Habitat enter administration - sale to follow?

Crazyangel

Victoria_Meldrew wrote: »

Looks like my £5 store card will be worthless then as I don't live near a Habitat to spend it and they don't let you use online.

Ditto
I wonder if they will accept it via telephone order?

silvercar

Anyone know if the Hatfield store is (a) open (b) selling things off?

gyinnit

Cardiff store had 20% off everything today.

thatguy1

Just been reported on HUKD 20% off everything in Glasgow, so must be nationwide

littlesnuggy

Bath store had Closing Down signs in the window today and 20% off everything... making the items still far too expensive to bother with!

toptotty123

I love habitat so am gutted they are closing Hopefully someone will come along and save them. It would seem strange not having them on the high street.

jamesbrownontheroad

In Glasgow store this morning. Some confusion might arise because Habitat already had a 20% clearance ongoing when they entered administration.

Status here is everything in store is marked down 20%, although this is not clearly indicated yet. If a product was already marked down in the 20% clearance, the two discounts are combined. Big ticket furniture is not included, because it would normally take 6-8 weeks to come from the factory or warehouse. That's it now; what's in stock now is on sale. Display items will likely be sold on a first come first served basis.

Existing orders will be fulfilled; gift vouchers and giftcards will be accepted as long as the stores remain open. That could be days or it could be weeks. Here in Glasgow there's a lot of stock, and the window banners are the exact same design used during Woolworths administration. I'd expect the store wide 20% clearance to become 30% and then 40% as stock dwindles.

me4bargains

If anyone has a £5 store card that they can't use I'll happily take it of their hands as I work opposite a branch and am in desperate need for some mugs.
Thanks.

Helix

silvercar wrote: »

Anyone know if the Hatfield store is (a) open (b) selling things off?

It's still open, not sure if they are selling things off. They were planning on cutting the store in half anyway before it went into Administration with Next taking over half so not sure what they will do now, maybe Next will take over the whole shop.

^!£$&

Feeling sorry for the staff, I used to work for them a few years ago, not a bad employer either, we had a robin days sofa in the staff room, got high street vouchers as rewards, our entire store got a free trip to London, and we had pret lunches free for a month whilst training.