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Next, please

THIS WEEK: Next, Quality Street 'The Purple One' chocolate

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lucy sweet
Oct 27, 2025
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THING: Next

Next is the ultimate mid-priced, mid-everything high street retail experience - selling sparkly tops for nights out at Ask Italian, boring outfits for work, and bizarre homewares for new builds with undiscovered structural issues.

This long-running emporium of ho-hum hokum feels like the result of a focus group containing three women called …

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