I swear it's true

[RED-DOG]

Yesterday, Mrs Red and I were in Boots the chemist, who are having a half price sale.

Throughout the store there were notices which read


Customer ready reckoner


Marked price          You pay
£1                        50p
£2                        £1
£3                        £1.50
£4                        £2
£10                      £5
£20                      £10
£40                      £20

For further assistance, please approach a member of staff.

[Bainn]

Yesterday, Mrs Red and I were in Boots the chemist, who are having a half price sale.

Throughout the store there were notices which read


Customer ready reckoner


Marked price          You pay
£1                        50p
£2                        £1
£3                        £1.50
£4                        £2
£10                      £5
£20                      £10
£40                      £20

For further assistance, please approach a member of staff.

Totally believe it, the way people are today.

[Jon MW]

 

The only comment that's needed I think.

[AndrewT]

People are used to paying the amount indicated on an item. However, when they have a half price sale, Boots are too f--king lazy to actually mark the stuff down. They leave the original price on there and just leave the customer to work out how much it actually costs now.

The funny thing is not that they have these idiot guides out, but that the idiot guides only have the 'easy' prices listed. Boots will have items which are marked as being £15 or £25 and some customers will not know how much half of that is. They'll look at the guides, it won't tell them, and they will be too embarrassed to approach a member of staff for assistance, so simply won't buy the item.

There are circles of irony and despair here which tear at the heart of British society.

[bhoywonder]

i like the way virgin price stuff

not 4.99..but a fiver or a tenner


good stuff richard...one of your ideas no doubt

[scotty2hatty]

What's the deal with all the Virgin stores now being called Zavvi?  Branson flog the Virgin Megastore brand?

[gatso]

What's the deal with all the virgin stores now being called Zavvi?  Branson flog the virgin Megastore brand?

was going to ask the same thing but I couldn't remember the new name so I didn't bother.

this really threw me a couple of months ago at Bluewater. I went into Virgin on the ground floor, had a look around and then left through the upper level. a bit later I decided to go back to get something I'd seen earlier but couldn't find Virgin anywhere but kept walking past this Zavvi that I'd never heard of. I believe that they deliberately rebranded the 1st floor but not the ground just to confuse me.

[AndrewT]

What's the deal with all the virgin stores now being called Zavvi?  Branson flog the virgin Megastore brand?

It was a management buyout by the Virgin Megastore bosses - they're now independent. Branson's no fool though - he knows high-street CD and DVD selling is a dead duck and so was desperate to flog it before everyone cottoned on to that.

[scotty2hatty]

Yeah, wp Branson it would seem.

[Dingdell]

For every 1 sucessful business Branson has he has had approx 100 failures. True fact.

[sovietsong]

So what would I pay on an item originally priced at 60?

[RED-DOG]

So what would I pay on an item originally priced at 60?

£45, but I can get you one for £40.

[thetank]

Dyscalculia is a condition that makes it difficult to learn and/or comprehend mathematical functions.

It can show itself when people have damaged certain parts of their brain. It can also appear in children as a genetically-linked learning disability.

It can be treated in a similar way to dyslexia, by using a different approach to teaching.
Not as well known as dsylexia though, it is often missed and kids who don't raise their hand in maths class become adults who secretely count on fingers.

It occurs in people across the whole IQ range, sufferers of dyscalculia are often more than proficient in other areas. It is thought to affect up to 5% of the population to some degree.

Symptoms can be as striking as an inability of telling which of two numbers is the larger. Having difficulty working out what is half of £25 is not uncommon.

Not wanting to spoil, anyones fun by ranting how you're making fun of the disabled (yawn)
It's just an area I'm interested in (my ambition is to go back to University, get a degree, and become a teacher of mathematics) and it's a subject not otherwise likely to come up on a poker forum.

[RED-DOG]

I thought Dyscalculia was Vlad the Impailer's sister.

[Jon MW]

...
It occurs in people across the whole IQ range, sufferers of dyscalculia are often more than proficient in other areas. It is thought to affect up to 5% of the population to some degree.
...

It's true that up to 5% of the population could suffer from dyscalculia, but I'm sure they'd understand that we're only making fun of the remaining 50% of the population who aren't able to work out 50% off.