Regular readers will remember my quest to buy a jacket in several high street stores, which eventually led me to resort to an online purchase. No doubt I’ll be a statistic quoted by Mr Sports Direct as a reason for closing more of the stores he’s picked up at rock bottom price. If you’ve been to one of the remaining branches of your bank-of-choice and seen the queue for the one remaining cashier, you’ve also probably given up and hit the internet. And so they’ll tell you it’s your fault when they close yet another branch.
“Advice firm Almond Financial moves to four-day working week”
The Four Day Week was much discussed and trailed post-COVID, when remote-working looked likely to end strap-hanging commutes for good and laptops on the kitchen table were to become the ’new norm’.