Waterstones bookstores been bought off HMV

Guardian says by "[Russian billionaire Alexander] Mamut, who owns San Francisco-based social networking site LiveJournal, already holds a 6.7% stake in HMV."


One article says there's 314 Waterstones stores, the other 296.
Norwich has three. Two of them in walking distance of each other. And those two have basically the exact same stock. *big shrug* as to why. If they treated them as one giant bookstore, maybe kept the kids books in one and expanded the science fiction section or something, they could use the same amount of shelves and staff and stock a ton more stuff. Of course they'd also forever be sending people a hundred meters along the street to the other departments.
The one at the university has a specific and useful function, stocking all the textbooks. That one is win.

Sock hunting: DIFFICULT

I looked for rainbow socks. Short socks, since I have over the knee socks still, probably, unless they all broke when I wasn't looking. I found three sites, I thought. One didn't have a working pay button, google cart didn't work, paypal didn't work, their terms and conditions page was empty, and their about us page just said they were in London. I'm rather glad I didn't type in anything important. that was shoppingfield.co.uk . Then I went to next.co.uk but when I read their terms and conditions it said that to send me socks they would set up a credit account and send me £3.75 of catalogue, and charge me for the catalogue, several times a year. Bzuh?
Then I looked at Debenhams... and realised if I just go into Norwich they have a Debenhams, a NEXT, and a market that usually sells the socks I'm after anyway.

Online shopping: fail.


Next I could either hunt for shampoo (Garnier Fructis colour ...fast? ... protect? with a purple dot on it, no longer in most shops, offered for sale in some online outlets) or I could accept my shopping luck for the day and go back to bed.
... this is not a shampoo day.