Mecky Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 I'm alright Jack, bugger the rest of you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 I'm alright Jack, bugger the rest of you Said Harvey Proctor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anywebsite Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 while that may be true, there is very little any management competent or not can do when faced with the rise of internet sales and supermarkets Of course there is. They can have their own online shop, with the advantage of being able to pick up/look at/try out the products in a store. It works for a lot of retailers. It's easier to set up a successful online shop if you already have established physical shops than if you're just starting out from nothing. Alternatively they could just sell products that people want to buy at prices that they want to pay. Retailers that can manage that are doing well. One of the main reasons most of the supermarkets are doing well is that they have online ordering & delivery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig12 Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 shops will always close as on line came in, what did they expect:loopy: it was always going to kill the high street, but the same internet buyers will be the first to complain when their own high st has dog **** and grafitti all over it, and boarded up windows.. thank god carpets arent a internet thing .....you still have to come in and touch em and feel em... tesco learnt this the hard way....... on line carpets.... mind you the vat on the old small business at £73000 threshold will never help and the rates are unbeleivable...... i doubt on line businesses pay any sort of vat or tax.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anywebsite Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 shops will always close as on line came in, what did they expect:loopy: it was always going to kill the high street, but the same internet buyers will be the first to complain when their own high st has dog **** and grafitti all over it, and boarded up windows.. thank god carpets arent a internet thing .....you still have to come in and touch em and feel em... tesco learnt this the hard way....... on line carpets.... mind you the vat on the old small business at £73000 threshold will never help and the rates are unbeleivable...... i doubt on line businesses pay any sort of vat or tax.. You're talking gibberish, Tesco's online sales rose by 10% in their last quarterly figures... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2071502/Tesco-reports-declining-sales-despite-500m-price-cutting-campaign-Mulberry-profits-up.html?ito=feeds-newsxml They sell everything they have in store & more online. As for carpets, the big carpet retailers have online stores too. It's only a matter of time until more people are buying carpets online because of the lower cost, the ease of comparing prices & the convenience. Some clothes retailers thought people wouldn't want to buy clothes online, for similar reasons as you've listed for carpets. They're the retailers that will be going bust over the next few months. Online retailers are subject to the same taxes as any other UK business. If they're online only then their property rates wont be so high & they can sell more with fewer staff, but that's about the only tax difference. Some of the larger ones avoid VAT by shipping goods under the import VAT limit (£15) from the channel islands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 ... i doubt on line businesses pay any sort of vat or tax.. What makes you think that? Why don't you ask Taxman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGELFIRE1 Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Amazon seem to be doing well, online is the way to go. Angel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig12 Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 tesco carpets flopped as i have it through the trade , you see the thing is this ... theres the key element to customers noy knowing how to measure for carpets , especially stairs,, on line carpets dont stack up, trust me ive sold em for 31 years and people still say .every day .. do you measure ? i see tesco dont seem to offer this and the list of fitters in south yorkshire seems to be in doncaster ......fine if you live in doncaster... scs tried carpets and are failing miserably, because the same people selling carpets are the same as selling upholstery..( saves paying another wage) if they were that poor in retail premises then lord peckham of carpetright would have gone to on line only..........but our phil knows a thing or two , after all he is the most successfull carpet owner in europe..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tradescanthia Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Governments [including Labour] have bled us dry. The minimum wage will become tha maximum wage if Cameron has his way. Cheap and willing Eastern European workers have contributed to this, but who can blame them ?? Their home countries are permanently in recession so they come here. The Equality Act which enables a lot of disabled to work is under fire from the Torys, "Its costing too much money" says Cameron. OK, get rid of it,let employers sack all the disabled [myself included] and we'll all draw benefit. [until he stops that as well] We are now becoming a low wage economy so we have less to spend. Todays brainwave " Treat more people at home instead of in hospital", WE HAVE HEARD ALL THIS BEFORE !!!! Its all been discussed and tried before. Inflation is a problem, DEFLATION is even worse. All the Torys are doing is filling their friends pockets then they are going to cut and run. They dont intend tackling the problem, all they are doing is lining their own pockets. Their mates, the investment banks are proof of this. Financial services regulate themselves, so now we have WONGA.com etc. charging desperate people nearly 2000% APR for loans. Cameron, Clegg, and Milliband too havent got a clue. They are too busy lining their own pockets while the rest of us can go to hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig12 Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 wouldnt you have thought that pay day loans should have been stopped and shut down by cameron , its what got us into this mess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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