Now this is REAL indicator that the Recession is coming to an end

[BlackenedBiker]

Real Talk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8471500.stm

[DimPrawn]

Profits up by a huge cost cutting exercise and laying off lots of people.

You can't raise profits like that forever.

Hence why we'll see a double dip soon.

[BlackenedBiker]

Profits up by a huge cost cutting exercise and laying off lots of people.

You can't raise profits like that forever.

Hence why we'll see a double dip soon.

Does cost cutting mean that I can't get 2 pints of latte (AKA a regular) anymore.

[AtW]

Profits up by a huge cost cutting exercise and laying off lots of people.

You can't raise profits like that forever.

Hence why we'll see a double dip soon.

"He admitted at the time that the company had opened too many branches, which had resulted in stores taking business from each other, and the company's upmarket brand image being tarnished."

[Pogle]

"He admitted at the time that the company had opened too many branches, which had resulted in stores taking business from each other, and the company's upmarket brand image being tarnished."

- yeah that and their coffee is tulipe - I wont touch it with a barge pole

[scooterscot]

I read somewhere they saw an increase in business as a direct result in the rise in unemployment. i.e. the unemployed would go along for a coffee while reading the jobs section of the paper or on there lappy.

So expect less profit next year as Mr Brown gets everyone in a job.

[cojak]

Cafe Nero for me...

[scooterscot]

Cafe Nero for me...

Have you tried the Milano hot chocolate? Calorific to the extreme divine to taste though, as is often the way.

[Doggy Styles]

That's mostly the US isn't it?

And as it's a well-known fact that the UK is in a far stronger position than anyone else to emerge from recession, because Gordon told us, boom times are a-rolling!

[RichardCranium]

I read somewhere they saw an increase in business as a direct result in the rise in unemployment. i.e. the unemployed would go along for a coffee while reading the jobs section of the paper or on there lappy.

Whoever wrote that is away with the fairies in cloud cuckoo land.

The unemployed do not buy newspapers; they read them in the Job Centre or the Library or the Job Club.

The unemployed do not need to go to retail outlets to use their laptop. They use the terminals in the Job Centre, the PCs in the Library, the PCs in the Job Club or, most likely, their PC at home.

The unemployed do not sit in coffee shops buying coffee. They sit in Wetherspoons drinking lager.