Re: Woolworths - worker whingers

michael adams wrote:
"Dom Robinson" <useaddressin@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Walked through a Woolies today, the prices are still at fantasy level, but then
who's now in charge to set them at a realistic level or organise any re-labelling.

What sort of prices/discounts are they offering now?

Just glancing as I walked through - its a walk through store with the
High st at one end and a shopping centre at the other - posters originally
£2.50 were £1.50 while stuff like bic pens mugs and similar stuff were
still dearer than in a poundshop and that's genuine bic crystals as well.

Someone else who'll soon be in the *** IMO are the DIY sheds and
their tool prices. The only ones who seem to be in there are Polish
builders who know no better and pass on the prices to their customers
- another lot who don't seem to have been near a poundshop recently
either.


The local Focus seems to have become an arts and crafts centre , along with the local Garden Centre too - went in for the yearly Poinsettia to find the place over run with stuff to make cards, needle point, paints etc.

With the Woolies thing going on I've been reminded of a shop in ur local town almost 30 yrs ago. It sold everything like Woolies , cigs, papers, cars, toys (especially Airfix kits), stationary and upstairs there were records and books. It was one of the few shops that opened Sat afternoon in those days. It had a good spot by a main road, then they built the long planned new shopping centre and the main road was closed as the new long awaited by pass opened. In the shopping centre was a place called Lovells which was bought later by John Menzies then WH Smith , staying the same almost throughout.

In a short time the original shop started to go down , the upstairs bit closed, there was less and less on the shelves. By that time we'd all becoame old enough to go to local towns including Bham on the bus. I popped in just once to buy Cigs and they had hardly any.

It closed and later I saw the (when it was at its height) larger than life owner regularly going to a nearby town on the Bus on a Sunday afternoon (I took the same bus to spend Sun afternoon with a girlfriend there) , it had a burger restaurant before Mc D's appeared , he be in there with some kids then I'd see him return alone, over that summer he seemed to diminish. A broken man obviously divorced. I always remember that shop and what happened, now I never take work too seriously - it could fail tomorrow so balls to it, life's too short to be that broken man on the bus.


Ooo it's been all cathartic writing that!







I expect if they're all almost empty, that the only thing I'll be able to buy
are cans of Creamed Eels, Corn Nog or Wadded Beef.

There were still quite a few boxed toys left - a lot of which was out of
its boxes but its even more depressing than usual for a Woolies being
so disorganised.

The ceiling in my local one is unchanged since the 1930's (at a guess)
when it was built. They simply took down the hanging light fittings but
never installed any sort of false ceiling. I noticed it a few years
back - as you do. Their floors all used to be top quality maple as well
and may still be there under plastic.



michael adams



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