Woolworths closing down sale reported in Times.

mrcow

I'm a bit worried for all the local kids though.

Where are they going to go nicking now?

Max_Headroom_3

Popped into my local Woolworths this morning whilst passing as they have this huge closing down everything must go sale on.

Big posters in the window "ALL STOCK upto 50% OFF!!!"

Yup, you guessed it, the magic (but tiny) words were "upto". Most of it was 10% off, some of it was 20% off. All of it was pretty crappy really. I left after five minutes having bought nothing.

When I walked past at lunchtime people were queuing up the street to get in!

Sad on so many levels...

mrcow

Max_Headroom wrote: »

I left after five minutes having bought nothing.

lol

I was in Woolies too today. I had a £15 giftcard that I had to spend (before it becomes worthless).

I walked round that store for about 20 minutes and couldn't find one thing that I wanted to buy - even with their amazing reductions. It was all either completely overpriced or complete junk.

No wonder they've gone under.

SingleSue

Just been to our local Woolworths (as we do every Thursday - kids pocket money day), lots of bare shelves, lots of people walking around with filled baskets and arms and a fair few different products to what we are used to (we think they are bringing down stock from other shops).

I purchased the local paper and nothing else because even with the reductions, I knew I could still pick some things up for cheaper..something that others shopping in there don't seem to have picked up unless it is one of the 50% off items but that stuff is really just tat.

Even more strangely, my children came out with nothing too which is very unusual...most of the toys had gone and they didn't think the reduction was sufficient for them to buy on the sweets/dvd's/CD's.

Good practice in maths though, I refuse to work out the reduced prices for them so I told them how to work out the percentages and they went from there - they were surprisingly good at it.

luvpump

I Walked through Our local one in Redditch this afternoon, it was Rammed, but a Potential 25000 Will be out of work in the next few weeks at woolies :eek: ..
That is very sad and a tradgedy for them no doubt, but like it or not that is the way of the Capitalist system, & Recessions like this one are going to force a lot of the Weaker Retailers go under, to be replaced in time with fitter better run companies ....At least thats the theory

lethal0r

that was the worst sale I have ever been to.

10% off cds, dvds & games makes them still 10 to 20% HIGHER than HMV, which is on the other side of the road!!!

how did they ever sell any of those before the sale!? maybe they didnt...

bo_drinker

huntersc wrote: »

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?

Of course it is bad news for the employees but my criticism is aimed at the brand and management who took their eye off the ball years ago and it is their fault it is a dead duck. There will be others. A privately owned dept store went here not long ago for the exact same reason. Useless people at the top....... BLAGGERS along for a long ride

Rikki

There was a place for woolworths when the super markets just sold food. Now the supermarkets sell everything woolworths sell they can't compete.

I shall miss it, its a store from my childhood.

lostinrates

I went this morning....the elctrical shelves were BARE, just th odd whisper of torn off packaging. I trundled over to the home supplies bt, and all the microfibre cloths wer gone. I toyed with stoking up on dylon, but realised just in time I have very little to dye!

The only shelves groaning with product were the confectionary shelves.

My moment of comedy was as I walked through th toy section a mother handing her young child a mobile and saying 'Tell x if she don't get here soon they'll have sold out of everything 'cept books'.

Ther were some good reductions on books, but nothing I can't get at our local bookshop and certainly nothing worth standing in a queue for all that time for.

Th very, very brave staff were wonderful. The saddest thing in the month for me may well be two grown adults (staff) wearing flashing reindeer horns with tears dripping down thir faces.

Max_Headroom_3

It was on the news tonight that many were disappointed by this supposedly bumper sale.

However some were actually complaining to the staff that it wasn't good enough, and they expected better bargains and more off.

Oh the sensitivity of the great British public...