High Street chain collapse sweepstake

Please Respond
Martin Phillp
Posts: 1551
Joined: Wed 11 May, 2011 01.28

Worth noting the sale includes the Dealz brand in Ireland.
TVF's London Lite.
Top
User avatar
WillPS
Posts: 2566
Joined: Tue 22 Apr, 2008 18.32
Location: Carlton
Contact:
Contact WillPS

Presume that's the end of Pepco clothing/home lines? In fact I wouldn't be surprised to see the clothing dropped altogether.
Image
Top
Martin Phillp
Posts: 1551
Joined: Wed 11 May, 2011 01.28

WillPS wrote: Thu 12 Jun, 2025 21.33 Presume that's the end of Pepco clothing/home lines? In fact I wouldn't be surprised to see the clothing dropped altogether.
I think they'll keep the home products, but the clothing seemed to be a distraction from selling more of what customers liked about Poundland pre PepCo. In any case, I found the Pep&Co clothing wasn't anywhere as good as Primark, despite selling them at a similar price.
TVF's London Lite.
Top
Martin Phillp
Posts: 1551
Joined: Wed 11 May, 2011 01.28

We have an idea of what Gordon Brothers plan to do with Poundland.

Reduce physical stores to 650.
Axe online sales.
Perks is also going.
Reducing chilled lines and essentials such as milk.
Scrap frozen food which also means the frozen and digital distribution centre in Darton will close.
National distribution centre in Bilston will close, leaving them with two distribution centres in Wigan and Harlow.

There's no mention of home and clothing being removed.
TVF's London Lite.
Top
User avatar
WillPS
Posts: 2566
Joined: Tue 22 Apr, 2008 18.32
Location: Carlton
Contact:
Contact WillPS

RIP Fulton Foods.
Image
Top
JAS84
Posts: 605
Joined: Fri 12 Aug, 2011 10.23
Location: Hull, UK

Fultons already closed down three years ago.
Top
User avatar
WillPS
Posts: 2566
Joined: Tue 22 Apr, 2008 18.32
Location: Carlton
Contact:
Contact WillPS

JAS84 wrote: Fri 27 Jun, 2025 20.23 Fultons already closed down three years ago.
Whoosh.
Image
Top
Martin Phillp
Posts: 1551
Joined: Wed 11 May, 2011 01.28

With the sale of WHSmith Retail completed, WHSmith.co.uk is now redirecting to https://www.tgjonesonline.co.uk/
TVF's London Lite.
Top
barcode
Posts: 1516
Joined: Wed 29 Aug, 2007 19.36

That's the TSB going aswell now https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjxxvg3vpeo
Top
thegeek
Posts: 914
Joined: Sat 04 Jun, 2005 12.35

Martin Phillp wrote: Mon 30 Jun, 2025 15.37 With the sale of WHSmith Retail completed, WHSmith.co.uk is now redirecting to https://www.tgjonesonline.co.uk/
Went past a branch yesterday and the only outward sign of the change was teeny tiny legal lettering at the bottom of the opening times sign in the window - though perhaps they'd been deliberately going for unbranded PoS in the windows in advance of completion.
Top
Critique
Posts: 989
Joined: Mon 17 Aug, 2009 10.37
Location: Suffolk

Martin Phillp wrote: Mon 30 Jun, 2025 15.37 With the sale of WHSmith Retail completed, WHSmith.co.uk is now redirecting to https://www.tgjonesonline.co.uk/
Bizarre that the only reference to WHSmith on that front page is a tiny little icon at the bottom of the page indicating that they accept the WHSmith gift card as a form of payment!

I know there’s been a lot of publicity about the sale, but given the generic soundalike name they’ve gone for you’d have at least thought that they’d have a banner at the top of the page or something along the lines of ‘yes we used to be WHSmith, you’ve not been redirected to some scam website’.
Top
Please Respond

Return to “The Lounge”