To think the supermarket bosses will be weeping into their cornflakes this morning?o

[chaostrulyreigns]

Oh the beer sales opportunities just gone down the drain.

At Sunday lunchtime our supermarket was absolutely heaving with trolleys full of beer. The manager was walking around with a Cheshire Cat grin.

They'll have to hoik up the price of strawberries, cream and Pimms then.

Tennis, anyone?

Hohum.

[IfancyKevinELevin]

Nope I'm a merchandiser, and they seriously would not have thought England would get through. This would have been forecasted to the nth degree. We are pessimists by nature and always forecast rain and gloom.

They will just cancel all their orders with the brewery suppliers, and they'll be the ones to suffer.

They'll mark down and clear the stock they have.

Most World Cup enthusiasts will pick an underdog team and continue to watch in the hope that someone beats Germany though won'y they?

[AmazingBouncingFerret]

IME shops always under-order and then tear their hair out having to source the products cheap enough when things go the other way!
(all the while sales assistants get the brunt of the disaproving public wanting to know why things like paddling pools are out of stock in the height of summer!)

[Snobear4000]

Does nobody watch the cricket any more?

England actually beat Australia at something yesterday yet nobody noticed as they were all watching EEENNNGGEEEEERRRLLLAND not doing very well in SA.

[diamondsandtiaras]

agree with amazing.....our local supermarket is always woefully understocked of anything you'd expect to buy at this time of year. I was in there yesterday and they had no sun lotion above factor 20 (I wanted 50 for DD), no paddling pools left, no desk fans etc etc..didn't even have any soft drinks in a fridge...just big gaps on the shelves. I seriously doubt all the shops will have an enormous surplus of alcohol to shift.......

[GypsyMoth]

it keeps anyway...long sell by dates,so can be kept for xmas sales

[chaostrulyreigns]

I see what you mean Ifancy but surely they'll be gutted about lost sales rather than worried about excess stock of alcohol - as 3BB says - it'll keep?

[LouIsWaltzingMatilda]

All the England parapahnalia in tesco was marked down to 50p in my local tesco

[GrungeBlobPrimpants]

They'd taken down all the England bunting at my Sainsbury's by Friday morning

Pretty poor show chaps, I thought as I snapped up a couple of flags for 50p

[GrungeBlobPrimpants]

Oh but they had instead a big pile of Pimms and strawbs in the entrance instead

[chaostrulyreigns]

As I had anticipated.....

Gah I'm in the wrong industry.

[Fifichef]

As suggested, there's no chance of putting the price of strawberries up to cover the cost of lost beer sales as they are already 'supposedly' selling them at half price -£1.99!!! What a joke, my local shop is selling larger punnets at £1.49

[TrillianAstra]

No no no IFancyKevin - if Germany win that means we could (hypothetically) have come second!

[chaostrulyreigns]

OohOoh fifi that's my biggest supermarket bugbear.

I have never seen flocking strawberries full price - and I know there are laws.

CunnivingConts.

[chaostrulyreigns]

hmm I like that ........ time for a namechange?

[CunnivingCont]

meh.

May save it for a friday night.

[chaostrulyreigns]

Back to sanity.

[dobbyssocks]

England flags were down to 10p in my local Wilkinsons on Saturday!

[TrillianAstra]

I saw the cricket! Swicthed over after the football. It was rather nail-biting, wasn't it?

[chaostrulyreigns]

Phew, you're back to capitalisation to please pedants.

I was disturbed.