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Buying the products
Yes, probably a stupid question...
The product design tasks, when e.g. "well done, the big supermarket placed an order for 3000 bottles" or "the big hardware store placed an order for 25 sporks" or whatever rubbish product they've knocked up in the last 20 minutes, do they actually buy that product and actually sell it? Or are they basically writing that spend off as ad-money so they can justify a mention on a BBC prime-time programme, or are they even spending that money at all? If products have actually been for sale, which ones have folk bought, and were they as shit as one would expect or did the shop/retailer basically only take the bare bones of the concept and redesign everything else round it? |
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Yes, probably a stupid question...
The product design tasks, when e.g. "well done, the big supermarket placed an order for 3000 bottles" or "the big hardware store placed an order for 25 sporks" or whatever rubbish product they've knocked up in the last 20 minutes, do they actually buy that product and actually sell it? Or are they basically writing that spend off as ad-money so they can justify a mention on a BBC prime-time programme, or are they even spending that money at all? If products have actually been for sale, which ones have folk bought, and were they as shit as one would expect or did the shop/retailer basically only take the bare bones of the concept and redesign everything else round it? First, teams design a product and pitch it to large retailers. The retailer gets to be on telly but the orders are hypothetical -- how many they might order once the product has been through another six months of testing and development. Second, the team does some small-scale production, often of food, and sells direct to the public. Those sales are real. Third, teams choose existing products from a small business and sell them either to large retailers or to the public (often both). Those sales are real. Fourth, teams pitch services such as laundry or food supply to hotels or restaurants. This is a half-and-half area where the teams do deliver but apparently the BBC has either arranged to guarantee supply from elsewhere or the normal supplier continues to operate in parallel. If you think about it, even if you were director of (say) a clinic willing to rip up your existing contract for laundering and sterilisation of linen, in favour of Titans' or Nebula's new service, what are you going to do the following day when the teams have moved on to the next task? |
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Fourth, teams pitch services such as laundry or food supply to hotels or restaurants. This is a half-and-half area where the teams do deliver but apparently the BBC has either arranged to guarantee supply from elsewhere or the normal supplier continues to operate in parallel. If you think about it, even if you were director of (say) a clinic willing to rip up your existing contract for laundering and sterilisation of linen, in favour of Titans' or Nebula's new service, what are you going to do the following day when the teams have moved on to the next task?
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they just carry it out how they would as if they were gonna do it but I don't think everything does actually happen in real life
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No, there are no 'real' sales. Funnily enough you can't just knock up a bottle of gin and start selling it immediately.
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I'd doubt with the gin they could of sold it to the public as the rules on flogging booze are quite strict and with only a day to design it there was no way they'd been able to make all the rules such as UV bits.
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No, there are no 'real' sales. Funnily enough you can't just knock up a bottle of gin and start selling it immediately.
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I'd doubt with the gin they could of sold it to the public as the rules on flogging booze are quite strict and with only a day to design it there was no way they'd been able to make all the rules such as UV bits.
I would have assumed that, if anything did get sold, then it would have been after a few months with the appropriate testing etc. and probably some enhanced version of the branding to replace the shit one they actually did. Or more likely some entirely separately (properly) designed product that just took the merest elements of the Apprentice task branding just to "trade off the label". I do seem to remember a challenge where they had to make some biscuits and some of those did genuinely get sold a few months later in a supermarket with some "enhancements", but I may just have entirely dreamt that. |
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To be fair, I know it was a stupid question but I don't think I was as ever so daft as to think they would start selling it the very next day.
I would have assumed that, if anything did get sold, then it would have been after a few months with the appropriate testing etc. and probably some enhanced version of the branding to replace the shit one they actually did. Or more likely some entirely separately (properly) designed product that just took the merest elements of the Apprentice task branding just to "trade off the label". I do seem to remember a challenge where they had to make some biscuits and some of those did genuinely get sold a few months later in a supermarket with some "enhancements", but I may just have entirely dreamt that. |
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A couple of years ago, I remember a toy shop in Hampstead had in stock the winning board game from one of The Apprentice episodes
I don't know whether this was genuine stock from the show, or whether someone went back and produced a few copies afterwards |
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