BHS Filing for administration

[eldergeek]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36123444

Get your credit cards out boys - Granny panties are about to get extremely cheap. If you're into that kind of thing, that is.

Honestly, I'm kind of amazed that they held out for as long as they did.

Edit: Bloody clipboard went full retard and didn't copy the link. Fixed with the right news.

 

[eldergeek]

Thats the video for the water 'stealing' incident.

EDIT

I also bought some towels from BHS recently!

Cheers for that - fixed.

 

[eldergeek]

We returned an unwanted xmas present in there a year or two ago and spent ages trying to find something, anything, to buy with the ~£20 store credit. Just had to buy a DVD and some bars of chocolate in the end. There was literally nothing there we would want to actually own, even for free.

You could have bought £20 of superior granny panties?

 

[eldergeek]

That will be yet another large hole in our town centre, at this rate there will be more boarded up windows than shops.

Nah no worries mate. It'll just be turned into another Lidl. Or Aldi.

 

[eldergeek]

I guess shop staff don't get the same lefty loving that steelworkers do.

Staff, or the high street in general? Cause frankly a lot of this could have been nipped in the bud if they'd at least attempted to stay relevant with sites.

Take currys/pcworld for example. You go into the store to buy something, and they order it for you, to pick up in two days. Or delivery it to your home.

I ask you...Where do they come up with these wonderful ideas?

 

[eldergeek]

Feel sorry for the staff. Bought a lampshade (online) last year and previously shopped over twenty years ago. Shame to see another retailer go but they've not changed with the times.

And there's the problem. Why use these remnants of a bygone era, when we could relocate all of these things to warehouses, and repurpose the land for something more useful and relevant. Like housing.