The Post Office concessions are also staying as part of the deal.

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 ...

I'm not sure if it's happening to other Barclays' branches outside Central London, but the Oxford Circus branch is extending their opening hours from April 7th from 9.30am-4.30pm on weekdays, which resembles pre-Covid opening hours.

Perhaps they realised they've cut too many branches in ...

I'm not sure if it's happening to other Barclays' branches outside Central London, but the Oxford Circus branch is extending their opening hours from April 7th from 9.30am-4.30pm on weekdays, which resembles pre-Covid opening hours.

PepCo are considering selling Poundland. This doesn't affect Dealz in Ireland.

Again they're blaming the NI increases in April which will "add further pressure" to the UK business.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8jqw3wx9o

I might be in the minority here but is it just me that doesn't understand why The Range is opening Homebase Garden Centre's. There's lot of things I think about Homebase, mostly expensive stuff for people who don't do DIY but definitely not it's gardening side.

Unless you're thinking about ...

The Original Factory Shop has been acquired by Modella Capital, making it a parent company to Hobbycraft.

Poundland's strategy of going into providing convenience stores appears to be not working either. The Poundland Local store in my area now closes at 7.30pm Mon-Sat rather than 9pm which is 30 mins earlier than the nearest standard Poundland.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of those Local branded ...

So popped into the The Range (ex Homebase) today.

The conversion seems to be similar to how Poundland converted ex 99p Stores by stripping out the Homebase shelves, put theirs up and stick the POS using the existing Homebase till area of which there's only three tills.

The main negative is ...

The final Beales department store is closing in May in Poole with claims that the NI hike has made it not viable to continue trading.

So popped into the The Range (ex Homebase) today.

The conversion seems to be similar to how Poundland converted ex 99p Stores by stripping out the Homebase shelves, put theirs up and stick the POS using the existing Homebase till area of which there's only three tills.

The main negative is they've ...