Time for some new rules
Posted by Dalton48 on 23 May 2009 at 09:46 am | Tagged as: Business, Current Events
It’s time to set some new rules around use of the phrase “in this economy.”
Rule number one: If the extra fee you’re talking about can be counted on your hands, “in this economy” does not apply.
Example, courtesy the Star:
Cathy Dernick’s eyes widen in surprise as she learns that come June 1, she’s supposed to start charging customers at her north Toronto women’s clothing shop five cents for every plastic shopping bag they use.
“I didn’t know that,” says Dernick, then adds: “Poop. In this economy.”
Her customers are buying clothes. And they’re going to care about 5 or 10 extra cents?
We need more rules to rein this in. More suggestions/examples?
I think whenever we hear it we all get to jump up and yell BINGO!
The customers are buying $500 clothes. At that point, the bag is a total rouding error.
More likely, what Cathy Dernick actually means is, “it’s embarrassing to ask a customer for $0.05 on a $500 purchase.”
Now, if the bags were $10 each…
(Also, the “Poop…only the word wasn’t poop” is horribly, horribly twee. My hand itches for a red pencil. And if not “poop,” what was the word? My mind goes in all sorts of directions.
I’d like to think she said, “Dash it all!” or perhaps more racily, “Zounds!”)