Get well soon, Clinton Cards
Dear Clinton Cards What a shame. I’m really sorry to hear you’re not feeling great at the moment. I hear your bankers — Barclays and RBS — sold your debts to American Greetings who suddenly decided to call in your …
Tesco love – forgotten but not gone
There’s a walloping big hole in the ground in Oxford Street where shops used to be. Lots of them. It’s the Crossrail development towards Tottenham Court Rd, before you get to Soho Square. I know the area pretty well because I used …
DIY chromosomes working overtime
If Christmas was all about over indulging, Easter was all about over working. Never mind all those stories about Christmas decorations appearing in the shops in early August. If you’re a DIY retailer Christmas comes early every year: around Easter …
Marketing’s old age problem
It’s been the best of times and the worst of times for pensioners. The usually ignored, avoided and disparaged 4.4m demographic has zoomed into the headlines thanks to the Chancellor’s ‘granny tax’ Budget. Be very afraid Granny-watchers, opponents and supporters, fall into …
What’s in a name?
According to Starbucks, today, quite a lot. Lots of free coffees until ‘tall noon’. Happy Wednesday. Although Starbucks may have to apologise to London’s employers about why staff may have been late to work. The lines of people around every …
A day in the life of the year of the mobile
There should have been a warning. Like on the telly before some hot news story or other containing flash photography. “And here you see we create completely new category based on usage not form factor,” boomed the beaming T-shirted attendant holding …
‘Working from home today’
I don’t know about you, but working from home doesn’t work for me. Moving from bed to bathroom to being hunched over a laptop without the reassuring intervention of ritual nightmare journey to the office followed by a recuperative tall skinny …
From a consumer perspective…
It’s been a shocking week — from a consumer perspective. RIM, the crackberry formally known as BlackBerry, seems to be in deep Shoreditch. And secondly, even more shockingly, the new financial services watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (no, I’ve never heard of them, either) is …
Mobile email wipe out
Lost my BlackBerry just after Christmas. But I know where it is, luckily. It’s on a mountain called Beitostølen in Norway. Not so lucky, then, actually. However…if you’re in that part of the world — and if it hasn’t snowed since I …
Woman’s world
If it was down to men, Christmas wouldn’t happen. Not Christmas with gifts and turkey and stuffing and stuff as we know it, anyway. Women, says a Wall Street Journal blog (The Juggle), are responsible for 73% of the holiday shopping. The …
BlackBerry harmony
What qualifies one person to be that arbiter I disagree with your stance on not making it a popularity contest.
by Noah MacAdam on May 17, 2012