OT : French market

I've seen some nasty comments on this newgroup, but...



;-)

 

Britain's biggest manufacturing export earner, bar none.

 

Aaaarrrrrgggghhh

Alright, I forgot that people live in the sticks.

Heh, the 19th in Paris is great for Indian stuff, whereas the 13th is
great for Chinese and Viet stuff. They're not afraid to use spices.

 

On 15 Dec 2003 12:56:59 GMT, (William Grainger)
bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the lines
of:

Was low, wannit?

<G>

 

The IBM plant in Greenock at 1992 values exported more than the entire
Whisky industry combined.

 

Ahh you mean the 'Sanmina-SCI' plant in Greenock?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2634145.stm

 

Err there were plenty of french people happy to talk to BBC news about
how disappointed they were to be losing M&S and the range of food and
other goods that they sold.

Yes the workers were revolting. I don't think it was anything to do with
currencies. It was simply because the operation was making a loss at a
time when M&S had lost its way in terms of what it was offering its
customers. To stay in business they had to cut back - a lot of their
foreign stores were casualties.

 

Precisely.

 

Like I said to AndyR last week, I can go a lot lower than people might
think...

 

MWHID.

 

Mmm, nasty. It had started even in '93 though.

 

AAMOI, how much did they overprice stuff like that? The only time I've
seen them (Heinz, of course, whereas I imagine M&S only had their own
brand) in France, they've been around a pound or more a tin. I've
still got half a case in the cellar, which I ration, along with other
Brit luxuries like cheese (in a freezer) beer, HP sauce, etc. etc.

 

AOL. I was gobsmacked to see how popular all the M&S food was in
Paris. I guess they do 'quality and quick' like no-one else (though
Tesco finest are getting there now).

 

??

 

Yes, you have a question?

 

I was going to say I felt like Little Mo off Eastenders...

 

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:39:08 +0000, Paul Corfield
<> bored us all completely to death with wittery
prose along the lines of:

That's one way of describing French M & S employees.

 

But, but, you're living in the land of cheese

 

Gawd noes. Hate baked beans me.

TBH, there are more and more Supermarkets (in Paris) that have other
Brit stuff in their 'Produits du monde' section. I even saw HP brown
sauce in one [1].

dog should be able to correct me, but at a guess, there must be tons
of English stuff in the Supermarkets around 'Maisons Laffitte', which
is really another name "little Britain." [2]

[1] And I'll be buggered if I can find it again.
[2] There's even an English Anglican church in the area.

 

Here, you seem to have forgotten this:

"-eating surrender-monkeys."

Anyway, your point is?