Big name brands and companies on the verge of collapse

[claphamboy]

Well yes, I thought it odd men were commenting the relative merits of Clintons v other card shops when men never buy cards.

I buy cards!

Admittedly, normally after being reminded to do so by Ms CB.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Can there be a product in the universe with more mark-up on it than a greeting's card? How do these people go out of business?

On a related note, i saw somewhere that Superdry is in trouble. How a business that sells a hoodie for £100 when it cost them £4.50 can possibly struggle to make money is beyond me. Last time I checked the trendy cunts with too much money demographic was alive and well...

 

[quimcunx]

trendy cunts with no money and credit card debt up to the limit can't any longer though.

 

[yardbird]

Can there be a product in the universe with more mark-up on it than a greeting's card?

Post-mix Coke/7up/etc purchased in a pub or restaurant how much?
Cost less than 10p sold at 1.50 !

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Can there be a product in the universe with more mark-up on it than a greeting's card? How do these people go out of business?

On a related note, i saw somewhere that Superdry is in trouble. How a business that sells a hoodie for £100 when it cost them £4.50 can possibly struggle to make money is beyond me. Last time I checked the trendy cunts with too much money demographic was alive and well...

That's strange, I have only become aware of the existence of Superdry in the last few weeks while in an impoverished seaside town. Superdry clothes were very visible It was mostly short jackets with Superdry and a bit of japanese writing on them. The people wearing it didn't look at all well off. Perhaps it was a batch of outdated gear from a discount clothes shop.

Are there any discounted Clinton cards to be had? (Just heard on the radio 8,000 employees to go)

 

[yardbird]

Trying to think of a cooking-related business that would have to 'call in the bayleafs'.

Elizabeth David

 

[Delroy Booth]

Post-mix Coke/7up/etc purchased in a pub or restaurant how much?
Cost less than 10p sold at 1.50 !

At a pub where I was working recently they got massive 10 litre tubs of ice-cream for £28, and charge £4 per scoop for dessert. I haven't done the maths but the markup there was obscene.

Same true to a lesser extent for cheese, which came in slabs the size of breezeblocks, can't remember the price, and yet adding a thin cheese to a burger would stick another £1.50 to the price of it.

 

[8115]

Just as a point of order, in a pub, the mark up (say) on a bottle of beer is fairly hefty. A vast amount of what you're paying for is gas, electricity, rent, staffing costs. And every time someone's having a diet coke, they're not haing a beer, so to price them much below makes no sense. I think that, for a long time, people did try and keep the price of soft drinks lower cos it encouraged people not to drink and drive, but with the the cost of alcohol shooting up, and increasing numbers of people drinking less, pubs have had no choice but to make soft drinks more expensive. I can't tell you how often I've heard that postmix costs pennies, that may be true of the product, but all the other costs are still there.

Back on topic, I have literally no idea how Clinton Cards didn't go bust years ago. I've always assumed it was a very elaborate and well-concealed money laundering operation. Apparently not.

 

[savoloysam]

I got a frosty reception in Iceland today.

 

[yardbird]

Pickford Storage packs it in.

 

[mauvais]

TomTom have taken a turn for the worse.

KPMG have gone into administration.

Microsoft's outlook is poor.

Dave's Parachute and Cast Iron Grandfather Clock World has fallen on hard times etc.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I got a frosty reception in Iceland today.

I heard that they had their assets frozen.

 

[purves grundy]

Can there be a product in the universe with more mark-up on it than a greeting's card?

I said that earlier. think up your own post content!

 

[Pickman's model]

I do. I go to book shops. Maybe other people do and maybe that's why Clinton's are going bust.

If you want a card you should go somewhere with a reputation for selling cards eg an art gallery. A bookshop isn't the best place to get cards.

 

[Pickman's model]

Can there be a product in the universe with more mark-up on it than a greeting's card? How do these people go out of business?

On a related note, i saw somewhere that Superdry is in trouble. How a business that sells a hoodie for £100 when it cost them £4.50 can possibly struggle to make money is beyond me. Last time I checked the trendy cunts with too much money demographic was alive and well...

Tea and coffee have fucking vast markups. How much is a tes bag? You feel you're doing well if you pay less than 20x its cost.

 

[biggus dickus]

Lizard Lounge called time on their utter fucking shit pubs full of cunts

 

[pogofish]

The loss of overpriced Clintons is a sign of a city failing?

Wow.

Shit - They have stores left right and centre round here - Including three within a few hundred yards of each other.

Something about the shops has always given me the creeps TBH, so in some ways I'm not too unhappy at the thought of them vanishing soon!

 

[wayward bob]

ponders copyrighting Cuntons Cards...

 

[biggus dickus]

Meanwhile sales in fireworks are going through the roof!

 

[moochedit]

I was always amazed that they could be viable.

I mean there are only two main reasons a year to buy cards, birthdays and christmas.

True, but people have birthdays all year round of course.

Sending cards is something that will die out though.
The only reason i still send any is because older people like my grandad expect to get them.
Most younger people are happy with a facebook greeting.

Shit for people that work for the company of course.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

News Flash! One of Clinton's American creditor companies is talking about taking it over and running it themselves. They are owed so much money that it puts them in a strong position. I presume they will change Clinton's selling policies, and probably sell off a lot of the shops.

 

[wayward bob]

Sending cards is something that will die out though.
The only reason i still send any is because older people like my grandad expect to get them.
Most younger people are happy with a facebook greeting.

analogue ftfw

 

[biggus dickus]

TomTom have taken a turn for the worse.

KPMG have gone into administration.

Microsoft's outlook is poor.

Dave's Parachute and Cast Iron Grandfather Clock World has fallen on hard times etc.

I used to order something from Cast Iron Grandfather Clock World every week.

 

[savoloysam]

Meanwhile sales in fireworks are going through the roof!

...and the amount people attending Weightwatchers is off the scale!

 

[biggus dickus]

errr, poached eggs, rape etc

 

[Orang Utan]

If you want a card you should go somewhere with a reputation for selling cards eg an art gallery. A bookshop isn't the best place to get cards.

You can get decent cards in the bookshops I go in

 

[mauvais]

I used to order something from Cast Iron Grandfather Clock World every week.

Was it a parachute? Those two product lines have absolutely nothing in common and a more cynical man than I would say that Dave wilfully drove his business to failure in order to construct a barely workable punchline.

 

[biggus dickus]

Was it a parachute? Those two product lines have absolutely nothing in common and a more cynical man than I would say that Dave wilfully drove his business to failure in order to construct a barely workable punchline.

Bob Marley said 'have no fear from atomic energy cos none of them can stop the time' but I didn't believe him so I invested in Led and Iron Grandfather clocks because Led and Iron are immune to nuclear rays and that.

 

[bignose1]

I am sorry for the employees of Clintons, but this is a very funny thread. I hate the products of most card shops with their artificial cringeworthy sentimentality. I always go for a card with a landscape or nature photograph and put my own message on it. They keep them in a drawer under all the crap and you have to ask for them. Why do they always produce cards for specific groups of people? This limits choice. "Happy Birthday 23 year old left handed vegetarian nephew" doesn't cut it. They should make them more general. That was one of their mistakes.

Bit of a neice market

 

[bignose1]

That's strange, I have only become aware of the existence of Superdry in the last few weeks while in an impoverished seaside town. Superdry clothes were very visible It was mostly short jackets with Superdry and a bit of japanese writing on them. The people wearing it didn't look at all well off. Perhaps it was a batch of outdated gear from a discount clothes shop.

Are there any discounted Clinton cards to be had? (Just heard on the radio 8,000 employees to go)

A case of pick up your cards on the way out