Article: Use of Please, Please, Please on 'Greatest TV ad of all time' - sales result

[davidt]

You can view the page at http://www.morrissey-solo.com/content/533-Use-of-Please-Please-Please-on-Greatest-TV-ad-of-all-time-sales-results

[King Leer]

This is unusually vitriolic from me (ask anyone who's been on this site since around '97), but: Please, fuck this sappy ad and the diarrheic milquetoast version of Please, Please... that Slow Menstruating Millie came up with.

[Johnny Barleycorn]

"If anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself." John Lewis made a tidy profit where others didn't because they sell good products and do so in a professional manner. No big secret. You don't go in there and get sold rubbish by barrow boys who greet you with an "'ello maaaaaayyyyy-te!" like you do at many stores these days. Insipid cover versions of great songs do not a successful store make.

[battersea]

"If anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself." John Lewis made a tidy profit where others didn't because they sell good products and do so in a professional manner. No big secret. You don't go in there and get sold rubbish by barrow boys who greet you with an "'ello maaaaaayyyyy-te!" like you do at many stores these days. Insipid cover versions of great songs do not a successful store make.

Also its worth noting that John Lewis is a partnership.After the board ,which is made up of partners represented by all departments ,have agreed what percentage of profits is to ploughed back into the business the remainder of profits is payed back to the staff based on a percentage of their annual wage.This annual bonus is not tax free.