Poor Woolies :(

[missyburd]

So no more Woolworths soon!

See here (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/Woolworths-Woolies-Launches-Closing-Down-Sale-As-fears-Rise-For-About-25000-Jobs/Article/200812215176925?f=rss)

Anyone else find it sad? Walked past the one in Aber today and the queues were HUGE. Just in time for Christmas though so not all bad I guess :rolleyes:. Such and old store and now it's being beaten by online shops and big supermarkets :(

No more cutprice DVDs for me #sigh#

Mind you I could tell it was all going downhill when they switched the sweety pricing, so now you pay according to weight as opposed to how much you could strategically stuff in one of their cups :-D

[DarrenSV650S]

So it's all your fault then:smt013 Hope those sweets tasted good

[missyburd]

So it's all your fault then:smt013 Hope those sweets tasted good

Haha no, I've only been in there to get them a couple of times and not since they changed it. A mate of mine works, or worked, there and told us about the tricks around it :-D

[DarrenSV650S]

Haha no, I've only been in there to get them a couple of times and not since they changed it. A mate of mine works, or worked, there and told us about the tricks around it :-D
Don't try to weasel your way out of it!:mad: (is that what it is in your avatar?)
So you had an inside informant. And all just for a few sweets. You should be ashamed

[SV-net]

My local Woolies was closed today as they had a power cut, but only that store! The rest of the high street was ok, maybe they got cut off?

[gettin2dizzy]

It's their own fault for being a ****e shop.

[Jayneflakes]

I thought this was going to be about Poor little Lambs being murdered for meat!

But it was a super market...

Can you imagine my disappointment?

[Kilted Ginger]

Sales a farce. I was in before the sale and popped in yesterday for a look. Many of the items have been increased in price then reduced in the sale to make it look like a saving but actually the original price. Bah hum bug

[yorkie_chris]

I thought this was going to be about Poor little Lambs being murdered for meat!

But it was a super market...

Can you imagine my disappointment?

I know, just got a fresh jar of mint sauce in too.

[Baph]

Sales a farce. I was in before the sale and popped in yesterday for a look. Many of the items have been increased in price then reduced in the sale to make it look like a saving but actually the original price. Bah hum bug

Common retail trick is that.

[yorkie_chris]

And because it's widely publicised that they're skint, everybody will be in there expecting fire sale prices. Could all be a massive con to boost sales before xmas, and they've already got a buyer for the chain lined up.... :-P

[Baph]

Even if that is the case, it's only social engineering, much like Tesco/Asda do all the time.

How many people see the "buy 2 get one free" sales, only went in to buy one, but walk out with three? Especially women. :rolleyes:

[yorkie_chris]

You know phrase. A man will pay £20 for a £10 item that he needs, a woman will pay £10 for a £20 item she doesn't need.

[missyburd]

I thought this was going to be about Poor little Lambs being murdered for meat!

But it was a super market...

Can you imagine my disappointment?

thought someone would come up with something similar :p

[keithd]

Sales a farce. I was in before the sale and popped in yesterday for a look. Many of the items have been increased in price then reduced in the sale to make it look like a saving but actually the original price. Bah hum bug

iirc an item has to be at a certain higher price for a minimum of 30 days before it can be lowered and called a sale price...

could be wrong, can't be arsed to google it...

ps on subject, no i dont feel sorry for woolies. cheap nasty tacky store which sums up britain and its yoof in so many ways. gosh that sounded harsh....meh

[Ceri JC]

They deserve it IMO. Last weekend, I was in Woolworths about half an hour before closing time. The tills were all woefully understaffed. I start queuing at a till twenty people deep. The girl on the till is completely inept, taking forever to get one person through and at no point calls for assistance from one of the half dozen members of staff wandering around the store aimlessly doing ****-all. After about 10 minutes, the queue has gone down by about 4 people. I'm already considering walking out, when the girl on the till announces, "this till is closing in 5 minutes so can the back half of the queue go to another till". The other till is at the other end of the store and about 20 deep. I explained that no, I would be served here or not at all. This was met with indifference, at which point I explained I thought it was a miracle that they'd not closed sooner, dumped my purchases and walked out. You simply cannot get away with this sort of behaviour during a recession.

This wasn't an isolated incident or due to the sales; I've encountered the problem in 3 other stores in different parts of the country, months ago. I have regularly left my purchases and walked out in almost every woolworths store I've been to and I've seen other people do it too.

Quite aside from that, the "50% off all stock" banners in the windows were patently untrue; 80%+ of the items were at their usual price and the reduction wasn't being applied at the till.

[Baph]

Quite aside from that, the "50% off all stock" banners in the windows were patently untrue; 80%+ of the items were at their usual price and the reduction wasn't being applied at the till.

Ah, but 24hours before the "sale" starts, if prices are hiked 50% on everything, then the banners are valid. Just they don't tell you the whole story. But then, it's advertising, so it's not going to is it?

[missyburd]

ps on subject, no i dont feel sorry for woolies. cheap nasty tacky store which sums up britain and its yoof in so many ways. gosh that sounded harsh....meh

I never said it was a good store, the point I was trying to make was how long the store's been around and that it will be another part of people's past being phased out. That's the sad part. Woolies is a tacky shop these days, especially since they brought out their own branded stuff :rolleyes:

[keithd]

I never said it was a good store, the point I was trying to make was how long the store's been around and that it will be another part of people's past being phased out. That's the sad part. Woolies is a tacky shop these days, especially since they brought out their own branded stuff :rolleyes:
and i never said you said it was a good store! you asked if it was sad i said no, good riddance to bad rubbish as my nan used to say...

however...if its wistful we're after...yeah i do see your point, it was a place i used to cycle 4 miles to when i was 14 clutching my hard earned paper round money to buy the new 12" picture disc by the latest chart sensations at the time... but i got my memories, thats the best place for woollies to be honest

[missyburd]

and i never said you said it was a good store! you asked if it was sad i said no, good riddance to bad rubbish as my nan used to say...

:smt083:-D

[Ceri JC]

Ah, but 24hours before the "sale" starts, if prices are hiked 50% on everything, then the banners are valid. Just they don't tell you the whole story. But then, it's advertising, so it's not going to is it?

The Wii games must have been £70 a pop during that 24 hours, they were £35 during the 'sale'. :D

[hovis]

No more cutprice DVDs for me #sigh#


ASDA is where you need to be

[rigor]

What is really getting my goat with the Woolies sale is the complete inability of people to F**KING READ THE F**KING SIGNS!!!

They say UP TO 50% OFF. Nowhere, apart from inaccurate reporting, has there been any claim that "Everything in the store is 50% off!"

Woolworths was a store stuck in the past, if you asked anyone what they sold, I'm guessing the first answer would be sweets... then CD's and toys.. part of the "Ohhh, poor Woolies" sentiment is partly due to the fact that lots of people went and bought pick and mix as kids.

[Kate Moss]

where am i supposed to get pcik n mix from now?? all those poor white mice, homeless :(

[missyburd]

part of the "Ohhh, poor Woolies" sentiment is partly due to the fact that lots of people went and bought pick and mix as kids.

yep, what I was getting at :) Pick 'n mix is gooood :-D Although I preferred the penny sweets in the little offlicences with the little paper bags, oh how times change lol

[keithd]

the first store i ever shoplifted from...ah the memories...

[Kate Moss]

http://www.chocolatebuttons.co.uk/images/cbuttons/expanded_pics/candy/alma_assorted_tools.jpg

chocolate tools!!

[missyburd]

the first store i ever shoplifted from...ah the memories...

haha good times...hang on, maybe it's indirectly your fault woolies is going down :-P

[keithd]

haha good times...hang on, maybe it's indirectly your fault woolies is going down :-P

ooohh hadnt thought of that!! :eek:

nah...shoplifting, a victimless crime!! :smt040

[missyburd]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/445437640_51e62c8222.jpg?v=0

nom nom nom, frazzles and white mice and bananas and choc raisins and sherbert planets and prawns and smarties and mini eggs....

[missyburd]

nah...shoplifting, a victimless crime!! :smt040
haha I read that same phrase on a badge today but blasphemy instead :lol:

[Lozzo]

part of the "Ohhh, poor Woolies" sentiment is partly due to the fact that lots of people went and bought pick and mix as kids.

Not here, I never ate sweets as a child or teenager.

I always regarded Woolies as tacky and nasty, it was the spiritual predecessor to Wilkos and the spate of Poundland type shops that have sprung up in recent years. For the life of me I can't recall ever going in there to buy anything apart from Ladybird clothes for the kids when they were very little.

About the only good thing bout Woolies was they employed some right little slappers as Saturday till-girls when I was a lad, and we'd go in there to cadge dates for the village discos with them.

[keithd]

About the only good thing bout Woolies was they employed some right little slappers as Saturday till-girls when I was a lad, and we'd go in there to cadge dates for the village discos with them.

like you needed to cadge, you smooth talking velvet toungued lethario you...

[Lozzo]

It's spelt 'Lozthario' ;)

[keithd]

im humbled :D

[Baph]

where am i supposed to get pcik n mix from now?? all those poor white mice, homeless :(

Get your skates on, 50% off at the moment. :rolleyes:

[missyburd]

It's spelt 'Lozthario' ;)
phonetic spellings allowed! :-P

[Ceri JC]

Get your skates on, 50% off at the moment. :rolleyes:

Up to 50% off. They'll probably be £10/Kg as usual. ;)