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.

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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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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'

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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

"tim (not at home)" wrote

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

That's not the butler's job. The valet or gentleman's gentleman, perhaps.

Peter

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"tim (not at home)" wrote

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

That's not the butler's job. The valet or gentleman's gentleman, perhaps.

Yes, my mistake

tim

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:36:50 +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.

Depends on the cost I suppose. Everyone has a different price point for
these things

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 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:05:44 +0000, lonelytraveller wrote

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.

The shop is only a Thomas Pink?? That's on the same level as M&S in the
'posh-shirt' stakes. The way people were talking about it, I assumed it was
some dreadfully upmarket London-based store of which we country bumpkins
would be ignorant :-)