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Since we are setting up that trust fund, why don't we spend the money on buying supermarket chain Safeway. Everyone else is doing it, why shouldn't we?

Then we can instigate all those great ideas we are about to have on what would make a brilliant supermarket. And call it I Love Everything (We Sell Everything).

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

We could have a big board with Classic or Dud on it and get the customers to vote on a different item each day.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 23 January 2003 10:38 (twenty-three years ago)

we could sell honcho and art forum beside the enquirer

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 23 January 2003 10:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Can I be in charge of changing the labels of Heinz Baked Beans to our own brand beans out back. Pot'o'paste and labels and I'm happy.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

each bar code scanner at the check out, instead of just beeping, could play a different mobile ringtone.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 23 January 2003 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

The real question is what foodstuffs would be discounted with gleeful abandon to accomodate those ILxors who like to munch while posting?

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 23 January 2003 10:50 (twenty-three years ago)

MAYONNAISE

― zemko (bob), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Boasters. This may have to wait until after we invent tiny lifting motors like the ones in Dune. Which I could once have remembered the name of.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

What's the most unacceptable thing to come out of your deli counter?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I need the buying power of a major supermarket chain to keep me in biscuits.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:48 (twenty-three years ago)

ILE: Do not buy if you hate value

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Who wants to man the cheese counter? Anyone got any special butchery skills or an interest in being covered in blood?

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Why do you get covered in blood selling cheese. Or do you mean that as a if you enjoy that, you'll love this kind of thing?

Lixi ownz all our asses on this thread.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 23 January 2003 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, that was a call out for the fresh meat counter too. Though cheese is just baby cows squeezed really hard til they turn yellow, right?

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Apart from Blue cheese, yeah. You don't want to know how they make that.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 23 January 2003 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't really been following this story very closely. Can someone explain why it took Morrison's bid for the world and his wife to suddenly be all interested in buying Safeway?

Is it just that they all thought 'Hey - great idea, why didn't we think of that?' of is just that they don't want Morrison's to have it?

Advice to all: Do not buy Safeway - it is a crappy shop. The only good things are the loss-leading multipack crisp offers.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 23 January 2003 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't really been following this story very closely. Can someone explain why it took Morrison's bid for the world and his wife to suddenly be all interested in buying Safeway?

Pretty much, yes. I don't think anyone had really considered it before. Also, when Safeways is taken over the chances are it will cease to exist and all the stores will turn into Asda or Morrisons or whoever. With most of the bidders, it's the actual store portfolio they want, not the chain itself.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 23 January 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I find this extraordinary. What are Mergers & Acquisitions executives getting paid for? You mean if I had rung them up last year and said 'hey, here's a thing - why not buy Safeway' they would have gone 'THAT'S BRILLIANT!'. I am still hoping you're wrong and it's a dog in the manger thing or else I have lost all faith in UK business.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 23 January 2003 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Awww, N.'s disillusionment with UK business is cute.

Is disillusionment a word?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 23 January 2003 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, there's also the small matter of whether or not they thought they could get away with it. Once they knew Safeway was looking for a buyer it kind of unleashed a free-for-all.

This is all academic anyway as most of the bids will be SLAPPED DOWN by the Monopolies and Mergers commission before long.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 23 January 2003 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Is disillusionment a word?

It's the word. Word.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 23 January 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

"that trust fund"

what trust fund? (I've been away)

― Jeff W, Thursday, 23 January 2003 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I am going to stand by the aisle of loose nuts, and throw them all over the floor right AFTER the fugitive runs by and right BEFORE the cops do

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 January 2003 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Why don't we just buy the whole world and done with it! Start saving those pennies kids!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 23 January 2003 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi. I'm Hiram J. Dastoor (no relation). I'd like to make a £3.9bn bid for ILE, which we shall re-brand, dismantle and sell off to other interweb fora. Do I have the support of the board?

― Hiram (Mark C), Thursday, 23 January 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to stand around in a cute outfit, holding a tray of finger food that customers can walk by and sample.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 23 January 2003 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I can do the butchery bit - my dad was a butcher, and owned his own shop. I can even hand-make sausages, with all that tying them in knots stuff.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 January 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll do the accounts.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 23 January 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm in charge of in-store musical ambeince. Van Halen for everyone! (not the muzak version, either.) (And yes, I heard VH in a supermarket once.)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 23 January 2003 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to learn all about butchery, can we hang out steaks until they go green on the outside.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 23 January 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Can we stock the Heinz Tomatoe Sauce that me and a mate found. Instead of saying "Tomaote Sauce" it said "Gone to Crisp Aisle, Back Soon". We've never found an explanation, or another bottle.

― Celeste (Celeste), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you Dan Quayle?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

[...] ILxors who like to munch while posting?

That's what I call TALENT.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:22 (twenty-three years ago)

It's only touch-typing with sticky fingers.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

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