slf Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 Still no word on Sportsters opening up again? They're missing a trick with the beer garden for the summer and the races too. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i don't care i have a voddy garden. Carron, Dylan-Saints and THE LARK SAINT 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carron Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 Just so you all know. There is another Turkish Barber shop due to open in the South Street. One of the shops opposite the Salvation army charity shop has a notice in the window. How many Turkish Barbers do we need? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slf Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 Just so you all know. There is another Turkish Barber shop due to open in the South Street. One of the shops opposite the Salvation army charity shop has a notice in the window. How many Turkish Barbers do we need? see post 376 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanginSaint Posted June 21, 2013 Report Share Posted June 21, 2013 Just so you all know. There is another Turkish Barber shop due to open in the South Street. One of the shops opposite the Salvation army charity shop has a notice in the window. How many Turkish Barbers do we need? Money laundering ........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjfc99 Posted June 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2013 Talk of a large arcadia chain store going in at St Catherines retail park. Would sell top shop / bhs and other of its brands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOODLUM65 Posted June 21, 2013 Report Share Posted June 21, 2013 Can't be arsed looking back through the posts, but excuse me if mentioned previously.The chippy in Nth. Methven St. trading under the Watsons banner appears to have the windows covered up for months.Does anyone know the score about this establishment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendy Saints Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 Talk of a large arcadia chain store going in at St Catherines retail park. Would sell top shop / bhs and other of its brands. Hope it comes off ..... There was meant to be 'the Wonder of Woolworths' going in there & look what happened to that...did hear a similar rumour 'tho!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejksjfc Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 I know bookies and loan companies are not what we want on any High Street, but surely they are better than empty shops!! This life nowadays is unfortunately not an ideal world!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fergiefootball Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 I know bookies and loan companies are not what we want on any High Street, but surely they are better than empty shops!! This life nowadays is unfortunately not an ideal world!!!NAH you are better with empty shops imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy rhodes fancy watch Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 Can't be arsed looking back through the posts, but excuse me if mentioned previously. The chippy in Nth. Methven St. trading under the Watsons banner appears to have the windows covered up for months. Does anyone know the score about this establishment? Its open . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOODLUM65 Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 Its open . Was speaking to "the mad referee" this afternoon who confirms your post. Just seemed to have the windows covered up for weeks on end on the odd occasion I passed by. Good news, from the amount of places closing down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carron Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 Watsons chippy still trades, has been refurbished and the old sitting in area is closed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintgscot Posted June 28, 2013 Report Share Posted June 28, 2013 They have one in Arbroath. I think that bus stopped running 3 or 4 years ago, leaves a huge hole in the market for tourists getting taken round but unfortunately PKC is not very forward thinking when it comes to this sort of thing. Should get one of those wee road trains you see overseas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gort Posted June 29, 2013 Report Share Posted June 29, 2013 Biggest multis in the Hulltoon blown up tomorrow, there will be hundreds up the Law watching it. Ridiculous with so many thousands on Dundee[s waiting lists and all the homeless people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cagey Posted June 29, 2013 Report Share Posted June 29, 2013 Biggest multis in the Hulltoon blown up tomorrow, there will be hundreds up the Law watching it. Ridiculous with so many thousands on Dundee[s waiting lists and all the homeless people.What shops are in the multie`s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chips Posted June 29, 2013 Report Share Posted June 29, 2013 What shops are in the multie`s Drug dispensers ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gort Posted June 30, 2013 Report Share Posted June 30, 2013 What shops are in the multie`s There were about 20 pharmacies in those two multi's. Cagey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myDarlingBeefeater Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 Another bookies opened in the town - Betfred now on the High Street. The cancer of FOBT spreads further. Carron 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carron Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 Indeed. Four Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) per branch. They make serious money for the bookies. Passed the new Bet Fred recently one evening, round about 7pm, in the High Street Bet Fred, saw two staff behind the counter, and two punters on the FOBTs, which are just inside the door, and in full view of the street. These machines take bank notes. Quite simple to feed in a £20 note and have lost it within minutes, Apparently the Bet Fred in South Street, has a cash machine inside the shop. How convenient! The possibility of losing more money becomes reality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixties saintee Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 Indeed. Four Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) per branch. They make serious money for the bookies. Passed the new Bet Fred recently one evening, round about 7pm, in the High Street Bet Fred, saw two staff behind the counter, and two punters on the FOBTs, which are just inside the door, and in full view of the street. These machines take bank notes. Quite simple to feed in a £20 note and have lost it within minutes, Apparently the Bet Fred in South Street, has a cash machine inside the shop. How convenient! The possibility of losing more money becomes reality. Need boycotting they were trying to get staff to work till 2130 on xmas eve, after the staff complained they changed it to 1830, but selected shops will stay open till 2100, no care for there staff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carron Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 Staff welfare isn't high on their agenda. Remember looking at an advert for staff for a bookies, expecting part-time staff to be available quite simply the opening hours of the business, and seven days a week. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/may/11/work-safety-betting-shop-staff Quote from the above article: " Each machine generates £918 of profit for William Hill each week, and net revenue is up 5%, according to its latest results. When some punters lose they get angry. Thompson says she often works alone, regularly faces abusive customers who swear, spit, punch and kick the machines in a mixture of frustration and desperation after losing money." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANDY5565 Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 a whore will generate just as much fazman1977 and rickardo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOODLUM65 Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 Indeed. Four Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) per branch. They make serious money for the bookies. Passed the new Bet Fred recently one evening, round about 7pm, in the High Street Bet Fred, saw two staff behind the counter, and two punters on the FOBTs, which are just inside the door, and in full view of the street. These machines take bank notes. Quite simple to feed in a £20 note and have lost it within minutes, Apparently the Bet Fred in South Street, has a cash machine inside the shop. How convenient! The possibility of losing more money becomes reality. Noticed the increase in the number of betting shops recently including the one in South St. at the entrance to the St. John's shopping mall. These I presume would have to be approved by PKC licensing board. The same Pkc Councillors who are part of those voting to knock down the City Hall and replace it with a square. Adding more bookies shops and charity shops will meet their goal of making Perth a vibrant City. What next, a mobile bookies shop on the Square with a mobile "money for clothes" vehicle, similar to the one which has appeared in St.Catherines retail park (in the cark park), opposite Morrisons. The Councillors have spent millions on feasability studies, from cycle bridge and road bridge over the Tay, without any end result. Also refusing countless planning applications for no apparent reason. The Scottish govmt. have forced them to put the Almond valley planning application for houses back into the "local area plan" This is not the first time this type of thing has happened and each time it costs Pkc to appeal and defend their refusal of planning consent. You only have to ask local business folk of their experiences with Pkc. The lady who painted her new shop pink, the Council objected, despite her previous shop round the corner in Scott St. being pink. Ask Mark the hairdresser of his dealings with the Council re planning consent. Seems like, if your face fits its OK. Spent thousands on a project that took months, which I reported at the time on another thread. Built a new footbridge across the burn on the North Inch golf course only for it to be under water during heavy rain. You argue that the golf course would be closed due to flooding. Have a walk around our Vibrant City our Councillors have created for us. They have brightened it up by replacing the "fly posters" on the emtpty shop windows, with their own advertising late night shopping etc. Noticed another new one today opposite the chip shop in Bridgend. Remenber this is our money they have frittered away. lmsaintee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slf Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 Noticed the increase in the number of betting shops recently including the one in South St. at the entrance to the St. John's shopping mall. These I presume would have to be approved by PKC licensing board. The same Pkc Councillors who are part of those voting to knock down the City Hall and replace it with a square. Adding more bookies shops and charity shops will meet their goal of making Perth a vibrant City. What next, a mobile bookies shop on the Square with a mobile "money for clothes" vehicle, similar to the one which has appeared in St.Catherines retail park (in the cark park), opposite Morrisons. The Councillors have spent millions on feasability studies, from cycle bridge and road bridge over the Tay, without any end result. Also refusing countless planning applications for no apparent reason. The Scottish govmt. have forced them to put the Almond valley planning application for houses back into the "local area plan" This is not the first time this type of thing has happened and each time it costs Pkc to appeal and defend their refusal of planning consent. You only have to ask local business folk of their experiences with Pkc. The lady who painted her new shop pink, the Council objected, despite her previous shop round the corner in Scott St. being pink. Ask Mark the hairdresser of his dealings with the Council re planning consent. Seems like, if your face fits its OK. Spent thousands on a project that took months, which I reported at the time on another thread. Built a new footbridge across the burn on the North Inch golf course only for it to be under water during heavy rain. You argue that the golf course would be closed due to flooding. Have a walk around our Vibrant City our Councillors have created for us. They have brightened it up by replacing the "fly posters" on the emtpty shop windows, with their own advertising late night shopping etc. Noticed another new one today opposite the chip shop in Bridgend. Remenber this is our money they have frittered away. ye forgot all the secret meetings of council where they do not disclose what went on . the barossa/wap club were never like that. HOODLUM65 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixties saintee Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 Staff welfare isn't high on their agenda. Remember looking at an advert for staff for a bookies, expecting part-time staff to be available quite simply the opening hours of the business, and seven days a week. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/may/11/work-safety-betting-shop-staff Quote from the above article: " Each machine generates £918 of profit for William Hill each week, and net revenue is up 5%, according to its latest results. When some punters lose they get angry. Thompson says she often works alone, regularly faces abusive customers who swear, spit, punch and kick the machines in a mixture of frustration and desperation after losing money." Seam to remember that Panorama covered this about 18 months ago spokesperson said something along the lines that it was not really a issue but there was a training plan that managers would go through and would offer counselling for staff if requiried Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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