What's In A Name?

How important names are.  Not just to us as individuals but to marketing as well.  When I was a lad, and  long before, one of the most prestigious jewellery shops in Liverpool was Boodle and Dunthorne. Today I see that it has altered its image and has become simply Boodles.  Frankly to me Boodle and Dunthorne oozes quality and a certain 'something' but Boodles is just, well, Boodles and, frankly, could well be anything.  That's probably just me though.  

I do like the little touch whereby the BD is retained intertwined within the first O of Boodles.  The stainless steel superlambanana is rather classy too (insofar as anything quite so whimsical can be called classy).  I think, by the way, that the chap in the photos is the shop's security chap.  The days of the top-hatted doorman are gone.  You can, however, still find morning-coated, top-hatted security people at the Argyle (Jewellery store) Parade in Glasgow.

The Good Food Boutique

We have a delicatessen in Stornoway.  It opened last year and appears to be doing well.  I’m really pleased because it offers an opportunity to get some of the more unusual foods (including cheeses!) that can’t otherwise be obtained without a trip to the mainland although I should add that the Co-op has a huge range of fresh foods which would put some mainland supermarkets to shame.  The real reason I’m posting this though, is that I just love the name!

Happy Feet

I often wonder at the apparently unlimited ideas that people have for names for hairdressers shops. I long ago concluded that there are more such inventive names for hairdressers than any other type of shop. Shoe shops on the other hand do not, as far as I can recall, have a plethora of 'interesting' names. However one shoe shop in Stornoway does have a happy name: