Is the Recession over then ???

treliac

fc123 wrote: »

That Cameron pic though.....he looks very dashing in it. I have never watched Ashes to Ashes so don't know the character portrayed.

I agree, he looks fine and I suspect the Camerons' latest pregnancy will only enhance his appeal to voters.

Wonder for which demographic group Labour thought this stunt would work in their favour?

wigglebeena

I never worry about giving big supermarkets my business, though its usually Mr S or Mr A rather than Mr T. (Why do gold chains and aerophobia spring to mind?) I'm such a tightwad loss-leader marked-down Basics shopper, I figure they're usually barely in the black on any purchases of mine. And on a truly successful mega-shop, I'm costing them money.

fc123

treliac wrote: »

I agree, he looks fine and I suspect the Camerons' latest pregnancy will only enhance his appeal to voters.

Wonder for which demographic group Labour thought this stunt would work in their favour?

Women 50+ I think....to try to make them go all swoony as that pose is very macho/sexual/blokey but in a niceish way.

fc123

treliac wrote: »

I agree, he looks fine and I suspect the Camerons' latest pregnancy will only enhance his appeal to voters.

Wonder for which demographic group Labour thought this stunt would work in their favour?

Does anyone else find all the Stepford Wife stuff really annoying? I don't really read much of the of the coverage but it is all so sickly sweet, I can almost taste it. Those pics of his wife when she was younger...I mean who cares??

vivatifosi

I don't know if it would be so annoying fc if we knew about their policies. Do we know exactly what the Tory's policies are - no. Do we know about Sam Cam's early modeling career and her work for Smythson - yes. What's wrong with this picture? Its like the election is being played out for a generation of people whose interests do not extend beyond Heat magazine.

fc123

vivatifosi wrote: »

I don't know if it would be so annoying fc if we knew about their policies. Do we know exactly what the Tory's policies are - no. Do we know about Sam Cam's early modeling career and her work for Smythson - yes. What's wrong with this picture? Its like the election is being played out for a generation of people whose interests do not extend beyond Heat magazine.

I forgot about The Heat generation.......:)

bo_drinker

fc123 wrote: »

Those pics of his wife when she was younger...I mean who cares??

Loads, thousands I suppose but not 5% of them will get off their ar5es and vote. But they will be queueing to vote and throw money at Simon Cowell and his ilk come the next dose of his tripe.

lostinrates

Tesco:

I think a huge part of it is opening hours...who needs things at three in the morning? People who have jobs, kids and second jobs/shift hours...also, more pragmatically I think a lot of it is about parking.

I've spent a bit in tesco the last year: more than ever before. I'm suitably sickened with my self. for me the hat isn't the staff treatment or the supplier treatment, though I read whats writtn and agree...its the choice thing, and the relationship of local shopping,shorter chains and shopping miles. In the nearest village I can buy meat, veg and milk reared within a few miles...the veg comes from my next door neighbour, the lamb from other neighbour. The milk from over the hill. It seems stupid to drive further for stuff from further, when if somethings wrong with my milk I can call the guy myself and ask what the dickens my milk is doing and what he's gonna do about it. But if I've gone to tescos for washing powder and batteries, then theire is cheaper milk there.......if it has a handy local sticker on, magically next ounty is as local as the next hill.

Finding local, ethical meat in my nearest tesco, is however, as hard as ...(can't think of anything difficult) ...very hard. I won't buy the cruddy meat.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Tesco:

I think a huge part of it is opening hours...who needs things at three in the morning? People who have jobs, kids and second jobs/shift hours...also, more pragmatically I think a lot of it is about parking.

I've spent a bit in tesco the last year: more than ever before. I'm suitably sickened with my self. for me the hat isn't the staff treatment or the supplier treatment, though I read whats writtn and agree...its the choice thing, and the relationship of local shopping,shorter chains and shopping miles. In the nearest village I can buy meat, veg and milk reared within a few miles...the veg comes from my next door neighbour, the lamb from other neighbour. The milk from over the hill. It seems stupid to drive further for stuff from further, when if somethings wrong with my milk I can call the guy myself and ask what the dickens my milk is doing and what he's gonna do about it. But if I've gone to tescos for washing powder and batteries, then theire is cheaper milk there.......if it has a handy local sticker on, magically next ounty is as local as the next hill.

Finding local, ethical meat in my nearest tesco, is however, as hard as ...(can't think of anything difficult) ...very hard. I won't buy the cruddy meat.

It's the whole time thing too. I try to do a lowest margin shop at Asda but, recently have been so pressed for time, that I have ended up buying other things from them.

It's the convenience for the majority of people and the parking. I don't know anyone who shops daily or every second day...easier to chuck it all in the boot once a week or get it online.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

It's the whole time thing too. I try to do a lowest margin shop at Asda but, recently have been so pressed for time, that I have ended up buying other things from them.

It's the convenience for the majority of people and the parking. I don't know anyone who shops daily or every second day...easier to chuck it all in the boot once a week or get it online.

and the more local indie closures, the harder the time thing gets...it only makes time sence o shop indie for food if the shops ar either close together or en route to somewhere else you have to go. I can't imagine the cost buying indi food shops if not a cook from scratcher. I did a shop at tesco on fri for this weekend though, first big type shop for ages (cooked for 12 today,washed up over 60 glasses :eek:) and the cost horrified me, I almost started laughing nervously.