Comments on: Jingle Tills, Jingle Tills …

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:15:22 +0000

I believe immediate gratification is the reason many people shop endlessly. For a moment we justify our long hours at work or compensate for failed relationships by spending money we often do not have.

By: Rab C. Nesbitt

Rab C. Nesbitt — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:30:43 +0000

A million quid in two hours? Sorry, that’s physically impossible, a checkout bank of around 30 tills flat out could drag in maybe 40 or 50k an hour and that’s pushing it.

Maybe the bell was rung when the weekly sales reached £1 million. That sounds about right.

By: Anna Raccoon

Anna Raccoon — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:54:00 +0000

Even ten years ago, Sainsbury’s in Bury St Edmund’s would ring a bell in the store on Christmas Eve as the day’s turnover hit the one million mark.

I can remember hearing it at 10am one year. Frightening. Just one store that had only been open for two hours that day.

By: Rab C. Nesbitt

Rab C. Nesbitt — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:12:58 +0000

My favourite part of the Christmas trade period, (when I was on days), was standing at the doors at closing time on Christmas Eve and stopping people coming in.

‘But I’ve got my food shop to do’, they would wail.

‘Twenty four hour garage down the road’, I would say.

Honestly, last kick on 24th Dec and the numbskulls expect to do a full food shop. Idiots.

Bah Humbug.

By: Blink

Blink — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:38:20 +0000

“Why do they go berserk when the shops are closed for a day?”

simple- because they can’t get out and go home for christmas……

By: sickofit

sickofit — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:16:05 +0000

Speaking as an online retailer who is able to shift just about anything on e-bay no matter how damaged it is I fully concur with this;

“Shopkeepers are a canny lot too – discount any old crap enough and people will buy it, even if they don’t want or need it, because they think they have got a bargain.”

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:27:28 +0000

Two sweeping generalisations: They don’t build homes with pantries any more. People do not budget and plan any more. Spend until the card stops working. A lack of self-control? Shopkeepers are a canny lot too – discount any old crap enough and people will buy it, even if they don’t want or need it, because they think they have got a bargain.

This is the world of John Carpenter’s They Live. Consume. Obey. That is what we are being taught from an early age.