We all have favourite shops. We like the staff, or we like the products or any combination of things that make that our favourite place to shop. That is good; we know what to expect, we feel safe and we feel like the shop understands and caters to our needs. The problem with that, especially …
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The Birmingham Bullring
My local town has very few shops of note. In fact, if you are a man, there is even less than you might expect from anywhere in the world. If you want clothes you are going to have go elsewhere. Luckily we have somewhere within a short commuting distance that has everything we need. The …
The return of Vinyl
Once the foremost format for listening to music; Vinyl has had an amazing existence, and recent turnaround. Following vinyl’s slow demise and the rise of the Compact Disc people assumed that the older format was sure to die out. Sure enough its popularity waned, as people moved from CDs onto MP3 players and, more recently, …
Paypal in stores: A fad or the future?
Over the years many types of payment have been in vogue; back in the day it was cash, then cheques, the credit cards became the only way people spent money, before (and what I’m used to) debit cards hit the mainstream. It got to such a point where I rarely had cash with me when …