{"id":939,"date":"2011-12-29T17:23:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T16:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=939"},"modified":"2011-12-29T17:23:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T16:23:03","slug":"shelf-life-by-simon-parke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Shelf Life by Simon Parke"},"content":{"rendered":"

See the page on this website: Shelf Life by Simon Parke<\/span> (otherwise known as ‘our Einstein of the aisles’). Also check out: http:\/\/www.simonparke.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Review from ‘The Shopkeeper’: ‘The best book we’ve read in aaaages’:<\/p>\n

A few justifiable kinks<\/span>…from page 92:<\/p>\n

We all have our rules – and then we bend them. We are all entirely consistent – until we are not. Our morality is a straight line, straight as a die – but with a few justifiable kinks. The Cash Office Two put a kink around taking money from a rich company that pays low wages. I put a kink around the fruit, because it’s good for me, and it would only be thrown away if I didn’t eat it. Stav puts a kink around using company time for his own purposes, because he doesn’t owe them anything, after the recent trouble with his wages. And daily, Pinocchio puts a kink around treating any of the staff with respect, because the company is here for profit not social work – and he doesn’t know how to be anything\u00a0other than\u00a0negative. And supermarkets? Supermarkets put a kink around preying on vulnerable customers, because it’s a free market, it’s their choice, they’re adults and, although the milk is put at the furthest point from the door, to ensure maximum exposure of all products – it’s not as if customers have<\/em> to buy anything. <\/em>And the farmers can take what they’re offered – or starve.<\/p>\n

And Lenny? Lenny’s kink was pastry. Lenny put a kink around a pain au chocolat from the bakery section, because he really fancied it – and was sacked last week for his troubles. He was out the door by lunchtime, though I think they wanted to get rid of him anyway because, truly, he was as lazy as a sloth in a hammock.<\/p>\n

From ‘Shelf Life’ by Simon Parke (http:\/\/www.simonparke.com\/<\/a>). Available from amazon.co.uk (http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See the page on this website: Shelf Life by Simon Parke (otherwise known as ‘our Einstein of the aisles’). Also check out: http:\/\/www.simonparke.com\/. Review from ‘The Shopkeeper’: ‘The best book we’ve read in aaaages’: A few justifiable kinks…from page 92: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[81,32],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-f9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}