On 15/04/2013 15:24, Jethro_uk wrote:
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I had this kinda "candid camera" idea, of calling up the managing agents
for the mall, and enquiring about vacant units, as I am launching a new
kind of store ... a combined discount shoe, card and mobile phone shop.

One of the vacant units has a sign up now ... "Coming soon: Rachels
cupcakes and cafe".

Why is there this recent obsession with cupcakes?

It's next door to a Druckers

I presume that Druckers is in competition with a cupcake shop and cafe.
I've never heard of them.

You have to wonder who pitched *that* business plan.

Either somebody thinks there is business enough for two, or thinks they
can put the other out of business. We have lost a good baker to
competition from Greggs (who stopped offering the things they had
undercut after the baker had gone) and a locally run pizza shop to
competition from Dominoes.

Colin Bignell