![]() In fact, your biggest choices will probably revolve around whether to attack your enemies rambo-style, or stealthily, under the cover of darkness. Metro: Last Light is linear and you don't have much freedom to explore. You'll have 3 weapons to start with, and, as the game progresses, you can build on this arsenal by exchanging ammunition, which serves as the game's currency. The action is interspersed with dialogue that provides you with more information. In Metro: Last Light, you'll play Artyom. The storyline is loosely based on the novel Metro 1033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky.\n Metro Bank plans to open 1 new site a month and already has sites lined up for Newbury, Maidstone, King's Road in Chelsea, Bexleyheath, Wimbledon, Chelmsford, Clapham Junction, Canonbury, and Oxford.The Metro: Last Light world is beset with mutants and a new race of telepathic humanoids, and it is among them that you must fight. It focuses on what Hill terms "Greater London" - a loose geography that stretches as far as Brighton, Reading, Cambridge, and South End. Hill co-founded Metro Bank in 2010, the first new High Street lender in Britain in 100 years. Hill says: "You would never build a suburban commercial bank in America without a drive-through, but it's never really taken hold in Britain." The Southall site is the second Metro Bank branch in Britain with a drive-through window, after its Slough branch. You get a high percentage of your daily transactions through the drive-in." "You can do everything but open an account. "We're the only bank in Britain that has a drive through," Hill says. The latest store, in Southall, has perhaps the most unusual features of a Metro Bank - a drive-through window. You get a completely different experience to any other British banks." "Our stores are 7 days a week, we've got free coin counting, we welcome your dogs, we've got safety deposit boxes where the other banks have shut them down and you can open an account in 10 minutes. "Shoppers, whether they're buying shoes or banks, they look at shopping partly as an entertainment experience. "I want it to be friendly, I want it to be fun, we want them to say 'Wow' when they walk in the store," Hill says. Metro Banks are bright, with big windows, and each one has a "Magic Money Machine", which converts loose change into notes. The store is not only a location to do business but an expression of our brand." "Some have written that this is almost like the Apple view of building stores and I would say there's some truth in that. Hill says: "We're so fanatic about the look that we often in Britain rent the ground floor and the first floor and physically jack hammer the first floor out because we've learned over the years that high-ceilings matter. Once he's set upon a site though, the are certain key touches that make it recognizably a Metro Bank. He says it's hard to say exactly goes into deciding on a new site: "When you're choosing these sites it's probably a quarter science and math, 75% gut." ![]() In America, I personally approved 500 plus sites and in Britain I personally visit and approve each site." Because of that, in Britain and America we've got to have the best store on the best corner in the best site. "We always saw ourselves as a retailer that happens to be a bank. He told BI: "Metro Bank is based on my experience in America with Commerce Bank, which started with 1 location and grew to approximately 500. What Hill is best known for in the US though is Commerce Bank, which he founded back in 1973. I still have that business in America and we've done many, many sites for many, many chain stores." "I probably did a couple of hundred businesses for them. He says: "When I got out of college my first business was developing new store sites for chains and McDonalds was my first client. Hill's attention to detail when it comes to location is unsurprising given his background. If they would show me 10, I might approve 4 out of those 10 and maybe 2 out of those 4 would actually get built." Hill told Business Insider: "We have an in-house team that go out and find sites and filter the ones that I should see. Metro Bank chairman Vernon Hill with staff.īritish challenger bank Metro Bank is opening its 38th "store" in Southall this weekend - and the exact site of every single one has been hand-selected by founder and chairman Vernon Hill. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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