It's a nice touch in the classier supermarket: enter the establishment, there's the decorative table of samples. There's the organic Shropshire lamb's cheese; the Fairtrade Chinese gooseberry flavoured dark chocolate. But they have to get it right. They've got to be careful, for instance, with a new line in lime cordial. People tend to shy off that colour liquid offered as samples.
Tesco, the supermarket chain is in crisis. As good as bankrupt. Relatively speaking. Profits dipped to below £1bn for the last quarter. Dipped. If the universe suddenly stopped expanding and then started to contract, we would be looking at the same scale of reversal as Tesco filing a slightly smaller profit under £1bn... (Continued at http://www.tinybangtheories.com/2012/05/tesco-self-checkouts-and-self-diagnosis.html)
Best Wishes,
Paul (Ed.)