Mr Jolly lives next door to a comprehensive range of premium cosmetics.

[hirez]

All the survivors of the secret department store wars of the 80s seem to be from House Fraser. I imagine that's actually a nom du guerre and their ancestral homeworld is Giedi Prime. You could tell that something odd was going on if you bothered to pay attention to the layout of the buildings, because nothing quite lined up the way you thought it

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[quercus]

I miss David Morgan's in Cardiff. It wasn't the Selfridges group, and it had an arcade with an Ian Allan bookshop in it.

Now both have gone.

[moral_vacuum]

As far as I'm concerned I still work "just down from the Army & Navy". Particularly as it was the original from whence all others of that ilk sprang forth.

[jarkman]

You know how old department stores were always assembled from a bunch of unsuitable adjacent buildings joined together into a single giant unit ?

I submit to you that they are in fact Transformers, combining into mega-shops in order to engage in a slow and secret battle of commerce.

[cybermule]

Do they sell tonic water? *scratches chin thoughtfully*