Woolworths half price sale 5th Dec

mookie

kestel wrote: »

My son works there and I am totally fed up with the post that are hoping for the stores to close down so they can get a bargain. Norrow minded and uncaring.

Nobody has said they are hoping woolies closes down!

This Sale is going to put money in their tills, any prospective buyer will be looking at the figures that Woolworths can bring in. So if the store can be saved its the people spending now that matter.

Dicatflip

kestel wrote: »

My son works there and I am totally fed up with the post that are hoping for the stores to close down so they can get a bargain. Norrow minded and uncaring.

I don't think anyone WANTS any shop to close down, do they?
Unless they have a personal grudge of course.
It's very narrow minded, I agree, but it's not just Woolworths. It's the retail sector full stop, and in actual fact, the Woolworths local to me have been on the edge for a very long time. They have been kicked out of the market by online trading imo. It was going to happen sooner or later.

Dicatflip

mookie wrote: »

Nobody has said they are hoping woolies closes down!

This Sale is going to put money in their tills, any prospective buyer will be looking at the figures that Woolworths can bring in. So if the store can be saved its the people spending now that matter.

Exactly. If the "vultures" stayed away the stores would have no chance at all. The "normal" shoppers are obviously not shopping there because if they were, they wouldn't be in this predicament would they? If the vultures stayed away the shop woudl close as a certainty.

mymatebob

Dicatflip wrote: »

If you are a till operator at woolies, does that mean it's your vocation and you have to continue down that path?
erm, no it doesn't.
my mum was a till operator at woolworths over 45 years ago, she left there about 40 years ago - retrained and became a primary school teacher, and in turn head teacher. sarcasm isn't very good. stebiz made a good point. there are jobs out there for people that want them. not necessarily what you are used to doing, but there are jobs there.

My point about self employment was in regard to stebiz's comment "If not go self employed"
You don't necessarily go from working as a shop assistant to becoming self employed overnight.

And if there are all those jobs out there why is unemployment at 1.82 million people?
The highest it has been for over 10 years.

Sarcasm is very good, I love it, even although none of the above post is sarcastic in any way

squidge60

isnt this meant to be a grabbit board for bargains !!!!!! !:mad:

Dicatflip

mymatebob wrote: »

My point about self employment was in regard to stebiz's comment "If not go self employed"
You don't necessarily go from working as a shop assistant to becoming self employed overnight. nobody said they did. hard work and determination is required.

And if there are all those jobs out there why is unemployment at 1.82 million people? The highest it has been for over 10 years. May I suggest you have a wander down your local labour exchange? The jobs are there for the people who WANT to work. However, there is a massive element of society who prefer to claim benefits whilst dipping their toes in the employment market too. People claim they "can't afford to work". Pathetic. Pride should make people WANT to work.

Sarcasm is very good, I love it, even although none of the above post is sarcastic in any way

None of your post was based on sarcasm? self employed till operators?

waptext

i just bought a toaster it was £9.99 reduced to £8.99 then i got 20% off made it £7.19 its a nice toaster i'm chuffed , they did have worth it ones for £6.00 = £4.80 but i think worth it aint worth it and the little extra for a woolies brand is worth it

mattersdorff

really people, haven't we had enough of the talk about the staff at Woolworth. I'm sure everyone, minus heartless *****, feel sorry for them but this is not the forum to enter 100 posts about it. Can we please get back to discussing what is supposed to be being discussed - bargains!

And having popped down to my local Woolies this morning, I was utterly disgusted to see that virtually nothing was 50% off - except for a whole lot of crap.

Ok, to be honest, I didn't have a look at all the toys cause I'm not a parent so perhaps there's loads of 50% off that stuff but I didn't notice much.

Even the Christmas trees and stuff was a maximum 30% off so you'd be better off buying most of the things via normal sales elsewhere where it's normally even cheaper.

For example, their 3ft fibre optic christmas tree was £20 down to £15 then take the 30% off and it's still over £10 and Argos and B&Q both sell similar/better trees for less than £10.

A bounty chocolate bar costs 51p at Woolies and costs 40 or 41p at Tesco and Sainsburies....take off their AMAZING 10% and they're still more expensive than non-sale items almost EVERYWHERE else. Even the struggling local corner store sells them for 40-45p.

Woolies has always been a rip off, selling absolute junk at prices almost always higher that the supermarkets (including electricals, music, dvds etc which the supermarkets now all sell too)... and they're stuff really is JUNK.

I bought an in-car power charger from them last year and it overheated and blew up during a recent road trip.

This is an complete and disgusting marketing gimick and even though it would obviously do no good at all, the gigantic and flouro yellow 'EVERTHING 50% OFF' plastered over every inch of the store with 'up to' in tiny print at the bottom.... really should be reported to ofcom or whoever looks at FALSE ADVERTISING.

I know Woolies are going under and need to try any trick in the book but they're wasting the majority of people's time with these dishonest desperate graps trying to lure people to shop there.

Just because a company is going under, doesn't give them the right to use deplorable gimmicks like this.

Still, maybe it's just my local store.

I know some of you will obviously disagree with what I'm saying and point out everyone can make up their minds as to whether the deals are good at not but I know for a fact that SOOOOOO many people get lured in by these so-called incredible store-wide sales and buy stuff that's probably cheaper elsewhere.

Most of the time, the stuff that's got the highest discount ie 50% is the worst of the crap you could possibly buy... they're on sale in the first place because NO ONE BUYS THEM... or worse yet, they've got serious flaws with the way they're manufactured.

If you ever get into doing some decent research about LCDs and PLASMAS, the TVS that end up with all the horror stories are always the ones with the biggest discounts out in the marketplace.

It's not rocket science, it's crap.

But uninformed people end up buying them thinking they've stumbled across some incredible bargain.... they take the TV home, it breaks down in the same way as hundreds of other people before them have foretold in the forums (many of those paying full price) and so they return the TV, a new one gets sent out and that also develops a fault, but maybe this time the fault occurs after the warranty expires and the owner says, 'to hell with it, this time I'll buy a good tv' and perhaps they do the necessary research and simply buy stock based on 'superceded model discount' instead of 'this is on sale because it's a piece of crap but we can't simply throw away millions of TVs, better to offload them onto unsuspecting people for heavily discounted price'.... which of course still makes them huge profits.

And people wonder why Woolies is going down the toilet.

kerrydrobertson

people are going into the store and spending money when they wouldnt have in the first place if they werent having a 'sale' so it benefits woolies and the staff 100%. so i dont see how anything on this thread is bad. i really wish woolies wasnt closing down as i have shopped there all my life, its quite sad :-(

Dicatflip

squidge60 wrote: »

isnt this meant to be a grabbit board for bargains !!!!!! !:mad:

apparently it's a "vulture" board. read up. :mad: :rolleyes: