all new Phil wrote: ↑Mon 24 Apr, 2023 11.02 John Lewis are updating their partnership branding (ie mainly corporate stuff - not JL / Waitrose individual branding) and bringing back the old JLP logo.

'& partners' about to be quietly dropped then

'More testing required' methinks. Please no. I have no wish to go through all this again. I don't think they have a choice. Personally I'm dubious as to how useful this thing would be, but they've hyped the apparent importance of it up so much ('could be the sound that saves your life' etc). Then h...

'More testing required' methinks. I thought since it was supposed to be a broadcast rather than sent to a specific phone, that every phone within range of the same mast would go off at once. I'm out at a busy pub, a handful of phones could be heard going off at 3PM, followed by a handful more over t...

How that ruling went Lidl's way I shall never know. It was a spurious claim in the first place, yet apparently had enough merit to win? I can see Tesco winning on appeal. Still, a bit of free advertising for both companies.

and slightly baffled by the economics of them renting out space to their competitors. Apparently Moto rent space in quite a few of them too. Well I guess the upside to doing it is Moto then are responsible for employment, stock, ops costs, support, maintenance and logistics. With a small network of...

I also assumed Extra had to be something to do with McDonald's, mainly because the only one I ever drive past is on the M5 at Cullompton where McDonald's is and always has been the main food offering ever since it opened and the similarity in logos seems pretty clear. Whilst I wouldn't want to use a...

Neil wrote: ↑Tue 28 Feb, 2023 18.17 Just for reference, the Equality Act of 2010 superseded the DDA ;)

I stand fully corrected :)

Presumably that was a pre-2022 McColls 'trading as Morrisons Daily' one. There's a really ropey petrol station around the corner from here run by a separate franchisee. Yes, pre-2022. It was still McColl's when the Safeway products came out ('Safeway, supermarket quality brought to you from Morriso...

1 - is this the end of the Safeway brand... again 2 - the shop in question is a large, modern, decent ceilinged, well lit branch. But McColls have some right run down dumps, would Morrisons want their branding on such branches? I'm not quite sure what Morrisons really got out of reviving the Safewa...

Crap threads like this

Why are we banging on about this again? Because it came back into the news again for a while. Sky News even had some ridiculous analysis piece about 'rethinking the living with Covid strategy' over case numbers last week. Where would that mood music have gone to if it wasn't checked quickly by some...