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Kien Tan
@kientan74.bsky.social
Retail consultant and analyst by day, gym instructor and beer drinker by night.
All about shops, pubs, planes, gyms... and the views are mine, all mine.
Ahhh, my new local… sorry I wasn’t around yesterday!
February 13, 2026 at 8:28 AM
💯 CLASSIC!
February 10, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Graham! 🤭
February 7, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Busted…
“Britain's aviation authority has asked Air India to explain how a Boeing Dreamliner passenger jet which was grounded on arrival in India for safety checks took off from London on Sunday with a possibly faulty fuel switch”
February 5, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Are you looking forward to riding D-ADDY?!
February 4, 2026 at 12:51 PM
(*I suspect HMRC will beg to differ, but one for @alphaville.ft.com to adjudicate, methinks)
February 4, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Reposted by Kien Tan
I think it was @kientan74.bsky.social I saw talking about a "vibes based recession". Things feel recessiony, even if they're actually not, which ends up manifesting an actual recession.
February 4, 2026 at 10:43 AM
It was me. Despite the cost of living crisis, disposable income is rising for the average person on the street. But it doesn’t *feel* like it’s rising, so consumers are saving instead of spending. If 2/3 of the UK economy is driven by consumer spending, that becomes a problem for businesses…
February 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
This.
And as a representative of a big professional services firm with a decent-sized following, the corporate affairs team keep asking me to post stuff for them in LinkedIn (thankfully not on Twitter any more). Most of it is far too cringe, so I conveniently “forget”…
February 3, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Yes it was… I’ve written extensively about it…
www.linkedin.com/posts/kienta...
I don’t think Amazon is serious about running grocery stores…
February 3, 2026 at 12:09 PM
…it would be very “on brand” for Amazon if Whole Foods does not thrive. That end of Islington is already satisfactorily served by Planet Organic, indies and mainstream premium supermarkets…
February 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM