Boots and Greggs - windows smashed

Feed The Goat

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If it makes you feel any better it’ll be the insurance footing the bill, not the retailers

Many large retailers do not have insurance cover for this act. They have public liability for customers and staff. Marks and Spencers never used to be covered even for major losses.
 

markpa12003

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I've had the misfortune to meet the woman that committed these mindless offences a number of times recently.

She's not a very nice person and continually misuses our fantastic health service.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Boots used to be a shop, now it seems to be a display of all the world's shampoos.

Some of us can remember when it sold electronic goods, records, cameras, household appliances, home brew supplies, garden equipment, etc., etc...

Their previously steady trade in photographic processing will have died off anyway, of course.

I doubt that I've parted with money in there this century.

It has the look of going to way of Woolworth's.
 

staffordjas

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Some of us can remember when it sold electronic goods, records, cameras, household appliances, home brew supplies, garden equipment, etc., etc.
Most of my records were bought there (as well as the shop new to The Picture House) in the upstairs part.
 

Really?

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True to a point, but if Boots were to close the store the main reason would be that they've failed to invest in their stores and have a dated approach to retail....

Luckily perhaps for Stafford in any review of the store, Boots actually own the building.

It might still be closed of course as they would be making more money on their investment if they just shut it and left it empty. I doubt they would find it easy to get a tenant in. It would be a big loss to the High Street and look an eyesore closed but I doubt the American owners would give a toss what it looked like. Of course we would still get all the "I knew it was doomed, they should have done this" armchair Retailers claiming how they could have run the place better with absolutely no knowledge of the situation or how to run a 170 year old organisation employing nearly 40,000 people but hey- it makes for fun reading.
 

Withnail

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Of course we would still get all the "I knew it was doomed, they should have done this" armchair Retailers claiming how they could have run the place better with absolutely no knowledge of the situation...
Somehow, and from somewhere, i am feeling chills. It feels like, like ... is this hubris?

I don't know quite what it is...

Wait, Oh yes, it is shamelessness.
 

Really?

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Somehow, and from somewhere, i am feeling chills. It feels like, like ... is this hubris?

I don't know quite what it is...

Wait, Oh yes, it is shamelessness.

Its certainly not hubristic, no matter what futile point you are trying to make. I also can't see where it is shamelessness. It's called opinion.
 

The Hawk

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Somehow, and from somewhere, i am feeling chills. It feels like, like ... is this hubris?

I don't know quite what it is...

Wait, Oh yes, it is shamelessness.
Its certainly not hubristic, no matter what futile point you are trying to make. I also can't see where it is shamelessness. It's called opinion.
Leave him alone, he's got chills, they're multiplying, and he's losing control..............
 
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