Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Duck v Waitrose: Middle class smugness defined


So, posh supermarket Waitrose started off a dommed marketing hashtag on that there Twitter, asking why people shop in their supermarket. Needless to say, it backfired spectacularly, with punters turning the shop's poshness up to eleven and sending in replies like "Because Asda don't stock unicorn food".

Even the Guardian found it amusing In a moment of inspired genius (because modesty is one of my major assets), I sent in this little number:
"I shop at Waitrose because..." you say "Ten items or fewer" not "Ten items or less", which is important #WaitroseReasons
To say things went mental is an understatement. All of a sudden, I'm being quoted on Radio Four (twice), the Guardian, and find myself with over 3,000 Twitter followers, most of them real actual people, all waiting for my next bit of middle class wit. So I Tweet a bit about football, and most of them bugger off and head back to knitting their own lunches.

I haven't had this much fun sincer the Governator retweeted my "Vote for me if you want to live" gag, and I really think Waitrose should send me a great big prize, like a two-hour trolley dash. I'll need the whole two hours, because we need to check everything is organic.

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And when I thought it was all over, my Tweet turns up on page three of the Daily Mail. I feel unclean, somebody get me a wire brush.

And ITV

And Marketing Magazine

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've been following you for quite some time [having become aware of your work back in the BoB days], and also happen to work for one of those appalling media outlets you mention. When I saw they were a] using your tweet, and b] taking it seriously, I laughed my arse off, almost done an egg - and chose not to correct them. Best day at work in quite some time. Cheers!

TRT said...

The internet. Not a place for mortals.

Alistair Coleman said...

+10,000 points for Done An Egg

Macheath said...

And there was me thinking my mother-in-law must have learned how to tweet!

(Bet you don't carry round a marker pen in order to correct grammar mistakes on municipal signage, though...)