Ann Summers on Lordship Lane (Lounged)

[AllforNun]

Wow !!!!!!

I think Anne Summers would be great, they really are a thriving business and would really raise the profile of the 'Lane'. I think they are in the same marketing bracket as 'Great White', 'Somerfields' and 'Foxtons' Lucky old you. We will probably get one of those stylish racy shops over in SE15 you know where they have educated swingers who all go away to Babbington House for an debauched but cool fuck fest.

I want some good old fashioned bland and i want it now. I suppose i will be resigned to making the trip down Lordship Lane more often to get my fix of edible lube and glow in the dark cock rings. Lucky buggers you lot.

[*Bob*]

andymat Wrote:

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> Hardest thing is to know which size to get.

> Obviously you can't try before you buy.

Wise words, Andy.

If you're not careful you can end-up with one which is too loose on the cock itself, but not quite large enough to get over both cock and balls.

[JamesG]

FrustratedLawyer Wrote:

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> Oh really now this is a step too far! If there's

> an Ann Summers in the area then a Blue Banana is

> not a million miles away. They would do better

> opening up on Peckham High Street and it would

> make better commercial sense.

How do you know? Have you done the research?

[PeckhamRose]

I thionk Agent Provocateur or Sh! would be more East Dulwich.

[penk]

I love how people decide what's 'right' for the area on here.

A chain like Ann Summers will have a locations buyer, conduct a detailed feasibility study and from this work out whether it's commercially viable to open a store in the area.

Canvassing a bunch of outraged types on a forum would probably be seen as a waste of time.

[Brendan]

I don't think you should take what a lot of people say too seriously.

[Jeremy]

It's all true... Ann Summers is opening up next door to M&S and Richer Sounds! Everything you need in life from 3 adjacent shops.

[PeckhamRose]

yeah - I am not outraged and I love the area and I always make sure my tongue is in my own cheek.

[andy&kez]

I got to say I would intrigued but wouldnt have the nerve to walk in without feeling judged by passersby. I can imagine it would quite popular with the younger folk in ED.

[mrs f]

Penk - 'viral' advertising such as forums are increasingly very valuable for gauging public opinions.... don't rule out the idea that this could well be someone trying to find out whether it is viable, I am sure they would also conduct other research, but something like this would be really valuable and cheap way of getting opinions....

Ann Summers hey..... Well it would make for a fun Saturday morning, pop out to shops, buy over priced but yummy crackers in ED Deli, overpriced and not really worth it veg in SMBS & and an overpriced piece of tat from ann summers....

Personally I wouldn't go anywhere other than Myla.

[dbboy]

This has been an entertaining thread, however it seems to be more of a wish list of businesses people would like in ED rather than a reality check of what we have and is comimg. Lets just hang back and see if Foxtons come or go, some how I thinks they are going to hang on for the long haul.

[RosieH]

mrs f Wrote:

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> Penk - 'viral' advertising such as forums are

> increasingly very valuable for gauging publiccould well be someone trying to find out whether

> it is viable, I am sure they would also conduct

> other research, but something like this would be

> really valuable and cheap way of getting

> opinions....

> opinions.... don't rule out the idea that this

>

>

> Ann Summers hey..... Well it would make for a fun

> Saturday morning, pop out to shops, buy over

> priced but yummy crackers in ED Deli, overpriced

> and not really worth it veg in SMBS & and an

> overpriced piece of tat from ann summers....

>

> Personally I wouldn't go anywhere other than Myla.

Quite right Mrs F - Penk don't you realise that in a world of consumer generated content, forums are a cheap place to get genuine opinion.

And you're also quite right about Myla - I've got my eye on their new Sabar.

[penk]

> Quite right Mrs F - Penk don't you realise that in

> a world of consumer generated content, forums are

> a cheap place to get genuine opinion.

Mmm actually I do, working in a very similar field. Forums full of jokers posting under pseudonyms will never replace a good old-fashioned 'facts and figures' feasibility study based on demographic and market research.

Forums are great for some things and companies do use them for things like this, but due to legislation passed last year (which any company paying for web PR and marketing will be well aware of) it is an offence to not be completely transparent if you are posting for a commercial venture - ie the days of multiple-pseudonym 'buzz creation' corporate logins are over as they're now illegal.

[FrustratedLawyer]

Well this one has gone completely under my radar, but then again I don't work in marketing. If I were cynical I would venture to say that such activity would still go on due to lack of enforcement and difficulties in detection. In much the same way that it is an offence to 'fuddle' the VAT on an extension if you pay the chap in cash.

[Jah Lush]

Before William Rose opened his butchers shop on Lordship Lane it was a lingerie store. Unfortunately it didn't last long.

[dbboy]

William Rose et all in tu tu lingerie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[andymat]

Was there still a queue outside though?

[FelicityNormal]

Rigby & Peller or even Myla would be more appropriate.

[Jah Lush]

No queues. In fact it did hardly any business at all. I think it only last about six months before closing down.

[krosfyah]

Yes i agree it's a shame if Ann Summers decides to set up shop in LL. What we REALLY need is a full blown XXX shop, like Harmony (something tasteful, but still does bukkake videos). If anyone from the Harmony chain is reading this, how about a little consultation and feasibility study work?

[*Bob*]

For God's sake, if we're going to have such a shop (and, obviously, we're not.. but IF we were) let's make it a good old-fashioned SEX SHOP with a small door, a blacked-out front and a neon-lettered sign - preferably flickering.

I want to see people with their collars pulled-up, hurrying away with carrier bags full of butt plugs, electric spanking paddles and absolutely filthy porn.. Not some 'respectable' fingers-on-lips-SHHHhhhh..mmmmm NAUGHTY eyebrows raised burlesque-revival bollox where respectable middle-aged men who haven't got their leg over for ten months can spend fifty quid on a pair of French knickers on Valentines in the hope that it might thaw the sexual frost.

[krosfyah]

*Bob* +1

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[RosieH]

penk Wrote:

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> Mmm actually I do, working in a very similar

> field. Forums full of jokers posting under

> pseudonyms will never replace a good old-fashioned

> 'facts and figures' feasibility study based on

> demographic and market research.

>

> Forums are great for some things and companies do

> use them for things like this, but due to

> legislation passed last year (which any company

> paying for web PR and marketing will be well aware

> of) it is an offence to not be completely

> transparent if you are posting for a commercial

> venture - ie the days of multiple-pseudonym 'buzz

> creation' corporate logins are over as they're now

> illegal.

Without wanting to hijack this thread, if you do work in a very similar field, then you'll know that some companies have carried on regardless - some big (because they're stoopid and think no one will catch them) and some small (because they don't know about the legislation - see the Wanted, offered, recommended threads for examples of that).

Anyway, back to the point, *bob*, you might be right from a comedy point of view, but for the ladies of ED who might actually WANT to have sex rather than know their fella's in the shed tending to himself and his specialist publication, my vote would go for fancy pants over old-school authenticity every time.

All beside the point of course, because they're not coming.