The Mock Turtle

Oh, shit. That's awful.

Oh no!

What? No! Isn’t Waitrose propping it up at the moment?

Aren't they just closing some stores?

Yeah, and Del Boy is dead.

Where is that being reported? All I can see is that some of their stores won't reopen, which isn't unexpected.

Del Boy will never die.

They're not folding, TC is just trying to panic our middle class selves

It worked

It was on the BBC who have now pulled it.

Headline read: John Lewis unlikely to reopen its doors after lockdown.

The Sun also changed their headline.

Guys! I was practically hyperventilating there...!

Livilla wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:29 pm Guys! I was practically hyperventilating there...!

Me too

Huffington Post edited theirs as well.

I heard through the retail grapevine that they were considering opening on a limited basis when they reopen.

I’d read they’d said it was highly unlikely that all 50 stores would reopen, so I can see why headline writers got excited!

Yes, that’s still out there.

Yes it said that on the Mirror website :highbrow:

They will close some just like all the big retail businesses and will also finesse the duplications in the Waitrose business vs the John Lewis business - they will survive but much slimmed down. Many others will not survive at all

Irrfan Khan has died.

I've just seen this, I loved him in The Lunchbox