Woolies - closing down sale tomorrow (11/12/08)

Jane_Cane

carlislelass wrote: »

ours closes tonight, they were still bringing stuff over from another Leics town today. got £7 worth of charity xmas cards for £1.90p

Did you put £5.10 in the staff collection box, you know, being charity and all...

pingu

sweep9 wrote: »

AFAIK, Woolies close down has been enough to make money but not enough to continue it's business. In this case, the staff would normally be paid contracted and not statutory redundancy.

wonder why i filled the form RP1 yesterday then

maccaandclaire

All staff have to fill in RP1 forms, also people saying about entertainment CD's/DVD's, we had a lot of new stock in that come in from a different supplier and they sent them in at the RRP price, so yes your better off waiting till the last day, you might not get a bargin even then!!

DougFlo

Jane_Cane wrote: »

Did you put £5.10 in the staff collection box, you know, being charity and all...

It did cross my mind about what happens to the donations to charity from the sales of these kind of items, not just from Woolworths but other stores too.

pennyprisoner

Popped into my local Woolies (Walthamstow) at around 12 noon today and found that it was it's last day. They had a 'fill a bin bag for £5' offer going on. That didn't include CDs, DVDs, books etc but all the other bits and pieces left on the non-electrical section shelves. So mainly stationary, few toys and what was left of the homeware section.

I didn't go for that offer as most of the stuff left was broken or had missing pieces, but I would have done if I had got there earlier. Instead I got some CDs and a PC game at 70% off, and quite a few batteries at 80% off.

And finally....I let the kids fill a small cup of pix and mix each as that was 70% off (costing 59p) for old times sake (some of the sweets were a bit hard though!!!). Oh well, end of an era.

Thrifty_Ruby

Hi all,

Herne Bay Woolies Closed today.......Got 4 bags of school uniform for £1 a bag! ( worth over £300)
36 HSM Advent callenders for 50p the lot!
3 Ladies scarf & glove sets £1 each
35 packs of kids sticker (rrp £1.19) £1 the lot
10 bottles of Gatorade for 50p the lot
Several CD's (total £50+) for £7
PS2 Tiger Woods £2.99
4 x Crayola artist paper £1 the lot
6 x 10 pairs of girls knickers £1 the lot
Loads of other bits & bobs.............Spent £28 all
told............Worth Almost £600:eek: :eek: :eek:
Felt really sad for some of the staff..........others were like old dragons even on the last day with only an hour to go!
RIP WOOLWORTHS!

JesaRose

Ours closed today and I got a few little bargains but there was hardly anything at all left:

Take That concert DVD £3.19
Austin Powers DVD 99p
Amy Winehouse DVD about £3

mazza245

Didn't realise there was a thread about Woolies here and I posted my problem on another forum. I bought several CD's on Christmas Eve and only discovered a couple of days ago that a Bob Dylan one costing £5.98 hadn't got the CD in the case! My own stupid fault for not checking. It would be the dearest one, not one of the cheap ones, wouldn't it?

I have looked at the list of stores closing and I will have to make myself go out tomorrow (got flu and feel dreadful), but I am a bit worried that they will believe that there wasn't a CD inside. After all, it's only my word for it. Also, will there be anything left to buy for £5.98? It's just bits and pieces and toys and we have no small children to buy for!!!

johnswife

My local closed tonight, I still can't quite believe it.

Popped in and everything was 80% off including cd's and dvd's.

Got Andrew Lloyd Webber 60 and I am watching now Take That DVD.

It was very chaotic in there but everyone behaving themselves.

I went in at 2pm but it closed at 6pm.

appleblossom

went into bicester today (they don't close til 5th), got dd loads of HSM dresses and bratz clothes all 70% off, some dvds and xxbox games but these were only 50% off, and after reading about the pick and mix on here, hubbt filled 2 big paper bags only to be charged £8.90 for them!! - he was not impressed!!!