Best time to hit the 'Reduced To Clear' section?

[8ball]

I don't describe anyone's age in a name I always use numbers 'My colleague is Lisa years old?' Doesn't work!

you never mentioned ages. You just referred to your colleagues, 34 and 51 (or whatever the numbers were, on a phone and can't be arsed checking back

 

[SpookyFrank]

They can afford to pay their executive massive wages, they buy up prime business properties, if they are making a loss it's because they are greedy and their business model is flawed...My point is about what they actually pay suppliers for food.

Tesco's recent woes seems like a microcosm of the whole capitalist model. Their business plan required constant expansion, but there's a limited market for stuff because there's a finite number of people with a finite amount of money. It seems like someone at head office thought that if they kept opening more stores indefinitely then takings and market share would continue to grow indefinitely, but obviously that stops working when you get to the point where you can throw a rock from any branch of Tesco and hit another one. They must have reached a point where they were competing with themselves, and there's no way to win in that situation.

They'll restructure and regroup of course, and meanwhile the shops and pubs that used to occupy the sites they're now closing will stay gone

 

[Treacle Toes]

you never mentioned ages. You just referred to your colleagues, 34 and 51 (or whatever the numbers were, on a phone and can't be arsed checking back

I started that post.. 'Maybe it's my age...' so

 

[Treacle Toes]

You should start a blog about these foolish retailers who waste money on, erm, setting up shops. Then you could start a thread about it on Urban under the name of RutitaTesco, and build support for your cause.

What a fabulous idea.

 

[Citizen66]

Hit sounds a bit violent. I think it should be changed to visit. Or explore.

 

[Treacle Toes]

FORAGE ftw!

 

[Spymaster]

Hit sounds a bit violent. I think it should be changed to visit. Or explore.

Section could also be of concern to anyone who has been forcibly admitted to hospital under the Mental Health Act.

That should be changed to "shelves".

 

[Orang Utan]

How about a humorous reference to a bygone, even fictional era in which eccentric individualists hit the road, wandering from town to town seeking bargains for sustenance - a tramps' buffet if you will.

 

[Belushi]

Hit has connotations of violence

 

[bi0boy]

FORAGE ftw!

That sounds desperate.

 

[bi0boy]

That should be changed to "shelves".

Shelves evokes "shelved" as in no longer wanted, past it, retired, old.

I suggest replacing "section" with "offerings".

 

[Citizen66]

Best sounds too competitive.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Right I'm leaving Urban forever, this is clearly a case of PC gone mad! MAD I TELL YOU!

(anyone got any cheap food?)

 

[Treacle Toes]

That sounds desperate.

Not to me..it sounds hopeful!

 

[Orang Utan]

Shelves evokes "shelved" as in no longer wanted, past it, retired, old.

I suggest replacing "section" with "offerings".

'To shelve' is also sticking a pill up your bum

 

[bi0boy]

Optimal opportunities to view 'beneficially adjusted value' offerings?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

"offerings".

Hugely offensive to those religious communities for whom sacrifices to deities are an intrinsic part of worship.

 

[bi0boy]

Is the word "groceries" ok or is that US-centric nowdays?

 

[Citizen66]

Sounds too much like gross.

 

[Spymaster]

FORAGE ftw!

Too similar to FARAGE.

Offensive.

 

[killer b]

Hmm, not sure if mocking the people who objected to the title is the most constructive way forward tbh.

 

[ChrisFilter]

at the name change. Amazing. There's life in the old dog yet!

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Tramp Buffets did sound rather like a me-too version of Bumfights, so I suppose it was a worthy redaction.

 

[Orang Utan]

Tramp Buffets did sound rather like a me-too version of Bumfights, so I suppose it was a worthy redaction.

Tramp's Buffet, not Tramp Buffet

 

[ChrisFilter]

Tramp's Buffet, not Tramp Buffet

Tramps', actually

 

[Orang Utan]

Tramps', actually

Not necessarily

 

[ChrisFilter]

Yes. Unless tramps are allocated on a one-per-supermarket basis and you're discussing a single reduced to clear section.

 

[cesare]

How about a humorous reference to a bygone, even fictional era in which eccentric individualists hit the road, wandering from town to town seeking bargains for sustenance - a tramps' buffet if you will.

Or those tattoos above the arse cheeks which have been affectionately nicknamed tramp stamps.

 

[maomao]

I've never seen a buffet for one, it can only be tramps'.

 

[8ball]

I started that post.. 'Maybe it's my age...' so

Being senile is no excuse - you should have just told us what age "34" and "51" are as well as their CPUD's*.

* - Capitalist Production Unit Designation