Zork was one of the first interactive fiction computer games. Set in a sprawling underground labyrinth the user controlled a nameless adventurer whose goal was to find treasures hidden in caves. Zork is also the name of a resealable top for sparkling wines and Tesco have just announced that they will be adopting the closure [...]
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Tesco refuses to sell dad wine because 8 year old daughter had no I.D.
Yet another example of gitmo supermarket behaviour reached WineOfTheWeek at the weekend with the news that a father who went shopping with his daughter was unable to buy a bottle of wine because his eight year old child did not have ID. Despite explaining his daughter was only eight, Navid Asadi claims that Tesco staff [...]
Vending machines pending in Pennsylvania
It’s the Japanese who blazed a trail for selling anything and everything from vending machines, but the Americans are catching up. Pennsylvania has gone hi-tech to keep it’s tough controls on selling alcohol, whilst allowing non state-owned supermarkets to sell it for the first time. To get hold of your favorite tipple you need to [...]
English Wine Prospers and Malcolm Gluck isn’t Happy
It’s English Wine Week again and it seems that this year the English wine industry is walking with a confident swagger. According to official figures released by English Wine Producers (the trade body) the number of bottles produced by English wineries jumped from 1.34 million in 2008 to 3.17 million in 2009. However serial miserabilist [...]
“What do I have to do to get served around here?”
Another week passes and another Supermarket refuses to let shoppers buy wine. This time it was a 33 year old Cambridgeshire man denied by Tesco because he had no I.D. Sometimes life is beyond satire but sometimes we need the absurd to highlight, well, the absurd. Dear Readers, I hand you over to Roy Turse [...]
Why can’t Tesco’s Sir Terry Leahy use Google Adwords?
Calling all Ad Agencies and Google AdWords specialists. Tesco is looking for some advice on how to turn AdWords campaigns off. The problem was identified last week when Sir Terry Leahy (Tesco’s CEO) announced that the supermarket’s customers are extremely concerned about the the impact of cheap alcohol on society. Sir Terry was quick to [...]
BBC NEWS | England | Pensioners refused wine over ID
I’m really at a loss with this one. Two pensioners from Essex were left stunned when they were asked to show photo identification to buy a bottle of wine. Jennifer Rogers went to her local One Stop convenience store with a 70-year-old friend.But a staff member refused the sale saying she needed photographic identification to [...]
Tesco is the Anti-Christ. It's official.
Oh dear. Tesco, Tesco, Tesco. What do you think that Terry Leahy drinks at home? Not this rubbish, that’s for sure. Tesco has unveiled a range of budget wines, packaged in one-litre Tetra Paks and priced at £2.89. The three-strong range, which includes a red, a white and a rosé, has been sourced from from [...]
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Tesco wine chief hoists himself by his own petard. Ouch.
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Chewing gum found in ‘fake’ wine bottle
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6 litre bottle of 1961 Latour sells for £135,000
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Who Madoff with all the wine? Bernie did!!
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