Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#2
Unfortunately not unexpected. CoronaVirus has accelerated things which otherwise would have been inevitable over a longer period.
Spent w/e in Kent after a while away. Even Canterbury looked like a ghost town, M&S with top floor closed and a few men's clothes on ground floor, Debenhams leaving whole blocks empty, most shops doing 50% discount...On the plus side nearly got run over by Deliveroo driver and I was on the pavement!
As I've said before. You ain't seen nothing yet.....
Back on narrowboat.....
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Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 350
#3
Funny old world. Ferry bookings have gone ballistic over the last couple of days as the furloughed masses chance a holiday in the EU.
P&O now struggling to encourage enough zero hour contract staff to return. Piss up in a brewery springs to mind
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
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FFS all a bloody virus does is infect people, and kill some of them. It doesn't accelerate or decelerate anything; it doesn't make business or government decisions. Human agency does. When the baby-heads grow up and start accepting responsibility for their actions, the better we'll be.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#5
Disagree. Just look at shopping habits.
https://martechseries.com/amp/mobile/mobile-marketing/e-commerce-and-mobile-commerce/amazon-online-shopping-trends-boost-e-commerce-sales-pandemic/#referrer=https://www.google.com
Same with 'office work'. Huge expensive commercial properties empty as people work from home with little noticeable loss in productivity if any. Next step is why should 'home' not be in Bangalore?
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#6
Thanks for confirming my point:
'Wunderman Thompson Commerce’s study shows the winners and losers of lockdown.' [My italics.]
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#7
bob, try operating a ferry from home. lol
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#8
Some larger companies have found staff working at home to be a good thing and will continue this practice even after virus has gone.
So we could see even more buildings empty to achieve this
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
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Different bad news for those of us who had free TV licences, we must pay from August.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53347021
Rather disappointing especially after their abysmal programming for the last couple of months that must have saved them a fortune, thank goodness for all the other channels that are available to watch.
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Guest 1819- Registered: 22 Aug 2016
- Posts: 10
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Why do people want something for nothing, when many OAP's can afford the licence fee. It really is time that a lot of these concessions were brought to an end.
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