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SHOPPING AND SHOPPING IN LONDON: RULES FOR SAVING MONEY AND TIME
Before you start talking about shopping in London, you should distinguish between three groups of “Rousseau tourist”. The first, not numerous, but very wealthy, belongs to the “classical” category of people, for whom shopping is a kind of illness on a psychological level. The prices do not matter, the main thing is to buy! Continue reading
Price tags and supermarkets. How did Frank Woolworth create them?
We are so used to price tags and supermarkets that we can’t imagine modern trade without them. We think it always has been. Reads Yuri Bering No, no, and again no! The name of the inventor of the price tag history, fortunately, retained. His name was Frank Woolworth, a shy country boy who became a multimillionaire. Continue reading
How are you being cheated in the supermarket? Fighting expiration date
The simplest and most common operation is the replacement of stickers with dates of issue and validity. One is torn off, the second is stamped with a “pistol”. If the meticulous manufacturer stuck the sticker “tightly”, the new one is simply put on top. Recently, in “his” grocery store I saw on sale salted cucumbers of Polish packaging. Continue reading
