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

Johntea

Santas grotto in Leeds, fill a big bag for a quid, I don't even think most people paid the quid but I insisted they have my £1 !

Posters, cards etc even if I have to trash 95% of the stuff I got I've still easily got a tenners worth (I got some of the % off signs and packs of woolies carriers too!)

They wanted me to take even more but since I am relying on a bus and a train I sadly had to decline! Hope my local store do a similar offer

I'm all woolworthed out now...been to pudsey batley and Leeds all in the same afternoon

deanos

While it is good for you to have a bargain spare a thought for the staff who might not be getting any redundancy.

Personally I cannot buy anything from Woolies as the thought of these staff losing their jobs is terrible and I cannot bear to gain from this.

The word vulture comes to mind in some examples in this thread.....

Dont talk rubbish, if people were not buying goods there would be no money to pay wages.

What should Woolies have done just shut the doors and chuck it all in the skip :rolleyes:

Debt_Free_Chick

Leanne200 wrote: »

Yes but the point is, is that the Administrators did consider it and then decided not to give them anything...

Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

On the one hand, Administrators can do anything they like - provided it's lawful. On the other, they are open to legal challenge if they do something they didn't have to do - especially if they incur costs, as that reduces any payment going back to the creditors.

Woolies is bust - there is no money - so nothing available to pay as redundancy pay. So whilst the Administrators may well have considered a payment to the Jersey staff, the money simply wasn't there to pay it.

khayman1001

Swindon store closed today.

Not much left in the last hour - they were telling people to fill baskets for a £1.00.

Very sad atmosphere - I couldnt believe the cheek of some people. A basket of stuff for only a quid and people were ripping off packaging so it would fit into 1 basket - shame on them!

seekit

Hit the jackpot too...

I was in my local Woolies (Hounlow West) today to see if they had any light bulbs left but it seemed there was only cd's, dvd's and pick'n'mix.
As i was enquiring to the sales assistant at the desk i noticed an open box in the sealed off area which looked like a tv poking out out of the top of it.
I proceeded to ask her how much it was and she said that she was not sure and would ask 1 of her colleagues.
The colleague pulled it out of the box and remarked it had a built dvd and said to another assistant "give me a price?" he then replyed "15 pounds"
I then said "does it work?" she then plugged it in and all was good ,She replyed "theres no remote" i said no problem and paid my £15 .

TehJumpingJawa

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

On the one hand, Administrators can do anything they like - provided it's lawful. On the other, they are open to legal challenge if they do something they didn't have to do - especially if they incur costs, as that reduces any payment going back to the creditors.

Woolies is bust - there is no money - so nothing available to pay as redundancy pay. So whilst the Administrators may well have considered a payment to the Jersey staff, the money simply wasn't there to pay it.

It's my understanding that statutory redundancy is paid for by the government (via NI fund) when an employer becomes insolvent?

Debt_Free_Chick

TehJumpingJawa wrote: »

It's my understanding that statutory redundancy is paid for by the government (via NI fund) when an employer becomes insolvent?

For the Jersey staff there is no "statutory redundancy pay" but the Administrator apparently considered making "a payment" presumably ex-gratia.

Where the business has enough cash, then statutory redundancy is paid by the Administrator. But where the business does not have enough cash, then employees need to claim from the NI Fund directly - but the NI fund is then paid by the Administrator. Either way, the business pays redundancy costs.

Wings_of_Ambition

I was quite disappointed with the management at the Wembley High Rd store today. Whereas the Wembley Preston Rd branch were doing what they could to sell everything (even consolidating things onto one shelf, so they could take apart the racking and sell it) - and it appears lots of other stores were doing £1 boxes to try and clear their stuff out - the Wembley High Rd store manager started announcing that the store was closed at 4.45pm (wasn't supposed to close until 5pm), then came over and announced that the tills wouldn't allow anything through them after 5pm (which was a lie), and THEN came over again and shouted out that anything going through the tills after 5.15pm would be back up to full price again (which again, I imagine, would be a lie). When I left just after 5, there was lots of stuff still on the shelves. What a moron.

TehJumpingJawa

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

For the Jersey staff there is no "statutory redundancy pay" but the Administrator apparently considered making "a payment" presumably ex-gratia.

Where the business has enough cash, then statutory redundancy is paid by the Administrator. But where the business does not have enough cash, then employees need to claim from the NI Fund directly - but the NI fund is then paid by the Administrator. Either way, the business pays redundancy costs.

Ah, I missed that the conversation was regarding the Jersey staff - cheers to clarifying.

p.s.

I too went into Warrington woolies today, only to be thoroughly disappointed - they seemed far too organised to be selling anything at a massive discount =>

On a more general note, Warrington was more depressing than usual - first Saturday of the 'January sales' and it felt like a ghost town!
Though i'm not too surprised, every store was claiming massive discounts, but I didn't find a single thing worth buying.
Will 2009 be the year internet retailers deal the killing blow to the highstreet?

Shoppaholic12345

Wings_of_Ambition wrote: »

I was quite disappointed with the management at the Wembley High Rd store today. Whereas the Wembley Preston Rd branch were doing what they could to sell everything (even consolidating things onto one shelf, so they could take apart the racking and sell it) - and it appears lots of other stores were doing £1 boxes to try and clear their stuff out - the Wembley High Rd store manager started announcing that the store was closed at 4.45pm (wasn't supposed to close until 5pm), then came over and announced that the tills wouldn't allow anything through them after 5pm (which was a lie), and THEN came over again and shouted out that anything going through the tills after 5.15pm would be back up to full price again (which again, I imagine, would be a lie). When I left just after 5, there was lots of stuff still on the shelves. What a moron.

My local was the complete opposite.

As mentioned in the other Woolies thread, they decided to reduce all CD's to £1 and all DVD's to £3 and box sets to £5 an hour after opening (started at 70% at 9am).

They were furiously putting everything out to sell from all drawers and cupboards.