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

bigturnip

The best bargains are going to be in the last few hours before the shut the doors for the final time, probably just after Christmas, they'll be giving it away for penny's.

marias1981

Im still confused?? Dont know if i shud bother now,surely if they are having a closing down sale they will have further reductions?? Or is this all some big hype about nothing????????????????????????????

bigturnip

tomstickland wrote: »

What do Woolworths sell that might be worth buying?

Anything worth buying will have been bought already. Just the tat left and the stuff the administrators can liquidate for a decent price in bulk, so not much of a reduction.

a11waysindebt

marias1981 wrote: »

Im still confused?? Dont know if i shud bother now,surely if they are having a closing down sale they will have further reductions?? Or is this all some big hype about nothing????????????????????????????

Think of what you want then check the price before you go in.To be honest I have never found anything cheap in there, sale or no sale.

The_Ejaculator

markchap wrote: »

The signs currently say ""upto"" 50% off! Which doesn't mean everything, wtp is on a wind up.

It'll still be the same tomorrow, maybe there will be a few xtra % off some old rubbish, but nothing great

What you have to remember is Deloitte only issued the press release about 6 hours ago... This does not leave any time for Woolies' marketing department to design a new set of sales POS for their front windows, let alone get thousands of them printed and distributed around all of their stores.

What you will probably see is some hand made boards or posters saying "Extra 25/50% off of all marked prices". It's highly unlikely that they'll be paying staff to change all of the prices on items tonight. They'll just deduct an extra set percentage at the tills i'd imagine.

So, if you look at it, a CD costs say a tenner. 20% off at the last sale price, so it came down to £8. I'd be surprised if they went for huge price cuts on the first morning (Hope i'm wrong) so you'll probably be looking at an extra 25% off the marked price. £8 - 25% = £6. They will probably save the huge discounts until there is just tat and dust left on the shelves. Deloitte are not a stupid company, they know there's still money to be made.

So, take your calculators to double check you are actually getting a bargain.

I'll be there anyway, still got christmas shopping to do for the kids...

bigturnip

Are they still doing refunds? If so, I might take a few presents back I bought the other day and try and buy them back for next to nout.

a11waysindebt

bigturnip wrote: »

Are they still doing refunds? If so, I might take a few presents back I bought the other day and try and buy them back for next to nout.

There was a rumour they were giving out vouchers on returns.

LXS

What time will they open?

There must be a Woolys employee on here who has been briefed for opening?

The_Ejaculator

LXS wrote: »

What time will they open?

There must be a Woolys employee on here who has been briefed for opening?

They won't be on here, they'll be on planetrecruit or jobsite

dippydiane

I work for Woollies
I have been told we are opening slightly later, usually 8.30 as we are having a staff meeting about our redundancy payments. Can't speak for other stores.
By the way anything really worth having has already been bought by the staff e.g sat navs 30 quid.