vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
The letters are from the first names of the directors/founders of the company. Can't remember what they are/were
Fortnum & Mason messed up again?
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The letters are from the first names of the directors/founders of the company. Can't remember what they are/were
Andrew_Culture
Internet Marketing bod
- Location
- The People's Republic Of Suffolk.
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
My sis. is a latter-day Arch...keeping the till rolls churning through the Iceland machinery.
A local merchants at one time...Bejams / Victor Value etc is a bit reminiscent of the Green Shield stamps building in Edgware. "Historical shopping venues."
Cycling's basket cases are being hampered by the weather.
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
They don't, Dave - they just leave a card and scarper.
swee'pea99
Squire
12 years in Bejam. Positively James Bond-esque..
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
I think the most exciting things that happened were the day a delivery driver rolled a pallet on a pallet truck onto the tail lift, forgetting that the tail lift was down at the time, and the time an octagenarian shoplifter tried to run me over making a getaway in his mobility scooter....
Otherwise, it was mostly dire, but it was there that I learned a) the ethic of working until the job was done and all mucking in together (thanks to the manager and supervisor when I started there), and b) how to count change backwards properly to avoid mistakes (IE, it comes to £6.51, you give me a tenner and I count back the £3.49 thus "6.53, 6.55, 6.70, 6.80, 7, 8, 9, 10". Nowadays, they just dump the lot in your hand.)
carolonabike
Senior Member
- Location
- Boldon
As a company we use F&M to send some very overpriced hampers to some of our clients at Christmas so I hope its not one of ours! Going by past experience it's more likely to be F&M's mistake than Parcelforce. The're not as efficient as you would expect. I suspect they're not really geared up to internet sales so it all comes a little unstuck at Christmas. Then again they shouldn't send out the brochures if they can't deliver the goods.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Bejam's had a 15p coin?
Yes, they came in bags of £3.00 worth...
See, I can count it, I just can't type it...
We were once given a posh hamper as a gift.
Some of the items contained within were utterly scrumptious but,
One of the items that was less appetising was the large tub/jar of Gentlemens Relish!
I couldn't bring myself to try it as every time I looked at it all I could think about was which poor soul had to milk the Gentlman to relieve him of his relish?
Another thought has just crossed my mind. You don't think they have battery relish farms do you?, full of undernourished men who've never seen daylight being milked relentlessly!!?
Primal Scream
Get your rocks off
- Location
- On the road to hell
Until 18 months ago I still had a working chest freezer in my basement which bought in Bejam in 1979.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Yeah, they made stuff to last longer in those days!
swee'pea99
Squire
Ah...Gentleman's Relish. Like Radio 4 and the Aga, an unmistakeable hallmark of the British Upper Middle Classes.
