pslewis

Allders Department Store in Administration ......

Don't know how many on here have one close to them, but the reasons they are in trouble are painfully clear to me ...

Put simply, they ask more money for everything than anyone else! And when they do actually reduce the prices - they are behind the wave (the items have been reduced months earlier in their competitors shops) - so, they don't sell anything!

Pete

Hanslow

More businesses going down the pan

Ooooh what times we live in

pslewis

A non-competitive business with crap management ............

Would you like us to tax you some more to bail these failing companies out?

Pete

TheBigMan

Ert, we have enough tax thanks all the same leftie.

pslewis

Thats good then, get ready for more after the Election - we have ambitous programmes to complete, we have a country to continue to re-build and it don't come cheap!

Pete

unclebuck

Nowt to what's coming in the Third Term, when Blair needs us to bail him and his cronies out of thier 11 Billion pound spending shortfall

Hanslow

I was just inviting the regulars along to comment

unclebuck

Thing is, the ecomony was doing perfectly well till this lot got their grubby mitts on it:



Now thanks to them it's f**ked

Oh, and I don't see any of this mythical 'rebuilding' going on.

pslewis

It costs money to make the country as great as it now is - we must all contribute, can't see what the issue is - we have made £millions out of our properties.

We all have jobs or a job is there if we want one, inflation is lower than it has been for decades, interest rates are rock bottom, crime is down, life is good

Pete

lewis_junior

Ohh look its in the form of a wave and we are back on the up bit.

Have you not considered the dip was due to increased spending to improve the mess conservatives left?

Jye

I'd say this sort of thread was getting irritating now, but hey I'm getting used to being irritated by both lewis and nl so wgaf. And as he says, we dont have to read the guff. And even if we do read it, it's only for the entertainment value and not for informed opinion

Nice to see a father and son team on SN anol

unclebuck

Enjoy yourself... it's later than you think....

"Earlier this week, the Ernst & Young Item Club group of economists also said taxes would have to rise after the general election to fill a hole in UK public finances."

"Mr Blair would need to announced fresh tax increases worth at least £11bn to pay for his spending plan.

"And those are not my words. They are the words of the independent Institute For Fiscal Studies. Their warning is simple: Blair in, taxes up, again."

lewis_junior

You get nothing in life for free, end of.

Hanslow

Can I direct your attention here

pslewis

Life is good ......

Pete

Jye

Like it. Or else!!

Butty

iTrader: (2)

Cutting out the above cr4p, Alders had no USP - the Portsmouth one is a Debenhams/John Lewis clone but more old fashioned.

Nick

Jye

How interesting.

How crap <snip>

warrenm2

yep so good that "only one in 100 crimes leads to a court appearance... three-quarters of offenders never arrested... the detection-rate at an all-time low. This is as dismal a litany of failure as could be imagined." to quote a national newspaper

Bonehead

I wont mind if Allders close down - I work for them, and twenty min after being told the company was in administration I got a phone call saying I've got another job lined up.



Sweet

pslewis

SUN?

SPORT?

MIRROR?



Pete

warrenm2

LOL shame on you Pete - Daily Mail! :-)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...7&in_a_source=

Dracoro

Haha, the daily mail is in the same bracket as the sun/mirror/express/etc.

Hanslow

And The Guardian?

Stueyb

Well spare a thought for the companies that are owed money by Alders, ie ours, to the tune of the high end of 6 figures, could well result in some redundancies. Thanks pete, nice to know "your alright jack" as a pensionor you pay sweet fa in taxes anyhow.