Gift cards, Pritt stick and so much more
WHSmith and I used to get on very well. However, today was proof that our relationship has been severely damaged, perhaps forever.
They think they are a book shop. Yet they are completely incapable of putting things in the right sections, most books in the teenage area suitable for about twelve year olds. They sell the dieting magazines under the title of “hobbies”. Ask anyone who is on a diet, and I am pretty sure they wouldn’t call it one of their hobbies. There is no one in the whole shop who could possibly understand why I might want to purchase an unabridged version of Les Miserables (“but it’s so long. Do you know that it’s long? This version is only 50 pages, wouldn’t that be better?”). On every single bookshelf there is at least 4 copies of “This Book Could Save Your Life”, yet they only stock 2 Meg Cabot books. Their York Notes stand only has notes on An Inspector Calls, and there are more KS2 revision guides than GCSE ones. How many 11 year olds buy revision guides?!
They think they are a stationers. Yet they do not sell medium sized Pritt sticks. Only the small ones and the large ones. Oh, also, I looked at one of their planner things. The journal section was 0.5cm thick. The To Do section was 4cm thick. This is clearly madness.
They do not sell the old version of Pride and Prejudice, they have the most ridiculously limited collection of CDs, and they sell gift vouchers for clothes shops.
What is wrong with these people?!
