Wilko goes into Administration

I was surprised by Home Bargain it is quite a good general store but Wilko will be missed as few proper hardware stores still exist and they were quite useful for paints and a few other hardware items. Cheap on cleaning products as well.
 
cheesefest said:
One thing I have noticed are the number of Turkish barbers opening up and most of the time the workers are sitting in the chairs playing with their phones.
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This came up on social media recently, with many replies stating that they wash money, but tbh how dirty can money get and where do they keep the washing machines...

Social media eh!
 
aVdub said:
This came up on social media recently, with many replies stating that they wash money, but tbh how dirty can money get and where do they keep the washing machines...

Social media eh!
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Not always the case but funny thing is sometimes these places have the best customer service and quality of work done :s probably due to their other activities they rarely charge the prices in the window either, usually a random amount less - I guess having lots of random amounts going through the till makes it easier to hide stuff.

Same with my old neighbours who were wannabe gangster types and had a plastering company as a front - the quality of their plastering work was impeccable.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
I keep hearing in the press that Wilko is comparable to Home Bargains, B&M, Poundland and the Range. I don't fully agree because Wilko was a hardware store and the nearest you got to it being a catalogue shop outside of Argos because you had the ordering terminals in there. Home Bargains is household items with some dry foods e.g. cereal and confectionery. B&M is like a smaller Sainsbury's / supermarket with household, dry foods, chilled and frozen. Then Poundland is a pound shop. I haven't heard of the Range though. What sort of shop is that?
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You must have visited a small B&M shop for it to give you that impression. The big one we go to has a garden center, aisles for DIY stuff (tools, paint, wallpaper, car stuff etc). Aisles for furniture (indoors/outdoors), toys, suitcases, seasonal stuff, all sorts of house furnishings, and then various food and drink.

I'd say out of all of them B&M is the closest to what Wilkos once was. Although they've done it better which is why it's killed off the competition.

Home bargains and poundland are typically smaller and probably have more focused product lines.

The range is like a bigger home bargains - I don't think they sell food, but do have all sorts of home furnishings and appliances. They also have a big pet section - toys, food, bedding etc.
 
Semple said:
You must have visited a small B&M shop for it to give you that impression. The big one we go to has a garden center, aisles for DIY stuff (tools, paint, wallpaper, car stuff etc). Aisles for furniture (indoors/outdoors), toys, suitcases, seasonal stuff, all sorts of house furnishings, and then various food and drink.

I'd say out of all of them B&M is the closest to what Wilkos once was. Although they've done it better which is why it's killed off the competition.

Home bargains and poundland are typically smaller and probably have more focused product lines.

The range is like a bigger home bargains - I don't think they sell food, but do have all sorts of home furnishings and appliances. They also have a big pet section - toys, food, bedding etc.
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Our local Range sells food, part of the store stocks Iceland products and they have a cafe too
 
dlockers said:
Not many English folk put the hard yards in to train up. The cost of getting going is pretty high too. My local was a bloke from Enfield and he was a dick tbh.
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My English barber is a lady and she runs a stall on the market. We have a plethora of hairdressers, some barbers, some of then Turkish but she does a good cut, just a trim i'll say and leave her to it.
 
bainbridge said:
I don't think I've ever been in a Wilko, but I assume it was like B&M and the like.
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I've been in a B&M once and a wilko once.
Both out of town.

The wilko one was a slightly nicer experience maybe a bit more range of products but a lot of overlap.

In east Cardiff you'd see the B&M on way into town. The wilko was off the main road.

I mainly go in to B&M for bird seed, relatively cheap, but 20kg bags are expensive to ship, so these shops work well here.

I'll. Pick up some of the nicer dog treats etc while I'm in. That stuff you need rarely. But you do need it.
 
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SPG said:
Why cant you have a English Barber though, guess it would rock the ship to much.
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Because when I had hair I could get a haircut, slapped round the back of the head, have my ears set on fire and all my nose hairs ripped out for under 15 quid at the Turkish barbers. You don't get that level of service anywhere else.
 
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