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All Woolworths stores to close Jan 5th: 28,000 jobs down the pan!

Nothing will be sold that cheaply other retailers will buy up the stock ,otherwise the day before they close they would be knocking gear out for next to nothing .My feeling is that after xmass there is going to be a blood bath of job loses.i lived through the downturn of the seventies and nineties but this downturn looks really bad
 
If I understand Galloway's suggestion correctly, he is urging the state to create some kind of, what, Soviet supermarket? Everything sold from an approved price-list, with mysteriously affordable public transport and provision of "services" as well as goods...I shudder to think what these "services" may be.
 
liampreston said:
If I understand Galloway's suggestion correctly, he is urging the state to create some kind of, what, Soviet supermarket? Everything sold from an approved price-list, with mysteriously affordable public transport and provision of "services" as well as goods...I shudder to think what these "services" may be.
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The "People's Woolies" would be the News On Sunday in the High Street.

It would sell only British made goods, or maybe Fairtrade goods from approved parts of abroad. Lots of Venezuelan and Iranian stuff, certainly. And staff would be paid higher wages than competitors. So things would be a fair bit more expensive than people were used to paying. Maybe there would be concessionary prices for pensioners, asylum seekers and people with UB40s or their equivalent. The range of CDs and videos would be limited - no depictions of sexism, for example. If you moaned about the service or quality or prices, staff would stare and go "tut". There would be nowhere to park and no plastic bags, to save the environment. There would be early closing one day a week, also Saturday afternoons and certainly no Sunday opening; and probably the shops would close peremptorily for staff meetings, for example to elect the managers.

On the other hand, people caught stealing pic'n'mix sweets would be asked if they came from a deprived background and if they said "yes" they'd be let off with a parcel to take home.
 
I guess at least it's happening after Christmas and the New Year. Can you imagine trying to apply for a job or benefits on, say, December 23rd?
 
Fullyplumped said:
The "People's Woolies" would be the News On Sunday in the High Street.

<boring PC gorrn mad drivel>

On the other hand, people caught stealing pic'n'mix sweets would be asked if they came from a deprived background and if they said "yes" they'd be let off with a parcel to take home.
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do you read this shit back to yourself grinning with folded arms???:confused:
:rolleyes:
 
I bought some wellies and new shoes for my daughter from woollies yesterday. Fiver for both. Trouble is there was hardly any money knocked off, so they were pretty good value to start with.

So now I have found a cheap place to get kids clothes but it's closing down.
 
liampreston said:
Woolworths did suffer from not keepking up with the times.
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My sense of time isnt too hot, but i remember reading about how Woolworths was fucked about 3 years ago - it was inevitable really. im sure if you googled about you could find soms stories dating back
frogwoman said:
fuck. remind me never to join usdaw ... :mad:
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not sticking up for usdaw here, but theres not much a union can do for you if you are employed by a lame duck company doomed to go bust (apart from maybe sorting out some kind of a good compensation leaving package). I think Woolies many debtors get first dibs on the cash though...
mwgdrwg said:
Why is the government in talks to save Jaguar, and not Woolworths then?
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cos woolies has no future in its current incarnation.
shagnasty said:
My feeling is that after xmass there is going to be a blood bath of job loses.i lived through the downturn of the seventies and nineties but this downturn looks really bad
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From what ive been reading only half the bad debt that needs to be written down by the banks has been - that means another round of bank collapses and mergers and bailouts (if there is any cash left to bail them with) - bottom line: unemployment will break through 3million easy - I think it could go a lot further than that.
 
ddraig said:
do you read this shit back to yourself grinning with folded arms???:confused:
:rolleyes:
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WTF is wrong with you, fullyplumped's post was brilliant! Regardless of their political background that was a genius send-up of wooly liberal capitalism and why trying to make a neccessarily vicious system not vicious is stupid.

I took it as coming from the left!
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
I bought some wellies and new shoes for my daughter from woollies yesterday. Fiver for both. Trouble is there was hardly any money knocked off, so they were pretty good value to start with.

So now I have found a cheap place to get kids clothes but it's closing down.
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primark. primark primark primark.
 
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