That is the reality though. Highly cash strained council's will have to do the clean up and they can't recover this by increasing council tax if they are already at the maximum so there will be a further reduction in services.

I saw on one of Sky News’ live thread things on their website a few days ago, someone complaining that they got to the till only to be told you can’t use contactless and that they should be putting signs out to say so.

A) I think the staff have bigger things to be dealing with at the moment then ...

Our cafe space was replaced with additional storage for online shopping and a relocated Argos which had only been in the store a couple of years at most. This was all done at the same time as an entire refit of the store with all fridges replaced with ones with doors, new freezers and a replacement ...

When a tenant moves out they will, subject to the terms of the lease, have to return the building to the condition it was in when they moved in or negotiate a settlement figure for the dilapidations. Most businesses will provide for these over the years of the lease but I think it's only allowable ...

Having gigabit broadband would certainly have been a lot more useful to me during Covid times when I was working from home a lot more (in a job that required quite a bit of streaming video). It's less of an issue now and I reckon a few hundred meg would do me fine, though having a symmetrical ...

Given Cambridge has been sold to Poundland I'd imagine the existing Poundland, a few doors down, will close. The store they've bought is across three floors and is in a unique building for the street. I can't recall who the tenant was before Wilko.

Martin Phillp wrote: Sat 17 Jun, 2023 13.44 June 13th was the last day for the remaining Lloyds Pharmacy concessions in Sainsbury's.

The pharmacy in my local store had already closed. They've now removed the pharmacy space and extended the aisle. As a result half the store has been moved around.

I hadn't even considered any possible resemblance until I'd seen the story.

I heard that you can opt out of the system so if it does get used unnecessarily that will immediately happen.

Argos are pulling out of Ireland. All stores to close by June.


I had forgotten about the Irish operation. Given how few stores in the UK have been spared from being combined into anm Sainsbury's it isn't a surprise. In addition the cost of servicing those stores with stock must be expensive - I ...

Speaking of coupons. I wish Tesco would fix their tills so that coupons on the clubcard app don't need you to wiggle a bit of paper in the slot to make it register.

Also I noticed when I used SAYS on a NCR till the other day (so I could throw some cash in) it managed to unscan my clubcard I'd ...