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Reclaim Brixton - Town Hall stormed by protesters

Why should they? Right from the start they have been made to feel unwelcome. I don't know what they would be able to do to make people a little more happy that there is a champagne and cheese place in Brixton. Maybe they don't know either.

I'm not sure they researched their market very well. If they had, they'd have been able to work out that there might be opposition, and worked to counter it - something other businesses have managed to do when operating in virgin areas. The fact of the prices of many of their products is what incenses people, and while you can say (notyour argument, by the way, but one I've seen made) "but ordinary people can still buy stuff from there!", perhaps we don't like having our noses rubbed in the fact that we can only afford 100g of that nice Camembert, or a glass of the cheapest champagne (which will taste worse than the Lidl Prosecco that sells for around the same price per bottle as you'll have paid for that glass).
The worst thing about C & F, though? Hearing people refer to it as "Champagne et Fromage"!!! :mad:
 
I'm not sure they researched their market very well. If they had, they'd have been able to work out that there might be opposition, and worked to counter it - something other businesses have managed to do when operating in virgin areas.

I've not been in (and to be honest I'm a lidl fan - although they are as big as Tesco and I feel like I should maybe be aware of their business issues before complaining about an inappropriate little business!)

I think someone saw opportunity and maybe they couldn't start up in Clapham and Balham or felt that those places were already saturated with expensive stuff. I don't know that I would have foresaw quite the level of complaint which was shown to them. (bet local big businesses like Tesco was glad to be off the hook)
 
Razor blade to peel it off, or a very sharp knife,if you're talking about the rfid sticker.
No, on booze bottles it's a huge plastic thing clamped over the top and the neck of the bottle, containing and RFID or similar too.
 
I like a bit of champagne. But I don't understand why you would buy a bottle in a bar for sixty quid. What's wrong with getting it cheap from a shoplifter and sneaking it into the pub like a normal person?
why not take things like sainsburys own-brand brandy, in a plastic bottle, where you can drain the bottle without the necessity of removing the device and keep the contents in an also lifted decanter?
 
Breaking a window, harming no one = unacceptable violence
Bombing the shit out of Libya, killing directly and indirectly thousands of people = acceptable violence

Nice belief system, Chuka.
you'll never get a debate about violence out of him, not while he has some small influence on the state use of violence.
 
Pay day loan firms should be razed to the ground. Those wringing their hands about how terrible it is that companies that charge 12,000,000% api to people desperate for cash are getting their windows done will be the fuel.
lending practises so dodgy even the yanqui won't allow them. Don't get me started on them thieving fucks...I put in for a loan out of desperation, they turned me down and next time I got money they rinsed 75 quid out of me for a 'consultancy fee'


fuck these people. They deserve the salt mines
 
Saw this today in Oval...not sure how new this sort of thing is, but I was sufficiently impressed to take a pic...

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