Another High Street Rebrand

Jonny · Fri 04 Jul, 2014 23.51

They massively about-turned on the slab serif font just after redecorating a lot of their stores with it. Never particularly liked it and it's all a bit of a mess now.

Pete · Sat 05 Jul, 2014 00.02

It's a bloody horrible font, I have no idea what they were thinking with it

Philip Cobbold · Sat 05 Jul, 2014 00.35

I think it's only Locals that are being kitted out with the Mary Ann font, as Superstores are still opening now with the Slab font. The new Wolverhampton store that opens next week is proudly sporting Slab everwhere.

WillPS · Sun 06 Jul, 2014 20.29

Jonny wrote:They massively about-turned on the slab serif font just after redecorating a lot of their stores with it. Never particularly liked it and it's all a bit of a mess now.

Yes. Oh for the days when the only font used was Interstate. Incidentally, this is a problem with pretty much every supermarket's branding right now, the exceptions being The Co-op and Tesco.

Whataday · Thu 10 Jul, 2014 16.58

I notice that derelict Index sports a banner saying "Christmas Discount Shop". The Cardiff store also made way for one of these, which would open in October and double up as a Halloween shop.

Unbelievably, Index (or their owner...Shop Direct?) still pays rent on many old stores up and down the country, including the Cardiff store until next week when the lease ends and it's handed back to the shopping centre.

JAS84 · Thu 10 Jul, 2014 18.20

Index was sold to Argos in 2005.

cwathen · Thu 10 Jul, 2014 19.02

JAS84 wrote:Index was sold to Argos in 2005.

Index wasn't sold to Argos - Argos bought the brand name, the website, a lot of the store estate and took on a lot of the staff, but they didn't actually buy out the business per se. Essentially they managed to effectively but not literally take it over, thus bagging themselves the best bits of Index and leaving the rest behind.

Although Index has gone down in history as a huge failure, I actually quite liked them, they were cheaper than Argos on a fair few lines. Sadly, they probably ended up being used as free rental shops a lot more heavily than Argos was as they had far fewer exemptions from the money back guarantee, which probably didn't help.

martindtanderson · Mon 28 Jul, 2014 09.53

nodnirG kraM wrote:McDonald's in my town closed its doors an hour ago. It's no more. Deceased. Bereft of life it rests in peace. Burger King moved out of town about 8 years ago after having 2 outlets. Now the only fast-ish food is Wimpy.

Where do you live? Craggy Island?!?!

wells · Mon 28 Jul, 2014 13.34

Poor people. I bet it's like the streets of Pyongyang after the death of the dear leader, only with more genuine tears.

Is there a drive thru near by for emergencies?

AJ · Tue 29 Jul, 2014 10.32

Not high street, but facilities company Mitie has got a new logo.

Old one:

New one:

Beep · Tue 29 Jul, 2014 12.35

AJ wrote:Not high street, but facilities company Mitie has got a new logo.

Old one:

New one:

This is reflected in their new uniforms at St Pancras International security screening. Some are in the old ones (teal and green cravats/ties, black blazers, white shirts), some are in the new ones (orange and purple cravats/ties, purple striped shirts, slate grey blazers)

Definitely a soft-relaunch as the mismatch of uniforms makes them anything but!