Has Social Media had its day?

[jceg316]

making better business decisions than your competitors is surely the point of competition?

I can't diss a man who has brought Bengali to the uk for £2 a can. A 355ml can too, noe of this 330ml nonsense

Don't get me wrong, I really like Spoons and the better ones are great places to go drinking, especially as t hey sell good and cheap craft beer (some have selections which rival specialist craft beer bars). I must say, never really been a fan of their food though.

Yes, making better business decisions is part of business competition. However, the phrase was "[Tim Martin] will make more forward thinking business decisions in the average morning than you will in your whole life." As in the sheer number of decisions which is an odd thing to say to someone who doesn't make, nor wants to make, business decisions. At the same time, I'm pretty sure I can program better python than Tim Martin.

 

[Sadfield]

t hey sell good and cheap craft beer (some have selections which rival specialist craft beer bars).

Ooops, by bad. I thought we were talking about J D Wetherspoons. I'm in the wrong thread. Virtually all the cask stuff is brewed under license and craft stuff in the fridge is very mainstream. Bengali for £2, i'll hold my hands up to being a great price and the best option, but not the greatest IPA. Get what you pay for.

 

[BeerCat]

One thing spoons could do is throw away all their TV's.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

One thing spoons could do is throw away all their TV's.

What would all the kids do while their parents get hammered?

 

[Leon103]

What would all the kids do while their parents get hammered?

Free WiFi

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Free WiFi

Good point but then there would be loads of kids all watching different youtube videos at the same time.

 

[BeerCat]

What would all the kids do while their parents get hammered?

The one i go in only seems to show BBC news.

 

[Ken L]

One thing spoons could do is throw away all their TV's.

Yep.
No games machines, no screens no music and a clean environment was their winning strategy when they started.
They changed their tack in 2006.
Much as I hate having football or whatever on in the pub, I wonder how tenable not having it is now that everybody carries their own screen.
Phones and social media are changing everything. I have some friends that I'm beginning to not like drinking with because they can't leave their ******* phones (My asterisks, not forum blocking) alone for five minutes.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I never take my phone out i would either lose it or break it and i like you would be irritated if people i was drinking with kept looking at their phones every few minutes in case they missed something posted on Fakebook.

 

[dad_of_jon]

Don't get me wrong, I really like Spoons and the better ones are great places to go drinking, especially as t hey sell good and cheap craft beer (some have selections which rival specialist craft beer bars). I must say, never really been a fan of their food though.

Yes, making better business decisions is part of business competition. However, the phrase was "[Tim Martin] will make more forward thinking business decisions in the average morning than you will in your whole life." As in the sheer number of decisions which is an odd thing to say to someone who doesn't make, nor wants to make, business decisions. At the same time, I'm pretty sure I can program better python than Tim Martin.

Have to agree about the food, I stick to chicken strips :-) and Tim Martin will most likely make more forward thinking business decisions in the average morning than possibly all forumites will make in our whole life, that's why he's in business and er we're not... plus he doesn't look like he could program his way out of a paper bag let alone get to grips with python** I suppose what I'm saying is that it's hard to criticize Tim Martin's business acumen unless your alan sugar or richard branson. And yes spoons are hit and miss, in swansea the floors can be sticky, but in morriston and gorseinon they are much nicer propositions.

So whilst it's possible to criticize him and whatever other business leader doesn't fit in with our views, they are more adept in their area than we are.

** this is a shockingly un-pc statement made based on his appearance, for which I apologize!

 

[jceg316]

Ooops, by bad. I thought we were talking about J D Wetherspoons. I'm in the wrong thread. Virtually all the cask stuff is brewed under license and craft stuff in the fridge is very mainstream. Bengali for £2, i'll hold my hands up to being a great price and the best option, but not the greatest IPA. Get what you pay for.

It does depend which one you go to. The Ice Wharf in Camden Town (Don't know if you're a Londoner or not) had a peanut butter milk stout along with some other types I don't see that often. Similarly I went to one in Bristol and they had a lot of the local breweries in ther like Arbour, which are very good.

 

[Clint]

Our local spoons is only sometimes good. I've been in there and the beer choice has been dreadful as has the state of the facilities. There's always the usual crowd though....been sat there all day with their defrosted Iceland shop. ....

 

[Ciaran12s]

Wimmin are terrible for gawkin at phones when out. I always have my phone on me but don't tend to look at it all. SWMBO gets very frustrated when I haven't replied to her "are you having a nice time" " is such and such there" "are you getting some food" "why aren't you replying" texts.

I have Facebook and rarely go on it. It is good for the marketplace though, got myself a fridge freezer and a dishwashed cheap and 60 flag stones free at the weekend. It used to be good for keeping in touch with family/friends back home or away or whatever. However, everyone is now connected to the internet in their pocket and things like whatsapp surpass all this public posting nonsense. Phil down the road that you wave at if you see him but have as a Facebook friend, isn't getting invited to any whatsapp groups. I prefer it when Phil and everyone like him on my "friends" list, isn't able to observe conversations between actual friends.

 

[Saisonator]

The one in Windsor opposite the castle is a great pub, multi level with large garden, it’s absolutely heaving on a summer weekend evening.