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eldergeek

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Get your credit cards out boys - Granny panties are about to get extremely cheap. If you're into that kind of thing, that is.

Honestly, I'm kind of amazed that they held out for as long as they did.

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eldergeek said:

Get your credit cards out boys - Granny panties are about to get extremely cheap. If you're into that kind of thing, that is.

Honestly, I'm kind of amazed that they held out for as long as they did.
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Thats the video for the water 'stealing' incident.

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I also bought some towels from BHS recently!
 
We returned an unwanted xmas present in there a year or two ago and spent ages trying to find something, anything, to buy with the ~£20 store credit. Just had to buy a DVD and some bars of chocolate in the end. There was literally nothing there we would want to actually own, even for free.
 
cheesyboy said:
We returned an unwanted xmas present in there a year or two ago and spent ages trying to find something, anything, to buy with the ~£20 store credit. Just had to buy a DVD and some bars of chocolate in the end. There was literally nothing there we would want to actually own, even for free.
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You could have bought £20 of superior granny panties?
 
Hades said:
I haven't used them in literally decades. But my sympathies go to all the staff.
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I agreed - I remember going into the store a lot as a kid with my mum etc, but that was 30 years ago. Since then it looks like nothing has changed, the style, the products they sell etc.

Sympathy to the staff etc - good to see things like the PPF coming into force as 10/15 years ago, the pension scheme would have just disappeared.
 
That will be yet another large hole in our town centre, at this rate there will be more boarded up windows than shops.
 
I've been in the one on Princes Street, Edinburgh a few times when shopping for some cheap work clothes. They really have barely changed from when I was dragged into town as kid with my mum, about 20 years ago.

Not surprising at all but you have to feel for the staff. I hope the situation with their pensions are at least sorted :(
 
Terminal_Boy said:
I guess shop staff don't get the same lefty loving that steelworkers do.
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Staff, or the high street in general? Cause frankly a lot of this could have been nipped in the bud if they'd at least attempted to stay relevant with sites.

Take currys/pcworld for example. You go into the store to buy something, and they order it for you, to pick up in two days. Or delivery it to your home.

I ask you...Where do they come up with these wonderful ideas?
 
Feel sorry for the staff. Bought a lampshade (online) last year and previously shopped over twenty years ago. Shame to see another retailer go but they've not changed with the times.
 
Can't remember the last time I bought anything from a retail store, can't stand shopping, online is blessing (unless you're a shop worker).
 
We bought some bed linen last week on sale. I'm surprised any of these big high street stores survive, overheads must be horrendous.
Feel very sorry for the staff :(
 
Cosimo said:
Feel sorry for the staff. Bought a lampshade (online) last year and previously shopped over twenty years ago. Shame to see another retailer go but they've not changed with the times.
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And there's the problem. Why use these remnants of a bygone era, when we could relocate all of these things to warehouses, and repurpose the land for something more useful and relevant. Like housing.
 
I've been in a few recently. As already said, it's like a portal back in to the 80s. The stores haven't seen a lick of paint or a new door handle in decades, it was very depressing.
 
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