This week’s Pointless Task Distribution Location is the Natural History Museum, which gives Sugar the chance to bust out a predictable gag about being a dinosaur.  The teams will have eight products demonstrated for them, and they’ll pick out two.  The dinosaur thing becomes clear: the products are all for the over 50s.

Sugs makes it very clear that the task is all about number of sales, rather than profit:

And here’s the good news.  The good news is, this is not all about profit.  Your job is to sell as much as possible, so you’ll be judged on sales volume.

But that gets forgotten by the end, and it is actually about revenue.  Well done, Al.

Lewis’ rambling questioning of the trolley maker has killed all hope of his team getting it.  We’re treated to shots of the teams viewing the products, making hideously transparent fawning noises and desperately trying to remember to ask if there’s flexibility on the RRP.

Project Manager Haya’s team argue over whether to have the cushion or the pie maker.  Haya stamps her feet over the pie maker, bellowing “PIES PIES PIES” like a Beano caricature of a fat girl.  Their second choice is the granny trolley, but Lewis has blown that, so they reluctantly take the bird box.

Haya does raise her prices though – selling the £20 pie maker for £30, then dropping it to £15 in a panic when nobody buys one.  Harry M and Hayley haven’t got their stories straight on how much the bird boxes should cost, and make up the RRP (“£150 to, er, £250”) and pretend they’ll raise prices later in the day.

Sugs has a moan about Haya selling the pie maker too expensively, and about James not getting a discount on the Hoover.  All this banging on about the Hoover being too expensive.  James snipes at Zara for not selling anything.  They haven’t even lost yet, and he’s sticking the boot in!

Oh, wait – James’s team has won, and Haya’s lost.  The pie maker sold half of sod all, and they only flogged five bird boxes.  Having said that, James’s team only sold three trollies and made almost all their money on the Hoovers.  The ones without discounts, pissing on Sugs’ business lesson ONCE AGAIN.

Haya’s entire team has screwed up this week:  She wouldn’t listen to Harry M pushing the cushion.  Harry M and Hayley sold next to nothing – but wait! Harry M brought in half their takings.  Oops.  Lewis waffled in his questioning and cost them the trolley.

Haya brings back Hayley and Lewis.  It’s all moaning about Haya getting so stompy over the pie maker.  Hayley gets really angry at her over it, and Lewis starts crying: “I should have kept my mouth shut.”

Despite Haya being on the receiving end of a massive Sugar bollocking, it’s SWERVE O’CLOCK as Lewis is… fired.

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