spaceprobe wrote:Get Geared have announced they will honour Hein Gericke vouchers up to 50% of their face value on spends over £250.

Nice(ish) gesture, albeit for spends over £250 which is a lot. Get Geared are a decent company. However, being a cynic, does this imply that Get Geared's mark-ups are so high as to make this viable for them???

Of course they are you are right to be a cynic. I have just purchased a new suit in the sales, £100 off. Nice buy but it just shows what the normal mark up is, its the ugly side of capitalism. Its why I as a matter of principle will not buy Apple products, made by almost slave labour in China and sold at huge retail prices, hence Apples sky high profits.

And the proprietary software issues?

According to MCN
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J&S have bought 12 HG stores.

Confusingly the list includes the Leeds store which I thought didn't get reopened after the last closure, and J&S already have a store across the road anyway!

So why have J&S bought the Leeds store if they already have a store across the road? The one they have is quite big - bigger than the HG store was. Maybe the lease is cheaper or something.
I do keep meaning to get to the GetGeared store (I buy some things from them online), but I don't often visit Leeds, except occasionally for work and then I'm always in a hurry to get to the station for the dodgy TransPennine service back home!

Excellent news if J&S have bought out HG. At least they seem willing to discount and have reasonable prices from the outset!

Not been in a J&S store yet, so I will do once the Farnborough store gets rid of its HG image. I always found HG unfriendly to women, so I went elsewhere.

J&S are taking over them 12/16 of their shops will be J&S

I used to buy HG gear but in the last 10 years their stuff has really dropped in quality. Quite a few people i know have turned away from them because of this, so maybe they just weren't doing the volumes anymore?

It appears, that HG (Germany) believes to have a future.
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