| Covoid winners and losers. 11:49 - Mar 12 with 2533 views | Lord_Lucan |
Winner - TWTD soap manufacturing magnate StickyMockwell who's never had it so good.
Loser - Lucan. Everything we sell comes from either China or Italy
Lucan loses again. |  |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 11:51 - Mar 12 with 2491 views | GlasgowBlue |
If your child has..... by GlasgowBlue 12 Mar 2020 10:03I have two coffee shops/bistros. One in the High Street, the other in a Shopping centre.
In the high street we are about 70% down and the street is dead. In the shopping centre we are about 30% a day down but our saving grace is we are opposite a Tesco metro, a Superdrug and a Boots so we are getting a few panic buyers in.
But they are mostly coffee and cakes rather than meals.
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:02 - Mar 12 with 2430 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 11:51 - Mar 12 by GlasgowBlue |
If your child has..... by GlasgowBlue 12 Mar 2020 10:03I have two coffee shops/bistros. One in the High Street, the other in a Shopping centre.
In the high street we are about 70% down and the street is dead. In the shopping centre we are about 30% a day down but our saving grace is we are opposite a Tesco metro, a Superdrug and a Boots so we are getting a few panic buyers in.
But they are mostly coffee and cakes rather than meals.
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Our retail sales are nothing this time of year anyway and retail is small potatoes for us anyway. Our main thing is wholesale and this time of year most of our trade is with customers listing on Amazon - but even these sales are 70% down.
I spoke with our Italian man today and they are technically only allowed to leave the house for provisions - although some cafes remain open for a few hours. Everything else is shut.
I'm not so much worried about our sales being down, I'm more concerned about our customers who owe us money and may well go bust. At any time of the year we are owed about £70k | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:04 - Mar 12 with 2420 views | homer_123 |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 11:51 - Mar 12 by GlasgowBlue |
If your child has..... by GlasgowBlue 12 Mar 2020 10:03I have two coffee shops/bistros. One in the High Street, the other in a Shopping centre.
In the high street we are about 70% down and the street is dead. In the shopping centre we are about 30% a day down but our saving grace is we are opposite a Tesco metro, a Superdrug and a Boots so we are getting a few panic buyers in.
But they are mostly coffee and cakes rather than meals.
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GB - if that Shopping Centre is owned by Intu - then be aware....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51851791 |  |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:06 - Mar 12 with 2408 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:02 - Mar 12 by Lord_Lucan |
Our retail sales are nothing this time of year anyway and retail is small potatoes for us anyway. Our main thing is wholesale and this time of year most of our trade is with customers listing on Amazon - but even these sales are 70% down.
I spoke with our Italian man today and they are technically only allowed to leave the house for provisions - although some cafes remain open for a few hours. Everything else is shut.
I'm not so much worried about our sales being down, I'm more concerned about our customers who owe us money and may well go bust. At any time of the year we are owed about £70k |
And you've had people go bust on you before owing big money haven't you.
Feels like one step forward and then three back. | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:08 - Mar 12 with 2397 views | GlasgowBlue |
Thankfully not. Although I suppose it would be one way of not having to pay the rent and service charge. | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:13 - Mar 12 with 2360 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:06 - Mar 12 by GlasgowBlue |
And you've had people go bust on you before owing big money haven't you.
Feels like one step forward and then three back. |
I know. Up to now this was the first year when nothing much had gone wrong! | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:17 - Mar 12 with 2323 views | allezlesbleus |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:08 - Mar 12 by GlasgowBlue |
Thankfully not. Although I suppose it would be one way of not having to pay the rent and service charge. |
I think you would have to still pay them...….as long as the centre remained trading. |  | | |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:20 - Mar 12 with 2289 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:17 - Mar 12 by allezlesbleus |
I think you would have to still pay them...….as long as the centre remained trading. |
If it goes into administration then payment will be due to the administrators.
The likelihood is that Intu will simply offload it, buy it back from the administrators under a new company or have a buyer lined up to buy it off the administrators. | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:26 - Mar 12 with 2245 views | allezlesbleus |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:13 - Mar 12 by Lord_Lucan |
I know. Up to now this was the first year when nothing much had gone wrong! |
It is strange to see how unpredicted events like this (and to a degree, Brexit if you go back enough years) can hit a small business. You are pottering along quite happily, doing OK and then things completely out of your control cause loads more work, for way less money. | | | |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:33 - Mar 12 with 2205 views | BiGDonnie |
My business provide staffing solutions to Schools across London and the surrounding. Closing them for any amount of time means I'll lose. Massively. |  |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:33 - Mar 12 with 2200 views | GeoffSentence |
winner - phil ham, twtd clicks will go through the roof as more people work from home. |  |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:34 - Mar 12 with 2198 views | homer_123 |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:20 - Mar 12 by Lord_Lucan |
If it goes into administration then payment will be due to the administrators.
The likelihood is that Intu will simply offload it, buy it back from the administrators under a new company or have a buyer lined up to buy it off the administrators. |
It is struggling raise cash £5bn of debt......and who would take that on given the current situation and moreover the issues retailing is facing. | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:47 - Mar 12 with 2162 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:34 - Mar 12 by homer_123 |
It is struggling raise cash £5bn of debt......and who would take that on given the current situation and moreover the issues retailing is facing. |
I don't know anything about their portfolio, it maybe that the shopping centres can be saved - I don't know.
It's not uncommon for these centres to change hands though. It seems every year or so we have to change a customers address to include a differently named centre. | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:49 - Mar 12 with 2157 views | NewcyBlue |
It’s my job to transport goods around the world.
Ah well... |  |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:52 - Mar 12 with 2145 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:49 - Mar 12 by NewcyBlue |
It’s my job to transport goods around the world.
Ah well... |
I think your biggest concern is on board human contamination? | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 13:00 - Mar 12 with 2100 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:17 - Mar 12 by allezlesbleus |
I think you would have to still pay them...….as long as the centre remained trading. |
I wasn't being entirely serious | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 13:52 - Mar 12 with 1991 views | DanTheMan |
Don't own my own business, but I worked for a fintech firm, so having bundles of fun at the moment. |  |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 13:57 - Mar 12 with 1972 views | NewcyBlue |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 12:52 - Mar 12 by Lord_Lucan |
I think your biggest concern is on board human contamination? |
With only 25 of us on board, and shore leave banned in many countries, it shouldn’t be too bad.
The company sent an email out saying that we “have no legal right” to ask to not go to a virus hit country, either by asking to get off the ship before, or refusing to join a ship. | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 14:01 - Mar 12 with 1954 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 13:57 - Mar 12 by NewcyBlue |
With only 25 of us on board, and shore leave banned in many countries, it shouldn’t be too bad.
The company sent an email out saying that we “have no legal right” to ask to not go to a virus hit country, either by asking to get off the ship before, or refusing to join a ship. |
That's nice of them.
I was more getting at what would happen if someone was infected, do you have a doctor type person on board?
In fact what happens if someone goes nuts? Do you have a gun and a cell and all that sort of thing? | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 14:04 - Mar 12 with 1939 views | NewcyBlue |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 14:01 - Mar 12 by Lord_Lucan |
That's nice of them.
I was more getting at what would happen if someone was infected, do you have a doctor type person on board?
In fact what happens if someone goes nuts? Do you have a gun and a cell and all that sort of thing? |
I am the medical Officer on board.
No seriously, that’s me. I do a 5 day course every 5 years.
No fun anymore, British captains used to have one in their safe.
We don’t have cells, unless you count our cabins as cells.
When someone goes mad, people usually get stabbed, or are thrown overboard. It happens every now and then. There’s a few seafarers in prison at that one near Haverhill. Forget the name of it. | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 14:08 - Mar 12 with 1908 views | leitrimblue |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 14:04 - Mar 12 by NewcyBlue |
I am the medical Officer on board.
No seriously, that’s me. I do a 5 day course every 5 years.
No fun anymore, British captains used to have one in their safe.
We don’t have cells, unless you count our cabins as cells.
When someone goes mad, people usually get stabbed, or are thrown overboard. It happens every now and then. There’s a few seafarers in prison at that one near Haverhill. Forget the name of it. |
Highpoint |  | | |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 14:09 - Mar 12 with 1902 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 14:04 - Mar 12 by NewcyBlue |
I am the medical Officer on board.
No seriously, that’s me. I do a 5 day course every 5 years.
No fun anymore, British captains used to have one in their safe.
We don’t have cells, unless you count our cabins as cells.
When someone goes mad, people usually get stabbed, or are thrown overboard. It happens every now and then. There’s a few seafarers in prison at that one near Haverhill. Forget the name of it. |
Highpoint?
Myra was in there, it was (or still is) a womens prison I thought.
These vessels sound a right laugh, on all seriousness though I think you should have a cell on board, I can imagine all sorts go on. | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 14:10 - Mar 12 with 1898 views | NewcyBlue |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 14:08 - Mar 12 by leitrimblue |
Highpoint |
My lowest point is normally giving out antibiotics to crew that have been whoring ashore.
My usual response is “I don’t want to see it, is it dripping? What colour? Are there any sores? Do you have any other problems?” | |
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| Covoid winners and losers. on 14:11 - Mar 12 with 1883 views | NewcyBlue |
| Covoid winners and losers. on 14:09 - Mar 12 by Lord_Lucan |
Highpoint?
Myra was in there, it was (or still is) a womens prison I thought.
These vessels sound a right laugh, on all seriousness though I think you should have a cell on board, I can imagine all sorts go on. |
Unfortunately we don’t have room to have a cell. We just have to barricade a door or a secure a door so it can only be opened one way. | |
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