Chilli Milli ads and bubblegum sales - this week in Pakistan’s busi- ness and economics twitterverse

Chilli Milli ads and bubblegum sales

this week in Pakistan’s business and economics twitterverse

People were caught pulling their hair out of their head because of the incessant replaying of the ridiculous Chilli Milli advertisement featuring the ever-annoying Fahad Mustafa this week, but that was not all that was on people’s minds. Falling bubble gum sales taught us a scary lesson, we once again turned to a certain Prince for help, and the PSX’s new system crashed. Ariba Shahid brings you all this and more in this week’s social media roundup.

Enough said More than performative wokeness

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Without commenting on the nature of business, it’s pretty impressive if you manage sales with intense restrictions APWA wasn’t performative. It was legit. We’re thankful for all the women at APWA that worked for financial inclusion.

To all our fellow brokers and journalists: please don’t accept anything that can cloud your judgment. Your word is gold. No one should be able to buy that. This scribe, however, does not think twice before accepting mugs and notebooks. Those don’t really count. Money to make certain tweets, however, very much does count. It is a dishonest practice that is unfair to your readers and unfair to your own credibility.

Remember when a certain singer who is not worth naming asked everyone to send dancing videos so he could make a music video for the PSL because he couldn’t get over the fact that there were other singers out there that the PCB engaged to sing the anthem for the PSL? As silly and petty as that futile exercise was, it at least planted the seed for a new idea that has now blossomed in the creative minds of us here at Profit. I think we all need to join together for the collective good of the country and make an ad for Chilli Milli. We need to hurry up because I don’t think we want to see Fahad Mustafa between overs much longer, especially when one sees too much of him on a certain channel (still less compared to Wasim badami).

{Editor’s note: Any claims of creativity on the part of the staff of Profit are their personal opinions that do not necessarily reflect the views of the organization}

Changing times

For those that don’t know this, the reason grocery stores place bubble gum, chocolates, and other small items next to the cash register is so that while we’re waiting for our turn in line to pay for the things we are buying, we look around and pick up things that attract us. However, we’re so consumed by our phones now that there are massive dips in the sale of bubble gum. Similarly if you’re embarrassed by the contents of your shopping or over how you’ve only bought an item, chances are that you add a pack of gum to it as well. However now when you’ve got a phone to stare at to get over the long wait or avoid meeting eyes with the cashier, bubblegum sales are down around the world. Maybe this is why boom boom bubble gum had to call in the big guns by making Afridi their brand ambassador? 10

It’s been a while. Covid tests aren’t as rare as they were in the past. Why are they still so damn expensive and burn holes through pockets?