Re: "None of our stores has any of the items we're advertising"??

Jonathan Morton wrote:
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It really should be the more easily understandable "Some items not
available at some locations." Or maybe "at some stores."

Quite. This sort of thing does grate.

I can still remember a slogan from twenty years ago in the UK:

"All building societies are not the same". It was Anglia. They were
taken over. It served them right.

As it says on the oven-ready nosh packets, "All ovens vary ..."

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Mike.



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