Life without Woolworths: The end of an era

[RedeemedWarrior]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

Pick and mix? What does that happen to be? My guess is lollies.

[sarcasm]Pounds? What is that as well? All metric here. [/sarcasm]

http://www.beddysblog.com/images/P1270538.JPG
thats pick and mix

[lasto]

Originally Posted by RedeemedWarrior

all those thousands of people deserve to lose their jobs?

no one deserves to lose their jobs but if they where bailed out then they would go under a few yrs down the line as it would not address why they got into this problem in the 1st place.Shame to see the workers lose jobs but in time they can be retrained to do something else.
Also lets not forget,about all the other firms that are owed money by this big mega company - dont they count because they are smaller,because they certainly aint going to see any of their money now are they so their workforce will proberly be fired.

Bye woolies - crap store anyway.You served your time now you`ll be replaced by `Pound shops`

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by lasto

no one deserves to lose their jobs but if they where bailed out then they would go under a few yrs down the line as it would not address why they got into this problem in the 1st place.Shame to see the workers lose jobs but in time they can be retrained to do something else.
Also lets not forget,about all the other firms that are owed money by this big mega company - dont they count because they are smaller,because they certainly aint going to see any of their money now are they so their workforce will proberly be fired.

Bye woolies - crap store anyway.You served your time now you`ll be replaced by `Pound shops`

In a funny sort of way i think Lasto is about right, Woolies had 800 stores and 33,000 employee's and owed ?350,000,000 in debt, if you lent money or goods to the store you'd be worried about getting paid, At the end the only solution was to sell everything, the stock, shelves and displays and finally the stores themselves.

Yes 33,000 people are out of work but the blame lays on the management, and this just can't be blamed on the current credit crunch, This has been going on for years, Its only been since the credit crunch that they realise that they just couldn't go on any more.

Say we didn't have a world credit problem then they may of been able to drag out a couple of years and millions more in debt.

The Credit Crunch has definately seperated the weak from the strong.



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Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

I thought the pound wouldn't buy you anything anymore these days.

Sadly the coin will buy you less abroad than it used to. A ?1 is pretty much worth the same as one euro, after sterling lost 25 per cent of it's value against the currency in the past 12 months alone.

[GSeybold]

Does anyone know if Woolworths was in California in the late 60's, early 70's. ?

[Wayne Luke]

Yep... Given that you're from the area that I live in, there used to be one at Avenue I and 10th Street West by Winchell's Donuts and across from Denny's. Winchell's and Denny's are still there.

[Dismounted]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Loose sweets of all kinds, you just pick what you want, put them in a bag and pay for it based on the weight.

Sounds fun.

[Wayne Luke]

Every supermarket that I have ever been in within the U.S. has a variation of Pick Mix. The best is Winco which has not only candy but granolas, crackers, sesame sticks (in 20 flavors) and much more in their bulk foods section.

Here is the most popular candy maker for this sort of thing:
http://www.candyfavorites.com/shop/brachs.php

[UKBusinessLive]

Woolworths lives again as online brand

The move brings the famous brand under the control of Sir David and Frederick Barclay, whose interests also include the Telegraph newspaper group.

High street brand Woolworths is to be relaunched as an online store after the name was today bought by the UK's biggest internet and home shopping retailer.

Shop Direct - which also owns brands such as the Littlewoods catalogue - plans to launch Woolworths online in the summer following the deal to buy the brand for an undisclosed sum.

The move brings the famous brand under the control of Sir David and Frederick Barclay, whose interests also include the Telegraph newspaper group.

Woolworths was forced into administration late last year after plunging sales and mounting debts, costing 27,000 jobs. The last of its 807 stores closed in January.

But Shop Direct, which has also bought Woolworths' childrenswear brand Ladybird, said it was confident that the store would "stay at the heart of British retailing" as an online presence.

Chief executive Mark Newton-Jones said: "Woolworths is a much-loved brand that engenders huge affection among British consumers and is an important part of the country's retail heritage."

Woolworths first opened its doors in the UK 100 years ago this year. The move would revive the brand for future generations, Newton-Jones added.

Details of the new product ranges to be offered will be announced in the next few months, the company said.

Shop Direct employs around 10,500 people and has around five million customers. Its other well-known catalogue brands include Kays and Marshall Ward.

Woolworths appointed Deloitte as administrators in November after efforts to rescue the business failed. Deloitte was unable to find a buyer for the firm and launched a closing-down sale in December

Well its a nice comeback for the name, Perhaps it will be successful as an online retailer.

I was thinking about what they were going to do with the name, and how much it was worth???

http://www.woolworths.co.uk/

[MRGTB]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Their problem was they sold everything, and they weren't even cheap. They had no niche.

They didn't need a niche if they sold everything LOL

[Shelley_c]

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

Woolworths lives again as online brand

The move brings the famous brand under the control of Sir David and Frederick Barclay, whose interests also include the Telegraph newspaper group.

High street brand Woolworths is to be relaunched as an online store after the name was today bought by the UK's biggest internet and home shopping retailer.

Shop Direct - which also owns brands such as the Littlewoods catalogue - plans to launch Woolworths online in the summer following the deal to buy the brand for an undisclosed sum.

The move brings the famous brand under the control of Sir David and Frederick Barclay, whose interests also include the Telegraph newspaper group.

Woolworths was forced into administration late last year after plunging sales and mounting debts, costing 27,000 jobs. The last of its 807 stores closed in January.

But Shop Direct, which has also bought Woolworths' childrenswear brand Ladybird, said it was confident that the store would "stay at the heart of British retailing" as an online presence.

Chief executive Mark Newton-Jones said: "Woolworths is a much-loved brand that engenders huge affection among British consumers and is an important part of the country's retail heritage."

Woolworths first opened its doors in the UK 100 years ago this year. The move would revive the brand for future generations, Newton-Jones added.

Details of the new product ranges to be offered will be announced in the next few months, the company said.

Shop Direct employs around 10,500 people and has around five million customers. Its other well-known catalogue brands include Kays and Marshall Ward.

Woolworths appointed Deloitte as administrators in November after efforts to rescue the business failed. Deloitte was unable to find a buyer for the firm and launched a closing-down sale in December

Well its a nice comeback for the name, Perhaps it will be successful as an online retailer.

I was thinking about what they were going to do with the name, and how much it was worth???

http://www.woolworths.co.uk/

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