mrwb

It's what they need to charge given high rents, staff wages and other costs. I strongly doubt they'll be making much profit even charging £30 for a rotisserie chicken.... in 2025. Rotisserie Jules used to charge £14 ish I think before covid, the sector is in a lot of trouble these days. Lots of places will end up closing as the economics don't work. 

So it looked 10x as nice in the 19th century as it does now? 

Wow look at those prices, 4 shillings for a guiness extra stout, 2 and 6 for Burton's dinner ale. Selling porter in 2 gallon (16 pint?) jars. Delivery any hour and for free? They knew how to live in 1880 by the look of it!

Marked on google as being permanently closed, probably another victim of the very difficult economy. 

The Post Offices and the Royal Mail should be renationalised. Massive mistake privatising industries where competition doesn't work properly and certainly does not offer any advantage to end users.  

Yeah but the colour of the rosette makes all the difference..?

How low would you have to be to do something like this? 

I do hope the police are actually investigating this, there must be CCTV all over the place around there so it shouldn't be hard to find who's responsible. If they actually try...

Probably, though presumably some of them must be losing money, there must be debt to service or other issues to cause the administration. At macro level, there are probably too many similar businesses for them all to survive. I find myself wondering similar about all the cafe's we have now. 

TFL need revenue so no surprise here... Got to get it from somewhere.

Not an easy time for pubs and any business that needs discretionary spending in an ever more competitive environment amongst squeezed disposable incomes. Also see:

Green landslide incoming :)?

Pretty certain  EU countries can't charge VAT on education due to the EU VAT directive mandating it. I hope we appreciate the irony, anyway. 

I think there is plenty of space in local schools, the birth rate has collapsed in the last 10 years.

What is opening next to the EDT where there was a clothes shop before iirc? Saw a license application in the window on the way past today.

Unfortunately a lot of people are very naïve, which plays in to their hands, I recommend reading this:

https://www.propertysolvers.co.uk/articles/why-do-estate-agents-lie/

Be very careful about what the estate agent tells you and make sure you independently verify it...

They have no obligation to be honest with you..., usually the reverse in fact, they'll often just tell you what you want to hear to get the deal done.

I used to use 500 degrees when it was on that site. Pretty tough for all the independents now with Megans, Chipotle and other independent restaurants all opening at the bottom end of Lordship lane. So much competition. There's also 3 Italian places at least. Isn't the Italian cafe going to rebrand as well soon?

Then the rents would go up and it'd end up with all the same corporate chains on Lordship Lane, I quite like Rye Lane and around Peckham Rye near the old Lido. Has some interesting places.

Personally can't imagine anyone being enthused with any of the candidates in that book they sent around..., but that's just me. 

Whoever is Mayor will have the same financial constraints and it won't make much if any difference.

Don't they take cash ?

Golden Kitchen is good for take away and they have their own website and drivers.

Hmm, Let's see, started with Meta a few weeks ago, then we had Microsoft, then McDonalds and Now Sainsbury's and Tesco... Probably others I've forgotten about as well.

Somehow I doubt this is a coincidence.  

People say you can go cashless..., but you clearly can't if you want people to be able to pay when technology breaks down, is ddosed or whatever.

TFL and the councils are as cash strapped as everyone else is. That's the bottom line, not going to make any difference who is Mayor or who is running the council. Screwed regardless, you can't get blood out of a stone.

Things have remained pretty benign economically but like the 70s,80s,90s economic problems I doubt it will stay like that for too much longer.

Nothing received here. Just waiting for the inevitable parking permit bill, doesn't matter what we do.

On 01/03/2024 at 04:03, legalalien said:

Sadiq Khan admits south London’s new low-traffic neighbourhood ‘not great’

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e8636826-0a45-4d4e-9dc2-05a983c75e90?shareToken=eacd07b1789f8862adca1b8e019fcb5d
 

The mayor has noticed that the emperor has no clothes?

It's total gridlock at the bottom end of Streatham high road every afternoon from what I've seen...

Lambeth have previous with the closure at Loughborough junction, iirc that only got removed when someone died or nearly died as it slowed down the ambulance / blocked them in so much.  

Pretty sure the fines must have dried up for the LTNs around here by now, most people got wise to them, that £1m in fines in 3 months is a distant memory for the council... Given it's always been about revenue generation imo, won't be surprised if they're changed to try and trap people again somehow. 

The council is struggling with inflation as well. It's really as simple as that. 

You wonder why they want to roll out the CPZ everywhere? Even in the "gated communities" like court lane where there are barely any cars thanks to the LTNs already.

Money, money, money.