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SAD TO SEE WOOLIES GO? NOT REALLY.
03.12.08, 3:31pm
It was a good shop about thirty years ago, when I was a child, but in recent years it sold a load of old tat, and no effort was made to modernise the layout of the store, or stock decent quality merchandise.
• Posted by: KatieW • Report Comment
NO I'M NOT, BURDEN IN MY HEAD.
02.12.08, 12:50pm
Woolworths were a nause, take, take, take. rip off, part of the identical high street theory... every high street you walk down... there you go! woolworths, oh but the prices are more expensive in this store, why is that... it's because its based in a council estate area you moron; but i don't understand... they do it to keep the people down, rip em off, with 4th rate goods at first rate prices...oh, now i get it.
Anyway I'M SURE SOME POUND SHOP OWNED BY MINORITES, WILL TAKE OVER THE PREMISES, WITH A SIMILAR NAME LIKE Woolie's or wulworts or something, charge 99p for every item of crap they selll, then slowly hick up the prices, mmm sounds familiar.
• Posted by: strutter • Report Comment
WOOLIES
02.12.08, 9:54am
Hard luck Woolies! There will be no rescue package! Alistair Darling hasn't got any of your shares! He only rescues businesses he has an interest in, like Northern Rock etc.
• Posted by: RichardMac • Report Comment
IS ANYONE ELSE SAD TO SEE WOOLIES GO?
29.11.08, 3:44pm
I can't honestly say I am. All this nostalgia is fine, but what has robbing sweets decades ago, got to do with now? Woolies is an outdated, old fashioned money losing turkey, that has now had its neck wrung for Xmas.
It has been failing for years, with bad management, poor strategic decisions and lack of staff training that gave the customer a pretty poor shopping experience all round.
Sorry Woolies, you've had your day.
• Posted by: crassus • Report Comment
WOOLIES ROVER SHIP BUILDING, MOTOR CYCLES
29.11.08, 10:32am
Yes it is sad, but the most important industries that Britain used to trade with like Rover, Leyland trucks, Motor cycles engineering, ship building, steel making, our formerly huge merchant marine are far more important. These industries created original wealth. We took ore at £10 a ton or less made steel at £150 a ton a made cars trucks etc that we sold from £10,000 a ton and more. The difference was design development labout etc. The government couldn’t find £50 million to save Rover MG Mini Wolseley Aistin Morris Riley Rolls Royce Bentley Ship building or our aircraft manufacture for future generation but could spend £100billion in Oct on a Mortgage company Northern rock, £200 billion in May on banks plus another £500 billions in October saving our corrupt banks. Banks need industries and employed people. The old saying is don’t give a man a fist teach him how to fish always applies. All the Govt is doing is squandering our national reserves by giving money to those who will vote for them while Industries are fleeing over seas because of taxation. I have said before and I say it again their instincts are wrong. They
have to get industries going not employing millions in unnecessary government jobs. We need to worry about the nation going bankrupt.
Brown is clearly running a scorched earth policy. Woolies and the rest indicate where we are going. The first thing we have to do as a nation is get out from under the stifling and corrupt bureaucracy in Europe and this Government. We need a referendum on the EU and the right to referendums as the Irish and Swiss have. Look at this corruption in the EU. We send £35millions a day = £12Billions a year = £168billions over 14 years that according to the EU's own Auditors 95% in missing. But its worse than that The Auditors are referring also to the whole EU Budget paid in by 27 member states . So the Auditors are referring to the 95% of £trillions that are missing. And what do we get in exchange 140,000 laws passed by a dictatorial unrepresentative body that is 82% catholic. I have Catholic friends however as recently as 1947 I have a quote that says Britain just be destroyed because we are a threat as a Free people and a Democracy. The Catholic Church is both immensely wealthy and powerful. Regan was astounded and Commented they make the CIA look amateurs. Regan’s comment when the Catholic church asked for printers, faxes that brought down the Soviet Empire. Why wouldn’t they have a huge information lake. Catholics go to Confession every week. Wake up British people. We are being robbed blind. Part of the agreement to joining the EU was to sacrifice our engineering industries. Now you know why our government would not support Rover , or Ship Building. The saying goes the Gods make those they wish to destroy mad fist! Are we mad?
Come out of her my people!
• Posted by: Insite • Report Comment
THE END(?) OF WOOLIES.
29.11.08, 8:33am
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.
• Posted by: raycroft • Report Comment
WELL OBVIOUSLY...
28.11.08, 1:03pm
...there is no 'foreign' interest in Woolies so why saving it?! If there was like in banks no problem! I can see comments like : Oh another conspiracy theorist. I'm not , just observant...
• Posted by: Slaven • Report Comment
IS ANYONE ELSE SAD TO SEE WOOLIES GO?
28.11.08, 11:54am
I think it is a very sad day , when a store like Woolworths closes down. Its been there for as long as I can remember, and I have always enjoyed visiting the cafe for a meal or a drink with my grandchildren and then walking around looking at the toys, which they are also going to miss. I just can't imagine the high street without a woolies shop. We have lost so many well established retailers in the past, this is the last one to fall by the wayside. I also feel very sad for the staff who will lose their jobs as I have always found them to be helpful and pleasant, which in this day and age is a novelty.
• Posted by: jeanC2 • Report Comment
WOOLIES WE LUV YOU
27.11.08, 8:39pm
Going into Woolies on a Saturday afternoon with your 'spends' was like going into Santa's Grotto. Please can some nice English man (where's Richard Branson) take over and make it Great again just like GB
• Posted by: porkpies • Report Comment
WOOLIES WE LUV YOU
27.11.08, 8:39pm
Going into Woolies on a Saturday afternoon with your 'spends' was like going into Santa's Grotto. Please can some nice English man (where's Richard Branson) take over and make it Great again just like GB
• Posted by: porkpies • Report Comment