Monday, July 07, 2003
Personal Shopper not included.
Time and Tide by basia is running through my head. Creating random explosions of color in an otherwise grey day. Half the office is in the States today for a global meeting. The other half seems to populate only those minutes when I am not staring blankly at my screen.
I spent the weekend looking at electronics in Harrods. The only reason I was even there in the forst place was Pachot, a fellow Filipino who works in Guildford, wanted to buy a souveneir for her friends in New York. Half the store seemed to be filled with tourists. Yes, one of the biggest tourist destinations in this part of London is not the V&A, not the Museum of Natural History, but a shopping mall. An expensive one with a royal lineage, but a mall nonetheless.
However if you get over the extortionately priced carpets, and move past the Hall of Antique Furniture that only inbred aristocrats would ever love... then you arrive at the electronics hall, which sits like an unloved bastard stepchild (a fling with Dixon's, perhaps?) on the fringes of the third floor. Here there were actual bargains, and by bargain I mean home stereo systems cheaper than a blender. Well, cheaper than this blender.
Honestly, some of the stuff here is patently ridiculous. And this is only what's available online - check out the £9,000 Edwardian footstool if you are ever fortunate enough to pass by.
Anyhoo, I caved in after much cajoling from Pachot and bought a Sharp mini audio system. Yes, it was cheaper than the blender. By a lot. It was even cheaper after we queued up for a shopper's card and got the sale-only 10% discount. I guess even at Harrods the opportunistic shopper can sometimes find relief.
I spent the weekend looking at electronics in Harrods. The only reason I was even there in the forst place was Pachot, a fellow Filipino who works in Guildford, wanted to buy a souveneir for her friends in New York. Half the store seemed to be filled with tourists. Yes, one of the biggest tourist destinations in this part of London is not the V&A, not the Museum of Natural History, but a shopping mall. An expensive one with a royal lineage, but a mall nonetheless.
However if you get over the extortionately priced carpets, and move past the Hall of Antique Furniture that only inbred aristocrats would ever love... then you arrive at the electronics hall, which sits like an unloved bastard stepchild (a fling with Dixon's, perhaps?) on the fringes of the third floor. Here there were actual bargains, and by bargain I mean home stereo systems cheaper than a blender. Well, cheaper than this blender.
Honestly, some of the stuff here is patently ridiculous. And this is only what's available online - check out the £9,000 Edwardian footstool if you are ever fortunate enough to pass by.
Anyhoo, I caved in after much cajoling from Pachot and bought a Sharp mini audio system. Yes, it was cheaper than the blender. By a lot. It was even cheaper after we queued up for a shopper's card and got the sale-only 10% discount. I guess even at Harrods the opportunistic shopper can sometimes find relief.
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