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agreed its a very poor show this year....
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agreed its a very poor show this year....
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I can't help but feel the show has possibly run it's course now tbh
I think Zoe dug herself a hole tonight with the amount of answering back (not seen You're Fired yet, btw)
Melody is utterly doing my head in now - not the sort of person I would want to be dealing with.
Helens unblemished record of wins continues... I feel she may actually be the only contender for the investment...she knows her stuff and being on the winning team 9 out of 9 times is more than luck I feel.
I think Zoe dug herself a hole tonight with the amount of answering back (not seen You're Fired yet, btw)
Melody is utterly doing my head in now - not the sort of person I would want to be dealing with.
Helens unblemished record of wins continues... I feel she may actually be the only contender for the investment...she knows her stuff and being on the winning team 9 out of 9 times is more than luck I feel.
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Some bloke a few years wasn't on a losing team for nine weeks, yet in the interviews week, it became clear that he was useless!
ralphchadkirk
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Have we had the interviews week yet? I can't remember...
Not yet. I am presuming it will be the week after next.
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Nope, only done with last four; six remain yet.
ralphchadkirk
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Thanks. Think I'm getting mixed up with the last series in October!
hock: Clearly she will be in the final.
WestCoast
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I think we know who the winner is going to be, I just can't see any of the others coming close.
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I cant help feeling that the whole process is a) hypocritical and b) open to some form of abuse.
a) because the store people go on and on about treat time giving the wrong emphasis to children but the end up ordering thousands of them.
b) no one apart from asda ordered anything, so why were the others so wrong footed by their competitor, or were they? Is there malpractice going on somewhere?
Also there is already a product called Milky Way Magic Stars with a similar packet. Yes I know they are chocolate and not biscuits but why did no one point out the potential for legal action by a competitor for copying a brand name?
Finally, bull***** Sugar (the man who bled millions out of Spurs) always goes on about working in a team, but most teamwork does not involve working with every single team member who is in direct competition with the team leader, and likely to jump at a chance to ruin their efforts as soon as they seem something going slightly wrong?
a) because the store people go on and on about treat time giving the wrong emphasis to children but the end up ordering thousands of them.
b) no one apart from asda ordered anything, so why were the others so wrong footed by their competitor, or were they? Is there malpractice going on somewhere?
Also there is already a product called Milky Way Magic Stars with a similar packet. Yes I know they are chocolate and not biscuits but why did no one point out the potential for legal action by a competitor for copying a brand name?
Finally, bull***** Sugar (the man who bled millions out of Spurs) always goes on about working in a team, but most teamwork does not involve working with every single team member who is in direct competition with the team leader, and likely to jump at a chance to ruin their efforts as soon as they seem something going slightly wrong?
Surely the programme wouldn't make it that obvious? Personally I would have rather Melody had gone on the previous episode. I still find Zoe annoying and sometimes disrespectful however Melody has well surpassed her!
The way it is cut together means it can be difficult to tell anything
Something we often wonder as well is these orders, are the real and these products actually produced or is it completely hypothetical what they would order in such a situation?
Something we often wonder as well is these orders, are the real and these products actually produced or is it completely hypothetical what they would order in such a situation?
thefab444
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The orders are completely fictional but are intended to represent reality - they obviously don't though as otherwise the candidates would get together and take up Asda on their offer of a massive order!
Barton Keyes
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Almost every week the result seems to be arbitrary. There are no real orders and the amounts are plucked out of the air on a whim. If those biscuits were so great how come the other two supermarkets didn't order any at all?
If Helen doesn't win this thing though I'll eat my top hat.
Incidentally, have you noticed how Natasha picks up on any possible sexual innuendo? Always stands with her legs akimbo too.
They probably did but don't forget ASDAs order for 800,000 units also included an exclusivity clause so because the team took that it didn't matter what the others offered as only ASDAs order counted.
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ralphchadkirk
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I'd fire all of them.
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Jim cracked me up with his selling style. Right person went. Natasha gets fitter every week.
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thefab444
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Love the way Lord Sugar tried to ensure Natasha was in the boardroom so he could fire her by giving them a random fine, and she still escaped.
You're being sarcastic aren't you?
Someone needs to tell her that "yeah" is not a full stop, nor is it a question mark.
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You're being sarcastic aren't you?
Someone needs to tell her that "yeah" is not a full stop, nor is it a question mark.
And then he was really annoyed when they still won even with the £100 fine, he banned them from going to the treat!
Barton Keyes
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Lord Surallan was in a right grumpy mood. Not surprising when he has to put up with this shower every week.
Helen was poor for a change and Natasha was hopeless as usual, yeah? Sneaking regard for Susan, who scrubs up well:
http://www.susanma.com/about-us
Not sure we should really be judging the contest on that basis though.
Helen was poor for a change and Natasha was hopeless as usual, yeah? Sneaking regard for Susan, who scrubs up well:
http://www.susanma.com/about-us
Not sure we should really be judging the contest on that basis though.
Madge Wildfire
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They just didnt get the whole idea of the task, even in the boardroom some of them were still bull****ting about they had sold more items than others.
FFS, it should have been obvious when people were handing them £7.50 without any moans about the price, that the nodding dogs were a winner with tourists.
They should have bought as many as they could afford, pitched up at Westminster Bridge or near the Tower of London and sold them as quickly as possible, then bought more and more and more.
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Just catching up, am I hearing this right at the end when Melody got fired, did she say:
"thank you Lord Sugar, (*presumably the next bit to Helen*) you lucky cow"
"thank you Lord Sugar, (*presumably the next bit to Helen*) you lucky cow"
thefab444
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I think she said "Thank you Lord Sugar, Nick, Karren".
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Now you've said that I've played it back again, yeah, it's "Nick, Karen"
It would have been better, and more original if she had said "lucky cow"!!!!
Right person went this week - finally!
I think it may have been the fact that Tom did sell and that he spotted the reinvestment and what should be bought that saved him so he did what he could
It did seem to confuse them but I think it may well be that it is the first time they have done such a thing where they don;t have to have everything sold, replicating a real business
As per, some very cringeworthy moments!
Not sure who will win it - none still shine really. Looks like no interviews this year either
I think it may have been the fact that Tom did sell and that he spotted the reinvestment and what should be bought that saved him so he did what he could
It did seem to confuse them but I think it may well be that it is the first time they have done such a thing where they don;t have to have everything sold, replicating a real business
As per, some very cringeworthy moments!
Not sure who will win it - none still shine really. Looks like no interviews this year either
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