You are fettered, said Scrooge, trembling. Tell me why?
Richard Speed Sat 2 Jan 2021 // 09:30 UTC Share
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12BoC It s that Christmas feeling: scrabbling around for the correct cable to attach a poppet s new toy to the family TV. Getting into the swing of things, today s bork, the ninth in our Twelve Borks of Christmas (12BoC) series , sees something similar on a screen outside Waitrose.
Register reader Ian Bonham, garbed in the most fetching of hi-vis, spotted this distressed product of JCDeceaux outside posh hummus hustlers Waitrose in the historic Suffolk town of Bury St Edmunds.
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Normally serving up steamy piles of product pitches to passing punters, the screen looks to us like it might be showing some form of connection error. It s not one with which we re altogether familiar, although we re pretty sure it isn t a lure to tempt customers into the store to purchase the cables within.