Build A Bear 'fiasco'

[ludwig]

People joined 'mile long queues' to buy a teddy bear at a discount price.

Two questions ..

A) Why?. It's a flipking teddy bear.
B) Why are people angry at the shop? How is it their problem that the promotion was enormously popular, and people were stupid enough to wait so long for a teddy?

[ludwig]

sorry, forgot link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44819007

[bookbinder]

A) It's a flipping expensive teddy bear.
B) People are angry at the shop because the shop didn't deliver what the management promised, in double-quick time, and customers expect better service from the business. It was a poorly-thought out promotion, and the shop owners should hang their heads in shame.

[tiggerblue10]

I blame the kids! ;o)

I nearly caused a riot in Coop a few weeks back when they had Ben & Jerry's on sale for £1.79 per tub, and every time I went to get some they'd run out :o(

[hc4361]

It should have been managed much better. Next has the right idea on their sale days, they organise the queues and hand out free refreshments.

[woofgang]

silly idea.....I mean take a one year old to the shop and the bear is a quid, take a five year old and the bear is 5 quid? whose crazy idea was that? Surely the it doesn't take a genus to foresee the massive oversubscription and queues?

[Old_Geezer]

Simple solution. Take the payment and have them on back order.
If folk are getting a £50 item for, say, £4 I can't see that they have much to moan about.

[Mamyalynne]

As promotions go, it was doomed to failure.

[bednobs]

A they are usually expensive
B I heard a radio news article today saying that humans were hard wired to follow through on bad decisions if they've already invested time etc in the like queueing .

[Minkyme]

You haven’t lived life unless you can tick off one supermarket riot on your bucket list.

[Old_Geezer]

Common sense. The longer time one has invested already the smaller the percentage of further time waiting until payoff. Leave and you've lost it all.

[youngmafbog]

Offer the lower orders something almost for nothing and what do you honestly expect?

[Minkyme]

//Offer the lower orders something almost for nothing and what do you honestly expect?//

Yes you get a different class of rioter in the Harrods sales.

[youngmafbog]

Well you would - if they rioted.

[EDDIE51]

I can see why there was a queue . A £52 bear for 'Pay your Age'
I am just amazed the shop didn't foresee a huge queue of young children . If I had known of it I would have taken my 4 year old grandaughter to buy a £52 bear for £4. ''People were stupid enough to wait'' I can only assume you do not have a young 'bear loving' grandchild, ludwig?

[jno]

is that so, ymb, is that so...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4379812/One-man-ejected-Harrods.html

[ferlew]

Farce all round. Mum's taking kids out of school, attending with a 7 week old baby, taking an autistic child and then moaning afterwards because she wasn't allowed to jump the queue when said child got upset.
I can't even imagine most of the kids would have voted to queue for 5/6 hours, tired and hungry and bored out of their skulls.
Even more farcical when they could have done the same thing on their birthday and got a bear for age £'s.

[douglas9401]

Four king hell! Manager goes outside, 'Sorry folks, a few problems, bear with us'.
Job done.

Folk do like a right good whine though innit.

[ToraToraTora]

I too am mystified, it's like the cabbage patch dolls in the 80s!

[hc4361]

Eddie, you can your grandkids to Build A Bear any day in their birthday month and pay their age

https://www.buildabear.co.uk/count-your-candles.html