{"id":1237,"date":"2005-09-28T11:09:50","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T11:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/09\/casio_shops\/"},"modified":"2005-09-28T11:09:50","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T11:09:50","slug":"casio_shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/casio_shops\/","title":{"rendered":"Casio Shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that while other shops are happy to change their window displays every so often, when there&#8217;s a new season or whatever, the Casio shop in Carnaby Street in London seems to completely renovate their premises.<br \/>\nThe shop&#8217;s been closed down for the last three or four weeks &#8211; for good I thought. But no. They re-open at the weekend.<br \/>\nThis comes less than a year after they &#8220;re-branded&#8221; as Casiology, which also involved shutting the shop down and included an expensive advertising campaign at Oxford Circus.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s bigger margins in digital watches than you previously realised obviously. (Incidentally, this is the Casio shop that was unable to change the battery in one of their own watches when I went in once. They insisted I needed to send it away to their head office. The bloke in Piccadilly Circus tube managed it in about five minutes.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that while other shops are happy to change their window displays every so often, when there&#8217;s a new season or whatever, the Casio shop in Carnaby Street in London seems to completely renovate their premises. The shop&#8217;s been closed down for the last three or four weeks &#8211; for good I thought. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}