ASDA to fine car park users
The problem with disabled and mother & toddler parking spaces at superstores is reaching breaking point with ASDA saying that they have had so many complaints about the problem with drivers just parking anywhere. They intend to start fining the owners of cars who park in those bays £60, imagine that, getting a £60 fine [...]
September 26, 2007Gerald Ratner back in business
Well there is a saying that “You can’t keep a good man down” not quite sure if that really applies to Gerald Ratner, but he is a good businessman, he let his loose tongue let him down. When back in 1991 he made a speech and referred to his jewellery as “Total Crap”. It was [...]
September 25, 2007Supermarket tactics to make you buy
It has long been known that many supermarkets employ various tactics to make customers buy what they want them buy and not the other way around. This can be called marketing or product placing, but at the end of the day it is the supermarkets intention that you leave the store spending more money than [...]
September 21, 2007Apple opens Touchwood store Tomorrow
The streets of Solihul will be full of Apple fans, as the company’s twelfth store opens in the Touchwood Centre, in Solihul at 9.00 am. The store has been fitted out as per the normal Apple stores, with the Genius Bar and the famous One to One Shopping scheme.
There will be a whole week of [...]
Supermarkets in price fixing scam
The top five supermarket chains and the top five milk processing companies stand accused of price fixing which has added hundreds of millions of pounds to the bills of the UK consumers.
It has been announced by the Office of Fair Trading that the supermarket chains, Asda, Morrissons, Safeway, Sainsbury and Tesco, along with the milk [...]
Tinned food gets canned
Tinned food has been around for a long time now, it was first used to preserve food and was used on long expeditions to such places like the North Pole and Mountain ranges, as the food lasted for a long time. But now there are other methods of storage and packaging the humble tin can [...]
September 17, 2007Italians finish a weeklong pasta strike
Nobody will be able to tell exactly how many Italians actually went ahead and took part in the great Italian pasta strike, but one thing is for sure, the makers and more importantly the shops that sell the number one foodstuff in Italy would defiantly be taking notes.
The whole thing started when it was announced [...]
Tesco launch insurance supermarket
Giving customers more choice is the single point that large supermarkets like Tesco are good at, which is probably why they are at the top of tree. Now they are to become the first supermarket chain in the UK to offer financial services from a variety of providers. Normally they would sell one branded policy, [...]
September 12, 2007My Supermarket the price comparison people
With supermarkets all comparing prices with each other, it is a great idea to get a little bit of independence to stir things up a little.
MySupermarket.co.uk is both free and independent of the main stores and compares the prices of Asda, Sainsbury’s, Ocado and the largest of them all Tesco, this is the online price, [...]
Women only shopping site
Backed by the three main fashion retailers in the UK. Marks & Spencer, the Arcadia Group (Dorothy Perkins, Evans) and Mosaic (Oasis, Warehouse, Principles). OSOYOU.com is not just a shopping site, it is also a socialising site too, which obviously combines two of the favourite pastimes for women.
The site is supposed to allow users to [...]
Changes to come on eBay
With a site revamp in the process of being rolled out, there are bound to be some new additions to make the whole eBay experience a better way of shopping and therefore encourage more people to sell items, making eBay money in the process.
One of the goodies that will becoming available in due course is [...]
Apple sets up Christmas goodies
The iPod touch and the recent upgrades to the Nano, and Classic mean that the stores will be filling their shelves up expecting a massive surge in business as many Apple fans push for an upgrade to their iPods.
This once again demonstrates how clever Steve Jobs and the guys over at Apple are. First they [...]
Shopping by moonlight
Sounds nice, but this sort of shopping means staying up, or getting out of bed early and going online!
In America there is a little known trend in shopping circles that means by shopping at the quiet times could mean better deals, with early discounts and late night specials being offered.
The big stores such as Sears [...]
Take the stairs message in Malls
Shoppers can be encouraged to use the stairs instead of the escalators researchers from Kingston University and The University of Birmingham found in a recent study.
They used a mall to carry out their tests, which included brightly painted walls, lighting, plants and music; these have little of no effect. But when messages such as “Take [...]