Admittedly it was before, during and just after they threw half a billion euros away trying and failing to introduce SAP.

https://www.consultancy.uk/news/18243/lidl-cancels-sap-introduction-having-sunk-500-million-into-it

Wouldn’t mind it. Imagine going to Lidl and walking out with some groceries and a new server and a kayak

Fixed it for you.

Having used some of their, admittedly older, “bespoke warehouse management systems” we’re fucking doomed.

In the theme of above lightroom classic (cracked)

Otherwise not really. You’re looking at digiKam for the library management side and either RawTherapee or Darktable for editing.

Waterstone’s (and now Blackwells as Waterstones bought them) are majority owned by an American investment company with a minority shareholder being a Russian billionaire.

In April 2018, Elliott bought a majority stake in Waterstones, leaving Alexander Mamut’s Lynwood Investments with a minority holding.[80] The sale completed in May 2018. James Daunt will remain as chief executive.[81]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Investment_Management

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Mamut