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High street braced for Christmas sales carnage

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  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    Ooh, a sofa isn't always a luxury - there's only so long our sofas can survive under their £2 Primark throws - the kids have jumped on them and shredded them to bits underneath, but I'm loathe to get new ones while little one is still at the weeing/drawing etc on furniture stage.... :rolleyes:
  • RandomDan
    RandomDan Posts: 90 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10 Posts
    Generali wrote: »
    As people get fatter, I've found it harder to get trousers to fit as I have a 30" waist.

    I'm the same; Next is the only decent place round my way with trousers that fit. M&S is dreadful in that respect, they seem to start at 34' at my branch. Mind you it was worse when I was a meagre 28', but I now work close to a fast food place and it is having an effect :)
  • SingleSue
    SingleSue Posts: 11,718 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    carolt wrote: »
    Ooh, a sofa isn't always a luxury - there's only so long our sofas can survive under their £2 Primark throws - the kids have jumped on them and shredded them to bits underneath, but I'm loathe to get new ones while little one is still at the weeing/drawing etc on furniture stage.... :rolleyes:

    Sounds like my sofas! I currently have loads of pillows etc stuffed down a blooming great hole in one of them where the base has sort of collapsed beneath the covering....

    They will have to make do until I can find suitable replacements via freecycle.
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
    Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.
  • Mandark
    Mandark Posts: 181 Forumite
    The Independent also identified JJB and Jessops being in trouble. Bailiffs have turned up to some JJB stores.
    Prof planning and public rights of way person. Studies all things tech!
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Mandark wrote: »
    The Independent also identified JJB and Jessops being in trouble. Bailiffs have turned up to some JJB stores.

    It sounds like by the end of next year, Britons will have the choice of Tesco, Sainsbury and fc123 to buy from.
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    It sounds like by the end of next year, Britons will have the choice of Tesco, Sainsbury and fc123 to buy from.

    I will take that as a vote of confidence ;)

    I am starting on a bit of UK made knitwear next march (for winter 09)...found a factory that was making loads for extremely well known UK brand. They just got dumped for the Far East.


    I am trying really hard not to be scared.


    Mind you, got a PR call today and had to send some samples for an X Factor shoot. Embarrassingly, as we don't have telly and I only watch the odd thing on i plyer, I dodn't know what the new winner looks like.....had to rush out and check out a Heat....but I know who Leona is.

    If it comes off I will update the thread just to have a little non self effacing brag.



    Will my Real Life Land shop still be around next year? I don't know if there will be takers for the lease....
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    fc123 wrote: »
    I will take that as a vote of confidence ;)

    I am starting on a bit of UK made knitwear next march (for winter 09)...found a factory that was making loads for extremely well known UK brand. They just got dumped for the Far East.


    I am trying really hard not to be scared.


    Mind you, got a PR call today and had to send some samples for an X Factor shoot. Embarrassingly, as we don't have telly and I only watch the odd thing on i plyer, I dodn't know what the new winner looks like.....had to rush out and check out a Heat....but I know who Leona is.

    If it comes off I will update the thread just to have a little non self effacing brag.



    Will my Real Life Land shop still be around next year? I don't know if there will be takers for the lease....

    Hey, major good luck wishes from me :T
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    Hey, major good luck wishes from me :T
    I have anonymously dressed lots of 'celebs' over the past 2 decades. The problem is that the PR doesn't necessarily pay the bills. An item can get press, no-one knows where it's from as I am an unbranded (coolest of the cool BTW) label. It then gets trashed by a chain doing a nasty copy.

    This time ~(because I am older and wiser) I will find out if any item is used and bang out the production in 7 days in Leicester....have already got factory on standby.
    I only make £££ from the units I actually sell....all the other fluff and stuff is just...well..stuff really.
  • Walletwatch
    Walletwatch Posts: 1,055 Forumite
    fc123 wrote: »
    I will take that as a vote of confidence ;)

    I am starting on a bit of UK made knitwear next march (for winter 09)...found a factory that was making loads for extremely well known UK brand. They just got dumped for the Far East.


    I am trying really hard not to be scared.

    Wish you the best, fc123, it honestly is heartening to see accounts of attempting to expand business during such troubled times. Hoping to hear positive news on your progress next year
    It's always the grass that suffers, irrespective of whether the elephants are fighting or making love !!!
  • Mandark
    Mandark Posts: 181 Forumite
    Well Zavvi's gone under now.
    Prof planning and public rights of way person. Studies all things tech!
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