Monday, January 26, 2009

The logistics of the Finance Minister buying shoes

On TV they're showing Jim Flaherty buying shoes. He appears to be trying them on, and there appear to be some other boxes nearby for him to try on too. There's a swarm of media around him taking pictures.

I wonder how that really works? He can't possibly be doing a from-scratch trying-on-for-real shoe shopping trip with all those media people following him. A real shoe-shopping trip involves going to several different stores and trying on a bunch of different things and then maybe going back and doing a comparision etc. It could take all day, which would be boring for the media people and tiresome for Mr. Flaherty to do with a mob of cameras on him.

They must either do one trip to a specific store where he buys the best pair available there (and perhaps returns it later if it isn't good enough) or they must do preliminary recon to identify the best pair and then he shows up with his media mob and goes through the motions of trying them on.

2 comments:

laura k said...

My shoe buying always involves going to only one store.

People who don't like shopping and don't care about shoes - and have one, specific type of shoe in mind - can easily do it at one store.

But they probably do prelim recon anyway, to make a better photo op.

impudent strumpet said...

You can reliably get suitable shoes at just one store???? Which store?