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Is the High Street doomed

I would much prefer to go shopping for clothes on the high street/in town, but being a short person, it's generally easier to order online. For example, New Look doesn't have any petite stuff in their shop (not the one in my city), so I have to order it online (which I then usually pick up from the shop to save on paying for delivery.)

RIP Wilko.
 
It's obnoxious, I couldn't go in there. Though there's an artisan soap shop in the next town that's even worse in terms of stench. Also I can't walk through that perfume section of department stores or larger Boots without gagging.
 
Very mixed feelings about Lush to be honest. Really wasn't impressed with how they treated their employees when my mate was working there, those "better working conditions" seemed to be transactional with the cost being even more unreasonable expectations than your usual retail shop. Might be different in the factories though (in terms of comparing it with an equivalent workplace). I do feel like we'd lose an entire specific part of the market if we lost Lush though, just in terms of product. They're a happy medium between the tiny independent pop up market stalls where you can't really verify that the product is safe, all the way through to the massive global chains which to be fair have a similar sort of problem
 
I do remember someone on here saying that the founders and still part owners of Lush were good 'uns for supporting a lot of causes, like hunt sabs, out of their own pocket for no publicity.

I like their stuff, but yeah the shop is overwhelming for a few minutes until you adjust. I've been a customer for 30 years, but mainly switched over when Body Shop got sold.
 
You know a company's fucked when it gets bought by some private equity vampires. They exist solely to suck the lifeblood out and then butcher the withered husk that remains and sell it off for dog food.

Expect product quality to go down the shitter from now.
 
I do remember someone on here saying that the founders and still part owners of Lush were good 'uns for supporting a lot of causes, like hunt sabs, out of their own pocket for no publicity.

I like their stuff, but yeah the shop is overwhelming for a few minutes until you adjust. I've been a customer for 30 years, but mainly switched over when Body Shop got sold.
Lush did (do?) have a small grants fund that dishes out money to good causes, including many that would be deemed too political for more mainstream funders.
 
Yeah, when we were fighting oil drilling in the local AONB, Lush gave us £15,000. No strings attached. That money made a massive difference and allowed us to keep paying our barrister. Nobody else was stepping in — the lines of CPRE and the environmental charities couldn’t give a fuck. £200 from Woodland Trust, that was it. And we eventually won, so the money was effective too. Lush will always have a special place in my heart for that.
 
They did that anti police campaign too that was effective enough they had to cancel it because their employees were getting harassed over it
 
What's "MLM" ?
Yeah as Orang Utan said it's Multi-Level marketing. It's very predatory and they particularly target Mums to recruit to their scam as a way of making a bit of "money on the side" and the vast majority of people lose money. The drive is to recruit for your "downline" and you have to buy a certain amount of products in many of them.

There's also a huge crossover between Mormonism in America and MLMs which I've been learning about recently. Which is why so many of the big ones are in Utah.

Hannah Alonzo does some really good videos and breakdowns on YouTube.
 
Yeah as Orang Utan said it's Multi-Level marketing. It's very predatory and they particularly target Mums to recruit to their scam as a way of making a bit of "money on the side" and the vast majority of people lose money. The drive is to recruit for your "downline" and you have to buy a certain amount of products in many of them.

There's also a huge crossover between Mormonism in America and MLMs which I've been learning about recently. Which is why so many of the big ones are in Utah.

Hannah Alonzo does some really good videos and breakdowns on YouTube.
So it's where they knock neighbours doors selling perfume, etc? Gotcha.
 
So it's where they knock neighbours doors selling perfume, etc? Gotcha.
Most of it is done online now, but yes can be anything from cosmetics, health supplements etc. They aren't really selling the product they are selling the "business opportunity". A few high street brands have some underlying MLM stuff going on - Ann Summers for examples.

I've been down a rabbit hole with this stuff recently.
 
On a side note, my ex hosted a Ann Summers party once, I was banned from the house, and packed off to the pub instead. :D

And, I was a pleasantly surprised with her purchases, which lucky didn't included a strapon.
 
On a side note, my ex hosted a Ann Summers party once, I was banned from the house, and packed off to the pub instead. :D

And, I was a pleasantly surprised with her purchases, which lucky didn't included a strapon.
Mrs Q did ones as well and I was sent off to take the kids to the park and then McDonalds, I think they have a no-men rule tbh which is fair enough. Mind you I'm not so sure I would want to be in the house with a dozen women drinking wine and passing sex toys round.
 
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