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Do you not question who's actually telling you these stories, in the media, and why?
I more frequently question why those in various government offices try and stop the truth coming out - of course as one of those who has repeatedly shown on this website and its predecessor of your skills in twisting what is said you are obviously in favour of this government style action - and possibly worried when the real facts are revealed. |
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So you believe that your employer should stop publishing their bullshit filled pretend magazine "A great place to live" or whatever it is called.
Never seen a copy myself....is it chocka with declining footfall figures, designs for the new mega-pavilion, and pledges to spend the £14m WBC unspent developers cash? Or maybe the news that Newbury is 'bucking the trend' in the recession truth? |
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The Clock Tower has not done well since it cleaned itself up and alienated all its regulars in the 90s but again you're right, it's one of those venues like Bar Cuba that gives the owner a lot of kudos among some circles within the town. |
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In general business growth is about greed - the desire to increase profits.
Yes, I have to agree with you about greed being the main driver behind business.
I think in some cases, greed is too strong a word. Sure, greed lives within business, but there are other motives. The problem with business is that you can either down-size or grow. If you try to maintain constant revenues, you make yourself vulnerable to change. |
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I think in some cases, greed is too strong a word. Sure, greed lives within business, but there are other motives. The problem with business is that you can either down-size or grow. If you try to maintain constant revenues, you make yourself vulnerable to change.
Tend to agree - greed is really a personal adjective. As economies develop, which they tend to do via commerce, many operate businesses simply to survive. Counterwise, we can see greed in those apparently doing a service for public good - MPs for instance, or as we are beginning to see the heads of various 'not for profits'. Would suggest that as it didn't seem to have any expansionist tendancies, this travel agent was being run simply to provide an honest living - hardly greed! |
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I can't see the various roadworks effecting Windsor & Neate too badly - competition from the internet must be devastating for any travel agent (I can't remember when I last went into one).
A friend of mine used this one. He said they were often cheaper than he could find himself on the Internet. They were especially handy for business trips as they could cope with arranging rather complicated journeys better than he could. He used them only recently. |
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I believe that one of the staff has close to fifty years of service in the same shop. |
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The old Windsor & Neate travel agents reopened this morning (6th October) at 10.00am. They are now trading as Ambassador Travel. |
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The old Windsor & Neate travel agents reopened this morning (6th October) at 10.00am. They are now trading as Ambassador Travel.
They have not re-opened and have not changed their name. It is a totally new travel agency that has been opened in the same shop. Nothing to do with the bloke that owned Windsor and Neate. FACT. |
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They have not re-opened and have not changed their name. It is a totally new travel agency that has been opened in the same shop. Nothing to do with the bloke that owned Windsor and Neate. FACT.
I understand that there are some of the original people still working there. |
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I think the "reopened" referred to the shop being reinstated as a travel agent, and not intentionally inferring that it had been reopened by the same/original person or persons. |
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I think the "reopened" referred to the shop being reinstated as a travel agent, and not intentionally inferring that it had been reopened by the same/original person or persons.
I understand that some of the people that worked there before are there now. |
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yes people who worked there before have been employed by the new travel agency and owner. |
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