Why are Forest fans so awesome?

Who said they were?

That's global conglomerates for you. They don't really look, or for that matter even care WHO is buying. They just care that people (or numbers in their interest) ARE buying.

And to stereotype that "dole cheques" aren't worthy in Harvey Nichols, John Lewis or Michelin-starred restaurants is a little unsavoury (pardon the food-based pun).

There were figures published a while back that showed unemployed people were outspending their means, that is, they were buying the most expensive goods available, e.g. buying £350 Stone Island sweaters when a £20 Matalan number would suffice, taking home a 40" Panasonic LCD television when Tesco's own brand would do just as well, buying overpriced branded edible goods when supermarket own brands still fill you up.

To assume that the unemployed don't shop in designer outlets, no matter how much they shouldn't, does unfortunately not mean they won't.

Did I say they aren't worthy? If you put words in my mouth please make them the right ones.

They're as worthy as anyone but maybe not able to afford or frequent those shops as often which I'm sure said shops realise. I don't think you're wrong saying that people don't spend within their means, my initial post was just a suggestion that saying Harvey Nichols has opened up in Nott'm due to the high unemployment rate is a bit simplistic and convenient for you to score a point.

comment by LloydX (U6993) posted 28 minutes ago

"[...] but I don't think Harvey Nichols are focussing [sic] on a town where there's a load of people spending their dole cheques."
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I'm almost certain you said that their "dole cheques" aren't worthy
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comment by LloydX (U6993) posted 5 minutes ago

"They're as worthy as anyone but maybe not able to afford or frequent those shops as often which I'm sure said shops realise."
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The exact point I was making is that they ARE able to frequent said shops because they have nothing else to do with their day(s), unfortunately. If they have nothing to do with their day, but still have money in their pocket to spend, they will buy things
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comment by LloydX (U6993) posted 5 minutes ago

" [...] a bit simplistic and convenient for you to score a point."
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Not trying to score a point - just underlining the basic principle of supply and demand. If there's something for sale, someone will buy it

"I'm almost certain you said that their "dole cheques" aren't worthy
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Well, you may have inferred that but I didn't.

I see your point, like I said, people without much money still manage to spend it - I have to try to explain to my wife why this is a problem. I'm still not convinced Harvey Nichols' main objective are the casual unemployed drop-ins rather than the thousands that flood to the city at weekends but like you said you're not trying to score a point, you're just stating a fact right?

No, you're not scoring points at all but you still felt the need to insert the petty (sic) after my spelling mistake. Now, I could go on about having lived 7 of the last 8 years in the US where that form is prevalent or go on to add that the Oxford English Dictionary has both forms but you're not scoring points so why worry.

No, there's no point scoring but feel free to insert a face with a palm slapped against it because if words fail you that's a sure-fire winner.

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Thought you weren't scoring. Where's that facepalm?

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You know when they were looking into expanding the stadium pre-World Cup rubbish it turned out that due to new guidlines if we wanted a stand to house as many people as are in the Brian Clough stand it would've had to have been twice as big!