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Only once and it was a long time ago, about 25 years just after it first opened in the UK and I vowed never to return.

I'm guessing you send the staff now?

It's great to see people live by their principles. I do likewise and have been boycotting WH Smith since 1996 when I purchased a copy of .Net magazine and the free CD was missing. Any day now the lack of accrued revenue that they'll have earned from will have added up to the point that the company will fail. I just know that when (not if) this happens the board members will remember the CCTV footage of me a month after the incident occurred when I stopped in the doorway and turned around with a look of abject disappointment on my face. It wasn't just disappointment that I didn't have the latest copy of Netscape Navigator, but it was disappointment in them personally for their failures. Any day now.

WH Smith? Is that still a thing? If it is, it won't be for long. I am in solidarity with you.

I've never parked my motorcycle in Westminster since they introduced motorbike parking charges on the quiet and fined me £80 for parking in a motorcycle bay. For many years I refused to shop there at all.

Since when did you buy stationary? Or did you start to boycott them when they ceased to stock vellum?

How many quills do you get out of a Swan anyway?

On the basis that you only shop in Millets, I think your impudence unnecessary.

Since when did you buy stationary

stationery

You don't shop on the go? Get with the modern age!

Is that Oliver? Have stole vb's login?

Harsh.

Have stole

I doubt Velocio has a stole, it's just not his style.

I recently noticed that one of the minor Ruislips, (Manor), now has a WH Smith Local.
I did not cross the threshhold.

Thank you comrade.

Don't use long words with me.

Yeah whatever, move along.

Your local WH Smith is probably now a Post Office - a " Crown Post Office ".

both won't be for long
Any day now

I've also avoided spending a single penny in WHS at UK airports.

(That would have read '.. avoided spending a penny in..',
but realised that might be the next level of escalation in [y]our campaign).

Why not park in the underground carparks, that were free ;)

I only go in to WHSmiths to steal stuff.

We've W.H.Smiths in Swiss Cottage/ Finchley Rd (post office) also one remaining in Kilburn. I've some "decent" memories of the Brent Cross W.H.Smiths with our late grandmother going there grabbing... multi coloured rubber eraser pack / zipper pencil case / protractor set / shatter proof ruler / pencil sharpener. This was some horrid school situation that involved... curriculum forced school torment, horrid lunch brakes, disgusting swimming pools, agenda bending comments, defiance / detention / poor grades / Meh overload. (thank Christ the school was pulled down BUT have the memories when I think hard enough about that shite and being bored stiff within the first few weeks of 1st grade OR utter dread / fear of realising junior situation was over / no longer milk monitor / end of the reading corner).

At least W.H.S Brent Cross had C&A
nearby which was once trendy more like the Urban Outfitters of the 80's and long before Arcadia group
Topman/Topshop.

Plus grandmothers nice cooking and chilling out watching "Skippy"- "Flipper" of course memories I shall cherish forever.
(Despite W.H.Smiths being involved at some level they once where "the" decent stationers and suppliers of Parker pens / Casio etc).

I worked at WHSmith travel at manchester airport when i was a student. worst job of my life.

When I was a kid we had a shop on the High Street called Pullingers which sold stationery and books. I used to enjoy browsing around it. It was a cornucopia of strange and interesting items and books.

I recently cycled down that same High Street. Pullingers is gone. There is a WH Smiths.

Probably got bombed in the war.

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