Personally got no issue with tipping, it's optional.

Service charges should be banned imo. I believe, the price on the menu is what you should pay and there shouldn't be any hidden fees. Imagine if you went to Tesco and had to pay a '10% service charge' because you went through a till because it ...

Unsurprising, tastes change, as do the markets. I suppose it used to be a thing to go to TGI's, Frankie/Bennys or Pizza Hut for your birthday growing up etc. It's round 2 for TGI's being in trouble, which isn't ever a good sign that the chain is strong or popular. Mind you, looking at some of the ...

As an aside I'm amazed Sunday trading laws continue under this government given the push for growth via any means they've pursued at various points.


Much as I would love to see Sunday trading abolished there's little demand for it from retailers. The current situation suits them as they ...

I'm sure HMRC (and other authorities) should consider leasing the apartments above for a sting, I can't imagine it won't be long before something unusual is found. I've noticed a lot of competition in the town I'm in for barbers and nail salons, a lot of them have sprung up.
I've always wondered ...

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 ...

For everything there's someone that will buy it, regardless of how stupidly priced or the concept seems.

Then there's the angle of convenience and laziness - certain people are used to having "an app for that" and so these are the types that companies like this cater to, and every other ...

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 ...