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What has happened to your local Woolies?

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Just an empty shell, a stain on the High Street.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    YMCA charity shop, europes largest charity shop apparently. nice work
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Tesco Express
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    LuckyStrike wrote: »
    YMCA charity shop, europes largest charity shop apparently. nice work
    That has moved into where Heron was here hehe.
    We've got so many charity shops to quite a small highstreet.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It went online...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yay for Berwick.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Monserrat wrote: »
    Almost word-to-word! I'll let you off as we live both in the same town :-P

    It was a C&P with a couple of minor tweaks... ;)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I remember the last time I bought pick n mix there *nostalgia*
    What is with this Woolworth's online thing..? It's just not the same...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Jim V wrote: »
    Damn that's a shame, especially given the size of it and how imposing it was on the street. Had my first job interview there...

    i know i think its a bit sad whenever i walk past it. i remember when i was little the only place i would want to go when my mum took me and my sister in town was to woolworths for some pick and mix :blush:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Firenze - good point about the pick-and-mix. Apart from Woolies, I have only ever seen a pick-and-mix at a cinema. Any idea what other shops (if any) do pick-and-mix?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    monserrat - tesco do a good pick and mix. you can get big tubs for £2.99 and £3.99 then fill them up :) wilkinsons do pick and mix too.

    the woolies in my local town is still empty. the one in my hometown is turning into a big quality save. crappp.

    i miss the woolies in my hometown. our woolies was actually voted one of the best in the country :(
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My grandma said she heard the Body Shop was moving in the other half but I think she might've heard wrong as it's been months since she heard that and there's no sign of anything happening. I can't see the Body Shop doing well here anyway.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    H&M!!!! Tis is good! And, our JJB closed down and became sportsdirect.com. I used to love JJB's, it was a great shop. Ooo and we have an international where select used to be.
    Xx
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    blah blah blah wrote: »
    monserrat - tesco do a good pick and mix. you can get big tubs for £2.99 and £3.99 then fill them up :) wilkinsons do pick and mix too.

    Thanks :-) Stafford has both a Tesco and a Wilkinsons, although I didn't realise that Wilkinsons is a chain.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Monserrat wrote: »
    Thanks :-) Stafford has both a Tesco and a Wilkinsons, although I didn't realise that Wilkinsons is a chain.

    WHsmith do pick n mix too now... :yum:

    Our Woolies is still empty, I used to love having a mooch round at the random stuff they sold!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    piecesofme wrote: »
    WHsmith do pick n mix too now... :yum:

    Our Woolies is still empty, I used to love having a mooch round at the random stuff they sold!

    kings heath is poundland
    northfield is furniture shop
    town is closed still
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The local clothes shop 'Fashion Direct' (what a joke) which took one of the other Woolworth's where I live now sells picknmix. But at 1.30 a hundred grams..!!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The Brighton one is an H&M, my local ones are either a factory shop outlet or a chinese food shop (which will be shut again in six months), a couple are still empty.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    God we get a rubbish shop! i want an H&M!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I asked a couple of my London friends what theirs had become. One who lives in Stratford (that's the one in London, not Avon), had become an Iceland. The other guy who lives in Woodford Green said that theirs had become a 99p store. With so many people saying that theirs had become Icelands, it strikes me that Iceland had a deal with Woolies when they went under.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Monserrat wrote: »
    I asked a couple of my London friends what theirs had become. One who lives in Stratford (that's the one in London, not Avon), had become an Iceland. The other guy who lives in Woodford Green said that theirs had become a 99p store. With so many people saying that theirs had become Icelands, it strikes me that Iceland had a deal with Woolies when they went under.

    Iceland was one of the firms that decided to buy a bulk of stores off them. Well the leases I guess.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mine's a pound shop.....
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My (former) local Woolies has become a Factory Store since around April. It's a fairly similar concept to Woolworths, only the execution is even worse.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ours is a "QD"... whatever that is...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    99p shop!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ours is currently being turned into a bed shed
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Monserrat wrote: »
    I asked a couple of my London friends what theirs had become. One who lives in Stratford (that's the one in London, not Avon), had become an Iceland. The other guy who lives in Woodford Green said that theirs had become a 99p store. With so many people saying that theirs had become Icelands, it strikes me that Iceland had a deal with Woolies when they went under.

    The one in Camden is a sports shop and the one in Archway is a Sainsbury's.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    AThiefAWhoreAndALiar wrote: »
    Ours is currently being turned into a bed shed

    lol thats where you'll be then.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    What's the point of a 99p store..? What happened to pound shops..?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    grace wrote: »
    What's the point of a 99p store..? What happened to pound shops..?

    I agree - just stick with the £1 shops. The drawback of 99p shops is that their tills will need tonnes of 1p coins to give out as change :-)
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