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roblay

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char1i3 Wrote:

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> I found the people in Green and Blue rude once so

> never went back in the six or so years that it has

> been on Lordship Lane. Good luck to the incoming

> people!

>

> Charlie


Me too - gave them a couple of chances but never even got a hello when I walked through the door, let alone help with my purchase. I wasn't surprised to see them fail. Hoping for something better this time.

LondonMix

LondonMix

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Fancy- didn't I read they are opening a place in Battersea




El Pibe Wrote:

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> It's from the people who brought us Terroir and

> Brawn, so jolly exciting.

>

> G&Bs demise was sad, I think their troubles took

> their toll over the years and the final

> incarnation got the focus all wrong.

aprovocateur

aprovocateur

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Louisa Wrote:

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Think we need something more practical like a Greggs or BK. We don't need another pretentious independent shop to add to the rest of the shops aimed at only a small niche middle-class price range.


Louisa.

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There with you Louisa... maybe not a Burger King but an Iceland Farm shop (with restricted access for three wheel prams) would get my custom.

lounge lizard

lounge lizard

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It's got to better than green and blue, I wanted to like it but the staff member who stood outside blowing smoke at me and my pram annoyed me on multiple occasions. The final straw was spending ?80 on a couple of bottles of wine and being told we don't do bags - don't worry I'll juggle them home
numbers

numbers

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indiepanda Wrote:

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> If someone is spending ?80 on wine I think it

> would be reasonable to give them a cheap canvas

> bag.

>

> It's all very well having an environmental policy

> but if it puts people off shopping with you it's

> hardly good business.


^^

This!


(esp for impulse buyers like me who don't always take their shopping bags out with them and/or who decide on spur of moment to pick something up later in eve on way home - that was my exact experience.)

Sue

Sue

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numbers Wrote:

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> indiepanda Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > If someone is spending ?80 on wine I think it

> > would be reasonable to give them a cheap canvas

> > bag.

> >

> > It's all very well having an environmental

> policy

> > but if it puts people off shopping with you

> it's

> > hardly good business.

>

> ^^

> This!

>

> (esp for impulse buyers like me who don't always

> take their shopping bags out with them and/or who

> decide on spur of moment to pick something up

> later in eve on way home - that was my exact

> experience.)


xxxxxxx


Same here - except I wasn't spending ?80!


If memory serves, they didn't even sell bags at one point - I asked them how I was supposed to carry the wine home and they more or less shrugged their shoulders. Can't now remember how I did get it home without dropping it :(


Environmentally friendly is all very well (and great to encourage people to use their own bags, as for example SMBS do), but not when it positively inconviences your customers.

numbers

numbers

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Jeremy Wrote:

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> To be fair, it sounds like they listened to the

> feedback and started selling canvas bags... so

> shouldn't hold it against them.


good point (altho perhaps too little, too late. unless you were aware they'd started selling bags, there's already some lost custom not to mention negative feedback about it not to mention people who will happily spend 80 quid on decent wine but baulk at being asked to fork out more for a canvas bag to carry it home in!)

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