2021 - Retailer woe & retail sector chat

[Vasco]

tangerine_sedge said:

Four Seasons Total Landscaping said:

Mrs Four Seasons has just shown me the new John Lewis logo on their website.
FFS
They might just as well have used the Rainbow Flag with Black Lives Matter printed across the across the top.

Yes, it starts with a redesigned logo, and it ends with forced bumming of all customers by a big gay black man(*1). Its PC gone mad and "you couldn't make it up" all rolled into one. /sarcasm

(*1) scissoring by Jewish Lesbians also available upon request.

Just quoting that before some weirdo insists on it bring deleted...

[A Winner Is You]

hyphen said:

It's pride something event this week isn't it?

Most people won't care, and the pink pounders will be happy. Just business?

Remember JL sell a lot of designrr branded fabrics, wall paper and so on. And some gay people, but not all, are very style and fashion focused.

Edited by hyphen on Friday 4th June 13:52

It's the month where all big corporations pretend to care about such matters. Well, at least in parts of the world where it will give them good PR.

[snuffy]

hyphen said:

It's pride something event this week isn't it?

Most people won't care, and the pink pounders will be happy. Just business?

Remember JL sell a lot of designrr branded fabrics, wall paper and so on. And some gay people, but not all, are very style and fashion focused.

Surely brown pounders ?

[garagewidow]

Probably do one myself this evening

[hyphen]

Went into an Aldi today, and they had the National Lottery at every till.

Snazzy litup machine with lottery/euro (no scratchcards). That's going to be one less reason for people to visit their local convenience stores if all these supermarkets roll it out.

[eltawater]

hyphen said:

Went into an Aldi today, and they had the National Lottery at every till.

Snazzy litup machine with lottery/euro (no scratchcards). That's going to be one less reason for people to visit their local convenience stores if all these supermarkets roll it out.

They could sponsor the weekly draws and have the winning balls fired at you at the speed of light...

[cuprabob]

hyphen said:

That's going to be one less reason for people to visit their local convenience stores if all these supermarkets roll it out.

Most supermarkets have been selling lottery tickets for years.

[vaud]

cuprabob said:

Most supermarkets have been selling lottery tickets for years.

Even Waitrose. For at least a decade, probably since it started.

[Jamescrs]

hyphen said:

Went into an Aldi today, and they had the National Lottery at every till.

Snazzy litup machine with lottery/euro (no scratchcards). That's going to be one less reason for people to visit their local convenience stores if all these supermarkets roll it out.

The Asda local to me has it at all the self service tills, you choose what you want to buy on the touch screen and it prints the ticket out with your receipt when you pay, been that way for years

[survivalist]

hyphen said:

Went into an Aldi today, and they had the National Lottery at every till.

Snazzy litup machine with lottery/euro (no scratchcards). That's going to be one less reason for people to visit their local convenience stores if all these supermarkets roll it out.

Does anyone go out to their local shop to buy a ticket? I'd always assumed you went to your local shop to buy a few food/booze items and bought a ticket because it was at the till. If I only wanted a lottery ticket (and nothing else) I'd just download the app.

[hyphen]

Jamescrs said:

The Asda local to me has it at all the self service tills, you choose what you want to buy on the touch screen and it prints the ticket out with your receipt when you pay, been that way for years

Didn't realize. Thought it was just the kiosk at the back at all supermarkets.

Looked the Aldi one up, rolling out to all 900 stores and every till. It's very well done from a branding perspective, very dominant and lit up. I don't do it, so didn't realize it had doubled to £2!



https://www.aldipresscentre.co.uk/business-news/al...

Edited by hyphen on Monday 7th June 20:33

[hyphen]

survivalist said:

Does anyone go out to their local shop to buy a ticket? I'd always assumed you went to your local shop to buy a few food/booze items and bought a ticket because it was at the till. If I only wanted a lottery ticket (and nothing else) I'd just download the app.

That's regulars like yourself, I imagine it's a big impulse buy and numbers rise when the papers hype up the rollover amounts.

[scottyp123]

Its yet another reason to not shop in person anymore, every time I go into a convenience store it seems like the person in front of you at the till always has some sort of issue or other. They can never seem to just buy something and fk off like I do, they either pull out a load of lottery tickets that need scanning or they produce brightly coloured cards of some sort asking to put a fivah on this or a tenna on that. Or worst of all they are trying to return an amazon package. All the ten people behind them want is a pint of milk of 4 cans of spesh.

ASDA home delivery is all anyone really needs, turned up at mine earlier this evening with all the food and booze I could want, the delivery driver had all the potential problems of parking tickets, speeding fines or accidents, not me. Amazon for everything else.

[anonymoususer]

scottyp123 said:

I Or worst of all they are trying to return an amazon package.

. Amazon for everything else.

[hyphen]

In tomorrows episode Scotty complains about having waited to re-fuel as people are blocking petrol pumps to use the amazon lockers.

[Alucidnation]

anonymoususer said:

scottyp123 said:

I Or worst of all they are trying to return an amazon package.

. Amazon for everything else.

[vikingaero]

survivalist said:

hyphen said:

Went into an Aldi today, and they had the National Lottery at every till.

Snazzy litup machine with lottery/euro (no scratchcards). That's going to be one less reason for people to visit their local convenience stores if all these supermarkets roll it out.

Does anyone go out to their local shop to buy a ticket? I'd always assumed you went to your local shop to buy a few food/booze items and bought a ticket because it was at the till. If I only wanted a lottery ticket (and nothing else) I'd just download the app.

There wasn't an app until recently because the lottery was gambling and Play & Apple didn't allow it. Now that National Lottery have changed to over 18s only (since April(?)) they can have an app. There was an older app where you could check results.

[snuffy]

vikingaero said:

There wasn't an app until recently because the lottery was gambling and Play & Apple didn't allow it. Now that National Lottery have changed to over 18s only (since April(?)) they can have an app. There was an older app where you could check results.

You have been able to buy tickets online for years, 15 or more I reckon. And since you can use your phone to access their site (which looks like any app anyway) it doesn't matter what Apple and Play allowed.

Edited by snuffy on Tuesday 8th June 08:22

[g3org3y]

Gap to close all 81 stores in UK and Ireland

BBC said:

US fashion giant Gap has confirmed it plans to close all its 81 stores in the UK and Ireland and go online-only.

The firm said it would close all its stores "in a phased manner" between the end of August and the end of September.

This includes 19 stores that were already scheduled to close in July as their leases were expiring.

The company has not disclosed how many employees the closures will affect, but will shortly start a consultation process with the staff.

The firm said it was "not exiting the UK market" and would continue to offer a web-based store when all the shops had closed.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57670737

[konark]

Probably got more to do with gap as a brand than the lack of footfall on the high street. I mean , who the hell goes to gap , this isnt the bloody 80s.