We should of seen it coming. About a year ago I wrote a post about WH Smiths and their obsession with turning their stores into some second rate Tesco's (if there can be such a thing!)At the time they had put in their new sky high racking system which made every shop look like Hampton Court Maze. Since then its been a regular occurrence that search parties have to be sent out to rescue confused old age pensioners who find themselves stranded between biographies and fashion stationery (??). Then they decided that every customer might just want a half price Terry's Chocolate Orange. That got worse when you suddenly bumped into a stack of Jaffa cakes in the middle of the store. Well now they have capped the lot. Wandering around the Oxford Street branch before going to see the Reduced Shakespeare Company's Dickens Unplugged (highly recommended)I was accosted by a bloke from N Power asking me who supplied my electricity:??::??: Has it escaped the notice of our politicians the world is hurtling into recession at the same time as the owners of a once proud British institution have gone completely barking. WH Smiths is about papers, magazines, books and pads of lined paper not people trying to sell me electricity or sales assistants offering half price chocolates. Now if someone had stopped them buying that job lot of Jaffa Cakes the credit crunch could have been avoided :yes: