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British High Street Death List 2020

Started by Blue Jam, January 10, 2020, 01:36:38 PM

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Blue Jam

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on January 11, 2020, 05:39:00 PM
It wouldn't feel right buying a F91-W from anywhere but Argos.

This is also a very fair point.

Alright, I was wrong, and Index probably only closed down because I worked there and my customer service skills are woeful.

Ferris

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on January 11, 2020, 05:39:00 PM
It wouldn't feel right buying a F91-W from anywhere but Argos.

Got most of mine on amazon.

Can't believe Thornton's is still going, who on earth is going in there?

Ham Bap

Quote from: FerriswheelBueller on January 11, 2020, 08:48:21 PM
Got most of mine on amazon.

Can't believe Thornton's is still going, who on earth is going in there?

Chocolate perverts.

idunnosomename

You can usually get nice Thorntons boxes in Home Bargains for pounds

Blumf

"nice"... "Thorntons"... ?

They make nice chocolate? Since when?

idunnosomename

Oh i only eat cocoa pods out of an aztecs arse sorry!!!

Blue Jam

Hotel Chocolat is where you're supposed to go for posh chocolate now innit? It's not bad, a bit too sweet though. Looks posher than it tastes.

Today's High Street bleakness update: Beales, Mothercare and Debenhams:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51083396

Dewt

The only shop will be Amazon soon, plus we will all be working for the shop.

Blue Jam

In the future Amazon will only employ robots. Robots don't buy things. Ever consider that, Jeff?

BlodwynPig

Quote from: Blue Jam on January 12, 2020, 04:21:47 PM
Hotel Chocolat is where you're supposed to go for posh chocolate now innit? It's not bad, a bit too sweet though. Looks posher than it tastes.

Today's High Street bleakness update: Beales, Mothercare and Debenhams:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51083396

Hotel Chocolat is 5/10 at best. Prestat probably the only decent shop in the Uk and Fortnums. There is a great Brussels café that does chocolate breakfasts. Once you've been there everything else is beige

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: Dewt on January 12, 2020, 04:23:35 PM
The only shop will be Amazon soon, plus we will all be working for the shop.

When will it rename itself to Omni Consumer Products? They're already helping the police.

kalowski

Quote from: Jerzy Bondov on January 10, 2020, 02:38:03 PM
Some branches of Game now have an 'escorts arena'.
Or brothel, as it's also known.


Butchers Blind

Quote from: BlodwynPig on January 12, 2020, 04:58:03 PM
Hotel Chocolat is 5/10 at best. Prestat probably the only decent shop in the Uk and Fortnums. There is a great Brussels café that does chocolate breakfasts. Once you've been there everything else is beige

Have a slab of Bournville and be done with it.

Ferris

Honestly, the Cadbury's stuff they sell in the corner shop is the nicest chocco and it's not really close.

Jakey Chesterton

Quote from: popcorn on January 11, 2020, 03:54:47 AM
The fake bizarro Japanese Superdry thing is fucking bananas and makes me cringe every time I see it. The MAX CRINGE is the occasional whitey you see wearing them in Tokyo.

This blog translates people's Chinese tattoos. It's a good laugh.

https://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/2016/04/from-sabreen-p.html

Unwittingly branded as a character from a Poo post - some fate.

sevendaughters

our branch of Moshulu is closing, a chain which I had never heard of but has 34 stores across mostly SW England and Wales.

Inspector Norse

Quote from: Blue Jam on January 12, 2020, 04:31:59 PM
In the future Amazon will only employ robots. Robots don't buy things. Ever consider that, Jeff?

You haven't heard about the people who accidentally got into a new Amazon beta where the only categories for browsing were Electronics, Tools, Oil and Mechanical Parts?

Blue Jam


Butchers Blind

Thankfully there are enough mobile repair shops, coffee houses and vape stores to keep the high street going.

Norton Canes

Quote from: Blue Jam on January 12, 2020, 04:21:47 PM
Today's High Street bleakness update: Beales, Mothercare and Debenhams

My favourites Beales store is the one in Kendal. I think I'd have to say it's the best of the Beales.


Quote from: Butchers Blind on January 13, 2020, 10:29:04 AM
Thankfully there are enough mobile repair shops, coffee houses and vape stores to keep the high street going.

With the phones getting harder and more expensive to repair these have got to be on their way out. Got a bad feeling about vape shops too.

jobotic

Nothing sadder than a boarded up vape shop.

Sherringford Hovis

Independent Post Offices.

Unless they're in a Co Op, WHSmiths, One Stop etc. that can subsidise their existence, the days of the self-employed sub-postmaster have been numbered for quite a while.

Blue Jam

Mike Ashley's £1 Sportswear Madhouse

Bleeding Kansas

Quote from: Norton Canes on January 13, 2020, 10:34:39 AM
My favourites Beales store is the one in Kendal. I think I'd have to say it's the best of the Beales.

Is that the one Pete Best opened?

Icehaven

Quote from: jobotic on January 13, 2020, 10:49:27 AM
Nothing sadder than a boarded up vape shop.

Not necessarily, a boarded up vape shop on my local high street was found to be a cannabis farm last year.

I really hope Flybe survives. I rely on their flight from Cardiff to Belfast.

peteprodge

Quote from: icehaven on January 13, 2020, 12:47:15 PM
Not necessarily, a boarded up vape shop on my local high street was found to be a cannabis farm last year.

Ah, going for that new e-Spliff market.

dissolute ocelot

Are there laws against selling vaping stuff online/sending by post? Genuinely no idea why you can't just do it all online, subscribe to a vape of the month club.

Soon the only shops left other than supermarkets are going to be ones selling you lunch (specifically Greggs, Subway, and Pret) or selling really large niche products like giant stuffed marmots and personalised mylar balloons.