Kevin Harrington

Tag: Tesco

  • Brands as units of measurement

    The Mars bar used to often be a benchmark to compare pricing. The Mars bar price tended to vary with inflation and was therefore a good item to gauge relative prices. Today we are running out of noughts to use for some of the news items about the trillions of pounds of debt our nation and…

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  • How to increase your profits

    Ignore sales promotions, put your prices up and most customers probably don’t care…assuming they notice. The “big four” of supermarkets, Asda, Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s, have increased the number of £1 promotional price tags 150% over the past year. This compared with a 6% increase in their general promotions, according to a report compiled on behalf…

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  • Cauliflower Shock Story

    Well, it was a shock to Jo, one of my daughters. In one of her rare encounters with the kitchen, she was dismayed at how small the head of the cauliflower was in comparison to the leaves surrounding it. She was so horrified she got me to take a photo of it and weigh the…

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    Should we complain about the cauliflower?

  • If you find it you can buy it! English wine

    I was off to a BBQ at the home of a French man yesterday. I thought I’d take a couple of bottles of English wine. So off I trotted to Marks & Spencers at The Meadows near Camberley. Not a bottle of English wine in sight. Then I went to the Tesco megastore next door.…

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