leonardratso Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 always reminded me of radioshack/tandy, do you remember them piles of crap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Hug Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 23 minutes ago, leonardratso said: always reminded me of radioshack/tandy, do you remember them piles of crap? Sure. But 20 years ago, when I needed a capacitor or some obscure extension lead, there weren't amazon or ebay where I can get them from China for £1 (if prepared to wait) or for £2-3 (if needed next day).  So it's not just the fact that their stock is a pile of crap (I can sort of see how anything technology-related can easily become worthless pretty quickly if not discounted to be sold) but online shopping had to eventually kill them. Just like HMV etc. And it happened quicker than it is happening to food/large goods retailers because I guess electronic components are quite small, so are cheap to deliver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noallegiance Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 2 hours ago, spyguy said: "Once secured this will stabilise the business to the benefit of all stakeholders and provide Maplin with the financial firepower to deliver its 2020 multichannel strategy focused on smart tech." Eh? Blue sky thinking, right there. I do not miss being in meetings where this bolleaux is carted out in an attempt to look smart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agentimmo Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 "Smart tech" Home alarm systems managed via your smartphone, judging from what I've seen in their London stores recently.  Yep...pile in and buy those shares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie_George Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 27 minutes ago, Bear Hug said: Just like HMV etc.  There's another that should not exist today. The vast majority of what HMV sells is available on demand -- the rest is just overpriced Chinese headphones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papag Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Redundancies at Pland stainless steel the stainless steel products manufacturers in Leeds has been announced , last week they asked all staff to take a 10% pay cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zugzwang Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Tears, cheers and hugs as 1,100 redundant Tesco staff head for giant farewell party. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tears-cheers-hugs-1100-redundant-14301042 Quote There were tears and celebrations as more than 1,000 Tesco workers left work for the last time after being made redundant. Members of the Tesco House call centre in Cardiff were seen with drinks, prosecco glasses and carrying large screen TVs after an auction in the office in Maes-Y-Coed Road. Following an announcement by the supermarket giant in June a total of 1,100 customer care workers and administration staff were made redundant. On their last day of work staff left early and were seen hugging and cheering before being taken in a fleet of coaches to a farewell party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noallegiance Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 1 minute ago, zugzwang said: Tears, cheers and hugs as 1,100 redundant Tesco staff head for giant farewell party. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tears-cheers-hugs-1100-redundant-14301042 Yay! We've lost our jobs and some of us have been duped via auction into giving some of our wages back to the company that sacked us! Happy days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 3 minutes ago, zugzwang said: Tears, cheers and hugs as 1,100 redundant Tesco staff head for giant farewell party. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tears-cheers-hugs-1100-redundant-14301042 What a happy bunch, they must all be using their pay off to get into BTL Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverick73 Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 16 hours ago, TheCountOfNowhere said: I guess no one has a pot to p*ss in. They can tax us more, defaults will rise, they can tax patrol more, people will drive slower, they can increase rates, businesses will close. All of this is a direct result IMHO of the insane housing bubble and the massive unsustainable greed of the public sector. The dam is bursting by the look of it. Â Â Is a bubble? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 2 minutes ago, maverick73 said: Is a bubble? Interesting thought. The public sector bubble. Funded by 1.5 Trillion borrowing.  We've seen the greek public sector collapse, why noth the UKs. Their pensions are unsustainable. Theire only solution more people at the bottom of the pyramid ( immigrants ) to keep it all going.   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 re's another 43  https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/43-jobs-go-ayrshire-firm-12052391  43 jobs go as Ayrshire firm Balmoral Knitwear closes its doors after 123 years  This recover was always a bit wooly. I hope this doesnt result in a jumper on the rail line.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAnotherProle Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 1 minute ago, TheCountOfNowhere said: This recover was always a bit wooly. I hope this doesnt result in a jumper on the rail line. Â Those workers got stitched up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CunningPlan Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 1 minute ago, JustAnotherProle said: Those workers got stitched up. It was always looming over them. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 1 minute ago, CunningPlan said: It was always looming over them. Â I heard they were a tight knit bunch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CunningPlan Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Just now, TheCountOfNowhere said: I heard they were a tight knit bunch Sadly it all seemed to unravel. I don't think they followed a pattern. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Sounds like a decent yarn. I'd like to hear it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Just now, Errol said: Sounds like a decent yarn. I'd like to hear it. You can meet me in the Strand and I'll tell you all about it. I'm always bobbin about there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 I bed the staff all have the needle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 It's a real shame when a team that has been so well knitted together has to be torn apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Teetering  http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/02/maplin-teetering-on-brink-of-administration/  Get your puns ready.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorn Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-43125810 Lagan behind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonardratso Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 the knit people were all crotchet(y) old bats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonardratso Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 DHL might chicken out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assume The Opposite Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 22 hours ago, TheCountOfNowhere said: Interesting thought. The public sector bubble. Funded by 1.5 Trillion borrowing. We've seen the greek public sector collapse, why noth the UKs. Their pensions are unsustainable. Theire only solution more people at the bottom of the pyramid ( immigrants ) to keep it all going. Greece don't have their own currency. All the member states had to apparently destroy their printing presses. How democratic They rely on Brussels to give them euros. Troika knew all they had to turn was to turn off the liquidity and the banks would hemorrhage leaving the economy unable to function without cash/credit. Come the bailout discussion when it was Tsipras and Varoufakis, the PM was probably held at economic gunpoint  faced with either a collapse of society while they issue a new currency, or a permanent contraction of the economy with ongoing austerity. Greece as a whole is ******ed until they abandon the Euro and take back control. The debt will never be repaid as the more surplus they run, the more economy will shrink, increasing the debt to GDP ratio. It's a shame they didn't leave as blowing up the Euro banking system could have been a fork in the eye of the establishment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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