Would you like to see Woolworths come back to the high street ?

Efour · 27 Dec 2017 at 08:24

A trip to town for me when I was a teenager in the 90s would include every record shop.
Hmv
Our price
Virgin
An independent called "sounds familiar"
And
Woolworths, which was by far the cheapest at 99p for a cd single.
The high street is still alive but only barely.
Sign of the times.

Rifte · 27 Dec 2017 at 08:47

Unfortunately Woolworths died for a reason and what I remember it for has no place in today's retail market place.

Fusion · 27 Dec 2017 at 08:50

Efour said:
A trip to town for me when I was a teenager in the 90s would include every record shop.
Hmv
Our price
Virgin
An independent called "sounds familiar"
And
Woolworths, which was by far the cheapest at 99p for a cd single.
The high street is still alive but only barely.
Sign of the times.

Aye. In Mansfield there were five record stores which sold vinyl, plus another three which sold CDs etc. Then you'd got supermarkets on top of that. There may even be more that I've forgotten. All in a town of less than 100,000 people, which wasn't known for being a cultural hot spot or wealthy.

Needless to say the four vinyl stocking independents went years ago.

easyrider · 27 Dec 2017 at 09:12

Why do people go into town?

When I want a Bluray I can order it in my underpants...get it next day in my underpants and then watch it in the same pair of underpants....

Or I can stream it and not have to use any plastic...

Town is for thick people who do not know what to do with their sorry lives...so all they have is perusing around an overly warm shop , waiting in queues and buying stuff at higher cost....then they go to a coffee shop get fleeced again and contribute to the the plastic oceans by carrying plastic bags with brands on the side to fill their void in their nothingness of their sorry existence.

rubberduck · 27 Dec 2017 at 09:52

My mother claims to have worked at Woolies 'cheese counter' when she was younger. Thought you might like to know.

Efour · 27 Dec 2017 at 11:48

rubberduck said:
My mother claims to have worked at Woolies 'cheese counter' when she was younger. Thought you might like to know.

A bold claim.

krooton · 27 Dec 2017 at 13:56

In South Africa, Woolworths is pretty much on the same level as M&S. I was quite shocked when I visited my first UK one

Outcast · 27 Dec 2017 at 14:54

Nasher said:
High street shops are dying, because online is usually cheaper and you can't park anywhere because of parking nazis. They might as well sell them off as houses.

Already happening.

Our local Community shopping centre car park sold off. We fought tooth and nail to stop this (Thousands of signatures & protests) but the brown envelopes had already changed hands.

Here's the car park they built to replace it !!

V F · 27 Dec 2017 at 14:54

easyrider said:
Why do people go into town?

When I want a Bluray I can order it in my underpants...get it next day in my underpants and then watch it in the same pair of underpants....

Or I can stream it and not have to use any plastic...

Town is for thick people who do not know what to do with their sorry lives...so all they have is perusing around an overly warm shop , waiting in queues and buying stuff at higher cost....then they go to a coffee shop get fleeced again and contribute to the the plastic oceans by carrying plastic bags with brands on the side to fill their void in their nothingness of their sorry existence.

How racist you are, thinking you’re so supreme than other people.

Nasher · 27 Dec 2017 at 15:07

Outcast said:
Already happening.

Our local Community shopping centre car park sold off. We fought tooth and nail to stop this (Thousands of signatures & protests) but the brown envelopes had already changed hands.

Here's the car park they built to replace it !!

You did it wrong, you should have done a whip round and put together your own brown envelope.

Outcast · 27 Dec 2017 at 15:07

People also consider it as a social thing. For some people it's the only way they get to chat to anyone. That's why they usually end up standing in the bloody doorways clogging it up !

Outcast · 27 Dec 2017 at 15:08

Nasher said:
You did it wrong, you should have done a whip round and put together your own brown envelope.

I actually said that but it was a done deal before we even knew anything about it !

Nasher · 27 Dec 2017 at 15:09

Outcast said:
I actually said that but it was a done deal before we even knew anything about it !

Plan B then. Find a proper nut case, give them the brown envelope and send them round to the building contractors office with a bat

Outcast · 27 Dec 2017 at 15:12

Now THAT's a tempting proposition. We are, afterall, known as Pottyboro !!

benjii · 27 Dec 2017 at 16:19

Unless the come back is just the name and an entirely new business model, I don't see the point. Everything they offered can be gotten elsewhere at prices they wouldn't be able to compete with.

FoxEye · 27 Dec 2017 at 19:13

Outcast said:
Already happening.

Our local Community shopping centre car park sold off. We fought tooth and nail to stop this (Thousands of signatures & protests) but the brown envelopes had already changed hands.

One of our city centre car parks was sold last year (big one too) for housing. Ironically, it was housing before it was a car park.

Just a stone's throw away, a block of offices formerly used by the Council has been sold off for housing. A couple decades ago, before the offices were built, it was... guess what... housing (which was demolished to build the offices).

That's progress

dowie · 27 Dec 2017 at 19:19

easyrider said:
Town is for thick people who do not know what to do with their sorry lives...so all they have is perusing around an overly warm shop , waiting in queues and buying stuff at higher cost....then they go to a coffee shop get fleeced again and contribute to the the plastic oceans by carrying plastic bags with brands on the side to fill their void in their nothingness of their sorry existence.

you sound a bit angry about it, plenty of old folks still do their shopping in person btw..

LeeUK · 27 Dec 2017 at 21:05

The only shops that are making it on the average town high street are places like Poundland/World, B&M, Home bargains, Wilko, Card Factory, etc. Anyone could open up a shop like that and call it "Woolworths" if they owned the brand name. If it ever came back it will never be "Woolworths" as it was before.

There has already been a few clones that popped up and failed.

andy_mk3 · 27 Dec 2017 at 21:07

It would never be the same.

Plus, I never go into the High Street, I don't enjoy shopping in town.