Top selling albums of 2007
Despite all of the hype about which artist’s album would be number for the year, it was a rather unexpected winner, Amy Winehouse’s Back to Back has been named as the best selling album of the year in the UK.
With over 1.8 million copies plus an additional 265,000 of a special Christmas version, the other [...]
Hammonds crash car for sale on eBay
For anyone who ever wondered what happened to the Vampire Jet car that Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond had his now famous crash which nearly killed him while driving at nearly three hundred miles per hour?
Well this car is currently being stored in a warehouse just north of London, and has been there since the [...]
Apple sells over five million iPhones
Apple will joyfully shout out to the world in the new year that have sold over five million iPhones, which must be a magical number to Steve Jobs and Co, I mean you only have to do the maths on that one to figure out that it works out to a nice turnover.
So the iPhone [...]
Blockbuster Christmas price hike
The massive film and game rental company Blockbuster has been playing the part of scrooge this year as they have given their customers a price rise instead of a Christmas present, this has angered many of their customers.
Blockbuster run a monthly fee service and it is the highest tier of service that will have to [...]
Santa Claus slims down
Santa refuses to put a pillow inside his jacket to make him look slightly plump, because he believes that if kids see him t like that it will help to promote childhood obesity!
Santa, who is in reality Bill Winton thinks that when children see Santa as fat and jolly person, they must feel that it’s [...]
Big Bird for dinner
There was a time when a simple chicken or turkey would have been great for a nice Christmas lunch, but times change and so do the demands of the consumer, which is probably why we are seeing some really different main course being offered in restaurants and now also available for the dinner at home.
Multi [...]
Hampers for Christmas
Hampers over the internet are an unlikely product and yet for one small farm business this product has proved to be a really successful business and they are now selling a wide range of hampers.
These hampers can be made up of a variety of products:
The Lincoln Red Hamper
Pasta Lanterne
Seggiano Tomato Sugo
Fine Cheese Co. Crackers for [...]
It’s the ice lolly iPod
When its time for ice cream and lollies, the competition begins, so in order to get more customers the companies offer the opportunity to win prizes in various competitions, like to one that has your are winner on the stick.
But now this marketing game has moved on, with one company in Brazil is placing 10,000 [...]
Customer services the Amazon way
Imagine someone who enters an auction sale on Amazon only to find that the item which happens to be a laptop is no longer available and so proceeded to complain and making even mentioning that the laptops had been taken by their staff etc.
In reply Amazon begin to tear strips off the guy who happened [...]
Apple plans more store openings
Apple has plans to gain retail supremacy in the market, continues with the announcement of forty new stores to be built worldwide. These stores will focus on a more international marketplace.
With 13 Apple stores already in the UK it is a surprise to hear that they have plans to open three more in 2008, one [...]
Tesco fine slow shoppers
You can always tell when it is Christmas, because you seem to get all of the stories coming out that show how mean people are.
In this case the mean person is Tesco the UK’s largest supermarket chain, they have become the “Scrooge” of this years celebrations, because they don’t like people who spend too much [...]
Is eBay going to be banned in France?
If there is one business that demonstrates how success can be achieved on the internet then eBay has to be the one, and yet recently there has been a series of high level attacks on the business and this one in France is just another attempt to get eBay to sort its act out.
The French [...]
Shop girl is new Lara Croft
It would seem that Miss Jolie is far to busy to remain as our vision of legendary tomb raider and member of the aristocracy, which is a shame she played the well.
So who can we expect to see on the cover of games magazines and full size cut outs standing in the games stores?
Well this [...]
Skin covered book up for auction
A rare and somewhat unique book is going to be auctioned away at Wilkinson’s Auctioneers in Doncaster. Despite the almost grotesque nature of the book covering, it is an important book, the skin is believed to be that of one of the conspirators from the famous gunpowder plot in 1605, and in those days it [...]