Currys Idea Centre

Muppet – Sorry Sir but we don’t sell that phone.

Which reminds me of a little training aid I used in trying to get staff alongside the idea of customer service (it was fun, but broadly I decided to leave the country…)

Caption:
“How many times do I have to say this? Your the two-hundred and fiftieth person today I’ve told there’s no demand for it.”

Sadly some staff needed it explained. I’m sure they went onto a shining career – in Currys. 😉

TURIN:rolleyes:

John

Thanks – I knew it ended in “n” 😀 😀

Oh, and “Italian beauties” refers to the aeroplanes of course :diablo:

Roger Smith.

Which, by weird coincidence, used to house an air museum. I remember visiting it (in Milan??)

TURIN:rolleyes:

John

…..There’s a concrete arch roof building in the original Italian Job.

Which, by weird coincidence, used to house an air museum. I remember visiting it (in Milan??) on the Italian leg of one of Bob Ogden’s famous school trips about 1974. Apart from various Italian beauties it was the first time I had got up close to a P-47.

Roger Smith.

Kev, technically its off topic, but it was hilarious, the scary thing is its true and it cheered me up no end……. havin a bad day with me model F4 so thanks Kev. 😀 😀 😀 Bex

Blue Robin.

No need to say it twice just cos you were ignored the first time. 😉

Completely off topic, sort of, but it just points out the ludicrousness of the concept of large retailers having such a thing as an ‘ideas centre.’

Not Curry’s but Comet, so picture the scene. I enter the store wanting to buy a telephone. This, indelibly burned into my brain, is what followed….

Muppet – May I help you Sir?

Me – Yes please, I’d like to purchase a telephone.

Muppet – Any particular one Sir?

Me – I’d like that one please.

Muppet – Certainly Sir! I’ll just go and fetch you one.

Me – Thank you.

A short while later Muppet returns empty handed.

Muppet – Sorry Sir but we don’t sell that phone.

Me – Do you mean it’s out of stock?

Muppet – Well, err, no. We don’t actually sell that phone.

Me – Could you possibly explain why that telephone is on display if you don’t actually sell it?

Muppet – We advertise it.

Me – Why? When you don’t sell it?

Muppet – Because it’s one we advertise? Would Sir like to choose another model?

Me – No thank you, but Sir would like a word with the manager please.

Exit Muppet who returns with the Muppet Master in tow.

Muppet Master – Can I help you Sir?

I explain the story and then ask the question…..

Me – Could you please explain why that telephone is on display when it is a model that you do not sell?

Muppet Master – I rather think you are missing the point Sir. We have numerous other models on display. Perhaps one of these others may tempt you?

Me – Certainly. And as a gesture of goodwill perhaps you would care to supply me with that model (£5 more expensive) at the same price?

Muppet Master – Certainly Sir. I will fetch you one at once.

Muppet Master returns empty handed….

Muppet Master – I’m terribly sorry Sir but we don’t actually sell that model. You may be able to buy it online.

At this point I’d had enough, and turned to leave by the longest possible route explaining to every other customer to be careful what they choose as Comet…..

MIGHT NOT ACTUALLY SELL THE CHOSEN ITEM!!!!!

Ten minutes later and on the same retail park, I purchased the exact telephone I had chosen in Comet and £5 cheaper. As I was leaving this other store, a couple I had spoken to in Comet came out. They stopped me and told me I had been right, the freezer they wanted wasn’t actually available through Comet. In my opinion, if you’re not mad before you enter Comet, you will be by the time you leave.

I won’t even go into the saga of the cooker they delivered and installed at the wrong address or the one they dropped smashing the ceramic hob.

As to historic aviation content? I’m reasonably historic and have an interest in aviation.

Regards,

kev35

Did then Foster+Partners come up with a totally original idea?

There’s a concrete arch roof building in the original Italian Job.

just looking through an old copy of “Loop” (Jan, ’07) and a ‘news’ item about seaplanes operating from the Clyde with photo. In the background, behind a Clyde paddle steamer, is a building very similar in shape to the AAM – although it looks to be of steel construction and, perhaps, not quite as large. It looks as though there might be a second one behind it too. Will take a closer look at the Currys ad if I see it again.

Roger Smith.

hopefully the electrical appliance spotters will pay to get into duxford to visit the ‘ideas centre’.

I would like a plasma TV, a DVD player, an X-box and a B52 please….:D

The architects’ certainly didn’t use the design anywhere else…just lazy ad makers taking a short cut.. and somebody’s view it was a furturistic building…

The mere fact that the advertising company that created it, and Currys themselves, would think that members of the watching public might believe they really have an ‘Ideas Centre’ astounds me! It’s such bo**cks!:(

John

I doubt it. More likely the CGI guys took a shortcut.

Moggy

ditto last night – wonder if the architects used the design elsewhere?

Roger Smith

The same thought struck me when I saw it too.

Moggy