Re: UKNM: The Big Retailers - was Toys R Us

[Sajid Mohammed]

---Steve Johnston/IMRG <

steveimrg [dot] org

> wrote:

> I'd be more interested in the demographic profile of homes with satellite 

> systems and cable access (this feels familiar territory - home 

> entertainment = cheap entertainment) and if you think a little thing like a 

> credit card will stall consumer e-commerce you ain't thinking straight.


Thinking straight never got me anywhere - my thought processes are

positively bent.


When Sky first came to market was it not lower-income households who

jumped on the bandwagon in droves? (Visions of sink estates covered in

dishes...) So I think to a certain extent you've answered half of my

question - assuming that you are referring to the fabled new platforms

like InTV.


But you haven't addressed the issue of exclusion - and I doubt whether

many on this list even consider the fate of those living on or below

the poverty line. The gross distortions caused to the global economy

by the activities of transnational corporations are I imagine 'dull as

dishwater'.


And would you care to share with the rest of us the reason why the

lack of a credit card will prove to be no hindrance?


> Sajid, for once you forgot to polish your crystal ball.


Note the caveat I inserted above 'unsubstantiated conviction' - not

'assertion qualified by years of industry experience and expensive

research'.


If you want crystal ball gazing, Criswell Predicts the Internet

industry will go the way of the video game industry circa 1983 (for

Colecovision, read Cisco) by about 2001. Whilst we wait for the

industry to recover, I will be spearheading the development of a new

generation of youth-oriented religious cults which will have a pop

culture aesthetic (imagine Zen Buddhism designed by Me Company &

Designers Republic) and customer service a la Orange or Egg.


You are all welcome to visit me in Goa, where I will be forming a

colony of burnt-out MarCom executives - especially Tim Hayward (not

that I'm suggesting you're burnt-out), as your skills in cuisine,

forensic photography & wearing 'outrageous shirts' would fit in

marvellously. ;)


Sajid Mohammed

Magister Templi, World OTO

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