Woolworths??

[WTC]

It all seems ‘a bit mad’(to quote Father Dougal) that Woolworths have gone into administration due to supermarket competition when their Entertainment UK division wholesales Tesco, Morrisons and W H Smith with the same goods they retail!

Entertainment UK turns over nearly £1.5 billion and can’t make a profit!

Woolworths turnover is almost £3 billion.

They also spent a small fortune on IT in 2007 (see link http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.12117)

Once again, just like in the banking industry, the people at the top are to blame. They lost direction and mismanaged the company. But unlike they banks ‘we’ will not be bailing them out.

So now the vultures (and dragons) are circling .The debt of just under £400 million is a drop in the ocean to Tesco/Asda and would enable them to gain some very prominent high street stores via the ‘back door’. These companies are constantly looking for avenues to increase turnover.

I know Woolworths is not a ‘local’ trader but it has employed local people for many years and with the local traders they have traded side by side and they all have helped sustain a centre in this small isolated town.

Would it be good for the town if we had a ruthless dominant retail outlet on our main street?


If the big boys move in …………… well, they say that’s progress!

[Govangirl]

I've got an idea. Somebody should take over all the Woolies as there is practically one in the centre of every town and start selling things people really need. They could sell stamps, cash folks' giros, sell postal orders, exchange currency and best of all, post parcels. We could call them Post Offices!

Seriously! Do you know how many are disappearing?

[numberplease]

Is the problem just with their stores in Britain, or everywhere?

[kbm]

It's only Woolworths stores in the Uk. There are other Woolworths throughout the world but are different companies. For example there is a Woolworths in Limmassol, Cyprus. In Cyprus at the end of 2003 the Shacolas Group reorganised the Woolworths company by splitting it in two, effectively severing the vestigial ties it had with the British company. In Cyprus the Woolworths is more like a Debenhams type retailer.

[The Hitman]

The Woolworths store in Campbeltown has been going downhill over the past few years in my opinion, if other stores throughout the UK have been suffering the same fate, I would assume that is a contributing factor in it's UK demise.

[numberplease]

Our Woollies in Boston is quite a decent size, a good bit larger than the Campbeltown branch, but in recent years it`s been re-furbed and all the alleys go off the central aisle at a slant, so it`s very difficult to find what you`re looking for without going down every one. I much preferred them in the "olden" days, with proper aisles and an assistant at each counter, you really felt like you were getting service then.

[Mr.Everready]

50% off all stock stuck up in the window this morning. Is this the end ?

*edit, seems it's up to 50%

They'll be taking in plenty cash this morning by the length of the queues.

[numberplease]

My son says the Boston one had queues from one end to the other this morning!

[History]

New manageress went into Woolworth's yesterday.

The only items that I could see today with 50% off were greetings cards. Everything else was 20% or 30% off. The queues were the length of the store this morning. I decided the half hour wait wasn't worth a bargain I didn't need anyway.

One of the bigger department stores in Glasgow have staff dressed up as fairies and if you are picked by them at the till you get your purchases free Someone said that they saw them doing the same in Braehead.

[dollpiggy]

New manageress went into Woolworth's yesterday.

The only items that I could see today with 50% off were greetings cards. Everything else was 20% or 30% off. The queues were the length of the store this morning. I decided the half hour wait wasn't worth a bargain I didn't need anyway.

One of the bigger department stores in Glasgow have staff dressed up as fairies and if you are picked by them at the till you get your purchases free Someone said that they saw them doing the same in Braehead.

I thought the woolies in Braehead closed at the start of the year !!!

[History]

I thought the woolies in Braehead closed at the start of the year !!!

I didn't know there ever was a Woolies in Braehead!! I was talking about Braehead Centre in general and the bigger store with the fairy offering to pay the bill was John Lewis's!!!!

[Verona]

I thought the woolies in Braehead closed at the start of the year !!!

I didn't know there ever was a Woolies in Braehead!! I was talking about Braehead Centre in general and the bigger store with the fairy offering to pay the bill was John Lewis's!!!!

Woolies at Braehead did close a few months ago.

[WC1]

I was talking about Braehead Centre in general and the bigger store with the fairy offering to pay the bill was John Lewis's!!!!

John Lewis is in Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow.

[History]

John Lewis is in Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow.

Where did I say that John Lewis was in Braehead? Braehead is in Renfrew!

If you read my initial post you will see I spoke about Woolworths and then went on to a whole new paragraph and said.......

One of the bigger department stores in Glasgow have staff dressed up as fairies and if you are picked by them at the till you get your purchases free Someone said that they saw them doing the same in Braehead.

You do remember paragraphs wc1

History

[WC1]

I was talking about Braehead Centre in general and the bigger store with the fairy offering to pay the bill was John Lewis's!!!!

Oh yes - I'm very familiar with paragraphs and also with sentences. From the above I think it was fairly natural to infer that the bigger store with the fairy was included in the general reference to the Braehead Centre. I'm happy to stand corrected. Too much history is based on selective quotation anyway.