"Horizon scanning," said Rita. "It means looking ahead and planning your business strategy. And we need to do it."
Brian looked at the shop around him. Mags and fags. Was there really a future here?
"What are you suggesting:" he asked, tidying up the small pile of papers on the counter.
"We need to promote our celebrity couple."
"Fizgan and Hyrone?"
"No. Roy and Gail. According to a leaked storyline in one of those red top papers we sell, they are due to fall in love and get married. It will be the big Christmas story. We can put a card in the window saying that Roy and Gail met here. Tourists will flock to the site of where they had their first date, when Roy was thumbing through Railway Gauge Monthly and Gail came in to pay her overdue paper bill."
Brian was beginning to warm to the idea.
"We can commission mugs with pictures of them holding hands. We could commission a calendar... The Cropper and Gail families.... solo pictures of Gail, Roy, David, Nick, Sarah-lou, the grandchildren, Nina. And for Christmas, a big picture of the happy family all together. David in an Elf suit, Nina dressed as the Grinch."
Joyeous times. No one knew what this foreshadowed.
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