Both chains are pretty much doomed. House of Fraser probably has months rather than years now. Debenhams will be down to tens of stores within 5 years, if they haven't completely retreated online. I'm not sure what merging the chains would achieve personally; other than duplication. Interestingly D...

so in terms of the scale of that refit, how big are we talking? obv that video is designed to look impressive but what i saw was as follows, please correct me where i'm wrong - repairs to base paint work where worn, but main livery being a cheaper vinyl job - dismantled tables and chairs for new ca...

Mezzanines were removed? Yep, Bunnings removed the mezzanine from my Homebase in Sittingbourne when they converted it. It was used by Homebase for the kitchen and bathroom showroom areas. Strange decision to actually decrease the amount of trading space, especially as one of Bunnings' supposed adva...

If it could just accept the fact I don't want to use fucking Edge and leave me alone that would be great. "Hey your battery is running low - if you switch to Edge you wouldn't ever need to recharge again". "Did you know Edge is already installed on your device and it's super fast, why not use it?" ...

Went into Maplin in Croydon today, even with 10% off and the massive 'CLOSING DOWN SALE' banners which have become so familiar since Woolies, they can't shift the stock. The same banners were present in their store near Goodge Street tube station. I was looking at the powerline network adaptors the...

The latest (Creative Falls?) update has also been a bit of a pain at my workplace. The previous version updates had given a clear option of choosing a time or at least waiting until you to restart the PC. Whereas this time initially a prompt appeared with the option to postpone or pick a time. Howev...

Site is currently down...
"The site's gone to the beach for the day to soak up some sun 🕶 (We're looking into it)"
https://twitter.com/tvforum/status/867999250118004738

In short the stores affected are the ones which were originally Somerfields stores before the Co-Operative brought them out, and then sold them on to Budgens. I wonder how many of those were originally Kwik Save stores. I can think of a few that made the conversion to Somerfield and then Co-Operati...

Fate of 34 Budgens stores in balance The future of more than 30 Budgens stores hangs in the balance after The Food Retailer Operations business went into administration last Friday. In short the stores affected are the ones which were originally Somerfields stores before the Co-Operative brought th...

Comparing Donald Trump to Jimmy Savile is something that could only happen on TVF. Please provide a quote from TVF where someone compared Trump to Savile. As far as I can see the post in question reads... Sounds a bit reminiscent of the Saville revelations one outlet dithering and the other reporti...

On a more general note I couldn't help noticing this statistic in a recent edition of Private Eye...