Roads collapse, stores collapse, financial markets collapse, egos collapse.
Ignoring the fact we've just seen a surge of high street names go bust, nearly 4,000 stores collapse last year and empty shop levels reach a record high, Vince kept a straight face and said: "I am not sure I would describe it as a crisis".
When other stores collapsed, these retailers stayed strong.
High waters enveloped wharves, and neighboring stores collapsed or were washed away, with rice and cotton falling into the water.
The department store collapsed into administration just 13 months later, and the staff now face losing their jobs and pension cuts.
When Woolworths the store collapsed last Christmas, parents were left lamenting the loss of one of the mainstays of the British high street.
The roof of a Toys 'R' Us store collapsed this morning under the weight of snow and heavy rain, injuring nine people, apparently none seriously.
In the St . Louissuburb of Fairview Heights, Ill., a 54-year-old man was killed when the roof of a clothing store collapsed on him, the police said.
Meanwhile, sections of a concrete roof at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where America's main supplies of highly enriched uranium are stored, collapsed in March into an assembly area.
A five-story department store collapsed in a heap of rubble, causing a fire in an underground parking garage where cars crushed by falling debris leaked gasoline, which ignited and sent acrid smoke billowing through the complex; more than 500 shoppers were killed, and 400 were missing amid tons of concrete and metal debris.
The Comet ruling is embarrassing for Deloitte, as it was previously involved in the administration of Woolworths, where the government had to pay out £67m in compensation to 24,000 workers who were made redundant when the high-street store collapsed in 2008.
