Come off it Spencer For Hire, you're just trying to humiliate me, aren't you? You know my habit of coding TV channel names, so you're trying suggest coding other things e.g. retail outlet names.Spencer For Hire wrote:I think it would be a great idea for all retail outlets to rebrand using a series of short codes instead of their full names.
Well observed Neil Green, some retail outlet names are themselves codes.Neil Green wrote:Yes.Spencer For Hire wrote:I think it would be a great idea for all retail outlets to rebrand using a series of short codes instead of their full names.
'Associated Dairies' could use the code AsDa.
'Marks & Spencer' could use the code M&S.
I hate to think what 'Lidl' is a code for.
M&S is the code for Marks and Spencer.
Bhs is the code for British Home Stores.
ASDA is indeed the code for Associated Dairies (glad to see you as well as I know that).
H&M is the code for Hennes & Mauritz AB.
Inventing other codes (which are shorter still) makes no sense. It's totally sad and pointless. The retailers use them, and the codes listed above, and they have caught on with the consumer.