Woolies RIP

[Jah Lush]

I'm not surprised at all. I haven't been into Woolies for more than 20 years. Frankly it's been crap for decades and just hasn't moved with the times.

[AcedOut]

Massive sale this weekend so I've heard on the rumour-vine.

[cdonline]

AcedOut Wrote:

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> Massive sale this weekend so I've heard on the

> rumour-vine.

Great News! I can stock up on plastic storage boxes. Might even splash out on a ?3 Toaster or treat myself to that Jethro dvd I've had my eye on.

[dukesdenver]

Still the best place to buy Pyrex!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Went to pay my respects this morning. At 9.15 it was the most full I've ever seen it. Frankly not many bargains, though I was tempted by a ?2 Mario Lanzo double CD.

Couldn't be arsed to queue.

Returned for a little light therapy after visiting the dentist and was denied entry by a very shady bouncer on the grounds that the queues were too long.

Hmm. If only such 'loyalty' had been shown before ...

[karter]

too right PGC, but a buyer for woolies could still be found...

[mockney piers]

Louisa will be happy..it's Iceland!!

[jollybaby]

I popped into the Peckham branch today and made a very swift exit. There were police in there looking after the crowds! the bargains weren't that great either 10p off a ?1 selection box - people were going crazy though and willing to queue for hours.

[????]

300 fizzy colas for ?1.25....wot a bargain

[HonaloochieB]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Went to pay my respects this morning. At 9.15 it

> was the most full I've ever seen it. Frankly not

> many bargains, though I was tempted by a ?2 Mario

> Lanzo double CD.

>

> Couldn't be arsed to queue.

PGC, I'm surprised at you.

Surely in the spirit of the Drinking Song, you should have been inspired to go round the corner to the Greyhound, get langered and gone back and nicked the bleeder.

I'm not of course privy to Mario Lanza's methods of going about things, but I have a feeling he would have wanted it that way.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Si:

Di pi? non chiedo, non chiedo.

Ah, cielo! S?, pu?! S?, pu? morir!

Di pi? non chiedo, non chiedo.

S?, pu? morir! S?, pu? morir d'amor.

[HonaloochieB]

Marvelous PGC, craps all over George Formby's version.

[Jeremy]

Went into the Bethnal Green branch yesterday... CDs, DVDs and games still more expensive than Amazon (and nothing in there you'd want, anyway). Moderate reductions on low-grade confectionary. Only 10% off light-sabres.

Most disappointing.

[Huguenot]

And here you go... a secret tear indeed.

 

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Oh gosh. Where's the waterproof mascara when you need it?

[Brendan]

At woolies. up to 50% off.

[TillieTrotter]

Pure joy. A very big regret for me that I never got to see him perform live.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I fear for the future of English Literature.

Three books I have read in the past week make a reference to that august store: Porterhouse Blue, Engleby, The Knife that Killed Me.

What will novelists use now?

[SimonM]

Not read "The Knife that Killed Me" but the first two you name are both set in the Cambridge of about 35 years ago. So there's your answer! >:D

[HonaloochieB]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> I fear for the future of English Literature.

>

> Three books I have read in the past week make a

> reference to that august store: Porterhouse Blue,

> Engleby, The Knife that Killed Me.

>

> What will novelists use now?

Ah Porterhouse Blue, when Tom Sharpe was good. Think I'll reread it.

[Jeremy]

Treat yourself to a roast swan stuffed with widgeon while you're at it.

[SimonM]

Only St John's do Roast Swan, as everyone surely knows :))