Denis: Store idea divorced from reality

Mar 5 2010 by Denis Kilcommons

Something else for which we can blame Heather Mills.

But I think Debenhams are just having a laugh.

Peter Moore, head of retail services at Debenhams, says, “A divorce means that one partner will be leaving their marital home and therefore be left without any essentials in their new house.”

Items the store expects to be popular include cookware, cutlery, crockery and glasses (you get a substantial present for a modest outlay), through toasters and non-iron shirts to large plasma screen TVs.

I presume the plasma TV is about as likely as a holiday in Barbados but then, this is Debenhams, which is a trifle upper crust.

Maybe a 42 inch Sony could be a possibility once Daphne decides the magic has gone out of her relationship with Roger.

“No, darling, the size of his bonus had nothing to do with it.”

And downsizing to a five bedroom house could be hell.

Okay, so it might work at Debenhams but, somehow, I don't think the idea will catch on with ordinary working folk.