Pharmacy Daily | Dispensary Corner 05 Feb 14

SUPER d’oh. Building your brand is one thing but you’ve got to be careful with store promotions. Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale ran the “Pigskin Promotion” in Texas offering Gallery Furniture customers who spent at least US$6000 in the store the fortnight before the Super Bowl and had their items delivered by Sunday 5pm, a full refund if the Seattle Seahawks won the game, KRIV Fox 26 News reported. More than 1000 customers received the refund, with McIngvale losing US$7 million. McIngvale, though, didn’t seem fazed, telling the news station that he got a kick out of it. STOP in the name of health. Talk about healthy living - a police sergeant in Osaka, Japan has resigned after reportedly forcing subordinates to eat 15 hamburgers at a time, in order to “toughen them up.” The traffic sergeant was reprimanded after ordering four younger officers to eat bulk meals in one sitting, such as 15 hamburgers, 15 donuts, four large-sized cups of noodles or three to four litres of coffee-flavoured milk over a period of 10 times, after finding they weren’t working hard enough, AFP reported. NEK minnit, world peace. You may have seen the latest YouTube sensation - NekNomination, where people down an alcoholic drink and then challenge friends to the same. A South African man, however, has turned the craze to good cause, in a YouTube video with more than 225,000 views. As facts about South African poverty appear onscreen, Brent Lindeque drives around and hands out a sandwich, banana and Coke to a homeless man, and challenges his friends to do the same.

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