The comment was from the completely anonymous CJ and PK (by the way, that link is to their "complete profile" and tells us nothing about who or what they are) and read as follows: "How much wine do those supermarket loss-leader offers actually shift? Strikes me that they are largely bought along with a weekly shop when they catch the eye of a casual customer - NOT the person who would go to a wine merchant and buy something decent. So in fact, they do not hugely harm the retail industry.
How low can we go? As our redoubtable CJ once pointed out, "One of the greatest of all book titles is Reach For The Ground, by the late Jeffrey Bernard. Says it all.""
So, in response to an article exploring the very real problem of below-cost (or heavy discounting) selling causing real loss of jobs, their response is to assume that people who shop in supermarkets know little or nothing about good wine (hmm, since I have to admit buying plenty of the quoted wines, what does that say about me?) and that decent wine is only available in wine shops. Pretty insulting all round.
Then, it's topped off with a quote from a "redoubtable" anonymous person about a book where the relevance is hardly explained at all.
Do me a favour, if you're going to comment please make it worthwhile and at least have the courtesy to identify yourself - my name is on my blog so you all know where I'm coming from - why should it be different for you?
3 comments:
I thought the main reason people commented on blogs was to draw traffic back to their own blog, and you can't do that while hiding your identity.
I think that, strictly speaking, people can be anonymous if they so wish.
But it does undermine what they say on an issue, as it makes it look as though they may have vested interests or, even if they don't, like they don't have confidence enough in their own argument to attach their name to it.
Aha, I've never thought of commenting as a means to get traffic to my blog - ingenious!
So commenting here will drive traffic to my blog, brilliant move pinky, first stop 'traffic', next stop 'the world!'
At least you are provoking people enough, Dermot, so that they feel like they need to make a comment. The one nice thing about the comment function on these blogs is that it's easy to delete them...
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