pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
This corporation landlord thing, sounds a bit South Korean. LG, Samsung, Dae Woo etc own tower blocks in the major cities and rent apartments out. Imagine living in Top Shop heights or Thorntons Towers?
Is the High Street doomed
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Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Those companies are so diverse though, they make everything, they are built using Samsung construction companies, fitted with Samsung lifts, probably financed by Samsung finance companies. I believe they even own clothing brands.
When in Korea, my ex pointed out the high rise building they had been project manager for during construction whilst for when they worked for one part of Samsung.
When in Korea, my ex pointed out the high rise building they had been project manager for during construction whilst for when they worked for one part of Samsung.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Oddly two of these Co working places have opened in my local high street in the past 12 months and both seem quite busy, a third is being kitted out down a side street as well. Guess if you need to work from home but don’t have a dedicated space and kids/flatmates etc. make it hard they could be useful..?
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
A lot of people who wanted to set up a business but could only afford to do it as a small side hustle while they held down a full time job, suddenly found themselves on furlough in March 2020.
I'm hoping they don't close my local as paying cash in at the Santander ATM is free but taking it to the post office would cost me about 1% of the total paid in.Most banks have arrangements for everyday banking to be done at the Post Office, which saves the day somewhat, and gives the PO extra revenue.
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Have they listed the branches that are closing?
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
I am in the same position, but hadn't thought about the charge for paying in cash over the counter, that's a bugger.
Yep, see this post -
When we moved to the Shard it was cheaper than the same size WeWork office believe it or not.
Will people WFH for a long while to come some people will want small, local shared office spaces to escape from home. Couple of my staff are already doing this. Costing them £30-40 a week and gets them away from their kids
WeWork and such need a lot of commuting people into cities.
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
When I started in the shoe trade, in sneakers, development was done in Busan. The sourcing companies we used were Dae Woo, Samsung and Sun Kyong. LG had petrol stations, even cigarettes and chewing gum.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
I paid £100 in cash into my barclays account at a post office last week and they didn't take any percentage out of it.
I think it will only show on your monthly bank charges?
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
The charges thing is a problem because looking at the areas on the list I'm familiar with, where there's two or three 'close by' they're closing the ones in the more deprived areas
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
Just checked my bank app and no charges taken yet. Just shows the 100 pound going in. Someone paid me in cash for something i sold the other week and as i normally use contactless these days i thought i'd pay it in. Won't do that again though if they do charge me later.
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
The Post Office doesn't charge for banking cash, that would be down to the bank, and normally it only applies to business accounts.
I think the legalities of you putting your money in a bank is that you have agreed to loaning the bank your money as per their terms and conditions.
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
It's normal to have charges on business accounts, and Santander offers a very good deal compared with others, I pay a flat £12.50 pm, which covers everything apart from paying in anything over £1k cash a month over the counter, then it's only 0.7%, it's free if you pay in via the machine.
However, I get £100 cashback per year & 0.1% interest on the balance, so I pay slightly under £50 a year, about £150 less than RBS used to charge me.
My personal account is with Tesco Bank, which pays 1% on balances, plus clubcard points when ever use the debt card anywhere, and extra points in Tesco outlets.
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Books, not bombs
Use them or lose them........" When you buy from a small business, an actual person does a little happy dance. "
www.mirror.co.uk
Shop owners make desperate 'use us or lose us' plea as 15,000 are forced to shut
EXCLUSIVE: The Mirror campaign is supporting retailers, who have lost £30billion of sales over the pandemic, by urging you to shop as lockdown eases
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NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Of course, but unlike a typical loan most current account holders have the expectation of being able to access their funds at any time. Banks are able to juggle this situation under normal conditions because most people leave the majority of their funds sitting in their accounts. Of course this breaks down when there's a run on the bank.
Fair enough on business accounts, since they're not one of the more important things for an ordinary person to have.
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
As sad as it is, if anyone is looking for a bargain, Debenhams re-open next week with a closing down sale & up to 70% off.
www.mirror.co.uk
Debenhams to reopen 97 stores for 70% off final sale next week – full list
The 242-year-old department store chain, which went into liquidation last December, said stores will return to business on April 12 - with remaining branches to close on May 15
www.mirror.co.uk
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Books, not bombs
miss direct should be told
As sad as it is, if anyone is looking for a bargain, Debenhams re-open next week with a closing down sale & up to 70% off.
Debenhams to reopen 97 stores for 70% off final sale next week – full list
The 242-year-old department store chain, which went into liquidation last December, said stores will return to business on April 12 - with remaining branches to close on May 15
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
A lot of the corona grants have been business rates based, it's likely a lot of people have hung on to premises to keep the income (the margins can be massive on this) and will close once the grant money dries up.
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Books, not bombs
Slightly off piste I know, but see people are worried about the fate of the buildings where department stores have closed. It's unlikely one company could take any on. A dreadful example was allowed in Croydon. The building became a disaster after Allders closed.
www.theguardian.com
Landmark UK department stores at risk as Covid changes city centres
Locally beloved buildings, from 1930s classics to brutalist edifices, are facing developers’ wrecking balls
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Slightly off piste I know, but see people are worried about the fate of the buildings where department stores have closed. It's unlikely one company could take any on. A dreadful example was allowed in Croydon. The building became a disaster after Allders closed.
Landmark UK department stores at risk as Covid changes city centres
Locally beloved buildings, from 1930s classics to brutalist edifices, are facing developers’ wrecking balls
They’ll become executive apartments. Debenhams in Guildford is right on the river and already has an underground car park, so is ripe for it.
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