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The next tranch of flops will occur at end March 2009.
That is when the next quarterly rent is due for many of them. And, by then, the recession will be biting all the harder. |
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Gap Mothercare Card Warehouse Still open anywhere? |
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no they haven't
at least my local one was still trading last time i looked. Their website is also completely fine.... http://www.mackays.co.uk/ Grays branch now closed and Billericay?
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Does anybody remember
What Everyone Wants Power House Kwik Save MVC they are all long gone. Plus a few of those cheap home ware shops in the 1990's they were all victim to changing times. I remember when sports shops ruled the high street but these days phone shops do. |
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Grays branch now closed and Billericay?
![]() ![]() they are open according to their storefinder (enter grays or billericay in the search box) |
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Eh? Am I seeing things? Perhaps they were on the brink and someone bought them out? Did you notice how the website is still plugging 'Autumn Fashions' though?
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Eh? Am I seeing things? Perhaps they were on the brink and someone bought them out?
Did you notice how the website is still plugging 'Autumn Fashions' though?i am sure if it was closing that it would have made at least the local news there, but no mention in the Billericay Weekly News website of their local branch of Mackays closing |
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I don't suppose there's any chance visa will go under and take my debts with them?
Though not. |
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Gap Mothercare Card Warehouse Still open anywhere? Mothercare have moved out of the high st to the retail parks Gap are fine as far as Im aware and are a big global company |
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Does anybody remember
What Everyone Wants Power House Kwik Save MVC they are all long gone. Plus a few of those cheap home ware shops in the 1990's they were all victim to changing times. I remember when sports shops ruled the high street but these days phone shops do. |
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I reckon WH Smith will next to go down the tubes. The store in my town, according to someone who works there, is losing £12000 a day.
Shame really, it's a good shop.
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What about Burger King they seem to be vanishing all over the place now?
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never heard of Adams but they're meant to have 216 stores..
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I reckon WH Smith will next to go down the tubes. The store in my town, according to someone who works there, is losing £12000 a day.
Shame really, it's a good shop.They got their stock from woollies as well as Zavvi but I'm pretty sure that smiths is in a much better position credit wise for finding new wholesalers. They'll pick up trade from zavvi and woollworths I would think as far as the few remianing cd/dvd markets are concerned. |
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I remember when sports shops ruled the high street but these days phone shops do.
Sports Division were taken over by JJBs which has now resulted in them having too many stores and closing them down, Leeds ended up with 3 stores, they've now got 1. In the sports sector you've basically got JD Sports as the cool place for teenagers to get your Nike Airs, Sports World/Soccer Sports (the Aldi of sports) for your chavs to get £5 Reebok Classics and JJB Sports sitting in the middle not picking up much of anything |
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Yep in the 90s before the whole chav thing there used to be JJB, JD, Footlocker, Allsports, Sports Division, Lilywhites..
Sports Division were taken over by JJBs which has now resulted in them having too many stores and closing them down, Leeds ended up with 3 stores, they've now got 1. In the sports sector you've basically got JD Sports as the cool place for teenagers to get your Nike Airs, Sports World/Soccer Sports (the Aldi of sports) for your chavs to get £5 Reebok Classics and JJB Sports sitting in the middle not picking up much of anything Now there's only really JD, JJB which has closed many shops and Sports World the rest are gone. The last big stores in recent years to close have been What Everyone wants and Littlewoods/Index shops. |
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I'm only a part time retail assistant but believe me the amount of times I've been asked if JJB is closing - or worse people assuming that we have already entered administration. Its very annoying. JJB will not close anytime soon despite trading conditions. We are still trading well, and as an example my store is over £20,000 up on target this week.
It does sort of give the impression that not all is well. |
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If that is the case, JJB are not doing themselves any favours by having big posters in their "windowlened" windows saying "95% off" and "everything must go". And its not just in one or two of them. Its in all of them in my area.
It does sort of give the impression that not all is well. I would be shocked if WHSmiths went under, i like them, if they did though the profit making parts of the businesses would be the mixed post office branches and their train and airport operations etc. |
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Gap Mothercare Card Warehouse Still open anywhere? Mothercare seem to be doing quite well, working in retail myself I've heard that they're one of the few companies recruting in their head office at the moment. |
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Why arent we seeing football clubs in trouble?
Surely some of them must have very dire finances! |
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I think BHS will be next.
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I think BHS will be next.
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it is looking like towns will only be clothes shops food shops and restaurants there are so Manny empty buildings now
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and i wonder what their position is with their insurers on their stock, as it was withdrawn a month or couple of months back and it does not help the fact that their shop floor staff are predominatly teenagers who have no experience of customer service.
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Why arent we seeing football clubs in trouble?
Surely some of them must have very dire finances! |
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Shame really, it's a good shop.