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[robot ic1] 31/5/2019 21:45

Qantas , I will not be moving to his new thread .
I am happy here .

Bye, Debsdowner .dont touch the girlies .

[qantas] 31/5/2019 18:53

Robot number 1 you must come over to debsdowner's new thread at MKS.

[debsdowner] 31/5/2019 11:46

New Marks & Spencer thread by the astute retail guru debsdowner posts welcome, lets do it

[qantas] 31/5/2019 08:39

Number 1 Robot he is very good at what he does and I like him as you do.

Plus he may be 100 percent correct at MKS

[robot ic1] 31/5/2019 08:35

Qantas , good morning ,

I see debsdowner is giving marks and Spencer a right pummelling .

Masses of BB posts recently .

I think it must be ,he wants to show his astuteness ,as he thinks he has, all the answers for the retail industry.

Ah well he can have all them young girlies.
I will stick to mature ladies

[qantas] 30/5/2019 13:25

debsdowner and Robot number 1


How to spend it.

[robot ic1] 30/5/2019 09:20

Qantas ,the G500 is fantastic everyone loves it .

Debsdowner certainly perks up when ladies are mentioned .

Debsdowner ,I will see what I can do for you about getting on the yaught with those Ladies , not girlies .

[qantas] 30/5/2019 09:01

Good morning Robot and debsdowner bet the lady's love your new Roll Royce Gulf stream.

[qantas] 29/5/2019 20:56

Debsdowner good evening WH Smith such a high share price think they have bucked the change being at all Stations? and being diverse.

[debsdowner] 29/5/2019 19:37

Q

Sell in May and go away was the right thing to do.

WH Smith shops are awful, mostly dirty cluttered surprisingly they have bucked the retail trend but for how long?

[qantas] 28/5/2019 22:07

Debsdowner I agree with you 100%

[debsdowner] 28/5/2019 20:11

Boots has opened a new store in Covent Garden and signed up a 20 year lease with a rent of £3.3 million per annum !

Don't know whether that is a mistake but that is a hefty rental with having to finance hefty rates as well and other costs and staff.

Probably a high footfall area and good sales area.



A city store will get good sales but many towns will not make enough profit on lower sales.

[debsdowner] 28/5/2019 20:00

Q

Yes seen this in the Mail 200 possible closures for Boots the chemist. They had already forecast flat sales recently and it looks like trading will be getting worse hence the need for store closures.

The High Street getting worse by the day some towns will be like ghost towns.



A good half the stock in stores can probably be bought elsewhere if not more so they wont be making much of a margin on a lot of the stuff they stock.

I think the High Street going to end up worse than it was during the financial crisis as online moved on as well.

The only way to prevent any further deterioration on the High Street is to reduce the rates on shops but it would have to be made up elsewhere possibly through taxation or general household rates.

[qantas] 28/5/2019 17:09

debsdowner new one fro you,

[debsdowner] 28/5/2019 17:08

Select the next retailer looks like its finished no buyers thus far:

[qantas] 28/5/2019 12:37

Marks & Spencer was among the risers, having dropped sharply last week on the back of news of a discounted rights issue and a dividend cut.

David Cheetham, chief market analyst at XTB, said that despite the strong share price performance on Tuesday, a look back at prior performance makes for "pretty grim viewing", with a six-month decline in the stock price of almost 20% and a near-40% drop seen in the past couple of years.

He said "a litany of mistakes" was to blame for this poor performance and while a demotion from the FTSE 100 in the upcoming quarterly reshuffle wouldn't materially impact business operations, "it would likely do more damage to its weary investors and their holdings".


Please do your own research as always.

[niggle] 28/5/2019 09:37

Look for other ‘combination’ stores like Pets At Home. Those which combine their retail space with profit making, complementary activities.

I’ll bet there are not many, but this is the future.

[qantas] 27/5/2019 17:44

Can Sir Philip Green save his retail empire?





Please do your own research as always.

[debsdowner] 27/5/2019 12:34

Latest on Philip Green's Arcadia group which is on a knife edge to oblivion says the Mail



All now depends on the pension trustees and landlords. If they don't accept a CVA Arcadia faces administration but even after a CVA the company will still struggle.

The miserable Bank Holiday wont have helped fashion sales as the weather has been far cooler than last year so I suspect fashion sales will be down.

[debsdowner] 27/5/2019 08:46

Dismal results for both Labour and Conservatives in European Elections more trouble ahead for the markets.

Nigel Farage smashed the opposition to pieces.

Surprisingly Liberals and Green party gained good results as well.

Difficult to work out what made people vote Liberal and Green the latter did well in Europe so climate change would have had an impact apart from BREXIT.

robot got no votes and lost his deposit serves him right for putting the girlies before politics and QANTAS lost his deposit as well.

All in all politics is in a mess and expect turbulent times again and a no deal BREXIT will reduce GDP with a possibility of a recession and interest rate cut.

[debsdowner] 26/5/2019 20:16

Mail says Philip Green to offer more assets to satisfy pension fund of £185 million but pension deficit on administration £750 million!



Sooner or later the group will still go bust imo and the pension trustees may believe that so wary of Philip Greens offer.

Looks like PG in deep trouble at the moment.