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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2013 21:19:53 GMT -1
So the other day I was looking after two young family members, 14 and 11. Twas the elder and mine's joint birthday so off we stravaig'd for a birthday lunch treat. Their first choice was the Iscream emporium, 3 Steps to Heaven. It was open the day before I swear but when we got there, roller shutters down. So to the next door establishment, Nardinis. I kid you not, 6 earth pounds and 95 earth pee for an icecream sundae. Took it on the chin, naturally...but on reflection, WTFF is THAT about? Glasgow City Council BADLY need to review their business rates. Because at current levels, they're crippling local businesses. Byres is becoming like High Street, Anytown--a mix of closed shopfronts, charity shops, banks, phone shops, estate agents and pawnbrokers. A once vibrant, cool and interesting street is being laid waste. Shortsighted in the extreme.  |
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Post by bormes on Feb 28, 2013 17:33:31 GMT -1
Barratts is very sadly going too.
I have been saying this for years now, no wonder small businesses are moving to Dumbarton rd and Argyle St., mind you no parking in either place.
A new Red Cross CHARITY shop boutique just opened in Byres Rd too, that is 12 charity shops who pay NO rates and only 10percent tax on any NET profits, must let the high ups drive around in their range rovers and use their credit cards in the hotels all over Africa and India !!
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Post by notanimby on Feb 28, 2013 18:19:36 GMT -1
Barratts is very sadly going too. I have been saying this for years now, no wonder small businesses are moving to Dumbarton rd and Argyle St., mind you no parking in either place. A new Red Cross CHARITY shop boutique just opened in Byres Rd too, that is 12 charity shops who pay NO rates and only 10percent tax on any NET profits, must let the high ups drive around in their range rovers and use their credit cards in the hotels all over Africa and India !! That's a real shane B, what will teh owners do next, have they got something else lined up? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2013 22:36:31 GMT -1
Barratts is very sadly going too. I have been saying this for years now, no wonder small businesses are moving to Dumbarton rd and Argyle St., mind you no parking in either place. A new Red Cross CHARITY shop boutique just opened in Byres Rd too, that is 12 charity shops who pay NO rates and only 10percent tax on any NET profits, must let the high ups drive around in their range rovers and use their credit cards in the hotels all over Africa and India !! Bormes, I'm SO upset to hear this about Barratt's. I know the writing's been on the wall this past couple of years but.......is there no way we can help save this long established family business? I know you've done YOUR bit campaigning, how can we all help? On weekends ( I work in town Mon-Fri) I make a point of NOT buying newspapers, fags and magazines out of WestEnd supermarkets, and spend that dosh in Barratt's instead. Plus I make a point of buying me and Ms Rolo's monthly bus tickets there. Spotted the newest charity shop the other day, up at the top end of Byres. It's just WRONG that GCC give concessions to some while NOT SUPPORTING long established businesses on the same street by giving them equitable, workable business rates. While also letting T&sco move in across the road in the former Woolworth's site. Byres is ALREADY well served by supermarkets, letting Tesco in is like a death knoll to the small businesses in the area. I am FURIOUS to the point of apoplexy here. |
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Post by bormes on Mar 1, 2013 16:38:03 GMT -1
Barratts do not bung, possibly Tesco donate to the correct politi, oops sorry, correction charity!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2013 18:46:34 GMT -1
Barratts do not bung, possibly Tesco donate to the correct politi, oops sorry, correction charity!!!! Hmmm. I've been telling everyone I know about Barratt's (people are shocked!) and encouraging them to walk a few extra steps out the supermarkets and spend their dosh there instead. |
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Post by bormes on Mar 2, 2013 7:03:14 GMT -1
Grandmother Barratts has passed away, Fiona has been retired some years now ( her daughter ) the grandson has been running the shop for the last fifteen years now and it is still a fine shop, doing paper and magazine deliveries and orders hard to get magazines or papers, tesco will not do that, odd types of cgs etc., friendly continuous staff members who do more than grunt and actually say good morning and SMILE like it is meant !!
Sad, sad, sad.
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Post by notanimby on Mar 2, 2013 8:41:55 GMT -1
Grandmother Barratts has passed away, Fiona has been retired some years now ( her daughter ) the grandson has been running the shop for the last fifteen years now and it is still a fine shop, doing paper and magazine deliveries and orders hard to get magazines or papers, tesco will not do that, odd types of cgs etc., friendly continuous staff members who do more than grunt and actually say good morning and SMILE like it is meant !! Sad, sad, sad. This is the sort of story that the Evening Times should be getting on to, real local interest stuff - but I bet they don't, The local rag down here (despite being published 6 days a week is shite when it comes to anything like that too |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2013 18:48:57 GMT -1
So true about the staff, Bormes. And yeah, the paper deliveries ;D young Bill (who you'll know) is up every Saturday and Sunday morning at 5, in the shop for 6, getting the papers out. It's also good for international newspapers, all the major ones are in daily. Can't think of anywhere else in the West End that provides that service for foreign students etc. They still stock stationery but unfortunately Ryman's (at seriously rip off prices) opened down the road. A chain owned by Dragon Theo Paphitis. |
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Post by notanimby on Mar 2, 2013 19:34:54 GMT -1
So true about the staff, Bormes. And yeah, the paper deliveries ;D young Bill (who you'll know) is up every Saturday and Sunday morning at 5, in the shop for 6, getting the papers out. It's also good for international newspapers, all the major ones are in daily. Can't think of anywhere else in the West End that provides that service for foreign students etc. They still stock stationery but unfortunately Ryman's (at seriously rip off prices) opened down the road. A chain owned by Dragon Theo Paphitis. Romans, wee Nota's girlfriend works in Romans in Byres Rd, mentioned it previously to bormes's friend who owns barrats She dinnae like it much, but as she cannae get a job wae her business degree, its better than here-haw She also tells me, she's amazed at the amount of people who shop there (many local well net media faces etc) and ordinary folks, its really busy, she can't understand why, apart from its big name |
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Post by bormes on Mar 3, 2013 9:15:26 GMT -1
Unlike some of the eating places in Byres road and Woodlands road where the owners are doing 12 years for drugs offences.
Funny how planning changes their minds about a premises when Mr or Mrs average own it, then when suddenly some drug dealing wealthy scum bag or a huge conglomerate buy said premises everything changes, you see "they are bringing jobs to the area" Oh so the wee average punter is not then? No, no not on that scale!! oh, I see, you mean they employ three non family members that the wee shop did not employ and pay them minimum wages? Oh and the 12 charity shops, they do not employ anyone, just use volunteers who get paid nothing!! Great system, I should have started a fucking charity instead of paying VAT and 40 1percent tax, which I still do.
It is not that people mind paying tax, it is that Multi nationals pay nothing and take the PROFIT AWAY from our shores. Before we think our country could not do what some of the Multi's do, think again we can be a great working nation again, we just need the will of politicians to start people to have the work ethic again and stop the state having so much responsibility for us, let us be responsible for ourselves, LESS government not more.
Of course the sheep will not want that, they want everything dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, just like the politicians who desire CONTROL of us all.
Had my rant, shall go for a walk in the sun which is 22 degrees down here in Bormes les Mimosas.!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2013 19:03:51 GMT -1
A fine rant, Bormes, well said! See Ryman's v Barratt's? I think people gravitate to the former because of its prime position and big expensive signage on Byres @ Ashton Road. I feel for wee Nota's girl: simple fact is employers now have their pick due to youth unemployment figures (thankfully not as bad as England but still pretty shite)...I had over 120+ applications for a part-time entry level job last year, and frankly I gret....  I don't shop Ryman's, been in with the student wean a few times but I think it's expensive, specially with their huge bargaining power (economy of scale). But if Barratt's goes, there'll be no alternative >:(and that's precisely what these huge conglomerates want. A young medical student friend of mine worked silly hours in a cafe in Byres last year. They paid him £4.25 an hour--- yet a slice of cake costs £3-4 quid there, FFS! Been once, they'll not get another penny of my hard-earned. (Said fine young man, a talented baker, just got an advance on his recipe book, out in Autumn. And investing it wisely.. ;D) HAH!And wean's boyf works daft hours in N*ndos, doing the cooking @ £6 an hour. (No trained chefs are employed by the company and wait staff are paid even less, tips are retained for three months and even then only a percentage of them are shared out) He's in wur den just now, finishing an essay for Uni. I don't remember in my lifetime our society ever being so unequal, so mean and so downright mega capitalist driven. It disgusts me. |
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Post by notanimby on Mar 3, 2013 19:53:47 GMT -1
A fine rant, Bormes, well said! See Ryman's v Barratt's? I think people gravitate to the former because of its prime position and big expensive signage on Byres @ Ashton Road. I feel for wee Nota's girl: simple fact is employers now have their pick due to youth unemployment figures (thankfully not as bad as England but still pretty shite)...I had over 120+ applications for a part-time entry level job last year, and frankly I gret.... I don't shop Ryman's, been in with the student wean a few times but I think it's expensive, specially with their huge bargaining power (economy of scale). But if Barratt's goes, there'll be no alternative >:(and that's precisely what these huge conglomerates want. A young medical student friend of mine worked silly hours in a cafe in Byres last year. They paid him £4.25 an hour--- yet a slice of cake costs £3-4 quid there, FFS! Been once, they'll not get another penny of my hard-earned. (Said fine young man, a talented baker, just got an advance on his recipe book, out in Autumn. And investing it wisely.. ;D) HAH!And wean's boyf works daft hours in N*ndos, doing the cooking @ £6 an hour. (No trained chefs are employed by the company and wait staff are paid even less, tips are retained for three months and even then only a percentage of them are shared out) He's in wur den just now, finishing an essay for Uni. I don't remember in my lifetime our society ever being so unequal, so mean and so downright mega capitalist driven. It disgusts me. Me neither, bet said coffee shop are well pissed of they didn't do better by that young friend of yours No doubt, you'll remember like me, such jobs were always the preserve of students and schoolies but without the added competition from the unemployed, or the under employed. All this has done is created a race to the bottom, wages and conditions wise |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2013 21:46:28 GMT -1
I see the Daily Fail are trumpeting Theresa May (Tory Home Secretary) today for her avowed wish to take the UKE out of the European Convention for Human Rights.
Alllegedly a response to the furore over not being 'able' to chuck about, what........3 terrorists out of the UKE? Talk about a knee-jerk, vote winning strategy because Tories are getting humped by UKIP?
Some of the comments from the amoebae keyboard warriors are frankly terrifying. Who ARE these people that are so fucking ignorant they don't know what they're voting for?
This hideous coalition is capable of anything, and probably even worse than the Thatcher years. Removing the UKE from ECHR means open season on EVERYONE the Tories don't approve of.
Be scared, be very scared.
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Post by bormes on Mar 4, 2013 7:18:57 GMT -1
Hopefully not in Scotland.
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