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Major Retailers Closing

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  • djm1972
    djm1972 Posts: 389 Forumite
    I actually bought my Christmas cards at Clinton this year; having originally purchased some at WH Smiths, then went over the road to Clintons and found twice as many for half the price; and they were funnier aswell! :D

    Went back and got a refund from Smiths!
  • emay
    emay Posts: 506 Forumite
    100 Posts
    barnaby-bear wrote: »
    I reckon the really weak products:
    LUSH - overpriced fresh cosmetics

    Me & my mate are keeping lush alive single handed I think:D
  • monkeyman1974
    monkeyman1974 Posts: 41 Forumite
    bo_drinker wrote: »
    Rosebys. Gone. Please try to keep up. :naughty:

    Linens Direct?
  • GracieP
    GracieP Posts: 1,263 Forumite
    emay wrote: »
    Me & my mate are keeping lush alive single handed I think:D

    I absolutely love Lush stuff. While I hope they don't go under if they do I'll be withdrawing £1000 to stock up in their closing down sale. I'll be storing it in the shed though, as while individually the bathbombs/soaps smell great en mass they make me feel ill.;)
  • silverchair
    silverchair Posts: 937 Forumite
    500 Posts
    Dont think lush will go anytime soon.
    Think Body Shop will. Never seems that busy
  • Jacqz
    Jacqz Posts: 61 Forumite
    silverchair wrote: »
    Dont think lush will go anytime soon.
    Think Body Shop will. Never seems that busy

    The body shop has become very expensive, and totally broken away from what the founding principles were, so would be understandable if they did go
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    I've been looking to upgrade one of my properties to include a 40" LCD television.
    I have checked out prices in the retail shops and online and find I can get approx £200 cheaper on line i.e. £550 instead of £780.

    That is an awful lot of money for a TV, though, even including a the cheaper-on-line thang.

    I don't get people spending so much on TVs. We have a TV my parents bought in 1990, works fine. And doesn't take up half the living room, either.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    mitchaa wrote: »
    I thought the original poster asking for MAJOR retailers

    Companies like Markies, Next, Tesco's, Mcdonalds, that kind of thing,

    Officers club, The Pier group and Whittards

    Define "major", then.

    Whittards has about 130 shops, and Officers' Club 160 or so, that seems to qualify for "major" in my book.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    djm1972 wrote: »
    La Senza to go bust - surely not!

    It's pants, though.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • sarahs999
    sarahs999 Posts: 3,751 Forumite
    Suprised about the Homebase prediction. I would shop at homebase over B&Q any time - the morons in B&Q have me pulling my hair out. We got all our christmas decs etc at Homebase and it was absolutely thronged. It has reinvented itself over the past few years to appeal to a slightly different market, and some of its homewares are actually pretty good.


    Agree about Clinton going though. They have been terribly outdated almost since they opened -unfunny cards, never anything new, overpriced tat.

    Boots was in trouble a few years ago. Anyone know how they stand now? They are consistently undercut by places like Savers and Superdrug...
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