - 29th March 2011 at 23:49
I don’t care anymore, I’m off for this Months bath and then bed.
“Any more” and “this month’s bath”, surely?
“Month” not taking a capital letter due to not being a proper noun, and “month’s” denoting the possessive rather than the plural “months”.
Live by the sword, die by the sword…… :p
By: PeeDee - 29th March 2011 at 23:45
… you’ll find the two for a tenner at Sainsbury, Tesco and M & S, who (were the people that) started it.
Works for me in contemporary usage.
Moggy
…….as they were the shops that started it.
Is the nearest correct form, but that isn’t actually good.
something like: –
…….as they were the shops responsible for pioneering it.
“Who”, is wrong in the written context as questioned.
Live with it babes.
The language changes / fluxes with every fashion…why they even allow changes to the Oxford (Don’t even mention the Websters, an insult from the Americas).
I don’t care anymore, I’m off for this Months bath and then bed. I leave the situation in the hands of people that cannot see – for example – that to “Pre-Order” is actually impossible.:diablo:;)
By: Moggy C - 29th March 2011 at 22:10
… you’ll find the two for a tenner at Sainsbury, Tesco and M & S, who (were the people that) started it.
Works for me in contemporary usage.
Moggy
By: PeeDee - 29th March 2011 at 22:01
Why :confused:
The only error I can see is the comma after M&S
Moggy
“Who” should not be used as a predicate nominative in the written. It can be used in the spoken to suit a dialect, but still isn’t strictly correct.
By: tenthije - 29th March 2011 at 21:03
I laughed heartily at Tesco’s marketing blunder “Find it cheaper at ASDA and we’ll refund twice the difference”.
Similar promotions where done by several (!) Dutch supermarket chains at the same time just two years ago! Which of course led to the supermarkets lowering prices as each one tried to undercut the other one. The really large supermarkets (Albert Heijn, Jumbo) just swallowed their losses. No doubt helped by their massige buying-power which they agressively used to strong-arm their suppliers. In fact, for a while you could not get the popular 1,5 liter bottles of Coca Cola products since the Coke company refused to sell the bottles at the prices Albert Heijn wanted. Obviously most brands could not say no to Albert Heijn cause that would cripple their turnover due to the massive market share of Albert Heijn.
Some of the smaller supermarket chains could not keep up (for instance the Super-DeBoer group). A lot of the franchisekeepers of the struggling chains decided to join the ranks of…. Albert Heijn or Jumbo.
So essentially Albert Heijn and Jumbo won in three ways. They killed a competitor and they gained marketshare. On top of that, one of the more popular Dutch blogs made it a kind of competition for people to send in photos of people with as much loot as possible. There where people with 78 bottles of washing detergent, 85 crates of beer (the smaller crates with 12 bottles) and I kid you not triple-digit packs of candy!
By: Moggy C - 29th March 2011 at 20:59
I highlighted your “Who started it”, which is inkerrekt inglish to close a sentance with,
Why :confused:
The only error I can see is the comma after M&S
Moggy
By: Sky High - 29th March 2011 at 20:20
So how would you rephrase the sentence – spelt correctly, if you don’t mind?;)
Incidentally I trust this is not an invitation to criticise and correct members’ use of English, because it would be open season on a rather large number of members…..but I’m sure that’s not what you intended.
By: PeeDee - 29th March 2011 at 19:57
I highlighted your “Who started it”, which is inkerrekt inglish to close a sentance with, and capitalised on it wrt to the sketch based on the very same misuse of the language.
By: Sky High - 29th March 2011 at 08:35
Loved them and watched them many, many times but do not understand any connection with my posty about the retailers and the two for a tenner offer. Sorry, if I’m a bit dim, but you’ll have to explain – or forget about it, whichever you prefer.
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