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Re: Monopoly Money to spend...
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lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk
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Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:44:22 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Simon Bennett writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > "David Jones?" Is that one of those odd transoceanic "tweaks"
> > a company does, like T.J. Maxx in the US = T.K. Maxx in the UK?
> > The store you describe sounds a lot like Peter Jones in England.
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> Almost definitely not as Peter Jones is just one single department store
> that got subsumed into the John Lewis Partnership, everywhere else (except
> other local stores that kept their names like Trewins in Watford and Robert
> Sayle in Cambridge) it's John Lewis. (Did you live very close to Sloane
> Square when you were here?).
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> Anyway, what on earth is that T.K. Maxx nonsense about? I have a vision of
> the boardroom: "Ah, the Brits'll never go into a store called T.J. Maxx,
> we've got to come up with a new name." "How about T.K. Maxx?" "Brilliant,
> they'll understand that!" ????
Hmm. They could have went one better and called it T.J. Hooker.
Scott A
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> Psi
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| (...) Almost definitely not as Peter Jones is just one single department store that got subsumed into the John Lewis Partnership, everywhere else (except other local stores that kept their names like Trewins in Watford and Robert Sayle in Cambridge) (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.uk)
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