Regular readers will recall from May’s edition that Under The Counter had a bee in his bunnet about a retailer who promoted his business with a life-sized cutout of himself. UTC was aggrieved that the cutout, far from being life-sized, was a good six inches smaller than the actual retailer.
And regular readers won’t be surprised to discover he’s at it again, this time over a cutout of Asda owner, Manjit Dale, founding partner of private equity firm TDR Capital.
It turns out that Asda colleagues are upset that TDR is making them do more work in less hours. The downtrodden workers quite rightly expressed their anger by demonstrating outside an Asda store in Bournemouth, complete with a cutout of Dale.
Now, SLR would like to describe the cutout as “life size”. However, to do so would risk giving UTC an aneurysm since – as the Auld Boy was at great pains to point out – the figure towers over the demonstrators. And that’s before his multi-billionaire capitalist robber baron top hat is taken into consideration.
Fair enough, Auld Boy. There may well be a problem with life-sized cutouts.
However, it may well be that Dale is quite tall and that Asda staff – after all that downtrodding from TDR – are quite short. Just saying.
