Woolworths??

[maxmix]

Thats Zavvi, Whittard of Chelsea and struggling British menswear retailer The Officers Club also fallen into administration.

I have put a seperate post up with the details....

I hope you have no gift vouchers for Zavvi.... They are now worthless !

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maxmix

[numberplease]

Not for Zavvi, but I bought my grandson a voucher for Officers Club for Christmas, hope there`s something left when they re-open after Christmas!

[Annie]

For goodness sake! I was home for the MokFest and bought a hoora loada things in the Woolies! Was just happy to have a Woolies big bag to look at for a while. Sweeties, Chocolate, postcards, coupla cds, pair o' socks, and so forth! Darn shame it is! Sorry to all the employees tae! That's got to smart! (My aunty being one of them!)

Well, they should have kept the big doors down at the end opened. Even people waiting for the bus would walk through the shop and at least buy a drink or a sweetie or something!

Then there is all the "really cheap" shops that recently moved into town and sells crap that breaks after you use it a few times! Don't get me started! (And you say the Woolies building looks like crap! HA!)

Darn shame I say!

[Kevin Mc]

I suppose the Woolies building does look poo, though I will still be sad to see it go if they flattened it. It's always been part of Campbeltown for me. Woolies in Campbeltown and my home town are both in very prominent positions within the towns, so they're going to look terrible empty

[jdcarra]

I suppose the Woolies building does look poo, though I will still be sad to see it go if they flattened it. It's always been part of Campbeltown for me. Woolies in Campbeltown and my home town are both in very prominent positions within the towns, so they're going to look terrible empty

I must agree with everything you have said Kevin.

It was a sad sight yesterday afternoon passing the place and it in darkness.Question now is what will happen to the building?

[giantredwood]

Iceland has bought 51 Woolies stores, unfortunately Campbeltown is'nt one of them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7820981.stm

[maxmix]

It's going to be a bad building to sell.... (The Asians that own it will not let it go very cheap)

Especially with 3 floors x 3 lote of Rates.... (No relief for a building that size)

I know the 1st floor and 2nd are not at the full rateable value.... But still a bad bill at the end of the month....

Somebody that needs 3 floors is not going to be easy to get

maxmix

[Ship called Dignity]

It's rather sad seeing Woolworths lying empty. Although I don't like the building and it certainly doesn't fit in with surrounding buildings I would rather see it occupied that flattened for a car park as suggested in the letters page of the Courier last week.

Fingers crossed it will appeal to one of the big stores - perhaps Lidl's or the likes... I am sure the Campbeltown branch of Woolworths was very profitable so that can be looked at as a positive for any potential investor.

Here's hoping anyway - a number of shops are looking better with the CARs scheme etc going on but it is rather depressing sitting at the Cross looking at a closed Royal Hotel and Woolworths....

Especially with 3 floors x 3 lote of Rates....

PS - Maxmix - it is one lot of rates.

[maxmix]

PS - Maxmix - it is one lot of rates.

Ah... OK I presumed it was 100% on ground floor 50% on 1st and a percentage on 2nd.....

maxmix

[Kevin Mc]

My home town's Woolies store has been bought out by a chain of Northern shops. Not sure who though. The better half was speaking to a friend who worked at Woolies and she is being interviewed by the new owners today. Apparently the shop-fitters were already in. Whoever this is, their current Southern-most store is Nottingam/shire, so they've gone another county down.

I'm very pleased that one of the most prominent sites in Hinckley isn't going to be boarded up indefinately.

I hope the Campbeltown store has a positive future too. Does anyone know if the store was profitable? It was a fairly small Woolies, but it was never quiet when I've been in. I guess stores like Iceland are cherry picking, taking the best sites. Hopefully the Campbeltown store will start looking attractive out of the stores that are left.

[Ship called Dignity]

PS - Maxmix - it is one lot of rates.

Ah... OK I presumed it was 100% on ground floor 50% on 1st and a percentage on 2nd.....

maxmix

There you go, you are probably correct in your presumption - rather clever chap.

Kevin - I would imagine the one in Campbeltown did well. As you say, was never quiet.

I hope the town gets a new occupier soon - as long as it isn't Tescos.

Feel sad for the people who lost their jobs too and there must be alot of memories from the last 40 odd years - most people know a friend or relation who worked there over the years.

[Govangirl]

Iceland has bought 51 Woolies stores, unfortunately Campbeltown is'nt one of them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7820981.stm

It looks like only one of them is in Scotland? Out of the four Woolies we have here, they've taken Broadstairs only which is the only town they're not in yet!
What worries me is that with another 51 stores there's bound to be more Kerry Catona adverts!

Perhaps cheaper supermarkets like Lidl will move into the empty High Street stores? How would that go down in Campbeltown? Would it be welcomed and more importantly, used?

[Kevin Mc]

Perhaps cheaper supermarkets like Lidl will move into the empty High Street stores? How would that go down in Campbeltown? Would it be welcomed and more importantly, used?

We have an Aldi and a Lidl - not used Lidl for a while, but the Aldi is very good. A lot of the brands are European, but the quality is good. Any of those or Netto would be good for competition in the town.

[Ship called Dignity]

I suppose the thing is it will be hard on some of the local traders regardless who comes in. They are going to affect someone. Woolies was there that long it was just part of the town and the traders. It couldn't have always been like this - what was it like when Woolies first opened? It must have put a few local traders up in arms? Can anyone remember?

[bill]

I suppose the thing is it will be hard on some of the local traders regardless who comes in. They are going to affect someone. Woolies was there that long it was just part of the town and the traders. It couldn't have always been like this - what was it like when Woolies first opened? It must have put a few local traders up in arms? Can anyone remember?

Exactly Davie,a point I was wondering that no one had made up to now.

I can well remember the town without Woolies, and ofcourse it must have been the death knell for a few local shops at the time,or at the very least cut well into their profits.