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 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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got EXPERTISE in BADASS BRAIN FREEZE

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 :-)

In article
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(lonelytraveller) wrote:

Is it not already in Europe then ?

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Nick

No.

Sorry to disabuse you, but it is.

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Colin Rosenstiel

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:55:13 -0700 (PDT), Paul Oter
wrote:

M&S made a valiant effort to attract people to visit it, with staff
hanging around the station handing out vouchers for free pastries.
Presumably it wasn't enough. (The only reason I went there was to
avoid the queues in the much-busier M&S Simply Food in the "arcade").

I remember some publicity before the opening which suggested that
there's be an M & S within St Pancras with a reasonable range of both
food and clothing. So I was surprised , on my one visit there, to
find most of the space given over to food and only a very limited
range of clothing. And in the absence of other shops open in the area
it wasn't going to attract much passing trade; I went in partly out of
curiosity, partly because I was changing between Thameslink amd the
suburban platforms at Kings Cross.

Martin

In message , at 10:41:08 on
Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Martin Rich remarked:
I remember some publicity before the opening which suggested that
there's be an M & S within St Pancras with a reasonable range of both
food and clothing.

There's an M&S near me, about the same size as the one in The Circle,
and it's approx 25% "housewares and clothes", and the rest is food. Such
stores aren't new, there was one just like it at least 12 years ago in
Surbiton (near the A3, not the station).
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 10:41:08 on
Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Martin Rich remarked:
I remember some publicity before the opening which suggested that
there's be an M & S within St Pancras with a reasonable range of both
food and clothing.

There's an M&S near me, about the same size as the one in The Circle, and
it's approx 25% "housewares and clothes", and the rest is food. Such
stores aren't new, there was one just like it at least 12 years ago in
Surbiton (near the A3, not the station).

The place is called Tolworth

And it's been there quite a few more years than 12.

tim

On 22 Mar, 21:05, lonelytraveller
wrote:
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.

It is if you're a regular King's Cross user and thought having a
Swatch kiosk was posh.

U

In message , at 15:02:11 on Sun, 23
Mar 2008, "tim (not at home)" remarked:
There's an M&S near me, about the same size as the one in The Circle, and
it's approx 25% "housewares and clothes", and the rest is food. Such
stores aren't new, there was one just like it at least 12 years ago in
Surbiton (near the A3, not the station).

The place is called Tolworth

The postal address is Surbiton, but yes the local area is called
Tolworth.

And it's been there quite a few more years than 12.

I'm sure it has. I've only know it for 12 though (hence my use of the
words "at least").
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Roland Perry