Homebase in Trouble

[krink]

What happened to Focus DIY Superstore? Reading this thread has suddenly put the jingle from their adverts into my head.

 

[cupid_stunt]

What happened to Focus DIY Superstore? Reading this thread has suddenly put the jingle from their adverts into my head.

Went bust well over 10 years ago now.

 

[Elpenor]

It was all about Payless DIY and Texas Homecare back in the day

And Fads if you lived in Sidcup

 

[LakieLady]

Plenty of them still about.

Sadly, not round my way. The local one we had is now a pizza/pasta restaurant.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

So, seeing as mine is closing anyway, cos the owners are crap, is it now ethical for me to go shoplifting in Homebase?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

And Fads if you lived in Sidcup

not sure what happened to fads. think they were based somewhere in the SE London / Kent patch, but had branches around the UK

and were charlton's first shirt sponsors, in 1981

 

[Elpenor]

not sure what happened to fads. think they were based somewhere in the SE London / Kent patch, but had branches around the UK

and were charlton's first shirt sponsors, in 1981

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I remember there also being one in Orpington when we moved there late 80s. But the Sidcup one (perhaps the original) lingered on perhaps past the millennium?

 

[cupid_stunt]

FADS, short for 'Furniture and Design Studio', had shops all over the place, there was one in Worthing when I first moved here, 20 odd years ago, but closed a couple years later, it's a Tesco Express now.

Apparently they moved online, the website is still up, but only displaying a holding page.

https://www.fads.co.uk/

 

[Funky_monks]

Wasn't Fads just for painting and decorating stuff or am I making that up?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Wasn't Fads just for painting and decorating stuff or am I making that up?

i can't remember ever going in one, to be honest. parents didn't do a lot in the DIY line, and there was an ironmongers / everything shop down the road that would have been easier to get stuff back from (they never ran a car, and not sure that tins of paint were allowed on buses)

there doesn't seem to be much about fads on the web. this page has a few bits including an advert for their hastings branch

 

[Serge Forward]

not sure what happened to fads. think they were based somewhere in the SE London / Kent patch, but had branches around the UK

and were charlton's first shirt sponsors, in 1981

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There used to be a Fads in Eccles.

 

[Elpenor]

Would need to ask my dad but think it was paint and decorating stuff he got there, possibly they did furniture and tools too

 

[cupid_stunt]

Wasn't Fads just for painting and decorating stuff or am I making that up?

Mainly that, but they had a few bigger stores that did some furniture too.

 

[Elpenor]

A fire sale at my local store, which is closing down and becoming a branch of The Range. The staff are keeping their jobs.

40-50% off in some lines, I got a few things I need for projects next year.



This was £88 in total, the airer alone is £90 at Dunelm

Will go back for some more pots later I think