shops

if you are feeling board you can watch batteries being fitted here. well, it beats hitting yourself on the head with a bent coathanger.

50% off nothing is nothing (but only half as not anything)

a great shop name and logo.

chair renting. that’s the future.

i was delighted to see this sign which has been prepared using an old fashioned letter stencil thing.
it doesn’t look that great to modern eyes used to computer generated text but it must have taken ages to make. well done to them i say.

this dry cleaners is excited because it’s 25 years old and is having lots of 25 related bargains.

however, i’m a bit confused, as it proclaims 25% off, but also £25. And it seems to be suggesting they’ve got a selection of services including 25 hours, 25 days, 25 weeks, 25 months, 25 years. I can see the 25 hours service being popular (although plenty of other places do cleaning in fewer hours), but a 25 week service ? why ?

interesting use of upper and lower case letters

a new coffee shop has opened on one of the platforms at my local train station and it’s been interesting to see who has been loyal to the existing newspaper shop (which sells some hot drinks) and who has flirted over to the new establishment.
i was very anti the new until i bought some pain-au-chocolats last week which changed my mind. and the people working there are really nice too

i do like their sign too. open monday. like that’s a rare thing in the coffee trade. i chose not to get excited by this.
the section section is a little intriguing too (and i won’t be checking them out).
and the final statement ‘get involved.’ is a little over encouraging i think.

selfridges have some great window displays. i haven’t been by for a while so it was nice to see the current crop.
these chaps were made out of jelly beans (including the one with the beard in the foreground)

and here was a giant pile of shoes

this shop is called happy days and seems to be selling cranes to grab koala. it’s probably run by mad kiwis (the hairiest of all the fruits (except the coconut which is probably not a fruit))

this is absolutely fantastic advertising. we saw it back here, but here is a bigger better picture. especially note the beer bottle with ‘cheap booze’ written on the label.
the ‘off licence open’ next to the closed shutters is good too.

we like a good pun here on funkypancake don’t we. so i was delighted to see this sign outside a shop selling cheese. you’ll probably need to click the picture for a closer look at the cheese films. the quality reduces as you get closer to the bottom.