For how much, exactly?
Posted on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 at 7:55pm. #
So, there I was tonight in Tesco.
(Note to US people reading: Tesco is a UK supermarket. It’s a bit like Walmart. Except it’s British. You own a set of supermarkets here too, called Asda, which are rather closer to Walmart because they’re owned by Walmart, even though they’re too embarrassed to say so up front. They’re shit. Their food is horrid, their stores are unpleasant, and they demonstrate great value food by getting women to slap their arse. Tesco is not quite as shit, and redeems itself somewhat by not asking women to slap their arse. It’s still mostly shit though.)
Welcome back. So, I was tonight in Tesco, buying important things like pizza, and some quite nice looking carrots, and some towels, and shampoo, and cat food, and cheese. Not quite in that order, otherwise I’d have walked miles.
For the new spare bedroom (it’s been empty for a few months) I idly thought it would be nice to buy an alarm clock, and a little radio - since chums who stay will probably be radio people. Then thought that it would be better to buy an alarm clock radio (see how my mind works) so I put the £2 alarm-clock back and went hunting for a clock radio.
I wanted a clock radio with DAB Digital Radio on it, naturally, and I ended up having quite a few to choose from. Including a brand new DAB Digital Radio clock radio alarm, from the Technika brand range.
No, the reason you’ve not heard of Technika is that it is, I suspect, a Tesco own-brand. It’s fug-ugly, which was one reason I noticed it, but the main reason I noticed it was that, amazingly, it was just £14.97. (It’s also available on the Tesco website, but not for that price).
£14.97 for a DAB Digital Radio. Crikey.
In the end, I bought a PURE Siesta clock radio
But wow. I can remember the day when we were excited that DAB Digital Radio sets had dipped below £99.
Photo: Russell Heiman. Used under licence.
Disclosure #1: the Pure Siesta link is an Amazon link which might earn me tuppence if you bought through it. Don’t feel you have to.
Disclosure #2: Pure have given me a few DAB Digital Radio sets as a gift. I think this is the fourth Pure set that I have bought, however, and it ought to be pointed out that Pure have never, once, bought me a beer, which is a gross oversight.
Disclosure #3: I forgot to buy some milk. Gah.
Ben said at April 8th, 2008 at 9:15pm 
William T said at April 9th, 2008 at 11:32am 
Steve Paget said at April 9th, 2008 at 4:21pm 
Callum May said at April 10th, 2008 at 10:49pm 
