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March 14, 2006
People buying healthier food - Shock Horror!
Junk food industry in crisis. Alledgedly.
(Mmmmm... pizza and a fizzy pop drink.)
Be nice if they did something about getting trans-fats out of food altogether though. Would it kill them to make stuff that didn't kill us or make us ill?
While I'm having a rant - I'd just like to share with you how annoyed and irritated I was during the run up to Christmas last year by the News constantly telling us how badly the retail sector was doing because they weren't selling as much crap to us as they thought they were going to. As if we were expected to feel sorry for them. Boo-hoo. You mean that finally more and more people have been cottoning on to the fact that all the shops suddenly raise all their prices insanely high in the months running up to Christmas and then drop them drastically in the last week before 25th Dec - and even more in the sales after Boxing Day? That we haven't seen that pattern yet? That they're gouging us? Boo-hoo boo-hoo - they haven't raked in the millions upon millions they were expecting -so the Company Directors can't buy an extra yacht this year.
There I feel a little bit better now.
Posted by groc on March 14, 2006 01:33 PM
Comments
That news about the poor state of retail over Christmas seems to have been presented to us by the BBC as if it was a matter of collective concern. There was no coverage whatsoever that I saw of how retailers are deservedly doing worse than they expected precisely because what they offer for sale is disposable, poor quality, tired, tacky, cliched old crap, and people have had just as much of a stomach-full of that as they have of over-eating dense food that they wouldn't touch the rest of the year, tolerating relatives they can't stand, and watching prehistoric repeats of Only Fools and Horses as they slip into a bloated, drunken stupor. No wonder the suicide rate shoots up over Christmas.
wibbled by: Nathan at March 14, 2006 04:28 PM