Kevin Harrington

Tag: lorry

  • Ocado Jam

    “Sorry I’m late. There was an Ocado jam in the road.” I think I may get an Ocado van so that I can leave it in the middle of the road while I’m dropping things off. Perhaps they pay a higher road tax for the privilege? This may be why Waitrose don’t use their own branded…

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  • Great (and bad) straplines

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    I found the following on Dangerous Thinking, a blog that unfortunately seems to have fizzled out. They are all examples of straplines seen on lorries in the UK. Nando’s – poultry in motion. Bargain Booze, making life richer for the pourer. and another that the blog owner David Rosam liked a whole lot less, in fact…

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  • No cakes left overnight

    This is a nice use of lorry advertising. The McVities lorry has a warning on the back: No cake left in lorry overnight. Well I guess this is normal, but it is a nice allusion to the desirability and value of McVities Ginger Cake.

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  • Side of an Iceland lorry

    I saw on the side of an Iceland lorry the statement: “We were the first supermarket to stop selling GM food.” So what? Others have stopped selling GM foods. And, this all presupposes that GM food is bad in the first place. For a brand that is predominantly price led the lorry’s message stuck out. At…

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