Sorry things have been a bit quiet the last few weeks. I’ve been tied up wit some work stuff. Now our team is depleted, everyone is doing at least one-and-a-half jobs and there hasn’t been much time to take a breather.
It’s enough to turn a man to drink, which brings me conveniently to a news story I spotted on the BBC news site this morning.
According to this report, there was a ‘stampede’ at a Scottish Tesco supermarket this week when an administrative error resulted in the price of beer and cider being ‘slashed’.
Tesco’s offer was characteristically tempting: three boxes of beers or cider for £20. However, this was going through the tills at just £11 and the canny Scots were quick to jump on the error.
The report adds that police were called to the Greenock supermarket after heavy congestion in the car park. So how did everyone find out? Social networking of course.
One customer described the situation as ‘bedlam’ as people contacted their friends, while others went home to change clothing and come back to buy more beer.
Sadly, this says far too much about the British’s psyche when it comes to the drink. I can’t see there being much of a rush if the pricing error had applied to fruit and veg. Five-beers-a-day is indubitably more appealing that getting your five-a-day.
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