stessed

work is doing my head in.
don't get me wrong i enjoy the job - just not right now.

so i decided to have a bit of retail therapy - as you do.
a trip to pc world is in order (ok this isn't such a big thing as it is on my way home and i had been planning on recycling a load of ink cartridges there anyway).
i go in an i amble. as you do.
i look at the ion negative and photo scanner. yup i could do with one of those. on sale! maybe. not just today.
i look at the netbooks. the cheap ones are too dinky and respond like shit. the expensive ones are not much better.
i look at laptops. crikey they are ugly. pricey too.
i look at the various tablets. how hard can it be to design one that looks nice. harder than you think by the looks of things. all a bit pricey.
i look at the various piece of apple kit they have on display. imacs. lovely. pricey. want don't need.
macbooks. gorgeous. pricey. want. need. will have to wait.
ipad. sweet. pricey. want. need. will have to wait.
(big sign up saying they have one copy left of the ipad1 and it is going for a low price - looks to be about £10 off. it has obviously sold. sign is still there).
i drag myself away from the apple stuff.
i look at external hard drives. i could do with another 2 gig one. it can wait. do i want some headphones. not really. let's look at the cameras. not much nikon stuff in here is there. i wander here and there along the aisles. nothing is taking my fancy (well nothing that i can afford).
i stumble along to where the graphics tablets are kept. i have a reason for wanting one: help with photo editing. i can justify it. the shelves are crammed with wacom's bamboo and intuso tablets. just one tablet on display from a company called trust. there is also just the one price tag for a tablet from a company called trust. the price tage says £25. do you know what i think i will take a chance on that. i pick it up and continue my stroll through the store.
i look at dvd players, i look at fridges (not had one for years maybe it is time to have one - that said i don't own an iron -but i am not looking to change that situation). i look at food steamers. for a moment i become a product expert on steamers - none of them look very stable, none of them look safe. not that it really matters as steamer means cooking and that isn't something i do very often.
sod it time to go home.
i go to pay.
£49.95 the chap says. no i say it said £25.
i go look. still just the one ticket price for the one trust tablet. i have the one trust tablet left in stock in my hands. so logic dictates that the price ticket refers to the product on the shelf.
oh you naive chap pat.
of course it doesn't. why the fuck would you think that. i mean why. if you need to check these things make sure you have compared the digits on the barcode of the box to the digits that appear on the price sticker.
i mean i wouldn't want the store to actually label up the goods correctly because that is just me be fucking unreasonable. i mean imagine that a shopper wanting to know that the price that is next to the item actually refers to the item.
all i can say is that i am irked by it.
retail isn't rocket science - but on the basis of the way they stock and label the stock in my local pc world i can understand why their sales are dropping.

still i did feel much better that i didn't spend the money on a graphics tablet. £25 saved. shame i ended up buying that david lachappelle book.
ah well. at least i didn't buy any cream cakes in tescos.
that's sodding will power for you.