Woolies RIP

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Me miserum. This is my favourite store - where will I go now?

[macroban]

Who's next?

[????]

MFI

[macroban]

MFI went yesterday.

[zephyr]

technically Woolies is still going (but for how long, I am not sure).

[KalamityKel]

I'm missing the sweets already! :( hehe

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Just heard Theo Paphitis (a man of consummate taste) say on the radio, that he has a sneaking suspicion that Woolies will survive in some form or other. Huzzah!

[citizenED]

Woolies workers can rest assured that their wages are assured until....Friday. Hope they find that buyer.

[Ladygooner]

I had my first saturday job in Woolies many moons ago - I have fond memories of working on the sweetie counter and getting sick eating chocolate covered brazil nuts all day!

[*Bob*]

Woolies has been hopelessly out of date for over a decade now.

It even looked out of date 20+ years ago when i was sweet-stealing teen.

Out of date electricals in faded boxes, a wallful of irrelevant music CDs, aisles of kitchen tat.. Everything you can find everywhere else, only a poorer selection and slightly more expensive.

It had to go.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Noooooooooooo. I love my kitchen tat.

[HonaloochieB]

Where are youngsters going to hone their shoplifting skills from now on?

Does this mean the short, swift security guard in the Brixton branch is going to have to hang up his steel-toed shoes?

Will there be one final five minute Christmas advert this year?

[Brendan]

Just imagine a world bereft of those alphabet fridge magnets.

[HonaloochieB]

And what about that rugby song?

#My father's a lavatory cleaner

His pay is a two shilling bit

And when he comes home in the evening

He doesn't half smell of the....

Shine up your buttons with Shine-o

It's only three ha'pence a tin

You can buy it or nick in Woolworths

But I don't think they've got any in#

Getting quite tearful now.

[wee quinnie]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Just heard Theo Paphitis (a man of consummate

> taste) say on the radio, that he has a sneaking

> suspicion that Woolies will survive in some form

> or other. Huzzah!

Actually, I can sort of see were he is coming from. I seem to remember Woolies being on the verge of bankruptcy about 20 years or more - and they just seemed to re-vamp themselves etc.,

That was back in the days when they sold seemingly EVERYTHING. I seem to remember reading that they did an audit and found something like 4 miles of green sewing cotton.

[AcedOut]

Perhaps M&S will now make a come back on Peckham High Street ;)

[Asset]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Just imagine a world bereft of those alphabet

> fridge magnets.

Is that where you get them.... I'd better rush.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Not sure Pickn'Mix is a viable business model!

[david_carnell]

David Mitchell on Woolworths (from Sunday's Observer)....on the money

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Goody - I'm off to get me a Little Mermaid-themed cheese grater.

[Brendan]

??the only wine label I can ever tell anything from is the little one with numbers and a pound sign on it.?

so true.

[mockney piers]

The Mash on Woolies. Even more on the money.

Cheese and Onion Crisps go into Administration

[karter]

great.....and i had shares in this too getting in at 5p. So much for the new ceo changing things around.

[AcedOut]

Oh, I remember the days of Pic 'n' Mix and ripping the top of the bag off to save a few pennies! Who'd have though a ?1 bag could also get you all their stores to boot!

[cdonline]

I used to work there in the 80s. Hated the place and rarely ever go in, pretty much like everyone else it seems.

It was decline then, gradually thinning its what it sells, until it resembled every other Pound Shop in the street.

It just felt like they didn't really care or any enthusiasm for what they did.

The only thing I liked is looking through the cheap dvds to pick up bargins like Xanadu for a couple of pounds.