Have to love how the British supermarkets help with the credit crunch
 

I just saw an advert on the TV for the British supermarket chain 'Morrisons' that actually said something like 'Morrisons is here to help you through the credit crunch with all these great deals' and then cut to show nothing but their deals on cut price booze.

Tank up and try to forget about your finances thanks to Morrisons.

alcohol sales always up during crisis

let us hope they drink up their cut price booze and then log onto porn sites

rather badly so

England is going through a Credit Crunch like the US?

okay..how did I end up quoting you before you said it?

btw this thread made me start taking vodka shots at 9 am... but I have nt slept yet so it doesnt count as being a degenerate. right?

That's creepy. Really, its on par with the US? That seems hard to believe.

As long as you haven't slept yet, you're in the clear.

vbul does that sometimes

Hell yeah !! Well, Britain as a whole.

Next stop, Winter. When all our fuel bills are up even more. To help with the bills for heating during the winter months, the government has told us to "put on an extra sweater".


Thanks... :disgust

So much so that our Prime Minister is currently in Washington talking to people about how to deal with this globally. We have been feeling the pinch for about a year not when one of the banks in the UK (that relied on a lot of connections with the US sub prime market) collapsed and it has been downhill from there. So many of the banks in the States are mixed in with the UK banks that one side of the Atlantic can't have a crisis without the other following.

House values are way down..and don't get me started on food prices. Bread and fresh fruit are the things that drive me nuts and they have both doubled in price over the past year.

My electricity bill started to soar last month despite us not doing anything differently in our house.

So, yeah, I guess I can get why the supermarkets think they can shift a lot of booze at the moment.

You need one of these.

the UK will be hit as hard as the US by the falling house prices, easily

they're falling quicker in the UK too, 11% or so

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...and-items.html

Supermarkets and big brands could face fines of more than £300million after claims they colluded on the price of food and health and beauty products.
Firms appear to have been sharing information on prices, raising the possibility that shoppers have been overcharged by hundreds of million of pounds.

thus the brit expression- *cheers!*