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Discworld
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 Posted - 07/10/2008 : 07:52:57
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| 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. |
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No Expert
Calaspia
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Daveb
Earthsea
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Posted - 10/10/2008 : 07:57:28
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The usual Greggs customers were all on holiday.
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We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 10/10/2008 : 09:55:33
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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. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 25/10/2008 : 10:37:04
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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. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 10/11/2008 : 09:21:05
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Is this a sign of what will happen in London Road, Brighton?
Californian schools are to ban unhealthy items from schools' bake sales. |
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Posted - 11/11/2008 : 20:52:58
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| 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. |
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No Expert
Calaspia
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Posted - 11/11/2008 : 23:28:28
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| 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? |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 12/11/2008 : 10:05:24
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| Poundland considered moving in there but thought they might be out the area's range. |
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Daveb
Earthsea
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Posted - 12/11/2008 : 20:04:21
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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. |
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Posted - 12/11/2008 : 21:16:03
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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. |
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Horseman7
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Posted - 13/11/2008 : 00:16:31
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Talking of London Road, is there still a Marks & Sparks there?
Happy shopping (I hope).
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Anubis
Calaspia
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Posted - 13/11/2008 : 18:27:33
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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. |
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Posted - 14/11/2008 : 03:12:40
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| 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. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 27/11/2008 : 12:10:14
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| Presumably, LTNS is at this very moment brokering a deal for Greggs to take over Woolworth's premises in the London Road, Brighton in a bid to save the street from being left with another gaping hole. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
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Posted - 27/11/2008 : 12:14:30
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Before long, if things carry on the way they are we can rename the road Greggs street or maybe LTNS Alley
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"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Posted - 27/11/2008 : 14:23:04
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Long time no see is certainly the fate of anybody rash enough to go along the London Road. It is like braving nineteenth century
East End alleys where, with a flash of knife and length of rope, any decent citizen was spirited away - and returned only at a price. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 29/11/2008 : 13:31:14
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| Rather desperate of Forfars to be renaming itself Fresh. A stale idea even if they are thinking of it as a "branding exercise". In a recession it is good products that win customers. |
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Daveb
Earthsea
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Posted - 29/11/2008 : 17:10:35
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Originally posted by Miriam Binder
Before long, if things carry on the way they are we can rename the road Greggs street or maybe LTNS Alley
How can we have LTNS Alley without LNTS? |
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Posted - 13/12/2008 : 10:57:25
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Here is awful news of big expansion plans by Greggs. These include selling stuff in bus stations - well, they won't be able to do that in Brighton - it doesn't have one. Visitors to the place have to stand at a fume-ridden windy halt outside the station. Even a pasty might seem attractive by comparison.
http://business.scotsman.com/business/Workplace-the-next-ingredient-in.4777083.jp |
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Infinite Poppadum
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Posted - 01/01/2009 : 14:47:02
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Strangely enough, LTNS never alerted pasty eaters to this part of Greggs' own site.
As he was said to be in Greggs's employ, he was presumably told to encourage people to pay top-dollar for its products rather than tip them off about exclusive BOGOF vouchers.
http://www.greggsthebakers.co.uk/promo/
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 01/01/2009 : 18:29:18
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I see that Greggs's "privacy policy" states that "We use a technology called 'cookies' as part of a normal business procedure to track patterns of behaviour of visitors to our site. "
Well, let's hope that the cookies are more reliable than the pasties. |
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No Expert
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Posted - 13/01/2009 : 10:21:30
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| Perhaps the paper bags from Greggs help to soak up all the blood after a typical night on the London Road, Brighton. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 26/01/2009 : 02:17:16
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Here is a very useful opportunity to study the man who has replaced Sir Michael Darrington in charge of Greggs.
We have to know exactly who we are up against. He was in the Navy, in the Falklands, which suggests that he is spoiling for a fight, and he then sold shoes, a commodity which stands him in good stead for dealing with Greggs's leathery products. He was also sent by Tesco to do battle with the Japanese.
So we should not underestimate the power of this man to cause further devastation on the nation's high streets
http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/interviews-with-business-people/2009/01/05/a-new-man-in-the-greggs-boardroom-51140-22604342/ |
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Posted - 26/01/2009 : 13:52:58
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A new report suggests that 5 cups of coffee a day prevents the onset of dementia.
Local experience suggests, though, that the Greggs product is an exception to that discovery. |
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New Greggs London Road 89p Tea II