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Jessops in administration
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WICKES might go soon IMO.
The reason; Disinterested staff that avoid customers, generally very poor product range, often other firms products re - packaged too ensure fewer units per package thus maximising profits (ficsher rawl plugs for example). Dreadful overly loud musak.
So wrong on every count.
Unfortunately this is also my experience. I can't remember the last time I was able to find what I wanted in Wickes. I do only very basic jobs around the house and need rudimentary tools and materials which you would expect to find in their stores. I don't bother with them anymore, I go straight to Wilko's. It's a shame because Wickes' location is more convenient.
I do like to buy from bricks and mortar shops if poss - even if they are slightly more expensive than on-line. BUT I don't appreciate having to go from store to store looking for run of the mill stuff, nor paying £2.50 an hour to park the car or £5 return on the bus.
Shopping in the "high street" is becoming less of a pleasure and more of a chore, even here in this city where most shops are still in business and new stores/branches are opening up.
Miss H0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »Didn't expect Jessops to be next...
Anyway, gone into administration today...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9790689/Jessops-collapses-into-administration.html
192 stores. 2,000 employees.
Play.com is also in trouble apparently as their model simply can't work while having to add VAT onto goods, and warning of possible future issues. Jobs also gone.
Quick.
Someone pass Graham a tissue.
He's a little excited....“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Quick.
Someone pass Graham a tissue.
He's a little excited....
Why on earth do you think I'm excited?
And excited about what exactly?0 -
leveller2911 wrote: »For Christmas I asked for Jessops gift cards so I can buy another lens ..........I have £130-00 in gift cards which I don't think they will accept now....:(
You have my sympathies.
They were talking about this on the radio earlier, and the administrators are currently declining any gift vouchers or credit. However, it's PWC running the show, and the bloke on the radio suggested they usually allow them later down the line.
So fingers crossed.0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »Why on earth do you think I'm excited?
And excited about what exactly?
There were tens of thousands of jobs created in the last month.
How many of them did you post about?
And on a day when the big news is that the number of job vacancies has risen to a 33 month high, what news about jobs do you choose to post?
You're a miserable crashaholic git Graham, never happy unless you can trawl up some doom and gloom from somewhere.:rotfl:“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »There were tens of thousands of jobs created in the last month.
How many of them did you post about?
And on a day when the big news is that the number of job vacancies has risen to a 33 month high, what news about jobs do you choose to post?
You're a miserable crashaholic git Graham, never happy unless you can trawl up some doom and gloom from somewhere.:rotfl:
That was the standard left leaning response -- just look at the BBC. They are dreading any serious good news about the economy coming in before the 2015 election and are playing down anything which savours of it.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »There were tens of thousands of jobs created in the last month.
How many of them did you post about?
And on a day when the big news is that the number of job vacancies has risen to a 33 month high, what news about jobs do you choose to post?
You're a miserable crashaholic git Graham, never happy unless you can trawl up some doom and gloom from somewhere.:rotfl:
LOL. If you say so. I'd say you are stark raving mad trying to score a vague point out of this one.
Jessops going into administration is pretty big news.0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »LOL. If you say so. I'd say you are stark raving mad trying to score a vague point out of this one.
Jessops going into administration is pretty big news.
It is big news. But it's because the internet is doing to sectors of the retail trade what TV did to cinema. It's not directly down to "the cuts" -- not suggesting you are saying that but sure as hell somebody will.
As part of the media's trawling for doom-laden news around the country some character being interviewed -- in a high street of course -- yesterday said that the cuts are terrible, businesses are closing and jobs are being lost. He doesn't know what public sector spending cuts means and like many people blames everything on them. Business are failing because of economic realities (internet shopping etc) and because of the slump and the credit squeeze. That was caused by the banking crash of 2008 and its aftermath, not by public spending cuts since 2010. I think some people think that we live in a USSR type environment where the government of the day is in a position to control directly all prices, all wages, all employment levels etc etc, and that some comisar in Whitehall decides one day that it's time for the cake shop in Stackton Tressel High Street to be closed for good on Friday afternoon.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0 -
Why not just state you are offended by any bad news on the economy being discussed? It would be far easier to admit your problem, than to try and label others for discussing it?0
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WICKES might go soon IMO.
The reason; Disinterested staff that avoid customers, generally very poor product range, often other firms products re - packaged too ensure fewer units per package thus maximising profits (ficsher rawl plugs for example). Dreadful overly loud musak.
So wrong on every count.
I did quite abit of DIY work last year and avoided Wickes like the plague. In a couple of places I was working they were the closest so I did for expediency, as you say not user friendly and certainly not competitive.
IIRC they are part of Travis Perkins group so I guess it depends on their fortunes as much as anything else."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0
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