transport is hard - let's go shopping (was Re: Cufflinks)

[Peter Corlett]

On 6 Dec 2007, at 12:30, Roger Burton West wrote:
[...]
> Considering the markups, I suspect that they can pay the rent on about
> three "big" customers per day.

Rent?

If you're referring to BAA, I would be astonished if they didn't own  
the site outright.

As to the retailers, BAA apparently take a sufficiently-large  
percentage of the turnover that they don't actually make any sort of  
profit from a big-spending customer.