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Orang Utan said:
Yeah you could - you could have a car from a car pool provided by your employer
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I'd need it every day though. And I'm not driving all the way back to the office on Friday to return it back to the pool then going to get it again on Monday. So I may as well just have it all the time.
 
souljacker said:
I'd need it every day though. And I'm not driving all the way back to the office on Friday to return it back to the pool then going to get it again on Monday. So I may as well just have it all the time.
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It's fine, an employer could provide a car pool with a car for each employee, would discourage public transport and cycling, but OU would get his way so everyone's a winner.
 
Yeah you could - you could have a car from a car pool provided by your employer

Nah, we have one car shared between several of us.
 
It's so not good. Very very rarely, we could have 5 people in the office at once, each needing a car.
If attending a faller, tow people should attend and each in separate cars.
 
hash tag said:
Sad one off news
BBC News - Arthur Beale: Sailing goods business closes shop after 500 years
www.bbc.co.uk

Arthur Beale: Sailing goods business closes shop after 500 years

The Arthur Beale store, which sells specialist marine supplies, says the pandemic has forced its closure.
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Sailing ship in the West End :)
I thought Hatchards was part of Waterstones :confused:
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Yep, very sad, they're not the only boating chandlers in London now, but they were the only theatre chandler. Will miss them - the boating chandlers often keep odd hours, but you knew when Arthur Beales would be open and they were the most central. They made a big effort to cater for the London liveaboard community and employed some of us too.
 
a month to go:

Commercial landlords and tenants braced for £6bn rent decision​


Tensions between commercial landlords and tenants are bubbling up ahead of a crunch decision that will determine who foots the £6bn rent bill built up during the pandemic. The British Retail Consortium said on Sunday that two-thirds of retailers in the UK are at risk of legal action on at least one of their stores, after a ban on evictions and debt collection from commercial tenants lifts on June 30. The BRC warned that the ending of the ban could lead to the closure of “thousands of shops” if property owners push tenants for unpaid rent.

Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKHospitality, said in the hospitality sector 40 per cent of businesses had not reached an agreement on rent arrears. “Once the moratorium is lifted, those [businesses] are most at risk and you would expect to see some legal action happening pretty quickly if agreement isn’t reached,” she said. “There is a real risk to businesses and jobs.” However, landlords have hit back at these claims. “It is disappointing to see the BRC failing to recognise that the vast majority of property owners and tenants have already reached agreement on rent,” said Melanie Leech, chief executive of the British Property Federation.
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The notion that "the vast majority of property owners and tenants have already reached agreement on rent,” is misleading. One independent family run cafe near my work in central london has just reopened - normally rammed with customers, instead its tumbleweed. They are losing money being open, I asked them about their rent situation and they said they haven't paid anything since first lockdown but the "arrangement" they have "agreed" to is that all the back rent will still be paid but on top of normal rent once the rent holiday ends. They owe something like £80k.

Considering they were only making ends meet before (very successful cafe but huge rent bill), and business has now gone off a cliff, either the landlord will reconsider and wipe off that back debt or they will close. They are already making plans to close, looking tentatively for alternative work nearer home.
 
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Yet more Sad news as ever for the staff, it won't be the large big chain to go, for sure. I feel another place that's struggling, a fave of mine, is Cotswold Outdoor. I am not sure they handled the Pandemic or reopening very well. It no longer feels so good and appear to be having huge and endless sales.
 
hash tag said:
Yet more Sad news as ever for the staff, it won't be the large big chain to go, for sure. I feel another place that's struggling, a fave of mine, is Cotswold Outdoor. I am not sure they handled the Pandemic or reopening very well. It no longer feels so good and appear to be having huge and endless sales.
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Suspect a lot of people are going camping this year though, they ought to be doing good off the back of that, though possibly can’t get stock like all the bike shops.
 
I was forgetting, C. O. Have done some sort of deal with runners needs. There are also the cheap versions like decathlon and are Blacks still going even.
Besides, look what happened to Evans, when you thought they should be thriving. Also, don't forget cyclesurgery.
 
Many years ago at school, maybe in economics, we discussed people having more leisure time and less work time it has not happened for me but I see there are more leisure things creeping into shopping areas ie Grants in Croydon, Deb's in Wandsworth and now Deb's in Clapham.
I caught the tail end of a radio article yesterday about 15 minute high streets. Making way for less shops but with more housing n stuff. Link here Ipswich plans 15-minute town to reshape high street
 
www.bbc.co.uk

John Lewis plans to build 10,000 rental homes

The department store chain says it wants to address the UK's housing shortage and support communities.
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A mix of new builds, and ex-John Lewis shops being turned into flats.

Living alongside John Lewis regulars, flats furnished with JL stuff, mini-Waitrose next door. I could cope with that.

Edit, living next door to a mini-Waitrose, that is.
 
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hash tag said:
Yet more Sad news as ever for the staff, it won't be the large big chain to go, for sure. I feel another place that's struggling, a fave of mine, is Cotswold Outdoor. I am not sure they handled the Pandemic or reopening very well. It no longer feels so good and appear to be having huge and endless sales.
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Cotswold Outdoor are not particularly cheap. It may be that they suffer a similar problem to that which shut Jessops: people using their shops as showrooms before buying the products more cheaply online from other vendors. btw Cotswold Outdoor used to employ many of their staff on zero hours contracts, I don't know if they still do.
 
Price wise, they are similar to Ellis Brigham and Snow & Rock. There are many regular discounts at CO's for blue light workers, LA workers, NT members etc
 
UrbaneFox said:
www.bbc.co.uk

John Lewis plans to build 10,000 rental homes

The department store chain says it wants to address the UK's housing shortage and support communities.
www.bbc.co.uk

A mix of new builds, and ex-John Lewis shops being turned into flats.

Living alongside John Lewis regulars, flats furnished with JL stuff, mini-Waitrose next door. I could cope with that.
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Sounds like life in a particular kind of bubble to me, maybe they could launch their own dating app and on-site childcare centres and nobody would ever have to leave.
 
UrbaneFox said:
www.bbc.co.uk

John Lewis plans to build 10,000 rental homes

The department store chain says it wants to address the UK's housing shortage and support communities.
www.bbc.co.uk

A mix of new builds, and ex-John Lewis shops being turned into flats.

Living alongside John Lewis regulars, flats furnished with JL stuff, mini-Waitrose next door. I could cope with that.

Edit, living next door to a mini-Waitrose, that is.
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Boris Johnson is first move in.
 
hash tag said:
Price wise, they are similar to Ellis Brigham and Snow & Rock. There are many regular discounts at CO's for blue light workers, LA workers, NT members etc
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Their shop interiors are quite well designed too. Ellis Brigham and Snow & Rock seem a bit more aspirational, which might put Cotswold between them and on the cheaper side Decathlon, Trespass, the fugly clothing Hades that is Mountain Warehouse. The middle doesn't seem a promising place to be in retail at the moment. On the other hand, there could be temporary across-the-board gains thanks to staycationers.
 
My last visit to a cotswold I got the feeling it was a little run down and miserable, Sort of following on the heels of WHSmiths.
 
hash tag said:
My last visit to a cotswold I got the feeling it was a little run down and miserable, Sort of following on the heels of WHSmiths.
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Odd to recall how many years ago WH Smith's was emblematic of stolid respectable retail, like M&S but for magazines and stationery. Anytime I go in one now, usually in a railway terminus, it just leaves me hating the modern world more.
 
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