Talk:Selfridges

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Sorry, had to remove non free image. Its on list for someone to take one at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London, so should be one soon. Justinc 20:59, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 London Store 2 Oxford Store 3 Birmingham Selfridges Image 4 Store lIst? 5 Store sizes? 6 Removed "Rumours & Speculation" section

[edit] London Store

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Any chance of someone updating the article with a reference to the recent renovations and the opening of the Wonder Room ? 86.160.195.18 (talk) 16:53, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Oxford Store

There was a Selfridges in Oxford for several years in the 1970s and 80s. If anyone has further information can we correct. I was in the shop on 26 of April. I was looking after silver and Bought a ful box with spoons ect. When I came home, I saw they gave me not the full box, I'm missing 2 spoons. What can I do? I'm living in Belgium.

[edit] Birmingham Selfridges Image

I think the image of the Birmingham Selfridges

used in the Bullring article is better than the image (of the same store) currently used in this article

. Although the Bullring image does not show quite as much of the store, the image currently in this article appears to be focused on the church in front with Selfridges in the background.

What do you guys think? Canderra 09:03, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

To be honest, I think we should have a picture of the original London store as the lead image. Either picture of the Future Systems design in Birmingham is fine as a second image. I quite like Image:IMGP0463.JPG (the current image) for its clash of architectural styles, but I agree it doesn't make it clear which building is the real subject. Image:Bullring_birmingham.jpg is OK for showing the surface detail, however it is rather small, and in many ways Image:Birmingham Selfridges building.jpg used on blobitecture might be better than either. -- Solipsist 11:31, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

The London one is hard to photograph - finding somewhere above street level would help, and there are constant buses in the day, and its very wide. Will have another try sometime, find a good location. Justinc 11:58, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I have placed the "Bullring article image" photo I refer to above in the article for the time being as the other photo (appearing above with caption "the current image") was removed by user:OrphanBot citing lack of copyright status. I agree that an image of the Oxford street front of the world-famous Selfrdiges London store would be best so if you can take a good photograph of this that would be great. I think a day-time photo would be best if you can manage to get one inbettween the constant double-decker buses. Canderra 15:24, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I've added to this talk page a photograph I took of the London Selfridges in 2003, from a passing bus. I don't think it's an especially good picture (particularly in terms of its technical quality), so I'll leave it to others to decide whether it's worth including on the article page and, if so, where. Russ London 19:58, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Store lIst?

Would somebody be able to compile a list of stores for this page? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.29.23.141 (talk) 22:25, 8 April 2007 (UTC).

Well, there's only four, so I put that in the introduction. Asdfasdf1231234 (talk) 13:54, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Store sizes?

What is going on with this paragraph?

Between 1998 and 2003, the store supplemented its 540,000-square-foot (50,000 m²) main store with a 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m²) store at Trafford Centre in Manchester, a 125,000-square-foot (11,600 m²) store in Exchange Square, also in Manchester, and a 160,000-square-foot (10,000 m²) store in the Birmingham Bull Ring shopping complex.

So the Selfridges in Birmingham is 35,000 square foot larger than the Exchange Square store but in feet squared 1,600 smaller? Surely this is an error? Asdfasdf1231234 (talk) 14:06, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removed "Rumours & Speculation" section

I removed the above-named section since it is just composed of rumours, and without any references doesn't seem to me to be worth including. "In the last month" is unhelpful too. Here is the complete text of the removed section, in case anyone can source it:

In the last month, it has been rumoured that a Hong Kong based company intends to launch a bid for Selfridges. While this has yet to have been announced, sources verify that a major player in the wholesale fashion manufacturing scene in Asia is very interested in owning the department store.

Loganberry (Talk) 22:31, 23 April 2008 (UTC)