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I've traded and followed this company for many years and I'm certainly considering buying in again around 3.30. I have reservations about the use of clothing space to make way for more food-seems a great idea, however: will the food buyers buy more food, just because there is more on offer? It's such a bi-polar business- hence the recent demise in share price. I would like to see some great café's in their spaces, as folks seem to love spending on coffee and cakes-they need to be high quality though as the mands caffes can be a bit old peoples home( sorry to old people!) I do like the collaboration with BP service stations-great move! Great divi- will it hold if Steve has to plough loads of cash into revamping stores?

God help us if the knicker elastic has snapped again!

What makes investing so interesting is that nobody knows the future and just because someone doesn't share your views shouldn't mean that they are a "numpty". Don't forget that only three or so years ago Sbry was trading at £4 per share. With the market at an all time high and political risks abounding and not forgetting the intense competition in this sector, there is every possibility of a slide in the share price.

I do wish Amazon would take out this once great retailer as I struggle to see how it can make much headway through the forthcoming winds. In the meantime Santa's sleigh may take us up to 2.70 or 80 only for it to fall off the back and crash back down to earth!

Has got to be a good bet in the medium term at these levels! Anyone concerned about a Dow correction though?

Poor old MKS....only managing to make about half a billion quid a year in profits! I suppose the management must be doing quite a few things right and nobody will be concentrating their thoughts on getting the knickers to go back up than they are. We have to trust them to do their best in what are difficult times for retailers. Looking at the company from an investors stand point, it's has often been 'the same old story' - the knickers come down, the doom-mongers start to make us all think that the company is on the rocks and the share price falls with the fear, then they buy them in the sales. If you take the last 15 years say, the share price averages £3.50 to £4( rough estimate) with some burst to £5 or £6. They may fall to £2.50 ish- who knows but when you consider the dividend yield of 5 0r 6% it may well be worth tucking a few of these knickers in the draw to bring out on a sunny day.

I was talking a the friend of a person who works at a Shell petrol station, who over-heard a conversation that someone thinks the price of oil could drop below 1 cent. But that might still not be the bottom! And it could even get to the stage that customers will get cash back for coming and relieving the company of it's excess petrol and diesel. Most private investors won't buy this share till it gets back to £20 and when it does they'll be telling there friends in the pub how much money they could have made, had they only had the bottle to buy it at £13 or £14.

IMHO I think we do still have to take the threat of the 'D's seriously, they have dented the profits of our stores and it is a fact that many people have to scrimp and save pennies trying to feed their families. They aren't interested that SBRY products may be of superior quality, as they have no choice. However I'm going to top up my holding at these levels, as I'm sure in time that if company is innovative and efficient and the core customers stay we have good chance of recovery. Only slight worry is the new boss, as he is been fairly invisible to me so far( I did like JK) He certainly has a few sleepless nights coming his way?