On 18 Mar, 14:12, Mr Thant
wrote:
On 18 Mar, 12:42, Sky Rider wrote:

* More than four-fifths of the Arcade units are now operational

Although some of the more boutiquey shops look yet to get their first
customer. There's a posh shirt shop on the west side where the staff
looked suicidal last time I passed. The food shops are doing well.

(and how long was the big Marks and Spencer open for? It opened after
the station and closed again at least a month ago, so it can't have
more than a few weeks. Deserted too)

U

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I looked in at a posh chocolate shop in the arcade this week. Knocking
out half Easter eggs filled with little, silver-paper-wrapped "filled"
eggs, in a posh plastic bag. Advertised weight was 500g, yours for
only £35.

Yep, £70/kilo.

I looked, but I don't remember seeing anything for less than about £15
- and that was a small box of chocs.

Think I'll stick to Cadburys with the odd visit to Thorntons.

Rob.

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:10:31 +0000, wrote

I looked in at a posh chocolate shop in the arcade this week. Knocking
out half Easter eggs filled with little, silver-paper-wrapped "filled"
eggs, in a posh plastic bag. Advertised weight was 500g, yours for
only £35.

Yep, £70/kilo.

I looked, but I don't remember seeing anything for less than about £15
- and that was a small box of chocs.

Think I'll stick to Cadburys

I thought you were discussing chocolate.

Although some of the more boutiquey shops look yet to get their first
customer. There's a posh shirt shop on the west side where the staff
looked suicidal last time I passed. The food shops are doing well.

Look at the prices of those shirts, they only need to sell 3 a day,
and they've paid their staff wages already. Tax and unit rental won't
be more than another couple of shirts, etc.

"lonelytraveller" wrote in
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Although some of the more boutiquey shops look yet to get their first
customer. There's a posh shirt shop on the west side where the staff
looked suicidal last time I passed. The food shops are doing well.

Look at the prices of those shirts, they only need to sell 3 a day,
and they've paid their staff wages already. Tax and unit rental won't
be more than another couple of shirts, etc.

but why would someone buy a posh shirt whilst waiting for a train?

tim

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"lonelytraveller" wrote in
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Although some of the more boutiquey shops look yet to get their first
customer. There's a posh shirt shop on the west side where the staff
looked suicidal last time I passed. The food shops are doing well.

Look at the prices of those shirts, they only need to sell 3 a day,
and they've paid their staff wages already. Tax and unit rental won't
be more than another couple of shirts, etc.

but why would someone buy a posh shirt whilst waiting for a train?


It's because Eurostar are still pretending they are a ground level airline,
so they need to have the same range of rip-off merchants you find at an
airport?

Paul

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:28:30 +0000, tim \(not at home\) wrote

Look at the prices of those shirts, they only need to sell 3 a day,
and they've paid their staff wages already. Tax and unit rental won't
be more than another couple of shirts, etc.

but why would someone buy a posh shirt whilst waiting for a train?

To some, they're not 'posh shirts', they're just 'shirts'

"Stimpy" wrote in message
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:28:30 +0000, tim \(not at home\) wrote

Look at the prices of those shirts, they only need to sell 3 a day,
and they've paid their staff wages already. Tax and unit rental won't
be more than another couple of shirts, etc.

but why would someone buy a posh shirt whilst waiting for a train?

To some, they're not 'posh shirts', they're just 'shirts'

Then surely their butler would be procuring said shirts from somewhere more
upmarket than a railway station concourse.

tim

On Mar 21, 7:43 pm, Stimpy wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:28:30 +0000, tim \(not at home\) wrote



Look at the prices of those shirts, they only need to sell 3 a day,
and they've paid their staff wages already. Tax and unit rental won't
be more than another couple of shirts, etc.

but why would someone buy a posh shirt whilst waiting for a train?

To some, they're not 'posh shirts', they're just 'shirts'

Thomas Pink isn't that "posh" anyway. Its like Austin Reed. They
market themselves to those individuals who think they've got more
class than they have. All they have going for them is the fact that
they named themselves after a tailor who had a colour named after him.

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, tim (not at home) wrote:

"lonelytraveller" wrote in
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Although some of the more boutiquey shops look yet to get their first
customer. There's a posh shirt shop on the west side where the staff
looked suicidal last time I passed. The food shops are doing well.

Look at the prices of those shirts, they only need to sell 3 a day,
and they've paid their staff wages already. Tax and unit rental won't
be more than another couple of shirts, etc.

but why would someone buy a posh shirt whilst waiting for a train?

Because they've just bought tickets to the continent, and now haven't got
a shirt on their back?

Hmm. Does this shop specialise in one-armed shirts? And, if they do
trousers, one-legged ones?

Is a one-legged pair of trousers just a trouser?

tom

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At 22:17:37 on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 Tom Anderson opined:-

Is a one-legged pair of trousers just a trouser?

I've often wondered what a trouser is. This must be the answer.

Now what is a scissor?
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Thoss