Mike Ashley on the high street

[Hugh Gains]

Went to the commons to talk about the state of the high street and one solution is to tax online sales.

When is the solution not to further increase taxes? The high street can fuck off for me, who needs it.

 

[dangermows]

Online shopping is for fat lasses.

 

[jedi_toaster]

Went to the commons to talk about the state of the high street and one solution is to tax online sales.

When is the solution not to further increase taxes? The high street can fuck off for me, who needs it.

Massive companies like those he owns destroyed the high street years before the internet had a go. Supermarkets ruined town centres and so it goes on.

 

[dangermows]

Went to the commons to talk about the state of the high street and one solution is to tax online sales.

When is the solution not to further increase taxes? The high street can fuck off for me, who needs it.

Local restaurants and pubs do better when the High Street does. If the High Street fucks off so will more of those.

 

[Chappers]

Went to the commons to talk about the state of the high street and one solution is to tax online sales.

When is the solution not to further increase taxes? The high street can fuck off for me, who needs it.

Opposite for me this year. Making the effort to get out and go shopping.

 

[Sam Handwich]

Online shopping is for fat lasses.

And lazy Husbands

 

[Lambchops]

And lazy Husbands

All my Xmas shopping is done and ive never been in a shop - fuck the high street

 

[Sam Handwich]

All my Xmas shopping is done and ive never been in a shop - fuck the high street

All mine done anarl. Pending delivery like. On nights the next two weeks as well. Bastard.

 

[Lambchops]

All mine done anarl. Pending delivery like. On nights the next two weeks as well. Bastard.

Only got 1 left to be delivered - it's finding places to hide them all from the kids

 

[Napoleon Dynamite]

Blame the students mesell

Towns are just full of flats and coffee shops for the fuckers

 

[Deleted member 27677]

Mike Ashley speak well and seems to be a genuine bloke who speaks a lot of common sense .What he's saying is basic economics

 

[TheWanderer]

The high street can fuck off for me, who needs it.

You’ve never really thought that through have you?

 

[mad cyril]

Thought he spoke a lot of sense and the 20% taxing of online sales is a good idea.

 

[ObserverPhil]

Online shopping is for fat lasses.

Can you order a fat lass online?

 

[jackynutmeg]

Thought he spoke a lot of sense and the 20% taxing of online sales is a good idea.

Is it fuck.

 

[mad cyril]

Is it fuck.

It f***ing is.

 

[Lewberry pie]

Globalization is leading to a few brands which will own everything we consume, it takes more money out of our local area, it pays less tax into funding services, there's very very little that's good about online shopping, it's convenient but long term it will kill trade and money will leave our country but also our region.

 

[errant]

The high street can fuck off for me, who needs it.

There should be genuine concern if you end up with only one source of anything being amazon...

 

[dom]

The World as we used to know it has gone to fuck!

 

[Boz33]

Seems a reasonable solution, tax online outlets which have far fewer overheads than retail premises, and also give the high street a better chance of surviving long term.
Look at it this way, amazon and the like may seem cheap as fuck at the minute but once they've disposed of the competition what's to hold them back from raising prices once consumer choice has been lessened. Plus the massive online places fuck us all over tax wise to begin with
Also no shops and a shit load of pubs and cafés etc will close too as the foot fall will just disappear from town centres.
There'll just be a load of takeaways and drive thru McDonald's