Obsession with bargains

[Miss Demeanour]

I have been trawling the shops this morning looking for a birthday present for my mum - she refuses to help me out in this process and give me an idea of what she wants 

However going past M & S there is a massive queue , complete with security guards and their best walkie talkie sets , store assistants with their newly polished name badges on etc. Apparently to celebrate their 125 year anniversary they are selling for 3 days 20 products for 1p.

These apparently include

    * Jewellery sets
    * Scarves
    * Purses
    * Knickers
    * Cufflinks
    * Ties
    * Socks
    * Leather passport holders
    * Leather luggage tags
    * Tea towels
    * Mugs
    * Bags of retro sweets
    * Cans of retro drink
    * Beach toys
    * Beach balls

These muppets were waiting for ages in a queue...passing down a line and being given anonymous bags with a little something in ( they were only allowed 5 max) for their pennies.

This is surely a way for M & S to offload some of their unwanted useless stock and get great PR for them in the process. As for the muppets in the queue - they were getting a 'bargain'. Stuff they hadn't wanted until they saw a queue , joined it and then bleated all the way to the till point whilst wasting over an hour of your day.  All for the sake if a bargain 

[Nick]

You queued for a whole hour? 

[Miss Demeanour]

Not me ...walked straight past 

[Nick]

How do you know that they queued for an hour then? 

[Miss Demeanour]

Because as people were being absorbed into the queue the buffoons in jackets were giving this information to them in their best customer service friendly advice 

[Nick]

But if you had joined the queue you could have done all your Christmas shopping for about 30p.

[Miss Demeanour]

I refuse to think about Christmas in May 

[Nick]

I often do my Christmas shopping in January, though admittedly it's a bit late then 

[Miss Demeanour]

I did say 

.... thousands of disappointed shoppers left knickerless from the store's heavily-hyped 'Penny Bazaar' yesterday after the best bargains disappeared in minutes - followed by everything else, at a rate of 60 items per second across the country.




 

[Bar Wench]

From what I saw online most of it was a load of old rubbish anyway!

Although am quite liking the vintage style of some of the new clothing they've put out, not for a penny though!

[Darwins Selection]

I am liking the vintage style of some of the new clothing they've put out

Am I about to come back into fashion then?

Corduroy, seersucker, turnups, cavalry twill, brogues, spats, cravats, any of those?

[Snoopy]

Did you ever actually go out of fashion?

I may wear jeans a lot but there are moleskin trousers, corduroy trousers, brown brogues, black oxfords, a cravat and PROPER bow ties in my wardrobe.

[Nick]

http://www.brocklehurstsofbakewell.co.uk/ 

[Snoopy]

http://www.hawkshead.com/ 

http://www.gievesandhawkes.com/en/shopping/   

http://www.foxons.co.uk/prodtype.asp?PT_ID=74&strPageHistory=cat