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126 Index shops to Close Down: CLEARANCE???

Look out for yet another Closing Down Sale:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4453681.stm
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  • redfox
    redfox Posts: 15,336 Forumite
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    moving to Shop but don't drop for now (if the clearance sales actually happen then it might be a Grabbit :))
  • withabix
    withabix Posts: 9,508 Forumite
    They're closing ALL OF THEIR SHOPS.

    126 to close, the other 33 to be sold to GUS to be turned into Argos shops.
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  • Roland
    Roland Posts: 62 Forumite
    The shop in the St. John's Centre Leeds closed a couple of weeks ago. I assumed that it was for a refurb.
  • Patr100
    Patr100 Posts: 2,767 Forumite
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    There's one on my local Hight St - Always consdered them a poor man's Argos - Many of the same products but less staff and usually quite untidy shoddy store. But open on Sundays which would be handy unlike my local Argos until recently. As we already have an Argos near as Well - I expect the site will be sold off to someone else.
  • londonman81
    londonman81 Posts: 1,130 Forumite
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    iainkirk wrote:
    Look out for yet another Closing Down Sale:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4453681.stm


    LOL True MSE thinking......Littlewoods announces closures and thousands of people will lose their jobs - so what do we think of first? A CLEARANCE SALE!!

    Lol - rock on!
    "To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant." Amos Bronson Alcott
  • antenna
    antenna Posts: 1,776 Forumite
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    I will be first in the queue..............if my bloody rover will start
    Political?....I dont do Political....well,not much!
  • what are they doing where Index is within a Littlewoods store? I would assume that they just close the department, and reclaim the space for the rest of the store . . . . .
  • While I hope ( and am sure ) some staff may get one or two good bargins .... got a funny feeling most of the mega stuff will be SNAFFLED ( erm I mean reserved ) by people higher up in the INDEX pecking order !
  • lipidicman
    lipidicman Posts: 2,598 Forumite
    Patr100 wrote:
    Always consdered them a poor man's Argos - Many of the same products but less staff and usually quite untidy shoddy store.

    ROTFLMAO! A poor man's Argos? Less staff. Index must have been aiming low (and still missed!)
  • 5MINSALONE
    5MINSALONE Posts: 175 Forumite
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    I thought about clearence sales too when I heard about this last night :D but watch the prices at Argos creep up now they have lost their main competitor :(
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