Who's for the chop?

Nick Harvey · Thu 21 May, 2009 22.15

Devizes Woolies has a sign in the window saying "Soon to become an Iceland".

Odd that about three doors up the road is the M&S Simply Food which used to be an Iceland till they decided they couldn't make a profit in Devizes and sold out.

marksi · Thu 21 May, 2009 22.21

Nick Harvey wrote:Devizes Woolies has a sign in the window saying "Soon to become an Iceland".

Odd that about three doors up the road is the M&S Simply Food which used to be an Iceland till they decided they couldn't make a profit in Devizes and sold out.

Very similar situation in Newtownards, County Down. Iceland moved out of the shopping centre, M&S Simply Food moved in. M&S then closed down their store and Iceland is moving into the old Woolworths.

Alexia · Thu 21 May, 2009 22.27

Woolies in Newport, like most of the facelifted Kingsway Centre, is empty. Completely.

Got to love their optimism in this recession though - 12-an-a-bit months to t'Ryder Cup and they reckon they'll have it finished.

http://www.newportunlimited.co.uk/index.html

Cache · Mon 25 May, 2009 12.44

Scarborough's Woolworths is just an empty shell, its got a bloody massive glass frontage that some drunk guy like, walked through. I believe people enjoy picking the locks and having a piss in there...

It may become a Tesco Metro and a Starbucks soon apparently, even though there's a Tesco up the road...
We're trying to get H&M to take interest, but I don't think that'll happen. A Starbucks will be fantastic though

Ronnie Rowlands · Mon 25 May, 2009 13.03

math-yoooo wrote:A Starbucks will be fantastic though

It would be a rare joy. It's not often you see a Starbucks, is it?

davidmcg · Mon 25 May, 2009 14.51

Back in Derry it's become Ethel Austin and Au Natural, seemed busier than Wollworths has been whenever it was open, and thats three weeks after launch, looks promising.

Ethel Austin:
http://www.ethelaustin.co.uk/

Au Natural:
http://www.aunaturale.co.uk/

Cache · Mon 25 May, 2009 16.36

Ronnie Rowlands wrote:
math-yoooo wrote:A Starbucks will be fantastic though
It would be a rare joy. It's not often you see a Starbucks, is it?

As the nearest one is an hour away, it *would* be nice to finally get one here...

nwtv2003 · Mon 25 May, 2009 21.22

math-yoooo wrote:Scarborough's Woolworths is just an empty shell, its got a bloody massive glass frontage that some drunk guy like, walked through. I believe people enjoy picking the locks and having a piss in there...

Quite similar with Woolies in Warrington, it's odd to see a shut store with no shutters/lights etc, but it simply still has a poster with a goodbye message from the Warrington 20. I hope they do put something else there, even if it is a Tesco Metro/Express, as 2 of them have suddenly appeared from nowhere in the area now.

Cache · Tue 26 May, 2009 08.19

It's pretty much destroyed what was the centre of town. To be fair, I don't care what goes in there, as long as it looks ok.

PS - I'm not trying to make Scarborough look shit, it's a lovely place really, aside from the Woolworthsy disaster!

Alexia · Wed 10 Jun, 2009 22.24

Alexia wrote:Woolies in Newport, like most of the facelifted Kingsway Centre, is empty. Completely.

Got to love their optimism in this recession though - 12-an-a-bit months to t'Ryder Cup and they reckon they'll have it finished.

http://www.newportunlimited.co.uk/index.html

For those who want to see just how pathetic the situation is in Newport :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/8093918.stm

On a personal note, that building behind the gentleman's right shoulder in the video with all the temporary red plywood frontage is where I work! And yes, the rest of the Kingsway Centre looks like that inside.