Out to lunch with the Pharaohs

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: January 8, 1999| Author: Sebastian Faulks | Copyright information

THE crowds that milled and surged in front of Harrods' glass doors at the bargain hour of nine o'clock on Wednesday morning did not look like people who needed to save a couple of quid here and there. The mixture of foreign tourists and Home Counties trippers all appeared to have already drunk deep at the consumer well this Christmas.

These were not poor people who, without the reduction, could not afford plates to eat off; they were in the main retail addicts, expert shoppers, with a ...

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