here's a slightly more accessible version of same:
https://questions-statements.parliament ... 5-15/26391

the new Asda design made me wonder what happened to the old "Permanently Low Prices Forever" stones that used to sit by the entrances, and it appears I'm not the only person to have thought that. He located a couple, but then the trail seems to have gone cold: https://loststonesofasda.word...

Sounds like a great idea!

Meanwhile, Coventry Building Society look set to buy the Co-operative Bank
https://www.theguardian.com/business/ar ... ative-bank

interesting to see that while Amazon are phasing out the 'just walk out' from their own stores, they're licensing it elsewhere:

https://www.mkfm.com/news/local-news/mi ... ity-place/

I just, I don’t know, I can’t get my head round paying someone to go to the shop for me because I can’t be arsed. Yes yes I know, some people aren’t able to etc, but I don’t think that’s who is using this. Wait until you hear about the prolifieration of corner shops on wheels in London. I've mostly...

This is reminding me of the heady days of the early 2010s when Byres Road in Glasgow had three branches of Santander within about 50m of each other. Looking at Street View, the former Bradford & Bingley was gone by 2012, but the ex-Alliance & Leicester lasted until 2019. (The Abbey branch re...

MUJI Europe are to enter administration
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... hops-staff

West London is something of an Aldi desert - Lidl have stores in Acton, Hammersmith and She Bu (and have for ages).

Leytonstone's Matalan closed recently and seems like it's going to be half M&S Food; half Aldi, though the council have longer-term ambitions to turn it into housing.

This 2018 document (linked from the Visa Electron Wikipedia page) says that Electron will be entirely phased out by April 13th this year.

They've not made a fuss about it (as they don't seem to be rolling it out to everyone at once), but Monzo now support cheque imaging.

ah - I've only had exposure to VM's current account and ISA platform and didn't realise they had more!

Nationwide is, as you say, unified - it's just very retro. It could probably survive a reskin, but a ground-up rebuild would be the more sensible option.