Everything Everywhere dips toe in retail waters Everything Everywhere, the amalgamated Orange and T-Mobile networks, is opening five instances of a "new creative concept in communications retailing" – or shops as we used to call them. The stores ... sorry ... creative concepts in communications retailing ... will still sell contracts and phones, on both the Orange and T- …
Looks like they've nicked the concept Mary Portas developed for Fonehouse on her C4 prog last week ... though then again felt she might have nicked that from the Apple store (or from an earlier program (?John Harvey-Jones Troubleshooter ?) on Phones4u where the suggestion was staff should concentrate helping customers rather than just sellig to them).
Perhaps Orange should spend the money on getting a 3G network that has the capacity to handle the users it currently has before it goes on trying to get more people signed up on contracts to services it can't provide. And then they will be stuck for 2 years on an endless loop of "there's a mast problem in your area which should be fixed by the end of next week" and "try turning off the 3G on your phone" followed by "we have the best 3G coverage in the country". And there's no escape because you are in the contract and they have their small print that says "we cannot guarantee a service".
Not sure why but I already have a substantial level of dislike for this brand.
Maybe it's because they are soon to start pushing NFC cash replacements to the yoof via these "creative concepts in communications retailing".
Maybe it's because last year Orange actually really did state that in a few years time we'll all likley be paying for things via microchips embedded into our skin.
Maybe it's because coming out with bullshit like "creative concepts in communications retailing" automatically pisses me off.
Maybe its just because it's a stupid name.
..it is an unholy concoction, made from the guts of T-Mobile (whose connectivity and coverage is unspeakably weak) and Orange whose plans and billing sydtems such, whose coverage and backhaul is feeble in extremis and who like to SMS spam customers with surprising regularity.
Putting it in a slightly overdesigned store doesn't banish the fail. Can't polish a turd.
Arrogant Clueless Talentless Theiving Lying A-holes...
And that doesnt even come close to what I think of them at the moment. They're right at the top of my revenge pending list right now, even above the child abuser I know who managed to leg it before the US police arrived - having infected his kid with HPV...
Its a shame companies dont have graves - because I'd borg/freeze/brain in a bowl myself - just so I lived long enough to dance on it... however long it took
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