2020 Retailers in trouble thread

[anonymous-user]

A plentiful supply of masks and mask accessories.

[paulwirral]

Wacky Racer said:

A glass screen in front of the pick 'n mix to stop kids nicking them......

Breathing on them these days !

[jammy-git]

DoctorX said:

Back from the dead it seems: Woolworths!

Let me guess, another cheapo poundland type store for the inhabitants of Whetherspoons to do some shopping in before heading back to spoons for a £5 pie and pint?

[Murph7355]

Wacky Racer said:

A glass screen in front of the pick 'n mix to stop kids nicking them......

If they leave the screen off it could cure the child hunger problem.

Actually, maybe there's the link

[FourWheelDrift]

DoctorX said:

Back from the dead it seems: Woolworths!

No it isn't.

https://twitter.com/TomWitherow/status/13210459302...

[DoctorX]

FourWheelDrift said:

DoctorX said:

Back from the dead it seems: Woolworths!

No it isn't.

https://twitter.com/TomWitherow/status/13210459302...

Doh!

[craigjm]

FourWheelDrift said:

DoctorX said:

Back from the dead it seems: Woolworths!

No it isn't.

https://twitter.com/TomWitherow/status/13210459302...

Just shows how easy it is to get fake news out there these days

[Gareth79]

A friend used to work for Argos in Guildford (Ladymead, slightly out of town), which closed during the main shop lockdown and had not reopened. They were moved to the Argos in Sainsburys (wayyy up the top of town) and have now been made redundant because the Ladymead store will apparently close permanently. There was an Argos in the town centre until a few years ago but it was closed and is now a Decathlon. Crazy stuff, the Burpham Sainsburys is not somewhere you can just pop into.

[sim72]

FourWheelDrift said:

DoctorX said:

Back from the dead it seems: Woolworths!

No it isn't.

https://twitter.com/TomWitherow/status/13210459302...

The Sun, Mirror and Mail not fact-checking their stories? Tell me it ain't so.

[Anonymous-poster]

Edinburgh Woolen Mill packing up today on our High Street.

[Robertj21a]

Anonymous-poster said:

Edinburgh Woolen Mill packing up today on our High Street.

Aren't EWM and Peacocks packing up on most outlets ?

[anonymous-user]

DoctorX said:

FourWheelDrift said:

DoctorX said:

Back from the dead it seems: Woolworths!

No it isn't.

https://twitter.com/TomWitherow/status/13210459302...

Doh!

Of all the shops to bring back. I think we're a bit beyond Robbie Williams CDs and stale foam shrimp pic n mix. Just one of those shops that doesn't really translate in an Instagram 2020 type world.

Next you'll be telling me Rover is coming back and they're making a new 45!

[vaud]

Argleton said:

Of all the shops to bring back. I think we're a bit beyond Robbie Williams CDs and stale foam shrimp pic n mix. Just one of those shops that doesn't really translate in an Instagram 2020 type world.

Next you'll be telling me Rover is coming back and they're making a new 45!

Indeed. Dead business model for high street:

Childrens clothes - Asda / Sainsburies
Sweets: ditto
Media: it's dead
etc

Woolworths died for a reason

[rix]

vaud said:

Indeed. Dead business model for high street:

Childrens clothes - Asda / Sainsburies
Sweets: ditto
Media: it's dead
etc

Woolworths died for a reason

But yet I see wilko as being the natural successor to 'woolies', and it seems (not having checked their financials) to be doing rather well! Unfortunately that gap has well and truly been filled by a combination of the likes of wilko, b&m, homebargains etc and I don't see them returning..

[phil y]

vaud said:

Indeed. Dead business model for high street:

Childrens clothes - Asda / Sainsburies
Sweets: ditto
Media: it's dead
etc

Woolworths died for a reason

The media distribution side of Woolworths, Entertainment UK, was profitable at the time; it was the retail side which dragged the rest of the company down. Then Zavvi (formerly Virgin Megastores) went under because Entertainment UK had been their main supplier.

[voyds9]

rix said:

But yet I see wilko as being the natural successor to 'woolies', and it seems (not having checked their financials) to be doing rather well! Unfortunately that gap has well and truly been filled by a combination of the likes of wilko, b&m, homebargains etc and I don't see them returning..

Wilko's through the lockdown was the only store I've saw a consistent queue outside

[jammy-git]

You can't have a Primark in your town then!

[Robertj21a]

jammy-git said:

You can't have a Primark in your town then!

Surely, Primark wasn't open during the lockdown, but Wilko was ?

[BrabusMog]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

There are a lot of people who access the town centre by driving past Ladymead, so I don't think it's that bad of a position. Guildford for shopping doesn't make a lot of sense, all the decent shops are outside and up a hill if you're coming from the station or the Friary, so if it's windy or raining nobody is going to be window shopping. Luckily there is parking by Michael Chell which is the only reason I go in to Guildford now.

[jakesmith]

We live near Guildford but in 6 years I don’t think we’ve driven there once. It’s a nice town with nice shops but parking and traffic are horrendous. Surely park and ride is the answer? There’s space around it surely?