Fruit Machine Chat

£1 billion in debt and getting staff to clean the toilets !!!


A BOOKIES run by a disgraced credit crisis banking boss is telling shop managers to clean the toilets to save cash.
CORAL chief Andy Hornby — the former head of HALIFAX — is axing more than 600 cleaners from the bookmaker’s chain of high street shops.


Shop staff have been told they will have to do jobs such as hoovering the carpets and cleaning the loos as part of the shake-up.
A letter was sent out to stunned workers by Richard Lang, Gala Coral’s operations director, last week. He said: “As part of the proposals to change the way we do our business we are including the cleaning role in shop colleague duties.”
Coral is one of the few high street chains that still employs cleaners rather than outsourcing the work.
But staff are furious, claiming it’s more cost-cutting. One said: “I can’t believe they’re getting rid of cleaners. Many have been there ages. And how can they expect managers to run the shop and clean the loos?
“They’re already run into the ground as it is.”
Gala Coral is more than £1billion in debt. Earlier this summer it struck a deal to sell its Grosvenor Casinos arm to Mecca Bingo-owner RANK. And there is growing speculation that Gala will sell its Gala Bingo halls to German group GAUSELMANN.
Coral runs 1,650 bookies nationwide. In a statement, it said: “Coral is undertaking a review of retail business and a number of employees are affected.”
Hornby was the boss of HALIFAX BANK OF SCOTLAND which collapsed at the height of the credit crisis four years ago.

must be soooo hard making ends meet with only 4 fobts per shop

lol good hate the cunts . corals machines were always the worst

used to be a time where there would be a queue to play the machines in corals, 3 deep at least, now they are empty most of the day, yet odd drips of punters losing a couple hundred to a few k seems to be the norm locally.

Part from the chinese they seem to of switched most of the regualers to slot games where the margins are much.

Dept laden to the tune of 1000million sounds bad but the aquisition of the gala/rank group ment they took on a lot of debt, while its servicable its not a problem, drop in machine players and they have no core to the business left, thats why they are in the shit?

how many pro punters that are barred from all online betting accounts. have to walk around 30 shops a day to get there bets on ? i know 1 guy. and he cant get even get what he wants on most days

ironically local shop who I know a couple of the staff... the cleaner is getting the boot, but they are getting her to apply for a job there, she will then just do the cleaning as well as working behind the till.

The shop is dead in the evenings anyway, the staff just load up the machine on demo play and sit on them for a few hours.

maverick69 wrote:how many pro punters that are barred from all online betting accounts. have to walk around 30 shops a day to get there bets on ? i know 1 guy. and he cant get even get what he wants on most days

well its really how you go about it, most shops you can have £199 on, at £200 then if you are monitored it goes PTL.

if your x rated then yeah your only going to be allowed £10 on or whateer since they will not stand a good chance of getting it back.

I might be being thick here, but if you are a pro punter on the gee gees how do you actually get banned from Betfair, snce they don't care who wins or how much?

Ya don't get banned from betfair it's all the others ya do

QuizMaster wrote:I might be being thick here, but if you are a pro punter on the gee gees how do you actually get banned from Betfair, snce they don't care who wins or how much?

generally if your betting about the fancied runners there is often better prices to be had about fixed odds, plus any offers the bookie runs over the official result you get on betfair.

On weak markets like greyhounds where the exchange liquidty is low there just ain't enough volume for serious bets.

One of the biggest edges can be in the place part of a eachway bet, you can't get that on betfair you get 2 seperate markets.

Football coupons where the price changes yet the bookie stands the coupon price.

Theres loads more situations that beats exchange betting.

Not to forget to bet on betfair you have to use the banking system.... most money gambled in bookies and casinos is not legit either by tax or source.

Bookies don't stand coupons when prices change I can assure you that. Unless you want a tenner on or summat

betchrider wrote:Bookies don't stand coupons when prices change I can assure you that. Unless you want a tenner on or summat

corals do £10, ladbrokes did do £25... just multiply by number of shops

local shop here is now doing treble odds one winner

L15 100%
L31 150%
L63 200%

BOG

plus they do 10% back on machine play losses

footy 5 fold, one lets you down = stake back

you will struggle to get that apart from a few places online

Premium charge, Giorgio !!!!!

Figured it was about prices on the nags and lack of liquidity on the dogs. Not sure about football though - Betfair consistently higher on match odds markets and don't think there are gangs of high rollers around trying to do accas in Laddies.