"Any sweets or chocolate for you today, sir?"
Posted by: JWM on 20 August 2009
"Any sweets or chocolate for you today, sir?" (WH Smith, King's Lynn shop 2009.08.20)
The check out counter was loaded with sweets and chocolate. You couldn't avoid them. A bit like check-outs at supermarkets. It was easy enough to make the choice.
In light of which, I was dismayed that every customer, one after the other after the other, was asked, "Any sweets or chocolate for you today, sir/madam?"
To have sweets and chocolate so that you cannot but trip over them by the checkout may be one thing (though of course there has been celebrated past furore over that with regard to supermarket checkouts), the customer can make the choice freely[ish]. But to have sweets and chocolate positively pushed on customers is a crass, cynical and irresponsible marketing ploy, especially in this age when half the Country is, apparently, heading for an early grave through obesity.
The check out counter was loaded with sweets and chocolate. You couldn't avoid them. A bit like check-outs at supermarkets. It was easy enough to make the choice.
In light of which, I was dismayed that every customer, one after the other after the other, was asked, "Any sweets or chocolate for you today, sir/madam?"
To have sweets and chocolate so that you cannot but trip over them by the checkout may be one thing (though of course there has been celebrated past furore over that with regard to supermarket checkouts), the customer can make the choice freely[ish]. But to have sweets and chocolate positively pushed on customers is a crass, cynical and irresponsible marketing ploy, especially in this age when half the Country is, apparently, heading for an early grave through obesity.
M&S do it as well at the motorway services, can be fatal if your will is not strong enough
