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TOPIC: WH Smith
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Re:WH Smith 3 Weeks ago
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Rich wrote:
Wyot wrote:
Green Man wrote:
People say the high streets are dead but all the vape shops seem to remain open and Turkish barbers, even though some are only open for a few hours each day
Fronts for money-laundering GM as a lot of car washes and tanning saloons sadly are...
You are quite correct Wyot. How come they get away with it? Plenty of evidence of it where I live too. Long established hair salon bustling yet a Turkish barber has never got any custom, neither has a vape shop nor a quite large food store with an odd name. Just paying for the premises must be a fortune, how do they do it without much custom? Anyone with half a brain can work it out. These things only started popping up within the last five to seven years, none run by British people. Another Tory legacy to our nation, taking the p**s in our faces. They are clearly not legit. What's Reeves got to say about all this then? Nothing!
I've heard there is a thing about dodgy sweet shops with overpriced content on Oxford Street in London too.
It's a shame about WHSmith, I've always liked them but they've seemed like an obvious candidate for vanishing off the High Street for a few years now to me, and quite frankly I deplore their vast overpricing and mark ups at their station shops - £7 for a standard size unremarkable box of maltesers, get lost!
The sweet shops make me laugh. You know, they are shopfronts. They have a traditional British or Celtic name, but the staff looks Arabic. What I can gather is that they always close just before the new tax year. It's like souvenir shops that mention London, Manchester, Liverpool etc., when you are nowhere near those cities.
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Re:WH Smith 3 Weeks ago
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Green Man wrote:
Downing Street Cat wrote:
WH Smith didn't adapt with the changing times. Expensive, smaller stores were badly planned, they didn't hold much appeal for youngsters. I noticed how our local one seemed to attract old folk ..a smattering of men in flat caps and trench coats flicking through magazines and end up buying a Daily Mail. It needed an injection of excitement and a less stodgy and outdated welcome. The manager of the local store was very Captain Peacock, peering at you over spectacles as if one was about to stuff a James Herbert down ones trousers. WH Smith were always doomed.
Magazines have pretty much had their day. It's done online now or interviews are on podcasts. I go to WHsmith for the Post Office, I can walk past their newspapers, pens, paperbacks, cards without giving a second glance.
I have noticed many Smiths are located to next to places Works or Poundland and are much cheaper for envelopes and pens.
Smiths should have never got rid of home media, they stock staff that was not in record shops and much cheaper also. Now they tell you to order online or order instore.
I did a order book instore, after 3 weeks I was told they didn't order the book...but they still took the money. I had get the store manager to give me a refund eventually. Agreed GM. Not a store I visited often. Did when younger, but of course a different world then.
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