JSKS
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I'm not sure that the shopping experience in store is as relevant as the trading conditions, contracts, rents etc that have a huge impact on the bottom line. While attracting customers or, more particularly, attracting their spending, is a sine qua non of retail it must be balanced by such spending giving rise to profit.Sadly, Tesco has not only lost market share at a greater rate than its competitiors, it has done so a ta time when its strategy has proved flawed, there are serious question marks over its accounting practices and its cash reserves are pitiable. Furthermore, where Tesco was at one time seen as a safe debtor by those from whom it rented properties and land, suppliers etc, these creditors will now be less inclined to trust the viability of their future arrangements. I feel this is an under-appreciated factor which could adversely affect future contracts and further depress profitability.Even at what seems like a bargain 194p at today's close there still seems to be more downside than upside particularly as Tesco can no longer be considered an income stock.By any reckoning the correction in market value is a reflection of the decline of the company.
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Gwennog41,Don't forget to PM all your friends with a link to this forum!
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Tesco shares now 193p and the market is full of price specified sell orders above that. Seems nobody is much interested in buying right now and even Warren Buffet has taken a hammering.The problems are manifold:Loss of market share in the last quarter makes Tesco the supermarket that has lost the greatest market shareover that period.Suppliers contracts under question.Possible need for rights issue to raise capitalAnd other problems already expressed.It's not even out of the question, as it would have been a year ago, that Tesco could be a takeover target.Remember big, high turnover compaies are not immortal. Think Pan Am, TWA, IBM, Polly Peck, Woolworth etc.You'd have to be extraordinarliy brave to have a wager on Tesco now, surely?
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I like Tesco.It keeps the riff-raff out of Waitrose.
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[quote user="PaulT"]JSKS so presumably Churchill should have said 'we are quaking in our boots because of the Nazis'. Would have had a negative effect on British morale and a positive effect on German morale.Think part of IS philosophy is fear so showing any is what they want.[/quote]If I remember correctly didn't Churchill recognise and face the threat rather than try and pretend it wasn't there? ''I have nothing to offer except ignoring the threat'' isn't how I remember it.
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The thing about Pomhorn's posts is a. They were not compulsory to read and b. often contained very useful info on legislative changes that were particularly useful to people new to France.Certainly a lot more useful that the plethora of posts along the lines of ''M Thatcher wasn't very nice'', ''All (insert nationality) are horrid'' or ''I'm more French than you are''. He/she never even mentioned the price of cauliflowers!
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Any country that claims it is not afraid of IS attacks is not only delusional but positively negligent. The threat presents a clear and present danger and I would hope that all NATO member countries recognise and plan against such attacks.
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[quote user="You can call me Betty"]This software (although it is better than er...shall we say...elsewhere....is a bit bizarre. If you're on an ipad, using Chrome, or Vanus is rising in Mercury, then you'll get all sorts of c**p appearing when you pist. We've been begging for someone to fix it for years, but be careful what you wish for...[/quote]Thanks. I use a Chromebook therefore, necessarily, the Chrome browser. I guess I'll just have to assault you with the extras.
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[quote user="Chancer"]
I could never be a moderator certainly not Under conditions like the present.
[/quote]To be fair, up until FE's implosion this month the mods had a fairly easy time of it and tended to let things run until it was obvious that it was getting out of control.Now it appears that dissention is a banishment offence. I find it hard to believe the main mod is acting on their own instinct - I get the feeling someone is pulling the strings. Incidentally, I'm a moderator on 2 quite specialist forums and if someone gets a bit beyond the limits of acceptibility (eg racism, anti-semitism, bullying) they get a nudge, otherwise censorship is light - it's the only way for the more moronic to become known as such. Sensible forum members do a much better job of sorting out forum ASBO-types than heavy-handed moderation ever can. -
Can anyone tell me how to avoid all the ancillary gubbins in the post above when using the ''quote'' button. I just add my text after the quoted text but I get all the BLOCKQUOTE etc stuff.
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[quote user="Alan Zoff"]But Tesco still generates a lot of income. [/quote]Not for shareholders. Not since the last results where the dividend was slashed. This is a company with serious trading, financial and structural difficulties. Put your money on the 3.30 at Catterick!(Feeling smug having offloaded just shy of 10,000 shares a year ago)
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I would echo the above. Also, if you are to receive a cheque made out to M et Mme BOTH need to sign the back.
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[quote user="Redredwine"]I had a quick look just now, there was a post from someone saying they were leaving because of the censorship. A couple of minutes later it had gone. Looks like no criticism will be tolerated . Glad I never joined.[/quote]Until a few weeks ago it was a zippy forum with lots of views expressed and only the most extreme were removed. After the dog's breakfast of an upgrade there was a monumental backlash from the membership to the point where the discontent took up most of the forum. Clearly it seems expedient to censor rather than fix the problem. Someone has screwed up and is seeking to hide behind not allowing dissent or criticism to persist, presumably in the hope that it will all go away.It's like being in Junior School!
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Bit of an update:On FE went from being a 'participant' yesterday to a 'spectator'. That means unable to post or to see Chatterbox. Now when I try to login it says I am a spammer! Have emailed the mods to find out if it's a glitsch or a backhanded way of closing me out. Something very strange is going on over there!
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Sue56,I know this has also happened to at least one other this afternoon. I think it might be because we were using the message system to to tell others about this forum.Seems that rather than fix a rubbish forum they would rather everyone just meekly accepted the new-look downgrade!
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It seems that I have been locked out of the FE forum. Any post I try to open has the page not found error message. The Active Topics list is missing anything in Chatterbox and all those topics that do shown give the error message when clicked on.This may be a unique, unusual error, or a vindictive action against someone who has persisted in keeping the pathetic state of the site at the top of the Active list. Who knows?
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Wow! Territorial so soon?
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I thought it might be interesting, during the FE forum's slow suicide, to see who had moved across to here.Hi to old friends and sparring partners.
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It's pretty much on its last legs over at FE. There is another French forumthat might pick up new members along with this one. Google The French Forum and have a look.I used this forum until 3 or 4 years ago when FE (then TF) became more lively. But I might only have another 30 years or so left on Earth - it would be a shame to waste it waiting for posts onthe other forum to load!
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After the very cold spell in feb all the grass round here has turned brown - as if a long drought had descended. The green's coming through again but no real growth. Weird.
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[quote user="pachapapa"][quote user="JK"][quote user="pachapapa"]
The PV électronique will start in deux-sèvres on the 29th of february.
The first area to be covered will be Niort but it will spread quickly as equipment is delivered.
The lack of a notification under the windscreen wipers may cause problems for casual visitors to secondary residences as the notification may lie undiscovered in a letter box.
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When I first read this I was very impressed.
Up until now the only time I've ever seen PV used as an abbreviation is for per vagina examination.
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I would imagine about 40,000,000 of the 60,000,000 + frogs would be able to tell you what a PV is.....try connecting with 3 ( pas per vagina), on the basis of normal Quality Assurance Probability Models one of them should know. An ever so teeny-weeny bit of integration will yield synergical rewards.[;-)]
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Oh dear. So 20,000,000 frogs not even a teeny-weeny bit integrated in their own country?
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[quote user="pachapapa"]
The PV électronique will start in deux-sèvres on the 29th of february.
The first area to be covered will be Niort but it will spread quickly as equipment is delivered.
The lack of a notification under the windscreen wipers may cause problems for casual visitors to secondary residences as the notification may lie undiscovered in a letter box.
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When I first read this I was very impressed.
Up until now the only time I've ever seen PV used as an abbreviation is for per vagina examination.
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[quote user="Sunday Driver"]
Blimey, you're keen.
Come back in a couple of months and you'll find a 26 page thread on here dealing with the subject.....[;-)]
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Only 26?
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[quote user="jk"]
There seem to be two users called jk on these forums- there's me jk, and another JK. It make likes confusing.
Any way we might sort this?
lowercase jk
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You tell me who it is and I'll send the boys round to sort him out.
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