Graham Soult FIPM

Sainsbury’s Marsh Mills. 11 sail-like panels to create a nautical canopy to honour Plymouth’s heritage. Known locally as the Sainsbury’s Opera House

Interesting, thank you! I'm definitely eating out less in the evenings - it's just not possible any more 😥

Middle-class families are choking on the £100 ‘casual meal out’ A table for four hitting triple digits is triggering ‘bill shock’, to the detriment of Britain’s best-known restaurants

The piece went online a fortnight ago, but is in print today.
Here’s a gift link, if you’d like to read free:

Middle-class families are choking on the £100 ‘casual meal out’
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/96d6c66...

Waterstones in Bradford 🥰

Bishop Auckland business owners upbeat on future of high street despite empty units The Northern Echo spent the morning on Newgate Street in Bishop Auckland speaking to independent business owners who remain upbeat despite empty…

"Anyone who is opening a business wants to be part of somewhere vibrant, supportive and on the up. I have no doubt Bishop Auckland is on the right track."

Some comment from me about #BishopAuckland in @thenorthernecho.bsky.social today!

www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2549614...

St Helier, Jersey October 2025. Very nice work by Hettich in taking over Burton's Art Deco store site. Nice outside and splendid work inside.

Two foundation stones.

Have sent photos below to Laid By Monty for their excellent site

laidbymonty.com

Bet not many of these #Cambridge students realised that Gardenia's shopfront was installed for Lennards (shoe shop) by Pollards in the late 1920s. A tad altered, but recognisable - hope it isn't now swept away!

Former C&A. Before that another outpost of the Holdron’s business.

Former M&S

Bit of Peckham Rye art deco. Former Holdron’s department store. Now a tremendous shop in its own right

A bottle of squash

You, a mere beverage simpleton: it’s squash

Me, a sophisticated Aldi shopper: I think you’ll find it’s a concentrated electrolyte water enhancer…

a screen displaying "Speaker: Daniel Roe, Nuxt" behind a lectern

about to go on stage at #TechConnect to talk about open source maintenance and AI.

so much to say.

I am not surprised Amazon has axed its Amazon Fresh convenience stores. They just weren't very good.
I wrote about them back in 2023:

"Dave, did you write the copy for the new parchment paper product"

"Yup"

"Did you get weird about birds again?"

"..."

The phishing account has vanished now!

You are clearly a bot, Daniel!

I haven't experienced any inconvenience - I was making a comment on the potential sale of Argos!

It's nonsense... how on earth would you unpick Argos now that almost all its stores are embedded inside Sainsbury's?

Blast from the past in Belfast

I photographed that closed-down JJB in #Belfast a decade ago (below). It doesn't look like a great deal has happened to it since!

Sawers deli in Belfast. Going strong since 1897. Epic place.

Travelling to Darlington to speak at High Street Positives event with @vacantshopsacademy.bsky.social @grahamsoult.bsky.social and other fabulous people.

Ah! My task too shortly

See you a bit later! 👋

I still haven't been to any of the ones on the Norfolk coast!

@grahamsoult.bsky.social Woolworths in Sheringham

Yet you don't really get much sense at all that the government is engaged with these issues 🤷‍♂️

John Lewis to host fashion brand Topshop in 32 stores from February Move is attempt to attract multigenerational shoppers and ‘bring more of that family day out’

#Topshop x John Lewis - interesting!

Sounds like a canny move for both brands - JL draws in new customers, and Topshop gets to bring back its physical footprint in prime locations quickly and with limited risk.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

#retail #highstreet #highstreets

The cleaning thing was introduced during Covid, and they never bothered bringing it back. Re. the WiFi, I usually tether, or have just paid for the Ultimate WiFi if I need to do a video call!

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Now I've had to look up the post!