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crazyscot at 10:07pm on 18/09/2011
crazyscot at 10:07pm on 18/09/2011Random utterance of the day: "Oh, that's a bit crap. Did we buy it at the Warehouse?"
We coined this phrase in the kitchen, having discovered that the lid of a pan bought there had a pretty horrid design flaw - that it trapped water, presumably dishwater from when it was last washed, in the handle. We noticed after it started dripping out onto the rice we were about to cook...
To be fair to the Warehouse, not everything they sell is crap, but it seems that everything that we've had a problem with has come from there. This looks to me like an unfortunate side-effect of their pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap business model; most of what they sell - WHICH is a microcosm of everything: OTTOMH clothes, stationery, tools, furniture, garden centre, electricals - is made abroad where labour is cheap but the design and quality control are also cheap.
We coined this phrase in the kitchen, having discovered that the lid of a pan bought there had a pretty horrid design flaw - that it trapped water, presumably dishwater from when it was last washed, in the handle. We noticed after it started dripping out onto the rice we were about to cook...
To be fair to the Warehouse, not everything they sell is crap, but it seems that everything that we've had a problem with has come from there. This looks to me like an unfortunate side-effect of their pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap business model; most of what they sell - WHICH is a microcosm of everything: OTTOMH clothes, stationery, tools, furniture, garden centre, electricals - is made abroad where labour is cheap but the design and quality control are also cheap.
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