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I always got a little angry when WH Smith staff scanned vouchers and didn't give them to me. I asked for them to be unscanned as I wasn't getting them (having said no I didn't want them) and they argued that it made no difference so what's the problem? I assume it did make a difference as they...

While I used to visit HMV, Tower Records (later Virgin and Zavvi) in my youth, I must say that I saw them much like WH Smith - vastly overpriced for most things. I didn't just buy CDs but also things like posters, and I think if you were after something rare then you might not find it anywhere...

While many are in a state, I'm sure they've been able to clean a few up. Drivers are doing their conversion courses so hopefully by May there will be many more in service.

If you leave a car on a public highway for weeks there's every chance the council will come and move it at some point. I am sure people will work it out amongst themselves. Don't park your car that isn't going to move for ages next to a place to charge. I'm sure there aren't many people who...

Also, while some people don't know their neighbours, many do - and some streets have a good community spirit, so it isn't impossible to imagine people using common sense to park away from a charger to allow a fellow neighbour to do so, if they don't need to charge.

Unless you need a car with a very personalised specification you almost certainly should be buying a pre registered demonstrator, or a second hand car a year or so old, over a new car. I bought new once and paid a premium but it was a car where there were loads of extras over and above the top...

A lot of AI is deeply flawed and will be for some time. But there's a lot of money to made hyping it up, with investors keen to throw money for quick returns (a lot through ignorance, none more so than Trump almost certainly not understanding it any more than he 'gets' crypto) and a lot because...

If you also ignore all the things you won't need to spend money on with an EV over time, compared to an ICE vehicle.

I can only hope that X and Tesla values drop accordingly too. Elon's wealth is tied to ridiculous over valuations based on lies - much of it now around AI (and robotics etc) - which has now taken a huge dent.

I wonder how much stock they lose from shoplifting compared to actual customer sales? Given my branch can sometimes have zero staff on the floor, presumably in a back office monitoring on CCTV (coming out if you press the 'call for aid' button) and I've not seen security guards either...

People might even see price cuts, given how much WH Smith charge for things (albeit way more in their travel sites, hence why they're profitable enough to keep).

Many magazines created their own forums for readers to communicate with staff and other readers, and this often used to work very well.. plus forums could be paid for through online advertising sold by the publisher. The web could work very well with magazines and newspapers, and of course some...

That's a shame. To be honest, I've not eaten in IKEA for some time simply because they now offer delivery at low (sometimes no) cost to a local locker or supermarket car park (and of course there's click and collect) so I generally order without venturing into a store now. When the Oxford...

WH Smith used to charge us a lot to put magazines in all their stores. In fact, it was unaffordable to us and so we had only a selected set of stores. Bigger magazines that need circulation for advertisers will pay and shift magazines in some locations at a loss (unsold copies are pulped). WH...

You described the cafe in my local Sainsbury's perfectly, and it closed a year or two ago (was rumoured to become a Starbucks or something but AFAIK it's still empty. It's upstairs where I rarely go so haven't seen the state in over a year, but my guess is it's empty still. I do recall that...

It sounds like someone could do well to offer insurance for UK travels, perhaps as an add-on price for buying a ticket through Trainline or whatever (Trainline then doing a deal with an underwriter). Have a modest excess and obviously once a major weather event has been announced, withdraw...

How a train is branded and any confusion from using other stock (as is common with Thameslink and Great Northern branded trains being used on Great Northern services from Cambridge to King's Cross) is not comparable to the signage showing first class onboard. I suggest we ignore this comparison...

Elon only has time to send about 100 Tweets/Xcrements per day, so perhaps he's just been too busy to clarify.

Oh come on, how can you jump to such a conclusion? He's autistic. Autistic people are giving Nazi salutes all the time. And you'd have to believe that he'd be talking of white replacement theories, global cabals, restoring access to lots of pro-Nazi accounts on X when buying Twitter, and...

Perhaps, but I guess you could potentially limit the amount of power you could get at a reduced rate in any specified period. When the industry rolls out time of use tariffs (like Octopus Agile) more widely which I hope also applies to business customers, you could also have times allocated to...