Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Maplin also in administration. Pity, I hope it survives. I don't use it a lot but its nice to know its there when needed.

Toys R Us never stayed abreast with changing retail patterns, and similarly with MTC and perhaps Maplins
high street retail is brutal and has been for quite some time

greedy landlords and preposterous biz rates exacerbate, but a retailer has to have a strong USP to persuade customers that the shop deserves their support

Difficult to know what to do as the Supermarkets inc Aldi and Lidl cover nearly everything going . Maplin just had brand new upgrade .

Greedy Landlords.

Keep Hearing that phrase recently.

Oliver pleading for rent cuts amongst other items.

You, even if your name is Jamie cannot sell pasta for the prices he was charging. A expensive lesson I thought he would have known.

Jamie doesn't do detail it would appear when your minted :)

We've been on a spiral of higher charges (Council Tax/Business Rates) and reduced services every year for donkey's years, it is a job to remember quite what it was like before.

yes $400 million dollars. Just opened restaurants to fast. Perhaps poor accountants.

Just looked at the local rag , and Chimichanga could close with other Prezzo-owned restaurants at risk , whether just local don't know .

100 Prezzo's to close.

Mr. Oliver is taking the mickey with the pricing at Jamie's Italien.

I'm happy to go out and pay a premium for something special but I left feeling rather aggrieved over the bill. The bill was simply too high for what I got.

Most recent one I went to had "trendy exposed services" - A/C, pipework and electrics on display with floorboards for wallpaper. You can tell me 1000 times exposed concrete is the "in thing" but I just think it's cheap. I'm not sure quite how it goes with the £40 bottles of wine they were advertising.

Price cut of 30% would entice me back. Otherwise not interested. Which is probably where their business model is falling apart.

House of F next maybe? Who else is in trouble - New Look - and the likes of Carpetright might even take a tumble if sales take further hits.

If Corbyn gets in then everywhere will be closed.

Weatherwise and politically wise.......the perfect storm coming perhaps......?..

All down to brexit of course..

https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2018/03/carpetright-talks-lenders-issuing-profit-warning/

As expected, another one following in the path of Queensway years ago, after Harris got out.

So then filling up the country with limitless numbers of freeloaders as per EU , does not do a lot for the high street then , or am i wrong .

there is a big difference between pulling up the drawbridge and being discriminating in who is allowed either temporary or permanent work or residency visa

Anyone on here got Sky Q?

If so, what's it like when you are watching a non UHD transmission?

I've got Sky+ HD at the moment and, with double the UHD content coming along in 2018 and also, not-withstanding the latest announcement of the Netflix inclusion to the Sky Q deal, I am thinking doing the upgrade.

UHD uses a lot more band width when streaming EL - watch you broadband bill rise.