[mailman] Jings
Thanks for that link... It's another item highlighting the points I have been making the past couple of months This could be a very educational year into how high streets maybe heading in the next 5...
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Bleak picture although the last sentence was more encouraging . Bit like...
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someone who is in retail and has been for many many years......the high street has changed dramatically with the rise of online busness of that there is no doubt....coupled with over inflated rents and...
View Article[jings100] Oh, Oh.
Better start hedging your bets , guys . These scientists might be lying to us. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/08/asteroid-will-miss-earth-says-nasa
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House sales will continue, but it is easy for those surveyors to hype their own business.... I just can not see house inflation returning soon.... buy to let may well increase far more than first time...
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Your last sentence is spot on. I'm not too good with technology but was looking the other day at the new mobile phones. Actually, there not phones anymore, the're mini computers. When 4g is rolled out...
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Yes agreed .. Freightening really one could with a phone / computer in your hand in 5 years time , have less need for many shops etc.. Or supermarkets in your food is delivered... Looks like the future...
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some good points made this morning by all , the one thing that still matters with either on-line or high st shops is that people still need credit (money) to spend and that because of all these various...
View Article[graftman] ted
worth watching these lectures , http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
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There is also the other side of the coin, as we have discussed previously. This article was in the FT yesterday... As online shopping explodes in Britain, helping to push traditional retailers such as...
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Like almost everyone without a job in Rugeley, a mostly white working-class town of about 22,000, Chris Martin started scouring the internet for application details as soon as he heard Amazon was...
View Article[mailman] Graftman
Hello... Yes many good points this morning.... busy for a saturday.... I thing most must have the idea that the high street will seem many uncomfortable changes... every week something else is...
View Article[mailman] Ranjm
Good news from amazon employment point of view .... how many are PT jobs or how that equates to the overall unemployment figures of the UK in general... good luck to those that have happly found...
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another good post from you , like you I think hat the public need to take action , either to sue the companies (Findus , Tesco's etc) or they should be protesting and ban using them . not sure what the...
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The Internet is the new high street and will become even more so as technology develops . Graftman's spot on , the most important aspect of this is whether you have a pound in your pocket . City...
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I agree with you that your and my high street has changed over past years.. The one thing that is different from past years ... is the internet a totally new aspect from past years...is introduced into...
View Article[graftman] on-line
no one can dispute that it has benefits and in a lot of cases for the better , take the brokers and us investors . the thing is i can see a backlash to on-line retail, we are social beings and like...
View Article[graftman] interesting watch
it covers what we have been chatting about , , http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html
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A collective force from the public will freighten supermarkets if they are sued ...there just has to be justified claim against miss selling.... if i want a penguin pie and i got kangeroo pie instead.....
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