Sad to see that the iconic Sainsbury's "green store of the future" in Greenwich closed last year. Seems it's been replaced by a bog standard metal box store

https://853blog.com/2015/06/24/goodbye- ... -1999-2015

An interesting article on WHSmith which I fear is true:

http://life.spectator.co.uk/2016/12/wh- ... arrassment

How would you turn around WHSmith? I think if it moved closer to Waterstone's model that could work...

The Telegraph article is even more ambiguous! It says stores but further down say's Hilco will work with the Management team to build a plan for success... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/11/17/staples-stores-to-vanish-from-uk-high-street/

The Southampton Staples relocated last year to a ...

Now Staples is set to disappear from the UK...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38013806

These ancient self checkouts were proving somewhat problematic in the Eastleigh Metro store today!

I love this sign in West Quay Southampton dating from when the centre opened in 2000 now containing 3 well out of date logos! (sorry it's a bit blurry!)

We don't have an adequate road system in this country, we have a few overloaded motorways together with a network of trunk roads, many of which are single carriageway! The French, and to a lesser extent most other European nations, including some of those with a high population but a small land mass ...

Waterstone's appear to be experimenting with a potential rebrand, their store in West Quay, Southampton has a new uppercase logo on the the outside however elsewhere in the store their lowercase logo is used...

bizarrely in Southampton Dorothy Perkins and Burtons will be reopening in part of the old BHS unit! With Sports Direct moving to the remainder of the unit from West Quay!

BHS Southampton, now closed! I think Saturday was their last day, still loads of stock left inside.

Indeed, I doubt BHS have long left on the high street now