The End(?) of Woolies.

A a boy of seven, in the 1930's I remember buying a toy yacht for five shillings, giving me much pleasure in Beddington Park.
After WW11 it seemed frozen in time whereas its competitors gradually modernized. Frankly, I am surprised that the retail chain lasted so long.One by one, speciality chains chewd off parts of their turnover until they were left with the dross and the down-at-heel goods that couldn't give shoppers 'a lift'. That was the real problem and, a few years from now, they will be forgotten, sad to say, but that's Alan Greenspan's version of re-making history.
in an unsentimental capitalist era.

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