Sofa* so not-so-good. Furniture retailer Harvey Norman wishes it hadn’t entered into the Irish market. Since entering the market, sales haven’t sat* well with chairman Gerry Harvey and with the downturn in the economy things are going from bad to worse. Bitching about trading difficulties in Ireland, Harvey had this to say: “Just imagine you opened in Ireland; you’d want to go and cut your throat. The potato famine, someone said, the return of the potato famine in Ireland!”.
What a stool*!
For a start, he should have blamed the nasty design or bad quality of his product. Just because his more tacky countrymen buy his gear in bulk doesn’t mean we will. Doesn’t he know, we’re practically European over here!
What really bugs me is his choice of language. Doesn’t he realise how many millions died in the so-called “potato” famine? Couching* his business troubles in this kind of language is an insult to the Irish people. Can you imagine if he went to Israel and used Holocaust references?
I’d suggest a famine-era response, namely a Boycott, but I think our superior taste has already pre-empted that.
Get out of town, Harvey Norman. Your spuds are roasted!
* See what I did there? !
