Originally Posted by friendlyguy2:
“Arguably they should both have gone but Tom should certainly have gone. He comes across as a toned down public schoolboy who seems unable to make a decision or know what to do about anything. It beggars belief he didn't realise that a pack of biscuits for £1.99 wouldn't be a top of the range product.”
It was actually the other way round; Zoe said Tom should have realised that because it was £1.99 it was a top of the range product.
Perhaps she overlooked that Tom and Melody, unlike her and Susan, hadn't spent time studying the prices of biscuits in the supermarket.