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Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Thu 19 Apr, 2018 00.39
by Martin Phillp
Pete wrote: Wed 18 Apr, 2018 17.25
Re: bettaware / kleeneze, I suppose most of their market has now been gobbled up by Amazon and at lower prices. Lakeland has physical stores and a slightly more affluent demographic. Wonder how they'll cope.
Was the kitchen tat catalogue model similar to your makeup reseller (Younique) style thing where you bought x amount of the rubbish at wholesale then sold it on in demos or was it purely dumping cataloges around the place and then begging for them back?
The Betterware model appeared to be dump the catalogue, hope they order, then the agent buys the stock and delivers.
Pre-net, my mother would purchase stock from them and the agent would actually knock and spend time with the customer to go through the products.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Thu 26 Apr, 2018 17.18
by g67bbx
Poundworld looking to close around a third of its stores.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/market ... tores.html
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 28 Apr, 2018 13.22
by Martin Phillp
With Poundland stores expanding into clothes through Pep&Co and what appears to be a successful multi-price offering, Poundworld is starting to look dated, although they now have multi-priced products.
I think also their buyers are finding it harder to find branded products.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 28 Apr, 2018 15.35
by JAS84
Poundworld should've kept the Bargain Buys name. It would've made more sense than a name with Pound in it, now that they're not charging £1 for everything.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Mon 30 Apr, 2018 14.06
by Alexia
Not sure how real this is given it's SNN but still made me wryly grin.
https://twitter.com/SouthendNewsNet/sta ... 85889?s=19
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Mon 30 Apr, 2018 18.22
by sqwidge1978
SNN had Asda Sainsbury's tie up on other day.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Mon 30 Apr, 2018 22.55
by Martin Phillp
Maplin in Croydon is now all on the ground floor. People are coming in to have a look, but even at 40% off most stock (60% on the posters), they're still too expensive compared to Wilko or Amazon. I didn't see one single person buy anything, despite having two cashiers and the manager.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Thu 03 May, 2018 16.06
by Martin Phillp
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 05 May, 2018 21.27
by barcode
Has anyone else heard about PoundLAND shutting stores? I do know there planning to shut some in scotland, because the rents are so high.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sun 06 May, 2018 11.31
by all new Phil
It’s a cardboard cut out police lady round here. #MeToo
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Thu 10 May, 2018 21.38
by WillPS
Opcapita (the one with a reputation for buying failing chains, extracting cash on-the-fly and sending them in to administration) is looking to buy Homebase.