Woolworths closing down sale reported in Times.

bo_drinker

themanbearpig wrote: »

Good riddance, it was a waste of space...

My thoughts exactly, can't remember the last time I had reason to go there, is it still there where I live. No idea
PS I bet most people who say what a pity not been there for a while also.

huntersc

themanbearpig wrote: »

Good riddance, it was a waste of space...

No, it was a place of employment for a lot of people. Taking pleasure in it closing shows how little regard you have for the staff that work there.

Just go into one of stores tomorrow and look at those people. There they are, still doing their best and they'll be out of a job around Christmas. That's not something any reasonable person celebrates.

So stop paying big and clever and use your brain for a second.

huntersc

bo_drinker wrote: »

My thoughts exactly, can't remember the last time I had reason to go there, is it still there where I live. No idea
PS I bet most people who say what a pity not been there for a while also.

The same goes for you. I could pull apart many a business strategy but so what? How is it good that a business like this closes and people lose their jobs? Wouldn't a better solution be for someone with business insight to restore Woolworth to the proud business it once was?

Of course that would be too positive a thought for far too many people wouldn't it? Much better to criticise and want things to fail eh?

Generali

huntersc wrote: »

Of course that would be too positive a thought for far too many people wouldn't it? Much better to criticise and want things to fail eh?

It's creative destruction IMO. Woolies does a perfectly good job for many years but then loses it's way and ends up going bust. Something else will rise in it's place (in this case I guess Tesco, Amazon and iTunes). In 40 years people on here will be discussing how sad it is that Poundstretcher has gone out of business or M&S or Amazon.

Austin_Allegro

I'll be sorry to see them go but they were a clearly flawed business model - you just never knew what they actually were for. I used to go in for tools, paint etc but then find all that had disappeared and been replaced by toys or kiddies clothes, only to reappear a few months later!

They should have concentrated on being a more upmarket version of Poundstretcher IMO. 'Fiverstretcher' perhaps?

Cannon_Fodder

Generali wrote: »

In 40 years people on here will be discussing how sad it is that Poundstretcher has gone out of business or M&S or Amazon.

scaremonger...!!!

Lotus-eater

Austin_Allegro wrote: »

I'll be sorry to see them go but they were a clearly flawed business model - you just never knew what they actually were for. I used to go in for tools, paint etc but then find all that had disappeared and been replaced by toys or kiddies clothes, only to reappear a few months later!

They should have concentrated on being a more upmarket version of Poundstretcher IMO. 'Fiverstretcher' perhaps?

Agreed, I used to buy my music there..... when they sold records that is. They are big round shiny things to those who are too young.

But what place do they have in the market now? Sweets, toys, gardening stuff, computer games........ all of these things, yet not enough to tempt you to come in. Other more specialised shops do it better, they should have concentrated on one area and done that well.

StudentOfBusiness

The only time I have been into WoolWorths in the past few years is to buy refreshments, like when im at work, on my dinner hour, I would get a drink from there, but thats only becuase it was buy-one-get-one-free.

I thought that the closing down sales would be a little better than they actually are, to be honest, everything they sell is not brilliant.

People now dont need to go here, supermarkets sell the same things cheaper and perhaps even better in some cases, just like other internet stores; like Play.com, Amazon and iTunes.

Im sort of glad in a way that it has gone becuase it now opens up a lot more prospects about what can be done in its place. Also, the WoolWorths we had around here was a quite a big store bang on the highstreet in between a Boots and a M&S, and opposite the main shopping centre. So I think this location will be snapped up straight away, one can only hope its something good which goes in its place.

I do sympathise will all the staff though, as they are to be out of their job just before one of the most financially pressing times of the year...christmas.

robin_banks

As a shop I liked it, and liked it's 'sort of everything under one roof' , the problem as an OP put it was it didn't quite deliver what it intended to do.

Shame it looks like it's going I thought it's strong brand name might have saved it.

tyllwyd

We're going to miss it in our small town - I've got kids, and it was good for toys, children's clothes, dvds. Especially toys, because the only alternative on our high street now is Argos, and that isn't a nice shopping experience at all.

I went to the sale this morning (almost by accident, because I had planned to go there anyway) but by the time I'd picked a few things up the queue was so crazy that I gave up. I didn't see that they'd reduced anything more than they had in their sale at the end of last week. I felt sorry for the staff - I guess they would normally have employed a lot more temporary staff for Christmas, so it must have been an absolute nightmare for them. I hope they got decent pay for it.