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Old 11-07-2011, 16:46
Jepson
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My argument is that it's typical of the business they could do with fast-moving products. Their overall sales were lower because they spent so much effort on slow-moving products.

If you don't understand this, you've not been paying attention to my argument at all.
You 'argument' is circular.

In order to prove your point you need them not to have stocked fast selling items. So you just keep saying: 'they should have stocked fast selling items'.

And yet there is no evidence that the didn't buy fast selling items.

Apart from the Duvet covers there wasn't a problem with this task until Sugar went off on one. Even he didn't accuse them of buying the wrong things - he was purely annoyed that they didn't restock as often as he would have liked. And there was absolutely no business reason why they should have done.

It's 31:15 on iPlayer. She's talking to the retailer. Both wholesaler and retailer took her by surprise.
Nice try but no cigar!

They are separate events. Yes, she was surprised by the wholesaler. When she spoke to the retailer she said she was nearly there and didn't seem at all surprised that he was closed. By that time it would probably have gone six and she would have expected him to be closed. She was obviously told to phone by the producers to get a reaction shot. Being Helen, she very much took it in her stride.

Karren knows it will take four hours. She says as much in a piece to camera, when she is pointing out what a dumb decision it was just after it was taken - before the outcome was known. The 4-hour duration of the journey was not a surprise.
I'm pretty sure that Karren does that piece much later when it has become apparent that there has been a delay.

There is no way of knowing that that journey would take two hours each way ahead of time. This country would grind to a halt if it took two hours to get from the middle of London to a point inside the M25.

I think the team probably knew too. Tom and Melody are both concerned about it being too far. Tom says it's a disaster. Melody acknowledges that it's a risk.
They are almost certainly saying that it's a risk using the expected journey time to pick up the covers rather than selling. Unless London was under lock down because of a terrorist threat there's no way they could all have known that the journey would take that long because it should not have. It was an utterly ridiculous time.

No it isn't. Partly because we aren't talking about the same journey. Note that Jim does a restock, starting quite late in the day (long after Helen), and he does get back, albeit just too late. There was enough time for restocking trips. Partly because the gains from restocking would have been more than the £90 hoped-for from the retail deal. Partly because I believe they had more choices. I have, in any case, said that allowing 50% of one person's time on restocking would be reasonable, and that's making a substantial allowance for travel times.
You are - probably deliberately - missing the point.

Whenever a candidate gets into trouble because of a longer than expected journey time you blithely state that they should have allowed for it.

But if they have to allow for outlier times such as four hours to Enfield and back then they are not going to be planning on restocking often.

You are trying to have your cake and eat it because you say both that the candidates were at fault for not restocking often enough and that the candidates are at fault if they do not allow absurd amounts of time for journeys.
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Old 13-07-2011, 01:23
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Susan wasn't supposed to sell the bracelets, she went against the wishes of Natasha obviously.
I daresay, but given that Natasha herself had so little idea of what they were supposed to do that she earned the time a sunstantial fine and loss of their treat, that doesn't say much.

Lord Sugar never indicated that candidates who'd bought items that weren't on his original pallet had done anything wrong, and that's good enough for me.
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