#whsmiths — Public Fediverse posts
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Private Equity company Modella Capital is who bought #WHSmiths in a deal worth £76 million.
They also bought #Hobbycraft, who I read earlier have been selling kids playsand with asbestos in it but refuse to issue a recall:
Three things the public loathe and fear: Private Equity, Fascism and Asbestos.
Why do we have to put up with this?
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Private Equity company Modella Capital is who bought #WHSmiths in a deal worth £76 million.
They also bought #Hobbycraft, who I read earlier have been selling kids playsand with asbestos in it but refuse to issue a recall:
Three things the public loathe and fear: Private Equity, Fascism and Asbestos.
Why do we have to put up with this?
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It’s all the end of a slow but very definite fall from grace for #WHSmiths .
I don’t know if TG Jones is an existing brand. I’ve been unable to discern that from searching this morning. All I can say is that I don’t recall having ever heard of it m’self. And it doesn’t sound like many others in the UK have either.
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Sure, I still use #WHSmiths as my go to place for stationary on the rare occasions I now need it. It’s one of the few physical stores I can still do that in at short notice. But half my local store is now given over to Toys R Us. And the lines stocked as a Smiths are a shadow of their past self.
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Back in the 90s and early 2000s I bought movies, TV shows and videogames from #WHSmiths on ye olde physical media. I have a sneaking suspicion that I may have purchased my first DVD from there. Those lines all long gone now.
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For people working in traditional publishing, such as genre magazines and those working in UK comics, #WHSmiths frequently frustrated. Publications set out in some truly scattershot fashions. Many publications only ever ordered and displayed if people came in to request them. It’s been an unreliable mess.
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For people working in traditional publishing, such as genre magazines and those working in UK comics, #WHSmiths frequently frustrated. Publications set out in some truly scattershot fashions. Many publications only ever ordered and displayed if people came in to request them. It’s been an unreliable mess.
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Well, this is depressing news to wake up to.
#WHSmiths has arguably made some questionable decisions on cutting back what they stock, since the early 2000s. But it sort of is a British institution.
TGJones is not.
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Well, this is depressing news to wake up to.
#WHSmiths has arguably made some questionable decisions on cutting back what they stock, since the early 2000s. But it sort of is a British institution.
TGJones is not.
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This means of course now that anything in the store is free. However, there is a bit of a waiting list https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/27/wh-smith-whs-rebrand-criticised-for-similarity-to-nhs-logo #whsmiths #uk
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This means of course now that anything in the store is free. However, there is a bit of a waiting list https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/27/wh-smith-whs-rebrand-criticised-for-similarity-to-nhs-logo #whsmiths #uk
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@stevewetherill @juanfr Agreed, great year #1984. I still had a Vic and not quite got my #ZXSpectrum then. I spent many a time in #WHSmiths and #woolworths playing the latest games on display, while dreaming on becoming a Spectrum games developer.
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@stevewetherill @juanfr Agreed, great year #1984. I still had a Vic and not quite got my #ZXSpectrum then. I spent many a time in #WHSmiths and #woolworths playing the latest games on display, while dreaming on becoming a Spectrum games developer.
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The one that got away. Circa 1983, seemed like a good idea at the time but #WHSmiths was running scared of anything that looked like featuring #videonasties
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The one that got away. Circa 1983, seemed like a good idea at the time but #WHSmiths was running scared of anything that looked like featuring #videonasties