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Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Thu 25 Dec, 2014 22.01
by tillyoshea
Not high street, but I see that courier Citylink has gone into administration - at a terrible time of year for their workers. I see that they haven't managed to update their website with their media message re parcels sent on Christmas Eve not being delivered.
http://bbc.co.uk/news/business-30602326
Unfortunate news for John Lewis, too - I understand that pre-Christmas trading was down year-on-year, and knocking out their main courier will surely have an impact on their ability to catch up in the post-Christmas sales.
Oh, and Merry Christmas all.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Fri 26 Dec, 2014 09.55
by Jovis
tillyoshea wrote:Unfortunate news for John Lewis, too - I understand that pre-Christmas trading was down year-on-year
Where have you heard that?
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Fri 26 Dec, 2014 18.43
by gottago
Really surprised to see John Lewis closed today. Has it always been like this on Boxing Day?
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 27 Dec, 2014 10.47
by tillyoshea
Jovis wrote:tillyoshea wrote:Unfortunate news for John Lewis, too - I understand that pre-Christmas trading was down year-on-year
Where have you heard that?
At least one of the newspapers, but can't remember which, and it's entirely possible that I've mis-remembered. According to
this Guardian article, sales were down year-on-year in the weeks leading up to Christmas, which they were putting down to Black Friday sales... but may, of course, have balanced out (or increased) trade over the whole period including Black Friday. That's certainly the direction of travel implied by
this earlier FT article.
gottago wrote:Really surprised to see John Lewis closed today. Has it always been like this on Boxing Day?
I can't recall it ever being open on Boxing Day - I think M&S used to be the same until relatively recently?
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 27 Dec, 2014 11.38
by Martin Phillp
John Lewis used CityLink as it's main courier. I always found CityLink to be one of the better couriers in comparison to Yodel and DPD.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 27 Dec, 2014 13.47
by Alexia
tillyoshea wrote:I think M&S used to be the same until relatively recently?
M&S has been fully open Boxing Day for precisely two years.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 27 Dec, 2014 15.04
by JAS84
Martin Phillp wrote:John Lewis used CityLink as it's main courier. I always found CityLink to be one of the better couriers in comparison to Yodel and DPD.
Yodel have made headlines for the wrong reasons more than once. They've even ended up on BBC Watchdog:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/article ... een-learnt
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 27 Dec, 2014 21.30
by jonathan
Martin Phillp wrote:John Lewis used CityLink as it's main courier. I always found CityLink to be one of the better couriers in comparison to Yodel and DPD.
DPD is by far the best courier in my experience. The only time they have let me down is when they arrived 10 minutes after the one hour delivery window they provided.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sun 28 Dec, 2014 02.29
by WillPS
They're all completely useless in some way. I don't really have any positive memories of CityLink.
I expect John Lewis will just dump everything with Royal Mail/Parcelforce as a stop-gap.
Royal Mail and Parcelforce would be perfect if interacting with them didn't involve the fecking Post Office.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Mon 05 Jan, 2015 16.52
by tillyoshea
Fashion retailer
Bank has entered administration today. I don't think I've ever entered any of their 84 shops.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Mon 05 Jan, 2015 22.48
by barcode
I have, it like a small department store with each section to different brands.