Yes, also the same in the Isle of Man. Most items are €1.49 I believe.thegeek wrote:I'm fairly sure I've seen advertising on trolley parks before, but can't quite remember if it was for non-Tesco products. Sorry, that's not very useful, is it?
Critique's pound shop posts just reminded me of this shop I saw when I was in Kirkwall earlier in the year:
Most items £1.20, presumably to reflect the cost of getting stuff to Orkney. It was still just £1 for a trolley though. And they left them out on the street overnight.
(Incidentally, Dealz is also the brand that Poundland use in Ireland)
I bought their fake brand sundried tomatoes the other day.Pete wrote:Are the discount brands making a subtle exit from Tesco? I am seeing less and less of them. In fact apart from the crisps and the... no it's genuinely only the crisps I remember seeing recently.
The Creamfields stuff is still going strong. I guess it serves a purpose of sorts in that instance though.Pete wrote:Are the discount brands making a subtle exit from Tesco? I am seeing less and less of them. In fact apart from the crisps and the... no it's genuinely only the crisps I remember seeing recently.
Just to track the ridiculousness of this - in the latest Christmas in a Day ads, they've had the squishy machine at work:thegeek wrote:It used to be a little bit more specific:
Most of that goes over people's heads. Not unlike [what used to be the case with] Fairytale of New York [until everyone started going on about it boringly every bloody Christmas].james2001 wrote:I don't know whether to laugh or cry at Sainsbury's using I Belive In Father Christmas in their Christmas advert, did they not even make any attempts to listen to the lyrics beforehand? A song that describes the nativity as a "fairy story", and is a protest against the commercialisation of Christmas is hardly appropriate for a Christmas advert.
