Another one bites the dust

[biggs682]

who will be next ?

 

[Night Train]

who will be next ?

Halfords?

 

[TheDoctor]

To judge from my local shops, anything that isn't Pound-UK-bargain-discount-Primark-land or somewhere selling drinks that are almost, but not entirely, unlike coffee.
Caramel mokkachino? What the festering saddle-sore is that???

Seriously though, if I had any WH Smiths vouchers I'd get and spend them...

 

[DCLane]

Seriously though, if I had any WH Smiths vouchers I'd get and spend them...

Thanks for the tip ...

 

[ColinJ]

I was given a £10 gift voucher for Christmas, valid for a large number of high street shops. At this rate of company attrition, it might be an idea to spend it sooner, rather than later ...

 

[Over The Hill]

who will be next ?

Thorntons and opposite it is something like Chocolat Village Both seem to sell £1 worth of chocolate for £4.
The Bear Factory.
BHS - Primark do it much better.
Lush - Who wants "fresh handmade cosmetics" (Fresh = it will go off, Handmade = Made in a shed).
WHSmiths - Stupid mix of lots of things done badly (apart from rather vast range of magazines for odd hobbies like carving wooden spoons monthly).
Millets - who shops there now?

 

[Night Train]

To judge from my local shops, anything that isn't Pound-UK-bargain-discount-Primark-land or somewhere selling drinks that are almost, but not entirely, unlike coffee.
Caramel mokkachino? What the festering saddle-sore is that???

Seriously though, if I had any WH Smiths vouchers I'd get and spend them...

I look around the shops local to me and I despair sometimes.
Numerous charity shops, rough pubs, amusement arcades, betting shops, pawn shops, cheap tacky clothes shops. We don't have a pound shop though, we have a 99p shop and an 89p shop, on each side of the latest betting shop, which is opposite a betting shop, which is around the corner from a cash converter, which is opposite a cash recycle....

There is a local 'shopping mall' of 15-20 stores built only about 10 years ago. All that remain there is a WH Smith, a McDs, a Subway, and a carphone warehouse.

 

[Arch]

I look around the shops local to me and I despair sometimes.
Numerous charity shops, rough pubs, amusement arcades, betting shops, pawn shops, cheap tacky clothes shops. We don't have a pound shop though, we have a 99p shop and an 89p shop, on each side of the latest betting shop, which is opposite a betting shop, which is around the corner from a cash converter, which is opposite a cash recycle....

There is a local 'shopping mall' of 15-20 stores built only about 10 years ago. All that remain there is a WH Smith, a McDs, a Subway, and a carphone warehouse.

To be fair, you have Morrisons, Boots, Wilkinsons - all the stuff you need.

But only a couple of miles away, down the ley-line, is the Trafford Centre, Temple to Shopping! Which, according to the "carpark full" signs, is stuffed all the time! Full of stuff you don't need!

(We rarely go, but B and Q is near there, so we pass it a lot....)

 

[Night Train]

To be fair, you have Morrisons, Boots, Wilkinsons - all the stuff you need.

But only a couple of miles away, down the ley-line*, is the Trafford Centre, Temple to Shopping! Which, according to the "carpark full" signs, is stuffed all the time! Full of stuff you don't need!

(We rarely go, but B and Q is near there, so we pass it a lot....)

True, but it is depressing though.

*The ley-line is the line of the local high street, pedestrianised and with a line of lamp posts down the centre of it. The line of lamp posts line up exactly with the pinnacle of the dome at the 'Intu Trafford Centre', as it will be know as from next month due to new ownership.

 

[Arch]

True, but it is depressing though.

*The ley-line is the line of the local high street, pedestrianised and with a line of lamp posts down the centre of it. The line of lamp posts line up exactly with the pinnacle of the dome at the 'Intu Trafford Centre', as it will be know as from next month due to new ownership.

In centuries to come, archaeologists will determine that there was a ceremonial procession way leading from the Trafford Centre, up the High Street, and across the Motorway Bridge, terminating in the tower block.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

who will be next ?

Staples?

 

[Hotblack Desiato]

To be fair, you have Morrisons, Boots, Wilkinsons - all the stuff you need.

..(We rarely go, but B and Q is near there, so we pass it a lot....)

Ah yes, talking of BnQ and M0rriss0ns..

Published on Wednesday 16 January 2013 09:41

DIY giant B&Q could be in the process of leasing thousands of square feet of floor space to supermarket chain Morrisons.

Rumours have suggested that the two companies could be about to agree a deal for 150 B&Q stores across the country to be let out to Morrisons, who would take over between a quarter and a third of the trading space in each store.

My impression is that BnQ is suffering. Sharing a shop? Where Wigan leads, the world follows.