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| Sat, 25 Jan 2025, 16:02 | |
Jayenkai
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Oh dear. There goes WHSmiths.. MSN News : BBC News
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| Sat, 25 Jan 2025, 16:02 | |
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Dan |
isnt it great ... when you click on a link, but the page sends you to your country language whatever that is ... https://www.msn.com/de-de
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| Sat, 25 Jan 2025, 16:02 | |
cyangames
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Ohhhhhh, that's ...not promising.
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| Sat, 25 Jan 2025, 16:52 | |
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Jayenkai
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@Dan > Reveal 🔎 It's a shame, but.. Honestly, what's left of our high-street anymore? Primark seems to be, literally the only shop left in Bolton, according to my Mum's recent visit, and what I've explored of Wigan is either B&M's, Primark again, or banks. .. Didn't all the banks shut down a decade or two ago? Wigan's got, like, this bizarre Financial-Triangle where all the banks seem to somehow have thrived. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Sun, 26 Jan 2025, 12:07 | |
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Dan |
Thanks BBC works fine !
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| Mon, 27 Jan 2025, 04:04 | |
AndyH
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WHSmiths used to be a great shop for me. Along with John Menzies and Boots, and later HMV and Virgin Megastore, it sold everything I was into. It first began to decline when it pulled out of DVD sales, and then became very expensive. My kids were still quite young at the time and initially they had a decent selection of toys. But suddenly they thought it was a good idea to put a 10% to 20% mark up on the RRP, you could go next door and see the same thing cheaper, how did they think anyone would buy from them? Madness. Funnily enough they not have a Toys R Us concession in most stores and the prices aren't much better. These days it's just stationary, dwindling magazines, books, expensive art supplies and birthday cards, along with a "would you like to buy a large bar of Dairy Milk" at the checkout. Quite sad, but the business failed about 15 years ago. -=-=- Andy H 8-bit games at www.hewco.uk Cartoons at awful.ovine.net Ovine at ovine.net
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| Mon, 27 Jan 2025, 04:17 | |
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Jayenkai
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Yeah, the Bolton store was a frequently visited shop for me. Upstairs for the 8-bit games, Downstairs for the Garfield books! .. Then they fell out with Amstrad, the CPC games vanished, and that was that. I still checked in every time I was in town, and frequently bought Xmas/Birthday books for people, but once Waterstones opened up in town.. .. well, then it was just a Newsagents for me. Fondest Memory : The store detective who, I swear must've worked there about 30 or so years. He was there when I was a little kid, and he was still there the last time I went in. Worst Memory : The static shock I got from the metallic handrail on the stairs, EVERY SINGLE TIME.. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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