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

ukag0972

Just heard that woolies will have a 90% off sale on the 23rd.

Thats providing there is anything worth having by then!!!!!

jetty

ukag0972 wrote: »

Just heard that woolies will have a 90% off sale on the 23rd.

Thats providing there is anything worth having by then!!!!!

you mean 'up to'?

chelle333

I will be sad when its gone as ive shopped there for many years with the kids,but things have been more expensive there for a long while i think they should have had more competitive prices,so they they would have sold a lot more and made more profit that way in the end.if you get what i mean.
Im hoping that they will open a home bargains Store :j in the empty store

maccaandclaire

I actually think this is true and not up to but actually 90% off as i have seen the promotional material for this. We have 60%, 70%,80% and 90% off so its only a matter of time.

Woolies staff have heard on the grapevine that we will all be shut on xmas eve(or before) so that sounds about right.

My guess is that from Friday (as Delotie always like starting things on a Thursday or a Friday!) it will be 60% then go throughout the week till the 23rd/24th then 90% off then close xmas eve.

We have one Xbox 360 in our store, wondering how long it will last, if its still there on the last day im having it haha!

tia1803

are the % amounts a joke again????

chelle333

tia1803 wrote: »

are the % amounts a joke again????

its got to go to a bargain in the end

tia1803

so when??? do we know anymore???

chelle333

Are they still accepting love2shop vouchers ???
ive been told next Thursday never know someone will have more info soon about the bigger discounts

jenniewb

I really do not think they will go to 90%. I think they will insted sell of everything to the highest bidder, be it TK Maxx or Tesco. They will pay more then we as customer will as there will be no overheads.

I was stunned- but not shocked, when I read in earlier posts that some stationary has now been pushed back up in price- they obviously have a game plan of some sorts- trying to get as much from stuff as they can before they sell it all off perhaps?

The fact is, on average, stores buy items at 33% of the rrp, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less. If woolies were to sell everything off at 90% they would be making even more of a loss. At the moment, to afford the staff and costs they owe, they will need to be scraping back everything they can.

Why would they sell to us at less then cost price when they can just return to the manufacturer for the price they paid (minus shipping) or sell on to other stores such as Tescos, Game, Sainsburys....who will likely be lining up to take items off woolies hands as if woolies reduce items too much- where will the shoppers not be shopping? Mr Tesco, Mr Game, Mr Sainsburys....

It is a shame that a 99 year old trader is retiring- one more year would have made it a century of woolies- but in so many ways they only have themselves to blame- they refused to change with the times and compete to the extremes other stores do. It is sad but at the end of the day, they are in a commercial world, and they needed to out up a bit more of a fight.

wysiwyg78

It's probably cheaper for Woolies to sell off the stuff in their shop at 90% than it would be to have them shipped back to the warehouse. I used to work for a publisher and all our returned books would get pulped as it was cheaper to do this than to put them back into our warehouse. So this would mean books that cost £50+ that were sometimes only 6 months old being pulped. It seems crazy but it works out far cheaper.