Favourite shops, online and off

I thought I'd start a thread where we can list our favourite places to buy simple things or things that should be simple and use it as a sort of reference guide.

My favourites for shoes, are moshulu, a small firm in Devon that make beautiful shoes for British shaped feet, they're a bit expensive, but they last a long time so are worth it. The other place I sometimes get shoes from is Hotter, mostly I get my walking boots from them as their shoes have gone a bit aggy, the boots are good as the womens sizes go up to an 8, they do wide fit too.

One of the shops I sometimes use for clothes is Laganlook.co.uk, mostly for tops as their trousers are about 3 or 4 inches to short for me

If I wanted wool for knitting or anything else I'd go to wool couture, pure wool and lovely colours, although they seem to do more crafty stuff than wool for clothes making, it's expensive, but lovely, another British company.

For bedding I'm a TKMAXXX girl, good quality cotton sheets, pillow slips and duvet covers at bargain prices, I have some pillow slips from them that are 100% cotton with a 500 thread count, they're so soft, they were only £7:99 a pair.

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  • One developing situation to monitor for any changes to Seller / Buyer experience / impact:

    "GameStop makes $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay

    GameStop has made a $55.5bn (£40.9bn) unsolicited offer to take over e-commerce firm eBay, the video game retail chain said on Sunday.

    The cash and stock offer values eBay at $125 a share, $20 more than the shares were valued at the close of New York trading on Friday, GameStop said in a statement, external.

    In a letter to eBay, external, GameStop's chief executive Ryan Cohen said he planned to make $2bn of cost savings at the firm within a year of the deal being completed.

    The BBC has contacted eBay for comment."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p8yled1do

    I think both Sellers and Buyers are likely to have questions they would like answered around the impact of this proposed takeover offer.

    People might not know the name GameStop - but perhaps would recognise some of their subsidiaries: 

    • Babbage's, 
    • EB Games, 
    • Geeknet, 
    • Micromania-Zing, 
    • Rhino Video Games, 
    • ThinkGeek.
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  • One developing situation to monitor for any changes to Seller / Buyer experience / impact:

    "GameStop makes $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay

    GameStop has made a $55.5bn (£40.9bn) unsolicited offer to take over e-commerce firm eBay, the video game retail chain said on Sunday.

    The cash and stock offer values eBay at $125 a share, $20 more than the shares were valued at the close of New York trading on Friday, GameStop said in a statement, external.

    In a letter to eBay, external, GameStop's chief executive Ryan Cohen said he planned to make $2bn of cost savings at the firm within a year of the deal being completed.

    The BBC has contacted eBay for comment."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p8yled1do

    I think both Sellers and Buyers are likely to have questions they would like answered around the impact of this proposed takeover offer.

    People might not know the name GameStop - but perhaps would recognise some of their subsidiaries: 

    • Babbage's, 
    • EB Games, 
    • Geeknet, 
    • Micromania-Zing, 
    • Rhino Video Games, 
    • ThinkGeek.
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