Do I live in FøTeX?!

I was just playing around with my home banking… I exported the data for the last year to OOCalc and filtered it based on the descriptive text associated with each entry. So I discovered that I’ve spend no less than 8,897.67 DKK (roughly 1,500 USD or 1,200 EUR) in the FøTeX in Storcenter Nord! And that’s for the last six months only since I was in Switzerland until Marts this year.

Spending almost 9,000 kroners on 51 shopping sprees is an average of 175 DKK per visit. Auch — FøTeX is an expensive place to enter! Comparing FøTeX to some of the cheaper super markeds I see that both Netto and Fakta average around 130 DKK per visit for me. So I could probably save some money by shopping there more often.

These statistics are wrong by an unknow factor since they only reflect the spendings I’ve made with my credit card (Dankort). So the “score” for FøTeX would be even higher if one included all the little visits I’ve made where I paid with cash. They also include the stuff I’ve bought for our lunch club, which might help to explain the many expensive visits made to FøTeX.

6 Comments

  1. Mikkel:

    In the (admittedly far from perfect German) words of Red Warszawa:

    DAS KÜHLSCHRANK IST LEER
    DIE GEMÜSEN KANN NICHT MEHR
    SIE SIND ALLE FAULEN
    ICH MUSS WAS NEUES KAUFEN
    ICH HAB KEIN GELD
    MUSS FLASCHEN VERKAUFEN

    ALDI
    ICH KOMM ZU DICH ‘REIN
    ALDI
    DU BIST EIN SCHVEIN
    ALDI
    ALTEN OMAS KLAUEN HIER
    ALDI
    UND DU KLAUST VON MIR

    KEINER FRUENDEN HIER
    DIE JUNGEN KAUFEN BIER
    OMAS KLAUEN KATZEESSEN
    ZU BEZALEN SIE VERGESSEN
    DAS FLEISCH IST NUR FETT
    ABER DIE KASSEDAME IST NETT

    ALDI…

    DIE GEMÜSE SIND ALTE
    UND DIE BIER IST ALLE
    EIN OMA VIRD GENOMMEN
    DAS POLIZIE WILL KOMMEN
    MAN GLAUB ES BILLEG IST
    ABER ICH VEISS WAS DU BIST

    ALDI…

  2. Martin Geisler:

    Hillarious! I love it :-)

  3. Mikkel:

    Alright, I’d better clear this up before some smartass starts commenting it. I did not write the song, it just copied it. I cannot be held responsible for the many errors in it or the “accidental” deaths of my enemies.

  4. Mikkel:

    However, I do hold myself responsible for the error I made in the last comment. Or do I?

  5. Ole Laursen:

    I datamined me and my girlfriend’s data a couple of months ago. We live right next to Føtex near AAU (outside the city) so do all our daily shopping there. IIRC, the monthly average spendings are about 2300 kr with the variance about 200-400 kr.

    BTW, it’s Føtex with small ‘t’ and ‘x’ and it’s not pronounced Føh-tech, you LaTeX-nut. :-)

  6. Martin Geisler:

    Hi Ole — you guys must live just inside the automatic doors in your FøTeX to spend so much money there. Incredible :-)

    As for the spelling and pronounciation, then I’m aware of the problem. We (some guys at DAIMI) have decided to fix it slowly by writing capital ‘T’ and ‘X’es wherever we can :-)

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