MacOS is definitely not perfect, but it’s a lot less noisy. I’m still running an M1 16” Macbook pro and it’s still smooth, battery life amazing and no crapware. It’s not for everyone, but it’s considerably more polished than the open source distributions, and a lot less naggy than Windows if all ...

Made a purchase in TG Jones, receipt said TG Jones but when the money was debit from my bank account it was WH Smith.


They're still using WHSmith's systems for at least a year after the sale.

Hohoho, good luck trying to disentangle themselves. Hmm, I wonder what other private-equity ...

All this supermarket chat being reignited got me thinking - I used to live near a supermarket that started as a Safeway, became a Morrisons, then changed to a Somerfield, and now it’s a Sainsbury’s. Anyone else know of a supermarket going through so many different guises?

One near me that's been ...

I can imagine it's curtains for the smaller Amazon Fresh stores as Whole Foods typically have fairly larger premises from what I have been into. Unless they're planning to relaunch a "little Whole Foods", along the lines of Tesco Express/Co-Op/Sainsbury's Local etc.

Very right about them having ...

I put TG Jones on the endangered list, just down to the fact that it's the not particularly profitable part of what was WH Smith and the fact the rebrand as a result of the divestment was just so naff.

WH Smith had some provenance in the name, this was just made up by a bunch of people in a ...

The logo is terrible giving zero indication as to what they sell. I would probably have guessed greeting cards or women's fashion.

However, I have enquired with the relevant demographic and I am assured that in fact claire's remains quite popular with younger kids so I wonder if it might get ...

This seems to be quite common with supermarkets - they hide things behind walls, freezers etc. I know some of the older Morrisons stores still have those tiles with the different fish on and false windows that were part of Market Street years ago hidden behind those false white walls. I assume it ...

I've always assumed the reason why they have a mixed case is down to the fact they probably get some sort of discount for having both variants from the supplier.
I'm also convinced that the reason why suppliers get a shout out on the packaging of a lot of products in Lidl and are not entirely white ...

B) it’s quite the edge case to have customers coming in with their mobile wallet as the only way to pay and not also have either a physical card with chip and PIN, or cash. Maybe don’t walk into a shop with only one method of paying and no back up?

But for a lot of people, their phone is their ...

The Tesco ones with the new software I have seen the message, but in my experience in Waitrose and Sainsbury's the paper has just run short mid way through the receipt and left me with part of one, or none at all. Or jammed one. So maybe it's down to the config of the machine or whether they've ...

Recently I had a till receipt in Sainsbury's that decided not to print out the bar code, so had to wait for the checkout assistant to let me out.

My experiences of the exit gates are usually good, but there have been times where the barcode scanners simply don't read them or they've had to take ...