Evans Cycles

Can someone rename to sports direct thread?

Oh dear.

Evans concessions in House of Fraser stores?

Not surprised, Mike Ashley is a wheeler dealer in the stressed and distressed (read: shit and troubled) companies world.

Welp, working at Evans was nice whilst it lasted. Best warm up the typewriter and brush up that CV.

He's a sycophant to the £ sign and will milk it all for all it's worth. Shame.

Quite fancy a big Evans mug for tea. Not interested in supporting shite direct tho

TBH consumers are to be blamed, you (the customers) want cheap stuff, you rather buy online, that's why Mike wins.

I'm not really much of a buyer, but I get your point. Price match guarantees was on of the ways I realised it was the beginning of the end for the old retail model.
Anyway, I need to spanner again, so I hope it doesn't all go down the shitter.

Nah, go fuck yourself with this chat. A deregulated society allows this, whereas there’s other countries in Europe where buying things online is so much of a pain in the ass that you’d rather support your local shop than deal with it.

I hope the creditors get at least some of the money they're owed.
The day Mike Ashley decides to go and play elsewhere with his cash the U.K. high streets will feel blue.
Maybe this ongoing trend within the retail sector is a sign for all commercial landlords to stop being greedy.

The local landlord who owned the land coop sat on for many years and served the local community well drawing in customers to the other shops around it put their rent up . They pulled out the shop is empty and the other local shops dont have the passing trade. I dont call that progress.

It’ll be the employees who have the worst time. I had the misfortune to go into sports direct today. No day light and stock piled floor to ceiling and wall to wall. It’s imposssible to find what you might want (a pair of simple gym shorts in my case) and is simply an awful experience.

TBH consumers are to be blamed, you (the customers) want cheap stuff, you rather buy online, that's why Mike wins.

Nah, it's alarmingly poor management at Evans that are to blame, remember the 50% discount? that's months of my life I can't get back, and never hitting target for nearly 3 months despite "increase in footfall".

I have a Cyclescheme voucher I was going to use with Evans. Should I look elsewhere?

Sports Direct
He Runs, She Runs, Evans..

Cyclescheme still work, go ahead.

I don't think he was being blase (A bit too cynical though) about it. It is however a reality in the UK. Free market practices, followed by a collective 'I wonder why the high street is deserted' followed swiftly by Amazon et al opening mammoth operations in the middle of nowhere sucking everyone's easy money with prime deliveries.

Easy credit and aggressive advertising doesn't help in making fingers hit buttons easy. People will mostly chase a lower price, so that combination is deadly. Add new shit like black fucking Friday into the mix, and you can see where that road leads.
Pointing fingers and trying to find a guilty party is moot, since yes, we can all vote with our money; saying that however, the current system is rigged for 'maximal growth'.

There's an interesting Guardian article about the word 'growth' and its implications within society.

the word 'growth' and its implications

Got that link, would like to read.

I said to my store manager, I didn't want ot work for Sports Direct, so today looks like it's gonna be one of my last, I'm leaving London in May anyway, does anyone know what Cycle Rep are like to work for?

I buy cheap stuff from Evans online. Am I missing something? Oh yes. A big mug.

Mike Ashley portfolio of retailers no seems a very odd mix..
Not quite sure what his strategy is.
Is he's just playing monopoly?

Leverage over landlords?

This is what I've been told, either lower the rents for our stores, or we close the store then you'll be out till you find someone to fill.

Nah, go fuck yourself with the 20th century. If you can't handle online competition then you're living on borrowed time, no matter how much of a right-on social justice keyboard warrior you are.

Which is what's happening all over the retail world. Retail landlords in non-prime sites have to realise that their yields have just gone through the floor for retail. Except coffee shops.