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| long time no see |
Posted - 06/04/2008 : 12:05:57
This is a Link to the Old Mega thread
page 21 - that was the lucky number that let me in.
http://livewire.forumco.com/topic~TOPIC_ID~122~whichpage~21.asp
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Greggs are now open on London Road.
83p will get you a quality tetley tea.
It is next door to the Sony shop.
Also Somerfields have a better store now more room
new layout,
and better tills set up.
The CEO of Greggs was on the Radio 4 Money Programme,
the other week
he is aware of food prices going up but he is also aware
Greggs offers great value.
He can see some other firms folding
due to their massive debts pulling them down.
Meanwhile Greggs is expanding.
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| Control Panel |
Posted - 14/11/2008 : 03:12:40
I shouldn't be surprised if the recession means that Sussex Stationers, or whatever it now calls itself, pulls out of London Road, as it did St James's Street. |
| Anubis |
Posted - 13/11/2008 : 18:27:33
quote:
Originally posted by Horseman7
Talking of London Road, is there still a Marks & Sparks there?
Happy shopping (I hope).
I'm poor with 'dates', but it must be twenty years since the M & S store in London Road was closed ..... Until corrected, I'd say it went towards the end of the 80s. |
| Horseman7 |
Posted - 13/11/2008 : 00:16:31
Talking of London Road, is there still a Marks & Sparks there?
Happy shopping (I hope).
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| Control Panel |
Posted - 12/11/2008 : 21:16:03
Perhaps we are all missing the point, and Greggs has indeed transformed London Road. Anybody who bites into one of those pasties with the dodgy innards and soggy crusts is rewarded with a "trip"-like vision in which all those shops and belching buses are transformed into a veritable Xanadu.
In tribute to this effect, perhaps Greggs will soon be adding fried brains to the menu. |
| Daveb |
Posted - 12/11/2008 : 20:04:21
quote:
Originally posted by No Expert
Seriously, I've been out of the country so I've probably missed London Road's Greggs inspired resurgance. So can anyone tell me whats going on there? In my minds eye I'm seeing a Harvey nics next door to a Jimmy Choo shop. With a Bentley dealership replacing Blockbusters. Is this the case?
You sure you were not out of your mind as well as the country? The drugs must be working. |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 12/11/2008 : 10:05:24
Poundland considered moving in there but thought they might be out the area's range. |
| No Expert |
Posted - 11/11/2008 : 23:28:28
Seriously, I've been out of the country so I've probably missed London Road's Greggs inspired resurgance. So can anyone tell me whats going on there? In my minds eye I'm seeing a Harvey nics next door to a Jimmy Choo shop. With a Bentley dealership replacing Blockbusters. Is this the case? |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 11/11/2008 : 20:52:58
Manchester Council is next year issuing residents with a "reward" card on which they can collect points every time they do something healthy, such as buying fruit and vegetables. Presumably the "swipe" devices to "read" these cards will not be installed in the city's branches of Greggs. |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 10/11/2008 : 09:21:05
Is this a sign of what will happen in London Road, Brighton?
Californian schools are to ban unhealthy items from schools' bake sales. |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 25/10/2008 : 10:37:04
Now that India has joined the space race, we can perhaps expect to hear reports of poppadums speeding towards infinity.
Everything in London Road is explained by the place being a loop in time, and Greggs is selling pasties made in 1463. |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 13/10/2008 : 16:13:01
And here's another shining example of Brighton's finest!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/13/military-afghanistan-iran-spy-trial |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 09:55:33
quote:
Originally posted by No Expert
No linking of the fall in profits being related to the decline of online viral marketing..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/10/greggs-fooddrinks
I do not see that Greggs can blame the rain for a fall in sales. The rain cannot make the pasties and sandwiches any soggier than they are already. |
| Daveb |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 07:57:28
The usual Greggs customers were all on holiday.
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| No Expert |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 03:51:03
No linking of the fall in profits being related to the decline of online viral marketing..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/10/greggs-fooddrinks |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 07/10/2008 : 07:52:57
Underage pasty-eating in Kettering! It certainly sounds as though LTNS must be responsible for encouraging that. No wonder there has been such a decline in Midlands manufacturing. The residents are all so undernourished that they are now scarcely able to press the buttons on a fork-lift truck in a "distribution centre" between all the motorways which are the "distinguishing feature" of that part of the country. |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 07/10/2008 : 07:01:53
Doubt it ... no mention of £200.- PCs without any Billy Gates software. |
| No Expert |
Posted - 07/10/2008 : 06:53:48
Is it true that following on from being booted of here, LT travelled the country, settled in the Midlands and started a nightclub?
http://www.northantset.co.uk/news/NIghtclub-ordered-to-close.4563833.jp |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 05/10/2008 : 10:06:42
Greggs pasties are appearing this month on stage as part of a fairy tale. To encounter one of these in the woods would make the big bad wolf appear benign.
http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Theatre-Review/the-bad-one-tara-studio |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 03/10/2008 : 11:01:11
That explains why the cockroaches enjoy visiting Greggs. |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 03/10/2008 : 09:17:09
In these hard times here is good news from a Devon beach for eaters of Greggs pasties.
They can switch to cat biscuits. And, bought in bulk, these will be even cheaper.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7649776.stm |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 30/09/2008 : 12:02:47
Greggs tried an upscale version of itself with "luxury pasties" (whatever they might be) under the name of Baked with two stores in Leeds but these have reverted to common-as-muck Greggs.
What a dreadful name, Baked. Of course anything in the London Road, Brighton is Half-Baked.
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/business-news/Baker-Greggs-of-Yorkshire-scraps.4448881.jp |
| Daveb |
Posted - 30/09/2008 : 06:12:43
Greggs pasties would have worked.
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3712565.Gardener_chops_off_arm_in_chainsaw_accident/ |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 23/09/2008 : 21:05:37
Newcomers might be interested by this link, which is where the original Greggs topic began, and from that you can go through dozens of pages of it and be diverted by innumerable links - and encounter many a comment by LTNS who posited Greggs as The Spirit of the Age and even found room for the Traveling Wilburys.
http://livewire.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=122 |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 21/09/2008 : 10:59:02
I see that the Greggs tea which, not so long ago, LTNS touted as a bargain at 70p has now leapt to 85p
Greggs will soon rival Zimbabwe for inflation (perhaps African pasties are better, though) |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 19/09/2008 : 06:34:57
Here is a woman in Blackheath who confeses to an strange, unshakeable addiction to Greggs vegetable pasties and says that "every time I go in there, I can feel myself slipping down into a world of misery."
A classic sentence.
Does Greggs put something in the pasties to get these involuntary repeat customers?
At any rate, Blackheath is more pleasant than the London Road.
http://blackheathbugle.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/petite-boulangerie-jade-and-greggs/ |
| Daveb |
Posted - 04/09/2008 : 05:51:53
Perhaps the plan to drive the low life from London Road is linked with the Fast Public Tranport plan. Roger French to the rescue once more. He will drive the Druggie Bus along the special bus lanes to the county line and leave them all in Lewes. |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 03/09/2008 : 21:01:00
Yes, whenever the Council claims to be at work on a "masterplan", you know that it is all doomed to come to nothing.
Why can't it be content with a plan that gets put into action? |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 03/09/2008 : 20:46:36
I notice that the summit is held to "create a masterplan to drive drug addicts and vagrants from a shopping area." Assuming we are not talking about taxi vouchers and further assuming that we are not talking about sweeping them 'under the carpet' ... any ideas where they will turn up next?
It is time we realised that drug addicts, vagrants, drunks and thieves are not something the 'cat dragged in' that we can wrap up nicely and put in the wheelie bin. It is going to need more then merely moving the problem/s on! |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 03/09/2008 : 20:22:58
Here is more on the "high level summit" meeting about the terrible state of the London Road. But as there is in fact no mention of the catering arrangements for it, we can only assume that it is doomed to failure. It is well known that a Chief Inspector of Police cannot function without his pasties to hand. He is as dependent upon them as any denizen of London Road is upon his "stash".
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3644137.Summit_to_discuss_London_Road_in_Brighton_/ |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 03/09/2008 : 17:34:53
Well here we go, lets see if we cannot figure out what they'll come up with ...
Deployment of a special Task Force! Increasing the number of CSPOs! More CCTV! Enforcing the 'Public Drinking Prohibition'! |
