From: Jim on 6 Aug 2010 10:06 On 2010-08-06, Basil Jet <johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote: >>> >>>> In Covent Garden - the biggest in the world apparently. Wonder what was there >>>> before? >>> >>> It was the Rock Garden cafe, and it's a great spot for an Apple Store! >> >> They should also have a coffee shop. >> >> Actually, do any of them do that? Even if it was just a >> Starbucks/Costa/Whatever? That would actually be quite cool. > > A cafe would take up retail space, and affect the Apple turnover. Conversely, it would attract more customers and put them into a nicely relaxed frame of mind. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Ben Shimmin on 6 Aug 2010 10:04 Basil Jet <johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com>: > On 2010\08\06 11:24, Jim wrote: [...] >> Actually, do any of them do that? Even if it was just a >> Starbucks/Costa/Whatever? That would actually be quite cool. > > A cafe would take up retail space, and affect the Apple turnover. Oh, bravo! b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Chris Ridd on 6 Aug 2010 10:14 On 2010-08-06 14:41:36 +0100, Basil Jet said: > On 2010\08\06 11:24, Jim wrote: >> On 2010-08-06, Debbie Wilson<djmaizels(a)mac.com> wrote: >>> Mark<captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> In Covent Garden - the biggest in the world apparently. Wonder what was there >>>> before? >>> >>> It was the Rock Garden cafe, and it's a great spot for an Apple Store! >> >> They should also have a coffee shop. >> >> Actually, do any of them do that? Even if it was just a >> Starbucks/Costa/Whatever? That would actually be quite cool. > > A cafe would take up retail space, and affect the Apple turnover. Nicely done. It might make enough coppers to let them patch up the Cupertino coffee machine. -- Chris
From: Steve Firth on 6 Aug 2010 15:11 Mark <captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In Covent Garden - the biggest in the world apparently. Wonder what was there > before? From The Guardian: Apples! Get yer luverly Apples! I bet that's the first time that's been heard in Covent Garden. Oh, hang on...
From: Bruce Horrocks on 6 Aug 2010 16:15
On 06/08/2010 11:11, Debbie Wilson wrote: > Mark<captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> In Covent Garden - the biggest in the world apparently. Wonder what was there >> before? > > It was the Rock Garden cafe, and it's a great spot for an Apple Store! Sounds like a promising spot for the next ucsm meet? -- Bruce Horrocks Surrey England (bruce at scorecrow dot com) |