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Yes no need to panic I’m happy with my entry point here and William hill for the long term not a day traders share, so slow ish moves here and there and only a small punt

Well my finger was hoovering today above the buy button at 450 I must admit but looking at the charts ( I’m no chartist by the way and this is just an observation) since may the 1st it’s bounced off £4 twice so I’m under the impression it will go close once more then climb again to resume it’s higher highs higher lows sequence .
A sniff of the teens I’d have to say I’d buy back in,
( also overstated my profit by £100 the other day So if I can get back in at 410-415 area I will have boosted my shares by 20 ish to 195 after starting with 133 and two flips so 50% gain in shares for free.. but the teens need to be reach for that reality to come true let’s see what arises next week)

A little top up of £237 today as the tie up with John Lewis and next can only be positives going forward , so I think. 14p ish is now break even

Nothing much will happen until the trading update on June 26th, then we can get a better handle of costs V sales . May , just may see this edge towards £2.50 if the results are good. If not in the 220s doldrums we shall stay.

Come on boo hoo splash the cash baby ,

Bought myself a little £400 here too today , hoping this gets back to pre covid levels I’d like to say there’s 30% still to come here

Bought a little£400of shares. At 150 today . Shame it wasn’t when they was below a £1 . See if I can win on the shares instead of the horses and football!

Blooming needs to be a good one to get this tank moving great day on the markets great week in fact and zzzzzzzzz nothing , very disappointing indeed. 10 more months and I’m out and off to John Lewis . To take advantage of their hotels around the country and free golf on their courses ones about 18 miles from me

Timed that well didn’t I . Ah well when it did nothing yesterday I think the writing was on the wall plus the good job numbers today Ka-booming off she goes . Ah well a profit is a profit so I split the £800 between playtech and William hill today. I shall watch on with envy.

Always good to see a recommendation upgraded to buy, I’m heavy on Tesco and fancied diversifying a small chunk into here at £1.80 let alone A £1! Yes both companies have pros a cons but if marks can get back to £1.60 that’s 60% upside and with there food going out in Ocado in September that should give them a boost , just a matter of the big department stores and online offerings which they need to Get better At. Worth a couple of grand punt I’d say , should they start to pay out a dividend again in the future at even half of what they paid before that will be a decent yeild

Well i sold yesterday at 475, so now I’ve bought 337 sold 460 ,bought back 360 sold 475 , so £400 is now worth £810 less the £50 charges .
Yes this share is up and down like a yo yo , but it seems to be going highe lows and higher highs gradually, ill look to hopefully buy back 420 which will gain me 17ish shares so I’d gain another 15% on my original share holding of 133 , we shall see , of course the damn thing could sky rocket to £10 but for now I’ll try that one last flip

I missed out the fact we now get £9 an hour. so for all these Great pay rises in the last three years we have only gained 18 poultry p on the minimum wage we would’ve been better off not having a pay rise and having a minimum wage.
The saying goes if you look after the pennies pennies look after the pounds.
Are used to love working for Tescos I really enjoyed my job but in the last 12 years I’ve been push pillar to post Demoted and Struggled to pay my mortgage As a result and they want me to step up to the mark and do overtime et cetera I think not. Next year I will have my day.

Spoken like a true manager greased by the levers from the top.
Like I’ve said in the past I was on £7:60 3years ago on the tills when the minimum wage was £7:50 I had double time and a bonus and a canteen. Now the minimum wage is £8:72 double time is time and a Quarter no bonus no canteen, , our dot com drivers which I was one before I was forced out had their market supplement of £25 a week taken away plus the bonus plus the time and a half on Sunday’s meant they got a 1p pay rise over two years when all costs are going up and Everything is shrinking, but hey Tescos have found Nearly £1 billion again to pay shareholders and institutional investors . To me it’s stealing from the poor to give to the rich .
Also in two years I’ve worked nights apart from the first week our store manager joined us I’ve NEVER seen him since unless I’m shopping in the day and he’s always on his phone stood in the middle aisle ( I take it back I did actually see him fill shelves in the mass panic buying spree apart from that nowt even the previous store manager that finished in the bottom 20 of the what matters to you staff survey in the company! Showed his face twice a week over the course of the year ) so their you see why there is such chasm between managers and GA’s
When covid 19 moves on and jobs become available again why work at Tesco for £9 when you can work at Waitrose for £10 , why deliver dot com for £10 an hour say when UPS pays £11 :50 down the road the job churn is going to be massive.

Cor I lowered my profit call to 470 earlier this week and god love this share it was 6p short! Could of been a nice flip today , must remember to take that off as I forgot with cine world at 70p and up it went to 104ish two days later grrr I was trying to flip that too. Never mind a pokey profit nevertheless even if it was £30!, I slung it all in AA at 25p see how that fares ( A ton of debt mind AA )

Ah yes the urban fulfilment centres : they will be using starship robot technologie group but as I understand not 100 % picked by robots and the goods come to a picker anyway x Along way off from Ocado’s zoom warehouse in acton west London which will deliver your shopping within 60 minutes of your order being placed as long as you live within 5 k. Of the store “ now that’s service!”
Also talking to someone that works for Waitrose there store in salisbury is now picking 2,000 orders a week , so when Marks and Sparks fill their boots that’s another competitor out there and co op also now getting in on the action.
Rosewall, As a manager (store manager?) how do feel about pocketing a bonus now that anyone below a manger in store doesn’t get one?
Also the new CEO of Waitrose Sharon white is now putting back staff as number one priority which from what I hear has lifted staff morale .
And us Drastic Dave cut cut cut and pay the bare minimum the brainless kids may think it’s great but in reality when we tell them how it was they suddenly don’t feel chirpy anymore and as I’ve said before barely any of the old school do overtime anymore unless they want it for a day in lieu,

Apparently Tesco makes £6 on £100 spent on dot com where as it £3 -4 profit for £100 spent in store , well that’s what they tell us I still reckon it’s loss maker, However with Ocado a robot picks a 100 item shop in 10 minutes for the price of electricity( I know someone needs to maintain them but no holiday to pay or pension etc on the robots) anyhow it takes about 45 minutes for someone to pick that same 100 items in store at a cost of approximately say £5 , so we have at a peak 570 orders going out of dot com at a max 80 items per shop so for arguments sake average £3.50 cost to pick per order as not everyone one will want 80 items so that’s close to £2,000 a day to pick plus employers tax , pension it’s probably £2,500 or nearly 18k a week wages . What do the robots cost, or to maintain I’d say Ocado is the only one that makes a profit, they’ve also increased sales 33% year on year so M&S should do well on the food side going forward..
Share price wise, well look at the other shares rocketing upwards now while this dog barely moves. Yup money’s safe here, but if you want a better return there’s value still out there and good yields to be found when re introduced.

I have to say that’s a game changer. Well done to those that held and indeed anyone that bought in the teens! I’ll have to say these are a buy on any dips from here from here On in .

Question. Now when they potentially pay out this 50p special dividend is that taxed? As I’d get roughly £9,000.
I ask only that Because if I sold say half my shares I wouldn’t get capital gains tax and subsequently would only get £4,500 that could be taxed

I see one of the boo hoo founders bought £1 million of shares at 18p now there’s a good flipping return! Watched from 70s area and see it trickling up
Short term hold or long term for holders tough call could be done and dusted in a year or go on and on and on

Still a chance here to get in Well below the ipo price but with motorists down and social distancing required in stores you can see why they’ve had a hit to the SP
One I’ve watched from day one, but not invested here