The Lincoln’s Road Mall in Miami Beach is a long road, with shops on both sides, that’s somewhat pedestrianised. Yet it’s not a high street, it’s an ‘outdoor mall’, a nice piece of branding allowing it to claim to compete with the mammoth shopping centres spread around the nearby area. Walking through London’s Westfield mall the other...

Walking with Mrs MSE in the Westfield shopping centre the other day, we passed by ‘Massage Angels’ (a new back-rub booth there), with four attractive women rather heavily touting for business. As we’d both just been complaining about knots in our backs, Mrs. MSE asked the price only to be told it was “pay what you think...

For six years now I’ve been appearing on TV in stripey shirts and jeans (though on Daybreak I wear formal trousers after a request), but this week I’ve started a wee image change… As I know some get very vexed on such issues (you’d be amazed on how many comments come through about clothes, I even wore...

When a fire alarm goes off in a hotel, you go out half asleep and people recognise you from the telly, it ain’t fun. I traipsed outside in my bathrobe only to be greeted by a raft of comments including “saving money on clothes are you now?” On Sun night, having gone to bed for an early...

Just seen an advert for Harvey’s The Furniture Store’s sofas. The small print flashed on screen and I thought I’d spotted something, so using the joy of hard-drive recorder instant rewind there it was. Very naughty ‘price framing’ indeed… What you see in the ad… You see a woman sitting in a recliner sofa, with a discount...