Retroman839
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Wilkinson's going into administration
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Our local McDonald's shut down for a month to refurb and it's just reopened with most of the seats gone and no bloody counter!? I hardly ever go in there myself but it's clearly a move to encourage people to just buy online. The franchise owner said that they were always heading this way to cater more to people ordering online for delivery.
Our local shopping centre becomes more rundown every year and this sort of thing doesn't help, we have a Wilkos too and it's never that busy.
One day our kids will probably be telling their kids how they used to be able to walk to the shops to buy things in the same way I had to explain to my kids how we used to walk to the video shops to hire a film! Those were the days.
Our local shopping centre becomes more rundown every year and this sort of thing doesn't help, we have a Wilkos too and it's never that busy.
One day our kids will probably be telling their kids how they used to be able to walk to the shops to buy things in the same way I had to explain to my kids how we used to walk to the video shops to hire a film! Those were the days.
kingtreelo
Active member
some proper old miserable bastards in this thread
Oh the good old days
My experience is that a visit by car to most towns in the south east results in finding no free parking, extortionate parking or no parking at all and most of the roads paved over for use by 'the others'. If one perseveres and makes it in then it is a good place to buy random cheap dvds in chairty shops whilst narrowly avoiding delivery drivers flat out on electric bikes in the pedestrian only areas. On the way back from any such trip a swift diversion to an out of town superstore will reveal everyone who still shops in person is parked there instead. It's a very strange situation.
As a footnote I like Wilko but rarely go there except on the odd Sunday as all the nearby stores are in town. I ordered something online from them once after being messed around by an ebay seller and it arrived promptly and worked out cheaper.
As a footnote I like Wilko but rarely go there except on the odd Sunday as all the nearby stores are in town. I ordered something online from them once after being messed around by an ebay seller and it arrived promptly and worked out cheaper.
Don't surprise me at all, It's all about getting us to stop travelling, more people working from home. This is when people should stop going McDonalds, Struggle to get food warm from there when inside, can't imagine how cold you get it delivered, it's all junk food anyway, women over road from me can't be bothered to drive to Iceland, it's half a mile away so she has it delivered, as well as shopping from Tesco and Amazon, not like she's young, Mid/late 60's.
Surely now people are starting to see what's going on, when McDonalds closed briefly for Covid and I won't mention that but soon as they reopen, bang touch screen ordering everywhere, get more paying with cards and phones as they slowly remove cash, same in Carparks and the excuse to keep bringing everything in is Climate Change, Green Agenda, Net Zero and what is Climate Change, Computer Modelling, that's where they get all the BS from
Still no Updates on Wilko then?
Ah, poor old Wilkos. The one in Crawley went a two weeks or so. I got some amazingly cheap stop/tail bulbs, some 20/50 oil, and some competitivley priced mouse traps. I was also forced to buy a set of childrens work gloves and a packet or stipey markers.... Still, as I walked back to the car parked in the nearest free area (it was Sunday FFS) the bag (supplied by me) started to stretch and my arms tired of carrying the oil so it went back to one of my gripes about town centre decline being caused by the traffic and parking restrictions :-|
kingtreelo
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Whilst the picture of a tin foil hat can be amusing, I'm seeing a different picture. I try not to look at things from one perspective, but I try and look at things objectively rather than subjectively. rather than focus on things like the Canadian parliament applauding a war criminal en masse, I'm thinking about upcoming changes that have been announced that will alter the way everyone lives.
I remember watching the movie Back To The Future and thinking, wow the future looks great! But if people take their eyes off their phones and look around, it aint as cosy as they think it is. But on the flip side, things are not as bad as some people make out. For the people/businesses in bad debt, it aint gonna be fun for the next few years, that's guaranteed.
Here's a selection of pictures, some from legacy media but most taken by myself over the past few years. Remember queuing to go to the shops only to find empty shelves? Some people don't...... There may be a story in amongst the pictures somewhere, or maybe there isn't!
I remember watching the movie Back To The Future and thinking, wow the future looks great! But if people take their eyes off their phones and look around, it aint as cosy as they think it is. But on the flip side, things are not as bad as some people make out. For the people/businesses in bad debt, it aint gonna be fun for the next few years, that's guaranteed.
Here's a selection of pictures, some from legacy media but most taken by myself over the past few years. Remember queuing to go to the shops only to find empty shelves? Some people don't...... There may be a story in amongst the pictures somewhere, or maybe there isn't!
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John Bennett
Senior Member
No sane human would accept a future of Macdonalds fries from a Deliveroo bag. They’re miserable enough after 3 minutes wilting in the restaurant.
We would surely rise up against such a plan.
We would surely rise up against such a plan.
There are certainly some glimmers of hope, but I dunno mate, some of the things I witnessed over the past few years made it apparent that a lot of people have simply lost their backbone from the constant psychological grinding down. I think many will just accept those soggy Deliveroo/Amazon drone delivered fries in a paper bag that'll then be chucked in the ever growing pile of recycling sh*t from delivering anything and everything.
My local council went bankrupt, I expect we'll all pay more taxes to get them out the sh*t.
Bham council sponsored by Amazon? Who flippin' knows what the future holds!
No one should accept Muck Donald's crap at all and most of the other junk food and ultra processed food in supermarkets, this is the reason the UK has a Health Epidemic of obese people and sickness that doctors, pharmacy and NHS love, they are raking it in, the Business Of Illness, well the vile ones at the top just like the vile government sucking every bit they can get while were ran by Millionaires/Billionaires that don't give 2 shits about us
Problem is, most just aren't seeing the Bigger Picture, you can get an idea of it from listening to notes put into recordings of a 1969 talk that he remembered, Dr Lawrence Dunegan New Order Of Barbarians, one thing he said was getting more women playing sports, look at the explosion of women's sports now, why? because they want em to busy to bother having children, same reason to get them wanting careers I guess
Why and when did we start calling men and women Guys? these things don't happen by accident, these are planned
The more crazy stuff that keeps happening like wales with 20mph, skips in streets with plants in taking away parking spaces, taking out lanes for cars and putting more cycle lanes etc etc the more people are seeing that something weird is happening
People can laugh and follow the mainstream media calling people tin foil hat wearing nutters, or you can think about why this is all happening since the Covid Rollout when it stepped up a few gears, I've known things are crazy for years really, but been too busy in my own little world to worry about it, now it's in your face and you can't avoid it, attitude of most people is, it's not affecting me so I don't care, now it's starting to affect more and more people with jobs going, shops closing, ulez con, climate fear, online safety bill to silence people.
Look at the internet now, it was brilliant when it started, anything on there, now were blocked from seeing half of it or more, its so censored now it a joke, youtube ran by AI auto deleting comments, string a sentence it don't like and by by comment, keep posting same comment without knowing its being auto deleted after 20 secs and all your comments are deleted for 24 hours, get a day ban without being told, doesn't have to be offensive or words they like to ban, just context many times, funny how I couldn't comment about Microchips in peoples hands, until they were ready to roll out the story in the mainstream media then I post comment and it's fine
Something I found a while back, google TV Adult Channel Fined and pile of articles come up about Ofcon handing out fines for these channels for breaching broadcasting code, this broadcast code is there to protect children yeah, yet most now have smart phone with internet and they can view porn anytime if parents don't censor it, why do you think they leave porn wide open on the net? but fine a TV channel that shows nothing compared to the sick stuff online
Problem is, most just aren't seeing the Bigger Picture, you can get an idea of it from listening to notes put into recordings of a 1969 talk that he remembered, Dr Lawrence Dunegan New Order Of Barbarians, one thing he said was getting more women playing sports, look at the explosion of women's sports now, why? because they want em to busy to bother having children, same reason to get them wanting careers I guess
Why and when did we start calling men and women Guys? these things don't happen by accident, these are planned
The more crazy stuff that keeps happening like wales with 20mph, skips in streets with plants in taking away parking spaces, taking out lanes for cars and putting more cycle lanes etc etc the more people are seeing that something weird is happening
People can laugh and follow the mainstream media calling people tin foil hat wearing nutters, or you can think about why this is all happening since the Covid Rollout when it stepped up a few gears, I've known things are crazy for years really, but been too busy in my own little world to worry about it, now it's in your face and you can't avoid it, attitude of most people is, it's not affecting me so I don't care, now it's starting to affect more and more people with jobs going, shops closing, ulez con, climate fear, online safety bill to silence people.
Look at the internet now, it was brilliant when it started, anything on there, now were blocked from seeing half of it or more, its so censored now it a joke, youtube ran by AI auto deleting comments, string a sentence it don't like and by by comment, keep posting same comment without knowing its being auto deleted after 20 secs and all your comments are deleted for 24 hours, get a day ban without being told, doesn't have to be offensive or words they like to ban, just context many times, funny how I couldn't comment about Microchips in peoples hands, until they were ready to roll out the story in the mainstream media then I post comment and it's fine
Something I found a while back, google TV Adult Channel Fined and pile of articles come up about Ofcon handing out fines for these channels for breaching broadcasting code, this broadcast code is there to protect children yeah, yet most now have smart phone with internet and they can view porn anytime if parents don't censor it, why do you think they leave porn wide open on the net? but fine a TV channel that shows nothing compared to the sick stuff online
deadendthrills
Active member
It's like a Channel 5 version of Mr Robot in here.
Watched that for the first time, it's funny how the more things change the more they stay the same.
Am I the only person on here who thinks the future of retail is stuff being delivered by Amazon using self driving Uber/Bolt vehicles and drones?
Or should I take my tin foil hat off?
No the only one
Flipping Robots on wheels already delivering stuff from places like Co-Op around Northampton, Milton Keynes etc
StarShip How flippin lazy people are getting is astounding, woman near me has food delivered from Iceland, Sainsbury's, stuff from Amazon like dog food, never did before Covid, Iceland 1/2 mile away, can walk there. Sainsbury's 2 miles away but the Covid fear has worried so many they don't like to venture out
Anyone that watches the TV and swallows the Climate Fear daily, it's done to keep you in fear, just have a listen to Patrick Moore Co Founder of Greenpeace before that lost its way, he's great guy and clearly genuine and caring, this is what I listen to now instead of BBC Propaganda, have em on half the day while working, don't just take TV's word on everything
Crikey this got deep & dark very quick !!
Next to go IMO will be Boots , To many years of greed & Not moving with the times. In the future we will not need to go out , They are doing everything they can to make it harder and harder for us to drive places. I don't think they have considered the impact on revenue though they will need to shift the taxes somewhere else. You only have to look at electric vehicles , People with money get free installs of charging points at home , Tax reliefs and cheap electric deals. They are paying no tax at the moment. By the time us minions get around to having enough money for one the government with have kicked in by charging & taxing us to the hilt. The only people benefiting , yet again, is the rich and electric companies.
Dave.
Next to go IMO will be Boots , To many years of greed & Not moving with the times. In the future we will not need to go out , They are doing everything they can to make it harder and harder for us to drive places. I don't think they have considered the impact on revenue though they will need to shift the taxes somewhere else. You only have to look at electric vehicles , People with money get free installs of charging points at home , Tax reliefs and cheap electric deals. They are paying no tax at the moment. By the time us minions get around to having enough money for one the government with have kicked in by charging & taxing us to the hilt. The only people benefiting , yet again, is the rich and electric companies.
Dave.
PM you mate.
My partner works in supermarket, and someone got a deliveroo driver, to come to the store and deliver a toothbrush! lol WTF! I worked in a hospital, and every day I would say 95% of people would wait for a lift to go 1 floor up!!! Lazy buggers. These aren't old people with health issues, but youngsters carrying a latte!
