On a semi related note:

if coffee chains continue to replace static behind-counter above-eyeline menus (that can be browsed pretty much at leisure while in a queue) with "dynamic" TV screens that rotate between three or four pages 20 seconds apart, one of those pages being a fecking advert, like ...

The TG Jones in Leeds has received a full interior refurbishment with all the branding/signs denoting the various departments etc all in a new style.

Previously the store looked like it wasn’t open. The windows were mostly covered by posters and the lighting was dark with only 1/3rd of all tubes ...

I wonder when the first products branded as TG Jones will start to appear. I notice the Christmas decorations and the 2026 Diaries and Calendars are still branded ‘WHSmith’

I’ve stayed in one of those evolution rooms (in Reading) and I liked the coffee table

I always find if you bring some food back, eating at the desk, with the TV right on top of you can be a bit awkward, sitting at a table felt better, almost like you were in a coffee shop. I felt myself sitting at ...

It’ll be interesting to see what eventually happens to own brand stock that they sell both on the high street and travel locations such as stationery, will it remain similar, or will one half of the former business launch a completely new range

Sounds like a made up shop you’d get on Corrie, like Freshcos.

I can see why they’ve gone with Jones, but I would have thought there were already too many shops with initials starting with a T

Here’s something I don’t get. My local Morrisons has Christmas wrapping paper… AFTER the checkouts.

A lot of the issues in supermarkets come from cutting overnight staff. I worked briefly for one chain who went through it and standards instantly plummet. There’s no real chance to reset, deep ...

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 ...

I think Burger King snuck their price rises in beforehand so it seems less bad now. You also get the unlimited refills... or at least nobody ever questions you using the freestyle machines endlessly.

Costa's food is extortionate now. The breakfast wrap is now £5.50 which means if you have that ...

Some of the polls we got along the way were way off, they probably shouldn’t really get the coverage they do

Some had Labour with ludicrous 500+ seats, some had the Tories on like 50 seats, Lib Dems as the official opposition and didn’t one even have Reform in second place?

Obviously Labour got a ...

One of these shops has opened in my small village

Brash inner city style frontage (that you wonder whether it should need planning permission) selling vapes, American sweets etc, the store is spotless with everything perfectly fronted up, probably as there are never any customers

We already have a ...