High Street chain collapse sweepstake

JAS84 · Thu 28 Jan, 2016 02.00

Philip wrote:Well, I was being silly on purpose, of course they're just going to call it Currys eventually.

Now you point it out though, I wasn't even thinking of Carphone Warehouse with that made up name, I was referencing the old B&Q Warehouse name (I.e. This is a huge B&Q).

Old? It's still in use.

james2001 · Thu 28 Jan, 2016 09.42

Is it? They rebranded the one here as "B&Q Extra" several years back. Maybe there's still some stores with older signage, but are they still using the Warehouse name on new builds and refits?

Philip · Thu 28 Jan, 2016 09.49

I'm pretty sure they don't use it anymore. My local warehouse had that part of the signage taken down a few years ago. No new signage or anything - they just simply took down the 'Warehouse' letters.

It used to be, as far as I understood it, that normal B&Q stores had a red colour scheme on the interior and exterior, and warehouses used orange. I think they all use orange now.

Whataday · Thu 28 Jan, 2016 18.47

I seem to remember green B&Q signage in the late 80s... what was that for.. garden centres?

JAS84 · Thu 28 Jan, 2016 18.55

Philip wrote:I'm pretty sure they don't use it anymore. My local warehouse had that part of the signage taken down a few years ago. No new signage or anything - they just simply took down the 'Warehouse' letters.

Well, mine still has it. And it looks scruffy too - a couple of the letters (the & and O) are a different shade.

Martin Phillp · Thu 28 Jan, 2016 19.10

Xtra-Vision in Ireland has gone into liquidation.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingne ... 17944.html

james2001 · Thu 28 Jan, 2016 19.16

I notice the B&Q Website still lists stores as "Warehouse" and "Mini-warehouse". The Warehouse stores are the ones that are branded as "Extras" though, and the "mini-Warehouses" don't have any additional branding. They still list smaller stores as "supercentres" too even though I don't think they've used that on the outside of stores since they dropped the circular logo in the early 90s.

Whataday · Thu 28 Jan, 2016 19.23

I've seen B&Q stores with a rainbow strip along the bottom where the Warehouse was once located.

barcode · Thu 28 Jan, 2016 19.47

Im surprised half the B&Q are still going, since there own Scew fix which are sometimes cheaper, while up north you have Dobbies for gardening etc

Philip · Thu 28 Jan, 2016 19.59

Whataday wrote:I've seen B&Q stores with a rainbow strip along the bottom where the Warehouse was once located.

I've seen that too actually - for some reason at my local, Aintree for those wondering, they never did this. Here's a screenshot from Street View taken last year. You can just make out where the fixings for the 'Warehouse' signage went.

A more recent Street View image reminds me that they've now put a banner over that space instead. (I looked for a picture from when it was still 'Warehouse' but I couldn't easily find one).

A quick search on Flickr found this unrelated but now important historical artefact, the very short-lived Best Buy in Aintree: https://www.flickr.com/photos/roblawton ... 4989233712

bilky asko · Thu 28 Jan, 2016 21.03

Unfortunately my local B&Q has changed little in the past 6 or 7 years.

Instead, here's a Street View image from late 2008 of what was my local Allied Carpets. It existed for longer than I remember, it seems.

https://goo.gl/maps/J8pUBQ4MZ692