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Peter Jones Department Store (the firm of Slater, Crabtree and Moberly, completed 1936), Sloane Square SW3, Chelsea, London.
Alongside the River Thames. Photo taken July 2008.
Owner: Royal London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
A branch of the Curzon cinema empire, this shows art house films on King's Road. Also opera it seems.
Owner: Curzon Cinemas (website).
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London SW3, King's Road, Chelsea promenades
Window shopping
retail
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The scandal of Marks and Spencer's pricing system:
1. The weight of food, to make it look cheaper, is packaged in the old half-pound system, equivalent to 225 grams
2. The equivalent price per kilo unit is marked in small characters which are barely legible
3. Instead of calling the fruit £ 9/kilo, they chose instead less than a quarter kilo that is 225 grams instead of 250 grams per packet to make it look cheaper 1.99 pounds per packet, equivalent to 8.84 pounds per kilo, call it 9 pounds per kilo.
Who wants to pay 9 pounds for a kilo of tasteless strawberries, artificially ripened after harvesting?
But why be so confusing and underhand?
This should be a matter for the Ombudsmen, to keep the culprits in line.
London SW3, King's Road, Chelsea promenades
Window shopping
retail
Picasso Bar in King's Road "reincarnation"... new facelift and new identity...
The previous Picasso, a small Italian coffee shop boasted the same decor as when it opened 50 years ago. It served everyone from rock stars Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones in the Sixties to recent regulars Bob Geldof and Gordon Ramsay. TV chef Ramsay, who often visited with his children, raved about its lattes and fried egg on toast, while Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole was a regular visitor with his new wife Carly Zucker.
But the café closed in 2009 after serving a final breakfast crowd. Owner Alberto Barbieri said dwindling passing trade on top of a recent rent rise, competition from nearby coffee chains and the congestion charge had killed his business, which has been in the family for half a century.
Set back from king's Road on a redevelopped site belonging formerly to York Barracks this deli shop is more expensive than Harrods.
But it stays open til 10PM and has a captive clientele locally.