From: Alex 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: All "Scope" shops to close?
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:02:37 +0000

Troy Steadman wrote:
> Scope used to be "The Spastics Society". My wife works as a volunteer
> in one of their shops and says that *all* their national shops are to
> close - that it was in the newspapers over the weekend.
> 
> Can't find anything on the Internet. If I can buy jeans in Tesco for
> £3, shoes for £12, and everything else I want on Ebay, I can't see us
> rushing out to buy overpriced tat in a Charity Shop.
> 
> Is it true and if so is it a trend?

It was mentioned in Private Eye magazine that they're to focus much more 
on lobbying the Government, as it's more effective than selling stuff in 
  charity shops.