Save Me From These Discount Desperados ; a London Life

Evening Standard - London › December 30, 2008

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I HAVE never had the easiest of relations with shopkeepers.

Mutual mistrust perhaps best sums it up. However, while making my first foray in many months to the shops yesterday I couldn't help remarking how much the commercial ground has shifted. And with even greater New Year discounts coming up it is only going to shift further.

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Save Me From These Discount Desperados ; a London Life

"Anything you're looking for, ha ha?" said an insanely eager assistant as I was about to exit her shop, ...

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