there are bargains and bargains
In a previous post – Sex shopping and bargains – I told you how I purchased a value pack of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, for my wife.
Nothing wrong with that. Except she had asked me to buy either The Tatler, Good Housekeeping or Woman and Home.
So what have I learnt from our subsequent discussions of my behaviour?
To look harder when shopping.
She took me back to the shop. She showed me that her chosen magazines were on the shelves. (My wife believes in evidence based management.)
To listen better to the customer.
She wanted particular magazines, rather than any magazine.
Price is not the same as value.
A value pack has no value if you don’t want the content.
And, when in a hole stop digging.
I gave the magazine to my adult children. They assumed that I had bought them especially for them. Until my wife told them otherwise.
Picture by Pink Moose
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