Did they have a sale on? I'm reading a manual at the moment for an amazingly expensive instrument. Alas, that expense was spared when it came to proofreading, as it reads "UBS cable" throughout.nodnirG kraM wrote:I remember my mother being sold a 1m USB lead from PC World for £35 once...
Yet another Morrisons thread
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Still no new carrier bags at my local Morrisons 
The teasing bastards. The revamp won't feel complete until I can carry my shopping home in a bag with the new logo on it.
The teasing bastards. The revamp won't feel complete until I can carry my shopping home in a bag with the new logo on it.
I can only try to imagine how devastating the prospect of that thought must mean to you Phil; perhaps even enough to push you over the threshold to insanity. Grocers have alot to answer for. I'm sure Sir Ken would settle out of court in response to your claim for damages.all new Phil wrote:The revamp won't feel complete until I can carry my shopping home in a bag with the new logo on it.
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Let's just say he'd best have his chequebook ready.
Do people still use those. In many, many years I had used 3 cheques from my Woolwich account. In May 2007 they merged my branch with Barclays, I was send a new cheque book and used one of them, but the other week I couldn't even remember where the book was. I think I'll cancel it and ask them not to send me a replacement.all new Phil wrote:Let's just say he'd best have his chequebook ready.
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oh no cheques must continue to exist. in my former life as a highly trained consumer sales supervisor i found that the cheque-printing test really did separate the cashiers with a brain from those with none. i remember one girl was so scared of printing them that she got the customer to write the cheque ... however the customer wrote "the co-op" instead of "mcs ltd" and therefore it couldn't be cashed, meaning that woman's weekly shopping was free!
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In my day working for the coop before the days of cheque printing. Cheques had to be written out to CRSSE. Our lil ole coop didn't even have a stamp. I remember one lady clearly. she had a well nice pen, well manicured nails and lovely caligraphy type handwriting.
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I popped down to my local Morrisons today, and was pleasantly surprised to see some lovely new christmas decorations up around the store. Gone are the grotty green and gold blend tinsel efforts, instead some nice purple and gold star mobiles around the shop, and 2 giant christmas trees covered with gold and purple bauballs. Lovely.
They've also finally got the new carrier bags - well I say new - they're the same old tanks but with the new logo on them.
They've also finally got the new carrier bags - well I say new - they're the same old tanks but with the new logo on them.
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Everyone doubted them at first, but it looks like Morrisons are well and truly pulling their finger out now. The recent changes have been excellent, the logo (which at first did seem a bit rubbish) works really well wherever it is used. I even noticed *shock horror* that at my local one, they now have phones at each checkout instead of that bizarre flashing lights policy they insisted upon before.
Good to see everything is finally fitting into place. The company as a whole looks a hell of a lot smarter than it did this time last year.
Good to see everything is finally fitting into place. The company as a whole looks a hell of a lot smarter than it did this time last year.
The irony is that all the Safeway stores had those phones on the tills prior to the takeover, and Morrisons ripped them all out and replaced them with those square flashing lights like something out of a 1980s Kwik Save. Now they're spending God knows how much money bringing the phones back!all new Phil wrote:I even noticed *shock horror* that at my local one, they now have phones at each checkout instead of that bizarre flashing lights policy they insisted upon before.
We always said the complete decimation of everything Safeway had was hasty and ill-judged, and we were right. I can't think of a single Safeway thing they kept, apart from the 'The Best' logo on premium own brand products. There was so much more they could have learned and adopted from Safeway instead of going for an annihilation job in such a short space of time. But I suspect that was all ego-driven on Ken Morrison's part.
Next thing Morrisons will be ungluing the pieces of perspex they stuck over the Safeway petrol pumps and reintroducing 24 hour Pay@Pump!
I agree the rebrand is working well and I'm amazed at how quickly the logo's been rolled out across own brand products. But they're still light years behind Tesco and Asda in terms of technology, and I wonder how long they'll survive against the other big players if they refuse to embrace online shopping, self-scanning tills, 24 hour opening (my local store shuts at 8pm FFS... ridiculously early in this day and age, and there are 24 hour Asda and Tesco stores nearby... why oh why are Morrisons so bloody stubborn and old-fashioned???).
It's all very well pitching your brand at the older generation, but the trouble is they eventually die out and take you with them.