someone at Lidl has had fun with this:
https://corporate.lidl.co.uk/media-cent ... 24/freeway

Pleased to see that Barclaycards can finally be used with Google Pay/Google Wallet. It's been a long wait... I've had an email from them to that effect, but when I try to add my card (the basic Avios one), get a "this card can't be set up for contactless payments" error. Barclaycard, and ...

The horse is finally looking where it's going

I was in our Asda today and the music was on, but too quiet to actually hear what any of it was - basically it's just background noise. I also signed up for Asda Rewards (just for they money they'll give to my kids' school) and found the app a bit bewildering. I guess it makes sense if you're doing ...

Since these days so many (most?) First Buses carry route-specific liveries anyway, not really sure how much impact a new corporate brand will have now vs if it was done 10 years ago. They're apparently going back to a corporate livery across all the fleets of purple and grey. This one? The grey is ...

On the one hand, the First logo has been pretty unchanged for nearly 30 years, and maybe it's time for a change.

On the other...


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Here's another bit of Asda cost-cutting: they've switched to royalty-free dross on Asda Radio to save on licensing fees. I've not been in a branch lately to experience it but it sounds pretty soul-destroying. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/asda-radio-royalty-free-supermarket-petition-staff-b1182...

a symptom of poor leadership?

Sky News are on the case too:

https://news.sky.com/story/whats-gone-w ... a-13196356

excellent work by Asda here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypdd93dv0o

John Lewis Finance is now John Lewis Money. Whoop de do.

Why does the Glasgow Subway still, in 2024, only operate between 10am and the very specific time of 18:12 on Sundays? they claim to allow for longer engineering possessions for "modernisation work", though progress is so glacial I expect by the time they finish the last station they'll ha...