It was not until this time that Knicks reacted belatedly. He used to work in sales and recalled the process of entering the door.
As soon as he entered the door, he was first attracted by the huge TV pillar, then he walked over and stopped.
I watched the news on TV for a few seconds, and then... the height of the TV at this location is only visible to adults, and the children following the adults can't see so high, so...
These children will inevitably look around, and when they look around, they can see the toy area in front.
This is a trap!
First attract the adult's attention, let the adult stop, then give the child time to observe the surroundings, and then...
You can consume now!
Moreover, there is no room for regret with this thing. Once you get cheated the first time, you will be cheated more times in the future!
Since I have an annual pass, wouldn’t it be a loss if I only come here once a year?
Children know that this supermarket has toys as soon as they enter the door. So when their parents take them there to shop next time, will they still have to go in?
Even if parents don’t watch TV when they come home, they have to buy toys as long as they pass by here!
Fuck... what a vicious marketing method.
This familiar feeling and familiar taste is the standard Welsh Hill family's deceptive style!
Knicks looked at the price tag of the giant Transformer, 128 pounds, and then looked at his youngest son holding the Transformer with a happy smile on his face, and he felt his heart bleeding.
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After passing the children's toy area, Knicks looked at the children's clothing, children's shoes, and women's cosmetics area behind with despair.
Everything here is paid for at the same time. With the mental preparation of the Transformer just now, when I took other things and compared the prices, I felt that the psychological gap was instantly reduced a lot.
A single toy costs hundreds of pounds. Compared with other small clothes and shoes that cost a few pounds or more than ten pounds, the Knicks even feel a bit cheap.
Knicks accompanied his wife and children to put things into the shopping cart in a daze all the way. When they finally walked out of the area, Knicks had another shopping cart in his hand. The original cart was already filled with his wife and son's things.
It was not until now that the vegetable and meat areas that the Knicks had longed for appeared.
At the front, you will see a refrigerator fresh-keeping area with a very grand decoration.
The words "Pre-prepared Food Area" are displayed at the top of this area.
Seeing this word, Knicks was a little surprised.
What can I say about the concept of pre-prepared meals? It appeared very early and covers a wide range of areas.
And for people today, pre-prepared meals are not a derogatory term.
To a certain extent, things like canned food and instant noodles can also be considered as pre-prepared meals.
However, the advertisements on Welsh TV in recent days have introduced some special pre-prepared dishes operated by Blue Knight.
This is enough appeal for the British people who are not very good at cooking, whether they are English or Welsh.
For a middle-aged office worker, if his wife doesn't cook all day and can only prepare salad, buttered bread, mashed potatoes and other meals for him, he would be excited just by watching the commercials on TV. Now that he finally saw the pre-prepared food area he had been longing for, Knicks widened his eyes with curiosity and started to look around with his cart.
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"DF French Restaurant's Foie Gras" "DF French Restaurant's Cod Stew"
《DF French Restaurant's Corn Cream Soup》
《DF French Restaurant's Same Small Baguette》
In each refrigerator, there are large packaging bags, and each safe contains the same dishes as those in DF French Restaurant.
The so-called DF French restaurant is the French restaurant chain that Allen and Diana opened together. Diana is the general consultant. Over the years, they have opened more than 70 restaurants and it is quite famous.
This name is taken from the initials of Diana's name.
Her real name is Diana Frances Spencer, and the last name definitely cannot be used, so only the first two are taken, which together is DF.
This brand is quite popular among the people in Wales. It is carefully selected by the Princess of Wales and is a representative of high-end restaurants. Apart from the high price, it has no other disadvantages.
Last year, Allen made up his mind to take the lead in establishing a central kitchen in Wales and implement a unified procurement and distribution system.
Now that the central kitchen has been established, the benefits of bulk purchasing and unified distribution can greatly reduce costs, reduce the workload of store employees and increase the speed of food delivery.
However, this will result in a lot of scraps or materials that don’t look good being left over.
It would be a pity to throw these things away, but if we don’t throw them away... wouldn’t it ruin the restaurant’s reputation if we serve them up?
In the end, it was Alan who made the final decision. The remaining scraps were put into opaque packaging and made into highly processed pre-prepared meals, which were then sold in supermarkets to ordinary people.
Anyway, this thing... there is no problem with food safety. Apart from the appearance, everything else is fine. Let's try some in Wales first and see the feedback after a while. If there is any success, we can expand the scale.
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And now, these so-called pre-prepared dishes, the same as those in the DF French restaurant, have naturally appeared here.
Maybe this thing is only similar to the same dish in that restaurant in terms of ingredients and taste. It is definitely not a one-to-one replica, but considering the price advantage, ordinary people can accept it.
Picking up a bag of corn cream soup, Knicks squeezed the package curiously.
This is a 500 ml bag of soup, not a low-end product like ordinary condensed soup.
All you need to do with this stuff is unpack it, pour it into a container, place it on the stove or in the microwave, and heat it for the prescribed time according to the instructions on the instruction manual.
Simple and convenient!
Looking at so many kinds of pre-prepared meals, Knicks was overjoyed. His hands unconsciously began to put things into the shopping cart. He planned to buy a few bags of each, try them when he got home, and buy the ones he liked best later.
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Boom boom boom.
Hearing the knock on the door, Alan pressed the electric switch and the study door opened.
Xiao Shitou pushed the food cart in. Dahuang, who had been serving as Alan's stepping stone, was sleeping soundly with his tongue hanging out like a dead dog. Alan put his feet on its furry belly, which felt good.
Perhaps it smelled the fragrance coming from the dining car, the big yellow cat flicked its tail, jumped up, trotted to its sleeping mat in the corner, picked up its big food bowl, and with a clang, threw the food bowl next to the desk, sat down at Alan's feet, and waited eagerly for food.
"Master, it's tea time."
"Um……"
Alan twisted his neck, looked at the documents in his hand, tidied them up a little, cleared the area in front of the desk, and waited for Xiao Shitou to arrange the dishes.
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Watching the almost golden tea pouring into the teacup, Alan didn't like adding milk or sugar when drinking black tea.
Many people may think that most people in Britain like to add milk when drinking tea, especially black tea, and they think that everyone here drinks tea like this.
There are also high-end restaurants in foreign colonies that imitate the tea-drinking habits of Britain, with all kinds of tea sets and etiquette, claiming to be authentic British aristocratic afternoon tea.
In the past, Allen often wanted to laugh when he saw such news or film and television clips.
This thing...how should I put it, it's just like the old farmers at the bottom of China in the past who imagined that the emperor must be using a golden hoe when plowing the land. It's ridiculous!
First of all, what is the tea drinking habit in Britain? How long does it take to brew black tea?
Five minutes!
Anyone who knows a little about tea should know what this concept is.
For a Chinese person who likes to drink tea, just these five minutes of tea time will make people laugh.
Whether it is green tea or black tea, simmer for five minutes...
What a waste of good tea!
Moreover, let’s not talk about whether it is a waste or not, the tea soup that is stewed for five minutes will taste very bitter. Just say, can a normal person still drink tea brewed in this way without adding some milk and sugar?
From the root, people in Great Britain had to drink black tea with milk and sugar because they didn’t understand the rules at first!
In addition, some news or misleading introductions claim that for authentic British aristocratic afternoon tea, one must use an extremely gorgeous tea strainer to filter the tea poured from the teapot.
This thing... is even more misleading. Historically speaking, when tea was first introduced to Britain, what kind of tea did China export in ancient times?
Only garbage species are exported!
The good varieties have all been consumed domestically, so how could they be sold abroad? Even if some high-end products could flow out, the quantity would be very small.
Therefore, most of the tea that came in at that time was broken into tea bricks.
For tea of this quality, you definitely need a tea strainer when drinking it, otherwise you will get tea leaves in one mouthful.
In addition, due to the maritime transportation conditions at that time, the tea took so long to be shipped to Europe and then to Britain that some of the tea became moldy.
This kind of moldy high-broken tea.
You have to filter it out first and then add some milk, otherwise the taste... I can't describe it.
However, this dark historical custom is actually regarded by some people as the tea culture of Great Britain.
Alan used to watch a talk show on TV. Some people drank tea made with a tea bag and even filtered it with a tea strainer. That was fucking... It made me want to laugh!
Ordinary people in Britain drink tea with milk, which is a habit passed down from their ancestors, but a large number of nobles do not have this habit.
Because the nobles always enjoy the best resources!
Since the 19th century, more complete modes of transportation have gradually become popular, and good tea can now be shipped intact.
Some nobles still keep the habit of adding milk to tea, it is just a ritual, but many people don't add it!
In the royal family, whether it is Boss Cha or the Queen, not every time they drink tea they add milk.
Adding milk to the best black tea is a waste.
Even the nobles understand this truth!
Noble lords don't drink broken tea!
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Alan picked up a tongue biscuit and stuffed it into Dawang's mouth.
I guess I didn't even taste it and just swallowed it without chewing it.
Seeing this guy's useless appearance, Allen kicked him and said, "Get out of the way. There's nothing to eat for you."
Pick up the newspaper on the table. Even though it is already August and the World Cup ended last month, the excitement has continued until now.
The much larger Commonwealth Games, however, receive far less coverage.
Looking at the familiar young man on the Brazilian team's bench in the newspaper picture, with bared teeth and a short flat head, Alan is very familiar with this player. This is Ronaldo. Oh, no, that's not right. Now this guy is almost unknown and can only be regarded as a little genius in Brazil. He almost didn't get to play in this World Cup and could only sit on the bench behind the other big brothers of the Brazilian team.
Looking at these reports, Alan took a sip of tea and got some inspiration.
He has only been back for a few days, and he hasn't written the work report for this team yet. Just now he was still racking his brains over what to write, and now... isn't it ready? !
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Alan has no experience as a team leader, but he can't write in his work report that he just slacked off, set a random goal, and then just muddled through the rest, right?
So... he had to find a new way to write something different.
For example, some suggestions could be made to reform the Commonwealth Games so that they are held in different years.
He is not good at talking about work experience, but he is very good at giving pointers to Alan!
Just as reported in the newspapers, the World Cup is over and the heat is still there, but what about the Commonwealth Games?
How can it be that there is no enthusiasm after it was just finished?
This is not conducive to unity, and also goes against the original intention of establishing this event!
To put it more seriously, this is a betrayal of the trust of Her Majesty the Queen!
Those leaders of the organizing committee are simply sitting there doing nothing!
The more he thought about it, the more reliable it seemed. Alan nodded. His identity was originally a retainer. Making a small report, making a complaint, and saying something bad like this was very consistent with his personality and was very feasible. He was the spy sent by the boss to the sports meeting, wasn't it just to do this?
Thinking of this, Alan put down his teacup and didn't bother to continue resting. When inspiration came, he picked up the manuscript paper and started writing the work report.
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Three days later, Parliament in London.
Early in the morning, Alan appeared in the lounge of the House of Lords with a rosy face.
Yesterday he came to London to report to Boss Cha and also handed in the work report on leading the team to participate in the competition.
Now that he was here, he hadn't appeared in the House of Lords for a long time. After a night's rest, Alan got up early today, which was a rare occasion, and prepared to take a walk around the House of Lords.
The noisy lounge was still empty as usual. It seemed that there were about a hundred people attending the meeting today.
When an old man saw Alan come in, he angrily pushed away a few people who were talking to him and walked towards Alan.
…
“Alan!”
"?"
Alan heard someone calling him, turned around and saw it was the old Duke of Marlborough!
This guy's face was flushed, and he walked towards this side aggressively. Alan subconsciously smiled at him and nodded: "You old man, you are here for the meeting today? It seems that your little wife didn't bother you last night."
"You bastard!"
The Duke of Marlborough looked at Allen angrily. He hadn't even started to attack yet, but this little brat dared to tease him in public? !
Pointing his finger at Allen's nose, the Duke of Marlborough cursed: "Is James living in your manor? How can you, a bastard, interfere in our family affairs? Who gave you the courage? Hmm!"
"???"
Alan's smiling expression froze instantly when he heard the old man's words.