Is the High Street doomed
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moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
Not been in one for years. I'm surprised they are still going.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
On top of them being a mess it’s the brass neck they have when it comes to pricing shit. Only noticed about 10 years ago when buying 20 Bennies at Heathrow and they came in over a tenner, thought was just Heathrow, then bought some snouts at the one on the high street and the same pisstake price. Then noticed they charge way over the odds for everything, and have never been in a high street one since. Am occasionally forced in to a train station one though.
30 years ago it was the place to go for school supplies and such. Now it is just an overpriced cesspool of crap. Only reason I go in there is for Viz.
They do (must?) own a lot of prime commercial property which I expect keeps them trading
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
They have a decent comic book selection for the high street but a shit shop overall.
phillm
Trolling through Life (TM)
This week went to a 24 hour automated unmanned filling station in Chatham and saw a computer key cutter in B&Q which promises 99.7% accuracy and a robot lawn mower working the gardens in Edinburgh. This is the rise of the robots - starting to think the doom mongers Hawkins/Musk et al are probably on point. If you see an Alexa kill the fucker - this is how it starts.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Were they looking for Sarah Connor?
phillm
Trolling through Life (TM)
just day old infants at the moment waking blinded into a human shaped world - they will grow up and learn quickly...helped by humans - we are at ground zero of a tech-ebola virus.
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
They have a lot of stores in mainline stations, hospitals, shopping centers, etc, mainly franchiesd out.
BristolEcho
Well-Known Member
We've noticed this when looking at other places recently. We got our place two years ago, but I don't see how he could charge any more now even if he wanted to. That's probably why he's not tried to raised our rent to be fair. Two years ago it felt like he could have pushed it by another £200.
Cloo
Banana for scale
Awkward working hours I suppose? But then plenty of supermarkets open longer. I do honestly think it would help local shops as at the moment a lot of them are only accessible on Saturdays to people working standard hours. As has been said, though, a lot of them will have a nearby supermarket as competition, which is also a problem.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Sadly at stations and airports there's no alternative to Smiths for books, mags, papers, chocs etc. Last month I flew for the first time from London City Airport and, in what's a relatively tiny airport, there were 3 fucking Smiths outlets!
As well as being depressing and overpriced, Smiths shops always have a quite nauseating smell to them - a bit like Subway does, but theirs is because of their bread. I've no idea why Smiths have such a distinctive smell, unless it's the stuff their cleaners use, but why wouldn't that be used elsewhere? And Smiths have always smelt the same for as long as I can remember - which is back to the 70's!
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Poundworld was looking to be rescued, but the buyers have pulled out, so it could go down.
Poundworld future hangs in the balance
They've already closed their massive Poundworld Extra store here, which only opened about 18 months earlier.
BristolEcho
Well-Known Member
Didn't Poundland massively oberstretch? There were 2 in our shopping area with another 3 branded poundshops within that area over the years.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
My post was about Poundworld, I don't think Poundland is in trouble.
BristolEcho
Well-Known Member
Ah my mistake. They've set up in the same place that I mentioned.
Just saw that
House of Fraser to close 31 stores - House of Fraser to close 31 stores
Surprised they are closing Oxford Street. Although that must be the most valuable property (or highest rent?) asset.
House of Fraser to close 31 stores - House of Fraser to close 31 stores
Surprised they are closing Oxford Street. Although that must be the most valuable property (or highest rent?) asset.
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
6000 job losses. 
If you want more shops to stay closed on a Sunday, why are you going into Westfield on a Sunday? Or is it not Sunday specifically, just saluting that shop for ignoring pressure from the mall operator?
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Any idea what USDAW are planning to do about this? In terms of redundancy avoidance and job security?
They do not seem to be recognised by HoF by the way. So maybe they need to go and speak to the 6,000 staff (and those still with a job about why a union is needed in HoF)
They do not seem to be recognised by HoF by the way. So maybe they need to go and speak to the 6,000 staff (and those still with a job about why a union is needed in HoF)
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
They have already announced a massive store closure programme.
Marks & Spencer to close 100-plus stores by 2022 in ‘radical’ plan
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