I noticed the advert in the window saying "Shop now in store, pay later with Klarna". I know they're overpriced, but maybe things are worse than I feared.

t's a bit grim that all of the cafes are likely to be come Starbucks/Costa, for what it's worth the previous cafes wouldn't charge upwards of £5 for a drink. Certainly, Starbucks for me is a very rare treat now the prices are pushing upwards of £5.

I think in fairness you're not really comparing ...

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dont-get-your-hopes-up-for-a-wh-smith-revival/

Really good article from The Spectator about WHSmith


Interesting that it calls out WHS Cornmarket St. This was a slightly weird store that was split in two, the newsagenty bit (25% of the floor area) on the left ...

My boyfriend works at the Sainsbury's in Dundee and he says they've just filled the former cafe space with a Starbucks (it was still boarded up when I was last there). He's gutted about the pizza counter going as well.

This is really common in the US (a huge number of Safeway stores have ...

Andrew wrote: Wed 04 Dec, 2024 23.01 It depends on whether or not you class PC World as having closed or not

I think for this you have to apply the Norton Test.

If you can buy a computer from Curry's without someone trying to scare you into buying a copy of Norton Antivirus, then the spirit of their existence is gone.

I stumbled across this screenshot of mine (upload date: 2012) as the voucher offers on some credit card, and it looks like a who's who of failed or failing stores.

What are the chances the number of closed options is >50% before the end of next year? Frasers, HMV and Homebase have to be the ones ...

Betteridge's law of headlines never fails.

I still find X useful for certian niche interests, but it has become a version of #DontReadTheComments because if you do they'll just be a combination of hate speech, people with blue ticks outputting AI slop, and porn. (Sometimes all at the same time!). Of the three, I find the LLM slop to be the ...

all new Phil wrote: Tue 17 Sep, 2024 13.41Kay.

Kay Alexander has a new job? Not sure being a building site supervisor is playing to her strengths.

I’ve figured out the tories’ election strategy:

1. Become as disliked as possible
2. ???
3. Profit

Martin Phillp wrote: Wed 15 May, 2024 03.39Disenfranchised voters who see Labour and the Conservatives as both sides of the same coin

They may not be exactly two sides of the same coin, but they are certainly two sides of the same hairstyle.