PG Tips in Chiang Mai

[Ricardo]

I've only seen Marks and Spencers clothes shops here, so wherever their food shops may be hidden away (if they have any), I hardly think you can count them as a serious supermarket competitor.

Go to the M&S on the second-floor of Central-Festival, on-the-left at the back of their clothing-store is a small food-area, sweets & biscuits or tea/coffee/jams/cereals, it's not wonderful but at-least 'a taste of home'.

Current bargain earlier this week was 30 custard-creams for B80, or discounted Malted-Milk biscuits for only B50 ! perfect with morning-coffee ...

[Ricardo]

You hum it son, I'll play it.

[Trujillo]

What is "PG"?

[tolsti]

Rimping have Twinings and Dilmah teas, both of which are streets ahead of Heladiv. I bought some Heladiv English Breakfast once; It was horrible stuff: weak, insipid, tasteless rubbish.

Their stock control is a complete joke though. They run our of nearly everything on a depressingly regular basis. It seems they are too stupid to order goods before they have actually run out.

The danger of thinking that every time you have a problem in Thailand it is because people are stupid is that you end up being a miserable moaner that no-one , especially the Thais, will want to listen to or be with. If you find yourself starting sentences with "These people are so ......" It's time for a major re-think.

I remember when Rimping had one store on Thapae road (called Tantraphan) and when the big stores came along they were in danger of going under. As it was they found a niche by becoming what they are today, which is local store supplying locals and expats with a wide variety of products that the big stores don't sell. They specialised and became so succesful they now have maybe 8 or 9 stores. Stupid? I don't think so.

When something happens here that wouldn't happen back home, instead of thinking it's because they're stupid, I opt instead to look at the issue, take stupidity out of the equation and try to figure out what else it might be. I have a pub selling local beers and imported beers. Do I ever have a problem keeping a supply of local beers? generally not. Do I ever get a problem with keeping a supply of imported beers ? Yes. So, if you come to my pub and I happen to be out of stock of one of my many imported beer, does that make me stupid?

Just like Rimping, my imported products are generally supplied from an importer in Bangkok. Sometimes a beer is not available because they are waiting for a new shipment to arrive, waiting for the customs to clear it, or some other problem. They are small companies importing specialist products and unfortunately they encounter plenty of problems that the big importers don't. Since I never run out of Singha, and similarly Rimping never run out of Mama noodles, then it's fair to say that I/They do have a stock control system. So if most of the local products are regularly in stock but some imported products are occasionally out of stock, it more than likely isn't because we're stupid.

So, the moral of the story is ..... stop thinking that every difficulty you have in Thailand is because people are stupid, and open your mind. It will make you a lot happier and a lot more tolerable.

Echo !

[FolkGuitar]

What is "PG"?

In the 1930s Brook Bond launched PG Tips in the UK tea market under the name Pre-Gest-Tee. The name implied that it could be drunk prior to eating food, as a digestive aid. After the WWII, labeling regulations ruled out describing tea as aiding digestion—a property that had been attributed to tea—and by 1950/1 the PG name was adopted. The company added "Tips" referring to the fact that only the tips (the top two leaves and bud) of the tea plant are used in the blend.

Edited February 4, 2016 by FolkGuitar

[MESmith]

What is "PG"?

In the 1930s Brook Bond launched PG Tips in the UK tea market under the name Pre-Gest-Tee. The name implied that it could be drunk prior to eating food, as a digestive aid. After the WWII, labeling regulations ruled out describing tea as aiding digestion—a property that had been attributed to tea—and by 1950/1 the PG name was adopted. The company added "Tips" referring to the fact that only the tips (the top two leaves and bud) of the tea plant are used in the blend.

If you're going to cut & paste from the interweb, quote your source

[sappersrest]

What is "PG"?

In the 1930s Brook Bond launched PG Tips in the UK tea market under the name Pre-Gest-Tee. The name implied that it could be drunk prior to eating food, as a digestive aid. After the WWII, labeling regulations ruled out describing tea as aiding digestion—a property that had been attributed to tea—and by 1950/1 the PG name was adopted. The company added "Tips" referring to the fact that only the tips (the top two leaves and bud) of the tea plant are used in the blend.

Spoil sport you have just busted the greatest secret us Brits ever had.

[FolkGuitar]

What is "PG"?

In the 1930s Brook Bond launched PG Tips in the UK tea market under the name Pre-Gest-Tee. The name implied that it could be drunk prior to eating food, as a digestive aid. After the WWII, labeling regulations ruled out describing tea as aiding digestion—a property that had been attributed to tea—and by 1950/1 the PG name was adopted. The company added "Tips" referring to the fact that only the tips (the top two leaves and bud) of the tea plant are used in the blend.

If you're going to cut & paste from the interweb, quote your source

No need. (Unless one is "The Church Lady" from SNL.) Something like this isn't important enough.

I highly doubt anyone suspected that this was something I learned in grad school.

If Truijillo really wanted the information validated badly enough, he could have found it as easily as you did, and you both would know the source, right?