Dogkennelhillbilly

Most of the bread (and meat for that matter) market is held by supermarkets and convenience stores. @Ken78: if butchery is such a ripoff, you should open one up. (That is, after you've opened your cafe, as you've said before that's a high profit margin industry with easy money in it).

I don't know about soup kitchens, Ken, I think the nearest one is on Coldharbour Lane. But I know food banks already operate in this neighbourhood. In fact, there are more food banks than McDonalds in this country. It's one of the legacies of Tory austerity that so many are needed. I think I'll save my good luck wishes for those who need food banks, not politicians that get houses for free, like you, Ken. You wouldn't have thought Johnson moving to Herne Hill will bring Dulwich downmarket - but he did manage to bring the whole country downmarket, so anything is possible... https://www.businessinsider.com/cost-of-living-there-are-more-food-banks-mcdonalds-uk-2022-9 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/foodbank-hell-britain-demand-soars-20903189

This might surprise you, Ken, but politicians don't get houses for cheap or free because they're lucky. They get them because they've done someone a favour. A favour big enough that it has to be paid for, but dodgy enough that it can't be officially paid for. https://balkaninsight.com/2019/03/27/gerb-vice-president-quits-bulgaria-parliament-over-property-scandal/ Still, don't worry, I'm sure nothing like that could ever happen in the UK. https://www.transparency.org.uk/publications/corruption-on-your-doorstep

You don't need permission from the council to park bikes in Southwark. It's not regulated.

Before he entered No.10, he was camped out at Carrie's flat in Camberwell because he'd lost everything in his latest divorce. In No.10, he shook the tree among donors in an opaque scheme to decorate his residence. If after No.10 he was plonking down cash to buy multimillion pound properties when his legitimate earnings could not have been the source of those funds, that would be very suspicious.

I think it's important to share information with your neighbours about criminals roaming the area.

I would have thought he'd packed that nonsense in now that he's married.

Post-punk pop provocateur Jimmy Cauty, admiring boots (DMs?) in the window of Robert Carder. Nobel prize winning geneticist Svante Pääbo, navigating dodgy turnstiles at Denmark Hill.

I think you should start a cafe, ken78, it's obviously complete moneyspinner and a piece of piss to do. https://smallbiztrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/businesses1.png https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/25/uk-restaurant-insolvencies-closures-rise-data https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-extreme-economic-pain-of-running-a-restaurant-in-the-uk

Hah!

You're now getting upset because someone you don't know prefers coffee to crisps as a treat. 🤐

They're not, though. By far the most agitated person is you. The Sun article was a pisstake based on a joke on the first page of this thread. 🤷‍♂️

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That sounds very unpleasant. Please do tell your son's school, as well as the [police] Safer Neighbourhood Team. These kids seem to carry on doing this stuff until they're picked up - which they often do because they are not master criminals. https://www.met.police.uk/area/your-area/met/southwark/peckham-rye/contact-us/top-reported-crimes-in-this-area

Let's not get carried away. Most ABC1s in this country got to be ABC1s because they were born to ABC1s. Appreciating good service doesn't come into it. https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/pages/from-briefings-07-april-2022.html

Laundrettes have been under a lot of pressure between the cheapness of domestic washing machines, COVID, rising energy prices and rising land prices. Apparently the number in the UK fell by ⅓ between 2017 and 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/feb/07/how-the-uks-dutiful-launderette-is-fading-under-covid-and-energy-prices

1) would love to know how Superdrug, SDM, the vape shop, the nail bars, 9000 pizza shops etc that have all opened in the last 3-4 years are exclusively for oat latte-drinking gentrifiers. 2) i got (possibly correctly) slated for calling Soderberg a bourgeois coffee shop, but apparently there are such things as C2DE shops. Interesting. 🤔 All hail the corporation in its infinite wisdom!!! It's weird to see people critical of market forces because it meant rising house prices and Iceland closing, but so enthusiastic about those same market forces when it brings them a Poundland. Especially when its fans seem to be so happy about buying "crap food" at prices that are, err, not even cheaper than anywhere else.

Like what, specifically?

...or Superdrug...or Co-Op...or little Sainsburys...or big Sainsburys...or any of the dozen convenience stores up and down Lordship Lane...or the chemists...or the DIY stores... What exactly are these products that are so much cheaper at Poundland? It's just all the same FMCGs that are available everywhere else.

Early contender for Didn't Happen Of The Year Award (EDF section).

Doubt it.

Savers is a glum discounter. There's one up in Crystal Palace but it's not as good as the Poundland a few doors down.

Yes, thank god someone is selling toothpaste and fizzy drinks on Lordship Lane, there was never anywhere to buy it before.

It's a joke on the very first page of this thread, and the poster lives not in East Dulwich, but in...Australia! I think the other quote in the article is (cough) paraphrased at best. The journalist doesn't realise the concern isn't that it will knock out farmer shops, it's that it will affect Farmer's, a shop.

Coyle won't get reselected, surely?