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Now Adams has gone into Administration who is next?
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Steven Milloy
28-12-2008
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.
fuzzibear
28-12-2008
Originally Posted by linkinpark875:
“Are

Gap
Mothercare
Card Warehouse

Still open anywhere?”

The company I work for delivers to Gap, so they're definitely still with us, as is card warehouse. Pretty sure mothercase is still with us too
chinchin
28-12-2008
Originally Posted by darkpaw:
“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?
linkinpark875
28-12-2008
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.
darkpaw
28-12-2008
Originally Posted by chinchin:
“Grays branch now closed and Billericay? ”

really?

they are open according to their storefinder (enter grays or billericay in the search box)
chinchin
28-12-2008
Originally Posted by darkpaw:
“really?

they are open according to their storefinder (enter grays or billericay in the search box)”


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?
chinchin
28-12-2008
Originally Posted by darkpaw:
“really?

they are open according to their storefinder (enter grays or billericay in the search box)”

I'll definitely have another look next time I go past.
darkpaw
28-12-2008
Originally Posted by chinchin:
“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?”

puzzling...

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
-string-
28-12-2008
I don't suppose there's any chance visa will go under and take my debts with them?

Though not.
simonk243
28-12-2008
Originally Posted by linkinpark875:
“Are

Gap
Mothercare
Card Warehouse

Still open anywhere?”

There is a card warehouse in 2 of my local towns

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
Ambassador
28-12-2008
Originally Posted by linkinpark875:
“Are

Gap
Mothercare
Card Warehouse

Still open anywhere?”

I know GAP and Mothercare suffered huge losses a long time ago (later 90s/early 00s) when the credit crunch wasn't even in the figment of the biggest cynic's imagination and they closed down a hell of a lot of stores to cut costs
gareth_williams
28-12-2008
Originally Posted by linkinpark875:
“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.”

I remember those shops used to be up by where I live but they have now become Comet, Pets at Home and Somerfield respectively.
mcin
28-12-2008
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.
linkinpark875
28-12-2008
What about Burger King they seem to be vanishing all over the place now?
tenofspades
28-12-2008
never heard of Adams but they're meant to have 216 stores..
paddysu
28-12-2008
Originally Posted by mcin:
“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.”

I think WHSmiths will survive mainly thanks to the post offices that are now in the vast majority of town centre ones.
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.
Andy23
28-12-2008
Originally Posted by linkinpark875:
“I remember when sports shops ruled the high street but these days phone shops do.”

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
linkinpark875
29-12-2008
Originally Posted by Andy23:
“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”

I remember those shops had hundreds of different foreign club and football shirts and cheap trainers. That was an era everybody in the town use to walk about in these sports shop gear.

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.
Nattie01
29-12-2008
Originally Posted by Ross Murray:
“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.”

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.
smartkid123
29-12-2008
Originally Posted by Nattie01:
“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.”

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.

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.
Blake Connolly
29-12-2008
Originally Posted by linkinpark875:
“Are

Gap
Mothercare
Card Warehouse

Still open anywhere?”

Never heard of Card Warehouse, but as previously mentioned Gap are a massive multi-national and seem to have stores all over the place (here in London at least).

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.
zexstream
29-12-2008
Why arent we seeing football clubs in trouble?

Surely some of them must have very dire finances!
**BlackCat**
29-12-2008
I think BHS will be next.
simonk243
29-12-2008
Originally Posted by **BlackCat**:
“I think BHS will be next.”

Yes BHS, old fashioned and outdated, who shops in BHS. A bit like littlewoods but not quite as old fashioned
elmarco
29-12-2008
Originally Posted by chris20:
“it is looking like towns will only be clothes shops food shops and restaurants there are so Manny empty buildings now”

Dont forget a GAME shop. You should of seen the one in Fareham yesterday, it was heaving! Busiest shop in the centre.
Originally Posted by smartkid123:
“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.
”

They've got to start somewhere!
Originally Posted by zexstream:
“Why arent we seeing football clubs in trouble?

Surely some of them must have very dire finances!”

Most of them are. Which is why you seem some going into administration. Leeds United were a fairly good team back in the day, then they went belly up.
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