Is testcard really such an ugly word? Actually is testcard even a word?

I think the amount of sleep you need really depends on how much you're doing when you're awake. At the moment I'm on an extended holiday and over the last few weeks the time I go to bed has got later and later last night I went to bed at 6am - didn't even feel tired. I tend to be more disciplined wh...

However the limited companies are structured, they are still part of WHSmith Plc and I'm sure the one would bail out the other rather than just have the high street branches close. Makes you think where Woolworths would be now if they focused more along the lines of convenience and tried to secure ...

Gavin Scott wrote:I hate the English programming. It shouldn't be a "Hootenanny", its "hogmanay" for god's sake.

A hootenanny and a hogmanay are two different things aren't they? I'm sure that came up for discussion once over on the old Lounge.

Gavin Scott wrote:Olan Mills (a photographer concession who do baby portraits in motherecare stores) are on the list.

Not that I've ever heard of them.

I have heard of them, but to be honest their logo made it look like Alan Mills (with a lower-case a).

Similar thing happened here, there's a shopping centre on the outskirts of Warrington at a place called Birchwood and they had a Post Office in a Forbouys, anyway they closed down, but the Post Office most moved into another store, bundled up with a Newsagents that's located right opposite an Asda ...

but was their relationship with the Post Office a shrewd move in terms of helping them out of a hole? Would they be allowed to fail when they now house 80 branches, with many in highly populated towns? I remember where I used to live the Post Office was moved into a Martin's newsagent which about a...

It makes me laugh at the misfortune of many of these shops. Now I know its almost like an unwritten rule that a failing business should rebrand before going under, but why don't they just save all the effort and just face the music? I think Woolworths had the shortest re-branding of all, just a cou...

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barcode wrote:Did anyone have Officers Club??

If so give yourself ten points!

I'm sure all the people whose jobs are at risk this Christmas are glad that someone got those ten points...

Must be unsettling to work for Officers Club, they always seem to be holding closing down sales. :roll:

Sput wrote:Fuck! Zavvi just went into admin. My gifts had damn well better be liked!

All down to Woolworths going belly up apparently. I guess Entertainment UK were their main suppliers.

I can remember about 15 years ago we'd been suffering from power problems for a week or so. The lights would flicker and as the problems got worse the TV started turning itself on and off. By the end of the week it turned out that the mains cable out in the street was burning through. Ironically our...