Le Crunch

Obviously the credit crunch is the big news story just now. How Mr. Brown needs a terrorist attack to get this off the front pages. Ooh, controversially Gimplord steps into the political arena. See how quickly I can jump back out.

The shops all have crunch related signage next to their discounted goods - Price Crunch, Beat The Crunch, Crunchbusters. Somehow it seems that this crunch thing has been turned on it's head and it's Joe Public that's to blame for all this. The supermarkets are helping us out. Look it's buy one get one free on a Pukka Pie, they've shaved 10p of the price of reformed ham. Bless them as they put the prices up of everything else we buy.

As an aside I'd like to thank Marks & Spencer for upping the price of the cheese & tomato roll from £1.50 to £1.75. I was asking for it really. But thanks for making potato croquettes half price and bombarding me with pictures of Myleene Klass and her amazing post pregnancy body trying to sell me some foreign currency. She's attractive (to some) in a slightly Stone Age way and she can sing (kinda) and play the piano. Like a bargain basement Alicia Keys.


Talking of Alicia Keys. Do you think she has to play the piano in every single bloody video she's ever made. Alicia love, you're beautiful, you're talented, we know you can play the piano but when you're belting out high notes in a subway station and playing the keyboard we're starting to lose interest in your song because we're too busy thinking about how you got the damn piano down there in the first place and how the hell you're going to get it home.

Where was I going with this. Oh yes. I'd like to see a store that refuses to cut the prices on anything but doesn't put prices up either. A bit of consistency. John Lewis would be good for that. FUCK THE CRUNCH signs hanging in every department. It's got more of a ring to it than Never Knowingly Undersold.