Chocolate Forum
Chat => General => Topic started by: paulham on November 26, 2008, 08:58:08 pm
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7751064.stm
High Street legend Woolworths has buckled under its debt and is set to go into administration,.....The move will put tens of thousands of jobs at its 815 stores under threat.
The board of Woolies - one of the UK's oldest store groups - is meeting to take the formal decision.
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Someone will buy them; they're too established a name for someone not to step in. I can see a big reduction in store numbers though.
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Also, what they sell may substantially alter.
What was the big clothes store that went out of business a few years ago?
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Whoever takes them over has got a massive debt to take care of.
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Wilkinsons would be a good company to take them over. Similar product mix but more expertise and bigger buying clout.
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Wilkinsons DONT HAVE any Scottish stores so It my not get anywhere up here, Who are there anyways?
woolies Its been going down hill since 1985!
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Sainsbury's
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I used to nick from Woolies as a kid back in the early 80's. Got nicked myself at least once because of them! See, it's my fault, I caused the downfall of Woolies. ;)
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Wilkinsons DONT HAVE any Scottish stores so It my not get anywhere up here, Who are there anyways?
woolies Its been going down hill since 1985!
What about the 30,000 staff who may lose their jobs?
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The government have stopped closing down job centres because they're expecting a high unemployment crisis in the new year. No-one should have to lose their job. Bloody capitalism, rant, rant, etc.
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Wilkinsons DONT HAVE any Scottish stores so It my not get anywhere up here
So surely if they took over Woolworths that would be a very quick way to get into the Scottish market?
Wilkies are very good value so I'm sure they'd do well in Scotland. </inappropriate national stereotype of the week>
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;D nevertheless true Smurfy!
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Pah!
How was copper wire invented?
Two Englishmen fighting over a penny.
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Also, what they sell may substantially alter.
What was the big clothes store that went out of business a few years ago?
Was it Littlewoods or C&A?
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Neither Littlewoods or C&A went out of business - C&A closed down their UK arm, but are still successful in Europe, while Littlewoods decided to concentrate on their mail order business. Yes, both decisions were the result of falling sales, but it's not the same as being forced into administration.
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Does anyone know the answer then?
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C&A I thought but Smurfy put me right.
They were good for pants cos you knew where you were with them.
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pants as in trewsers or knickers?
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K-nickers.
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Get yourself some of them thongs that are in Next.
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Them's nasteeeeee!
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So, it looks as if Woolies are gone for good - well, until someone buys the name in a few years time to trade on the nostalgia of it. RIP Woolworths; you always had a great chocolate selection. I don't know where I'll go now :'(
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no one has the selection of sweets that woolies had.
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We went out for a ride to some of the Fenland towns at the end of last week and wandered into the Woolworth store in Huntingdon. There was hardly anything on the shelves but they were selling off the fixtures and fittings, a few children's clothes, a handful of DVDs and boxes (yes, whole boxes) of sweets they use to fill the pick and mix. I was so sad I actually had to go out of the store as my eyes were filling up. I was thinking about the role Woolies had played in my life and I thought about the staff - some of whom have worked for the company for over 40 years. Imagine that, it's not just a job that pays the bills - it's a whole part of your life that will change forever.
Panstick foundation, white eye shadow, glittery eye shadow, US deodorant, Anne French cleasing milk, Ponds Vanishing Cream (never did work out what was supposed to vanish), Quickies face Wipes, giant sponge hair rollers, do-it-yourself hair perming kits, flip flops for your hols, toweling beach wraps, floppy hats, tartan flasks, polythene fold-flat rain hats, posters of just about everyone from Che Guevara to Guy the gorilla, Crazy Foam, sticky-backed plastic, lick-the-back coloured paper, tubes of glitter, packets of stick-on stars, jars of glue with the slanted rubber top, books of raffle tickets, cloakroom tickets, invoice books, rent books, luggage labels, string, brown wrapping paper, pegs, pipe cleaners, plimsols, wellington boots, umbrellas, beach balls, tennis balls, ping pong balls, flower pots, Baby Bio, Tomato Food.... that was the wonder of Woolies. How will we ever manage without it?
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What a lovely post Oldspice - I'd completely forgotten about half those things!
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For pick and mix, go to your local cinema, fill your cup/bucket (delete as applicable), proceed to counter to pay, swear profusely when told the price, place contents randomly back in pick and mix display then walk into film with a large bag of pick and mix from BHS and an assortment of chococlate and "juice" from your local supermarket.
Having procured a pouch of revels from Poundland (they have the coffee ones still :( ) play Russian roulette in your cinema seat, projectile launching the offending item from your mouth into the back of some poor innocent's napper.
JOB DONE.
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NO CHANCE there bunch of robbys for the price there make you pay,
Woolies pick n mix become CRAP when the cup were stopped
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Pick n mix, this is what your "Ye olde worlde sweet shoppe" is for.