Amazon is shutting all of its Amazon Fresh stores in the UK, with a handful being converted to Whole Foods.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... hole-foods

Boohoo Group has rebranded as Debenhams Group


Pretty unspectacular monogram logo that has no bearing to the Debenhams logo whatsoever. Probably knocked up in all of 5 mins?

https://www.debenhamsisback.com/

Jeeze that BBC thread is making my head spin.

And warnings and bans for "oneness bashing" is adding to the brain melt.

There seems to be a growing list of topics that could get you a ban or warning. Hard to keep up with and it's off-putting tbh.

The whole atmosphere of the place feels off to me ...

I went there yesterday on the way home from work.

It's a decent setup, and the lines you get in there are similar to what you'd expect in a Tesco Express or Sainsbury's Local.

The alcohol is tucked away at the back of the store, with security manning it and checking IDs before you go and look at ...

I know new looks always attract criticism, but the Sky News thread about their Millbank studio has got me down. Post after post of 'it's terrible' - when, objectively, it's not. It may not be to many people's taste, and it could perhaps be used more creatively, but it's a decent flexible studio ...

WHSmith in Reading has had a nice refit. No more grubby carpet - instead it's got a laminate floor, huge Paperchase style stationery section and a "WHSmith Tech Zone" which looks like something out of the early 2000s. Progress though.

I'll get some photos when I next nip in to town.

What job do you do at Microsoft exactly?

That's nothing you need to concern yourself with.

I was just posting my experience of using the internal dogfood builds in my day to day life at Microsoft, along with Office Gemini etc etc. I also happen to be using the public preview builds on my home ...

The internal builds, the ones that haven't been through all the steps necessary to be made public, are more stable than the public ones, the ones they are trying to use to sell the operating system? This is based on what exactly?

Based on working there, and using a later build than one which is ...

The internal preview builds are a lot more stable than the public ones. Expect some better stability in the next few builds when they're pushed out in the coming weeks.

barcode wrote:some places can still override the till and do thing even with out power. Thats by n by.

Forgetting the health and safety issue of no lights though. Emergency lighting won't be sufficient to keep a shop open.

HSBC is in need of some brand botox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCQJEAcYSCw