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[Lizzie_Zoom]

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All that is very clever and professional marketing, which I admire,  ......

..... and totally lost on me. I just push the trolly in the supermarket 

I do that Andy, but my retail management brain often takes over and I am always looking out for new merchandising and marketing techniques. I am continually analysing the amount of faces, the positions given to product on shelves, and where each product range is around the store!  I can usually completely recall the layout of a store after going around it!  Quite sad really, but after being in retailing for 38 years and talking shop continually I cannot get it out of my mind!!

I am also a serious shopaholic, which is why I went into retailing at 12 years of age!!

[Andy B]

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I think Branston now means beans!!

Mmmm?  :-/ Beans means Branston  :-?
not quite the same ring as Beanz Meanz Heinz     

[HolyCount]

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I think Branston now means beans!!

Mmmm?  :-/ Beans means Branston  :-?
not quite the same ring as Beanz Meanz Heinz     

I always thought Beans Meanz F ...latulence

[Amigo]

I too hav'nt had a pay rise in 7 years but still have my job.  Beans are beans to me except the real budget ones which are tough & watery. I wait til a supermarket is doing an offer like 4 pack 99p & buy a bootload of any decent brand to last 'til the next offer. You can do so many things with them but my fave recipe (if you can call it that) is to:-
   Make cheese on toast then towards the end spoon a few beans on top, not too early or they'll dry out but in time to warm them, a little garlic salt (as they leave all the salt out now so we just put it back!) Hey presto, pikey pizza!
   P.S Andy. I love the way the locals call Wigan "Wiggin"!!!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I too hav'nt had a pay rise in 7 years but still have my job.  Beans are beans to me except the real budget ones which are tough & watery. I wait til a supermarket is doing an offer like 4 pack 99p & buy a bootload of any decent brand to last 'til the next offer. You can do so many things with them but my fave recipe (if you can call it that) is to:-
   Make cheese on toast then towards the end spoon a few beans on top, not too early or they'll dry out but in time to warm them, a little garlic salt (as they leave all the salt out now so we just put it back!) Hey presto, pikey pizza!
   P.S Andy. I love the way the locals call Wigan "Wiggin"!!!

Best way, and apprently Asda are doing 4 packs of Branston Beans at £1 8-) 8-)

[Amigo]

I too hav'nt had a pay rise in 7 years but still have my job.  Beans are beans to me except the real budget ones which are tough & watery. I wait til a supermarket is doing an offer like 4 pack 99p & buy a bootload of any decent brand to last 'til the next offer. You can do so many things with them but my fave recipe (if you can call it that) is to:-
   Make cheese on toast then towards the end spoon a few beans on top, not too early or they'll dry out but in time to warm them, a little garlic salt (as they leave all the salt out now so we just put it back!) Hey presto, pikey pizza!
   P.S Andy. I love the way the locals call Wigan "Wiggin"!!!

Best way, and apprently Asda are doing 4 packs of Branston Beans at £1 8-) 8-)

Every little helps!!!

[Varche]

Interesting how this just drifted off topic onto types of beans, taste of beans, marketing of beans.

I suspect that the crisis must be over in Britain for there to be little sympathy or comment over the situation of these workers.. It is easy to pay one person 15% extra but not eay to pay a workforce the same 15%. Best offer them something paltry to keep the shareholders happy.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Interesting how this just drifted off topic onto types of beans, taste of beans, marketing of beans.

I suspect that the crisis must be over in Britain for there to be little sympathy or comment over the situation of these workers.. It is easy to pay one person 15% extra but not eay to pay a workforce the same 15%. Best offer them something paltry to keep the shareholders happy.

That's probably my fault Varche!!

But what I am getting at in a roundabout way is that there is always a competitor ready to take advantage of any workers strike, which will only damage themselves and the company they work for.  In this case it is Heinz and their much vaunted baked beans, and it would be so easy for them to seriously lose market share to the now highly rated Branston Baked Beans

[albitz]

I too hav'nt had a pay rise in 7 years but still have my job.  Beans are beans to me except the real budget ones which are tough & watery. I wait til a supermarket is doing an offer like 4 pack 99p & buy a bootload of any decent brand to last 'til the next offer. You can do so many things with them but my fave recipe (if you can call it that) is to:-
   Make cheese on toast then towards the end spoon a few beans on top, not too early or they'll dry out but in time to warm them, a little garlic salt (as they leave all the salt out now so we just put it back!) Hey presto, pikey pizza!
   P.S Andy. I love the way the locals call Wigan "Wiggin"!!!

Best way, and apprently Asda are doing 4 packs of Branston Beans at £1 8-) 8-)

Iirc T****s are doing a buy 1 pack of 4 get 2 packs of 4 free this week. May be wrong though thats womens work its not my area of expertise.

[Kevin Wood]

I buy Branstons Beans now, because they can still spell.

Kevin

[Dishevelled Den]

Interesting how this just drifted off topic onto types of beans, taste of beans, marketing of beans.

I suspect that the crisis must be over in Britain for there to be little sympathy or comment over the situation of these workers.. It is easy to pay one person 15% extra but not eay to pay a workforce the same 15%. Best offer them something paltry to keep the shareholders happy.

I blame the bean counters at Corporate for this.

[albitz]

Like it.

[Andy B]

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But what I am getting at in a roundabout way is that there is always a competitor ready to take advantage of any workers strike, which will only damage themselves and the company they work for.  In this case it is Heinz and their much vaunted baked beans, and it would be so easy for them to seriously lose market share to the now highly rated Branston Baked Beans

Even with Branston's competition there are still not enough hours in the week to produce Heinz Beanz. This ....... http://www.leighpeople.co.uk/crime/Power-cut-substation-broken-Wigan/story-10162222-detail/story.html seriously put our production out put this week.
During the cold & snow last winter we were working at full tilt to try to keep your favourite supermarket & others stocked up. 

[Banjax]

Heinz are the only beanz Lizzie, branston i've tried bit they have a nasty bitter taste, a bit hard - taste cheap in my opinion..............i'm an expert in beans 

wife tries fobbing me off with generic beans - i end up buying heinz myself or go without 

oh and no one else can make salad cream - tried hellmans - managed to be both rank and tasteless - which is very difficult i'd imagine 

[Andy B]

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   P.S Andy. I love the way the locals call Wigan "Wiggin"!!!

The really broad locals can be very to understand.

See how you get on with these.     
http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/stuff/dialect2.php?opt=dialect2