June 14, 201313 yr Here in the uk, tesco are running an offer this week of if you spend more than £50 on your shopping, they are giving a voucher for £20 off when you spend £100 on electrical items. It says in-store purchases, but unlike other vouchers i've seen from them, it doesn't specifically exclude tesco-direct. Whilst tesco wouldn't normally be my goto shop for hard-drives, i'm sure with this voucher some of the external drives they stock suddenly seem more attractive with a £20 discount.
June 14, 201313 yr Off topic: Do people in the UK call electronics "electricals" or is the voucher for anything that requires electricity? The US English dictionary in my iPhone doesn't even have "electrical" in the plural as a real word, I get the red spell check dots. On topic: that seems like a really good deal.
June 14, 201313 yr Author it's not a term that it's in the English dictionary per say either, but it's common usage in retail stores to mean electrical appliances, anything from toasters to tv's and computers etc... as evidenced here http://www.johnlewis.com/electricals/c500001
June 14, 201313 yr Interesting. We call non 'technology' related electrical things such as a toaster or microwave or washing machine or fridge an appliance. Things like TVs or computers or cell phones (which is also a term you don't use over there) are specifically called electronics.
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