Interesting Fact – Shopping

According to BBC Two’s TV series ‘The Apprentice’ on an average Saturday, 35,000 people will shop in Harrods. (I’m afraid I am the sort of person who buys a toothbrush just to get a Harrod’s carrier bag.)

Interesting Fact – Shopping

In the UK more than 3.5 million people have admitted shoplifting in the past five years. (Now remember shoplifting means stealing from shops, not weight training with them.)

Interesting Fact – Shopping

Researchers studying shoppers’ baskets found people who bought wine also tended to buy poultry, cooking oil and low-fat cheese. Beer buyers, on the other hand, tended to buy chips, pork, butter, margarine, and sausages. (What about people like me, I buy both wine and beer! But not sausages and certainly not low-fat cheese – what’s […]

Interesting Fact # 330 – Shopping in the UK

A laptop is bought every 3 minutes in the UK. (I bought mine in Germany.)

Interesting Fact – Shopping in the UK

Tescos supermarket takes 31p in every pound spent on food shopping in the UK. (And they are spreading. Coming to a community near you. You have been warned!)