She chastised the luckless philanthropist, complaining that he had disrupted the choir's performance and that he might have caused a serious situation, what with the stampeding shoppers and all.
What makes Qeshm different from Kish, known throughout Iran as a shoppers' haven, is that many locals own stores and malls.
But the fear – among rivals and shareholders, if not shoppers – is that chief executive Phil Clarke will eventually bring out the heavy ordnance.
Like-for-like sales advanced every quarter under his leadership until the last one, when the revolution currently under way in the grocery business – shoppers' sudden switch to convenience stores, online services and discounters like Aldi – finally caught up with him.
Inditex, whose founder Amancio Ortega is now Spain's richest person and the world's fifth-wealthiest according to the Forbes list of billionaires, was one of the pioneers of the fast fashion retailing model which sees new products flow into store every week to keep shoppers coming back for more.
Shoppers at the national chain of Costco stores who shelled out extra bucks for the lavish Ultimate Toy Box set were alarmed to find that their copies contained scenes that didn't quite fit with the Pixel universe.
When shoppers reach the "buy now" page, they are offered "free one-day delivery", which takes them into a pop-up page where, by clicking again, they agree to a free 30 day trial, which if not cancelled turns into a £79 a year subscription, with the money debited automatically every year.
A twentysomething I'll call Adam works in one of those warehouses for one of Britain's biggest firms, humping goods on to lorries to go to internet shoppers.
At the same time, Britain's largest chicken processor warned against a hysterical response to the FSA findings, arguing a food scare that put shoppers off buying chicken could "consquently damage the UK's food and farming industries".
With throngs of shoppers darting in and out of stores on Grafton Street and drinkers slaking their thirsts outside the pubs on side streets all the way up to St Stephen's Green, you could be forgiven for wondering, momentarily at least: recession, what recession?
One anonymous senior executive from a big high street retailer recently told the Guardian that shoppers "don't care" about conditions, and research shows most "prefer inexpensive over respect for human rights".
