--s-p-o-n-i-x-- wrote:
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:52:50 GMT, Rick wrote:

Rick

ARe B&Q in *that* much financial trouble?

sponix

See
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/mai...16/ixcity.html

They're going the same way as Homebase "Out go hundreds of lines of
nuts and bolts, in come DVD players and television sets."

Although they try to deny it "When asked whether the move was merely
copying Homebase, which is owned by GUS, he said: "Our proposition will
be very different from Homebase... but if we stay in the same market it
is unclear why we would ever increase sales"

MBQ