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Are staff not trained to review the items for saleability before accepting them? Seems like an obvious thing to do. Just accepting everything seems like a terrible business model, even if the items are free.

Does anyone think Modella Capital might swoop in and buy Poundland or is it not enough of a dying company yet for them?

This does seem to be where it all fell apart. That information never reached the necessary person(s) at Bath. In addition surely the onboard staff knew about the short platform at Bath?

Have you identified a demand for an app with a full timetable? For the vast majority of people there is no need to see a timetable given the frequency of the most of the London Underground. I suspect people would find information about delays or line closures useful but there are plenty of...

At a minimum she should get get the journey refunded in full, compensation, a taxi home from Bristol, an apology, an explanation as to how this was allowed to occur and how GWR are going to ensure there is no repeat. It was known where she was going to get off before she started the journey so...

This is likely to be the reason. Can't imagine hot chocolate is a big seller in Spoons.

I suspect they realised the plan would be too expensive to implement so abandoned it leaving the current situation. I reckon they want to close down TG Jones entirely without having to admit it won't make them any money so are no longer going to bother trying to make it work.

I very much doubt Modella Capital thought they could build the business back up. Everyone knows that the demand for stationary and magazines has reduced massively in the past decade with more and more things going digital. What I don't understand is what they thought they could asset strip and...

Its about the same time if I stay on the Central Line to Stratford and overall its a little cheaper so I'll probably do that. I'm not going to faff about changing at Romford.

Not quite. Using Oyster to Liverpool Street then a super off-peak comes out to £29.05. Only 55p in it though. I wanted to check I hadn't been silly and missed something obvious as I've never bought a ticket to/from an LU Zone before and it turns out I hadn't. Thanks for the help everyone.

I would need to go through Zone 1 to get to Liverpool Street or Stratford. No way to avoid this unless I used buses but that would add a huge amount of time so not sensible.

I'm travelling from a Zone 2 London Underground station to Colchester Town and back tomorrow, 19th September 2026. I was planning to get the 12:30 train from London Liverpool Street and return on either the 2135, 21:44 or 22:07 out of Colchester Town. Is there a single ticket I can get that...

There are so many reasons TG Jones couldn't become a business that solely operates franchised Post Offices I don't know where to start. Businesses have a sub-post office primarily to drive footfall into their store(s). There is nowhere near enough profit potential for a business to survive, or...

If a hotel needs a security guard I probably wouldn't stay there, even if it is really cheap. I guess having key card entry to the building after a certain time wouldn't entirely replicate the benefits of the security guard.

I expect they would enter the room immediately but upon seeing a significant weapon, such as a knife/hammer/baseball bat, they would back off. That's what I would be doing. The crew member isn't going to be able to do anything against an armed attacker and I can't imagine they have the training...