For many of you probably this activity is a pleasant one ,but not in Bucharest! Here shopping in a" hipermarket " ( yes a hipermarket!!) is like a james bond movie " you need to fulfiill your mission :infiltrate, secure the package and " bring the package home "! Ok, for some of you this can sound a little harsh but in fact is painfully true!
To explain : i'm a office worker so i leave the office usually as alot of other pepole at 16:30 , in normal days to get to the a store that is nearby home is an hour drive so i can be at the store around 17:30 at the same time as around 600-700 pepole !!!( i think that more pepole are going to the supermarket every day at that hour than the last concert of depeche mode ) ; so infiltating the facility and securing the package is a very difficult job not to mention exiting the facility ( around 1 hour waiting in line just to pay! )
But this post is not about this as you can see in the picture ! ( the subject will be discussed in the next post) My post is about adaptability and how the public companies adapt to client's "needs"! As you can see from my schedule i did not said anything about eating so the supermarket takes into acount of my biological need and builds a fast-food space ( i think is a must that every hipermarket has a fast-food included)!
Time to explain the picture: is a picture of an magnetic table with easel ,for that you kid will develop his picasso skills , taken from a supermarket that is new in town ( so normaly i'm thinking that they want to steal some customers from the competition) . In the picture , as you can clearly see magnetic is writen "mafnetic"! Honestly my first reaction was : "it cannot be that idiotic" ,followed closely by " now i'ved seen everything ( the damn infant speling mistake was corrected with a PEN !!!!) Than it crossed my mind that that could be a marketing strategy : they did not whant to fill the head of the cutomer with such big and difficult words ( following the motto : "what they cannot understand they will not buy" )! By correcting the mistake with a normal pen clearly states that they are trying to please diffent tipes of IQ!
Questions to be answered:
- how come they screwed up an easy word like magnetic but they wrote without any mistake "easel(sevalet)"
- how can after someone after acknowledging the error (hoping that someone did ) corrects it , and by all means corrects it with a pen !!
Please after reading this an hopefully forgiving my spelling mistakes poste your opinions to help a common guy get an aswer!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Adaptability
One of the many sublime moments from the weekly routine of bucharest habitans is shopping!
For many of you probably this activity is a pleasant one ,but not in Bucharest! Here shopping in a" hipermarket " ( yes a hipermarket!!) is like a james bond movie " you need to fulfiill your mission :infiltrate, secure the package and " bring the package home "! Ok, for some of you this can sound a little harsh but in fact is painfully true!
To explain : i'm a office worker so i leave the office usually as alot of other pepole at 16:30 , in normal days to get to the a store that is nearby home is an hour drive so i can be at the store around 17:30 at the same time as around 600-700 pepole !!!( i think that more pepole are going to the supermarket every day at that hour than the last concert of depeche mode ) ; so infiltating the facility and securing the package is a very difficult job not to mention exiting the facility ( around 1 hour waiting in line just to pay! )
But this post is not about this as you can see in the picture ! ( the subject will be discussed in the next post) My post is about adaptability and how the public companies adapt to client's "needs"! As you can see from my schedule i did not said anything about eating so the supermarket takes into acount of my biological need and builds a fast-food space ( i think is a must that every hipermarket has a fast-food included)!
Time to explain the picture: is a picture of an magnetic table with easel ,for that you kid will develop his picasso skills , taken from a supermarket that is new in town ( so normaly i'm thinking that they want to steal some customers from the competition) . In the picture , as you can clearly see magnetic is writen "mafnetic"! Honestly my first reaction was : "it cannot be that idiotic" ,followed closely by " now i'ved seen everything ( the damn infant speling mistake was corrected with a PEN !!!!) Than it crossed my mind that that could be a marketing strategy : they did not whant to fill the head of the cutomer with such big and difficult words ( following the motto : "what they cannot understand they will not buy" )! By correcting the mistake with a normal pen clearly states that they are trying to please diffent tipes of IQ!
Questions to be answered:
- how come they screwed up an easy word like magnetic but they wrote without any mistake "easel(sevalet)"
- how can after someone after acknowledging the error (hoping that someone did ) corrects it , and by all means corrects it with a pen !!
Please after reading this an hopefully forgiving my spelling mistakes poste your opinions to help a common guy get an aswer!
For many of you probably this activity is a pleasant one ,but not in Bucharest! Here shopping in a" hipermarket " ( yes a hipermarket!!) is like a james bond movie " you need to fulfiill your mission :infiltrate, secure the package and " bring the package home "! Ok, for some of you this can sound a little harsh but in fact is painfully true!
To explain : i'm a office worker so i leave the office usually as alot of other pepole at 16:30 , in normal days to get to the a store that is nearby home is an hour drive so i can be at the store around 17:30 at the same time as around 600-700 pepole !!!( i think that more pepole are going to the supermarket every day at that hour than the last concert of depeche mode ) ; so infiltating the facility and securing the package is a very difficult job not to mention exiting the facility ( around 1 hour waiting in line just to pay! )
But this post is not about this as you can see in the picture ! ( the subject will be discussed in the next post) My post is about adaptability and how the public companies adapt to client's "needs"! As you can see from my schedule i did not said anything about eating so the supermarket takes into acount of my biological need and builds a fast-food space ( i think is a must that every hipermarket has a fast-food included)!
Time to explain the picture: is a picture of an magnetic table with easel ,for that you kid will develop his picasso skills , taken from a supermarket that is new in town ( so normaly i'm thinking that they want to steal some customers from the competition) . In the picture , as you can clearly see magnetic is writen "mafnetic"! Honestly my first reaction was : "it cannot be that idiotic" ,followed closely by " now i'ved seen everything ( the damn infant speling mistake was corrected with a PEN !!!!) Than it crossed my mind that that could be a marketing strategy : they did not whant to fill the head of the cutomer with such big and difficult words ( following the motto : "what they cannot understand they will not buy" )! By correcting the mistake with a normal pen clearly states that they are trying to please diffent tipes of IQ!
Questions to be answered:
- how come they screwed up an easy word like magnetic but they wrote without any mistake "easel(sevalet)"
- how can after someone after acknowledging the error (hoping that someone did ) corrects it , and by all means corrects it with a pen !!
Please after reading this an hopefully forgiving my spelling mistakes poste your opinions to help a common guy get an aswer!
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:)) super post
ReplyDeleteDon't you know that the longer the word gets, the possibility for mistakes increase.. and for the second question i bilive that it's about the world crisis.