Someone has clearly become incensed by the idea that people were getting discounts on things they'd buy anyway.

Years ago Somerfield (remember them?) launched a campaign that they had no loyalty scheme because their prices were low in the first place. It failed miserably because in 2008 or so ...

I value the background playing option on Premium, so that's a non-starter for me.

Does Android still get that for free?

Skype have been relieving me of £4/month for *something* since 2007 which I never had the heart to cancel - that's finally stopped now the service has died. Although I still ...

The judgment does not provide any moral clarity at all (nor is it meant to). It's strictly an interepretation of the text of the law based on various factors, like the meaning of "man" and "woman" in the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, whether it's coherent for a trans man with a GRC to qualify as a ...

I noticed the advert in the window saying "Shop now in store, pay later with Klarna". I know they're overpriced, but maybe things are worse than I feared.

t's a bit grim that all of the cafes are likely to be come Starbucks/Costa, for what it's worth the previous cafes wouldn't charge upwards of £5 for a drink. Certainly, Starbucks for me is a very rare treat now the prices are pushing upwards of £5.

I think in fairness you're not really comparing ...

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dont-get-your-hopes-up-for-a-wh-smith-revival/

Really good article from The Spectator about WHSmith


Interesting that it calls out WHS Cornmarket St. This was a slightly weird store that was split in two, the newsagenty bit (25% of the floor area) on the left ...

My boyfriend works at the Sainsbury's in Dundee and he says they've just filled the former cafe space with a Starbucks (it was still boarded up when I was last there). He's gutted about the pizza counter going as well.

This is really common in the US (a huge number of Safeway stores have ...

Andrew wrote: Wed 04 Dec, 2024 23.01 It depends on whether or not you class PC World as having closed or not

I think for this you have to apply the Norton Test.

If you can buy a computer from Curry's without someone trying to scare you into buying a copy of Norton Antivirus, then the spirit of their existence is gone.

I stumbled across this screenshot of mine (upload date: 2012) as the voucher offers on some credit card, and it looks like a who's who of failed or failing stores.

What are the chances the number of closed options is >50% before the end of next year? Frasers, HMV and Homebase have to be the ones ...

Betteridge's law of headlines never fails.

I still find X useful for certian niche interests, but it has become a version of #DontReadTheComments because if you do they'll just be a combination of hate speech, people with blue ticks outputting AI slop, and porn. (Sometimes all at the same time!). Of the three, I find the LLM slop to be the ...