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@rayskitten78

2 жыл бұрын

C and a

@finoladerwin389

Жыл бұрын

111

@1ChxnceLxnce

10 ай бұрын

Is DAVE still about?

The most saddest aspect of the loss of the English High Street is these places were also a meeting place where one could bump into friends and speak face to face and perhaps meeting new friends. The internet has damaged our relationships on this level.

@KeithH02

2 жыл бұрын

No they haven’t , they’re all coffee shops now and people meet there instead (and pay £5 for a brew !)

@leeriches8841

2 жыл бұрын

*UK high street. This is happening in all 4 UK countries.

@Edgisco

2 жыл бұрын

@@leeriches8841 bore off

@gabriellaj.o.6180

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you but shopping now there is no choice and it's not a good experience any more. I hope High Streets come back and they will if there are both chains and independents. One day. M and S won't exist for department store format. 20 years tops as people 50 and over die out.

@KeithH02

2 жыл бұрын

@@gabriellaj.o.6180 I cant remember the last time I "went shopping" !! I get most thingsa from amazon these days. In addition to shops being expensive, councils killed off many town centres in UK due to excessive parking penalties. If high st dies out, where will costa coffee put all their coffee shops ? ha ha !! Coffee shops and charity shops these days.. and I go in neither !

I used to work at Woolies. Was there until the very last day and was heartbreaking seeing the store completely empty. But was so pleased to work in a place that still brings happy memories to so many

@zakvondaniken9327

Жыл бұрын

What was your pay at the time?

How much everyone seems to miss Woolworths makes me wonder how it went bankrupt in the first place. Clearly no-one realised what they had until it was gone.

@white-dragon4424

2 жыл бұрын

Partly because of the 2008 recession and partly because it didn't keep up to date. Stores became old fashioned and tacky, looking more like bric-a-brac stores straight out of the 70's.

@mgthestrange9098

2 жыл бұрын

I always wonder that, it was always busy with big long queues right up until it closed.

@andyrob3259

2 жыл бұрын

It was tat that you went in for small purchases. That’s why. No one can survive like that.

@white-dragon4424

2 жыл бұрын

@@andyrob3259 Especially big stores like Woolworths. I remember going into Woolworths before they went under. Even in the city where I now live, it looked just like the small country town one I used to go into when I was little. It was like getting into a time machine!

@kevinboldy2318

2 жыл бұрын

My amateur level observation is that Woolworths were a victim of doing everything about okay but not doing anything well. There was always a better alternative. Wilkos seems to have inherited it's place in the high street.

I look back at Woolies, Our Price, C&A, Mothercare, Toys R Us, Debenhams, BHS, Dixons.. those were good days.

@eattherich9215

Жыл бұрын

Those were the days when you would buy almost anything on the high street. Today it's all charity shops, nail bars and value stores.

@SuzyQ334

Жыл бұрын

It's sad that Mothercare is another casualty of online. I loved their stuff. I'm London born and bred but have lived in Oz for over 30 years. When my kids were little and we used to visit friends and family in the UK every 2 years or so, our first stops (complete with jetlag) were Mothercare, Clarke's shoes, M&S and Selfridges.

@kirstyelcin886

Жыл бұрын

Woolies, pick and mix buffet after school and buying singles.

@Eleventhearlofmars

Жыл бұрын

What about fine fare?

@Eleventhearlofmars

Жыл бұрын

Where I lived there was a Woolworths and fine fare right next to each other and an Army and Navy store a few doors up. All changed now.

As a British guy myself, I really miss these and will forever be in my memories.

@rm71991

2 жыл бұрын

A British what 😄

@Logans3Run

2 жыл бұрын

What, buying Tat?...

@rm71991

2 жыл бұрын

I see you added guy it really did sound weird you just calling yourself a British 🤣

@rm71991

2 жыл бұрын

@@Logans3Run your slow if you don't get it calling yourself a British guy or woman sounds better than just a British

I'm still not over the closure of Woolies and Toy's 'R' US!

@jonnybonbon91

2 жыл бұрын

Woolworth ain't totally closed, we got it here in Australia

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonnybonbon91 Your Woolworths is not the same shop as ours was.

@SomePkmnlovingdude

2 жыл бұрын

Same. Never heard of Woolies, but Toys 'R' Us was my childhood. 😭

@murphycreationsvideos

2 жыл бұрын

Same, I loved and miss those stores along with Lewises & Tandy

@wisteela

2 жыл бұрын

@@murphycreationsvideos Tandy was brilliant.

The big mistake made by Thornton's was to start selling their chocolates in supermarkets. They became just another brand, rather than something more luxurious and special (I always though that the chocolates sold in the supermarkets tasted cheaper than the ones from the Thornton's shops). Hotel Chocolat have taken their place.

@eattherich9215

Жыл бұрын

Hotel Chocolat is more expensive than Thornton's ever was.

@apemoon1731

Жыл бұрын

@@eattherich9215 maybe so, but they seem to have far more shops now. People don't mind paying a premium price for a quality product. That's why Thornton's made such a mistake selling in supermarkets.

@SuzyQ334

Жыл бұрын

Thornton's was beautiful chocolate so I am very sad to hear their UK stores are gone. I think at one point M&S had some own-brand chocolate that tasted suspiciously like Thornton's. - but I'm not sure. I live in Australia these days and I just know that Cadbury's has gone down the toilet and the only edible chocolate available here is Lindt.

Fun fact: Woolworths is in still in other countries in Europe ( mostly Germany, where pick and mix section still exists)

@stephen2466

2 жыл бұрын

Most of the wolworths pick and mix stations are still in other UK stores like asda, Wilkinsons and Morrisons

@AtheistOrphan

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for repeating exactly what is said in the first 30 seconds of the video for those that missed it.

@thoughtfortheday7811

2 жыл бұрын

Pick n Mix, was always a great treat!

@HarryWessex

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephen2466 Woolworths didn't invent pick & mix... those are just pick & mix. Nothing to do with woolies

@ChristoAbrie

2 жыл бұрын

South Africa has a version of the Woolworths franchise that still exists. Our Woolies started out as a successful retail-clothing franchise, known for it's premium quality and reasonable prices (if you want quality and is willing to pay for it, Woolies is the best choice), they then branched out to include grocery stores (both in separate locations as well as integrated in the clothing-stores). Despite the allegations of racism, the franchise is still going strong though COVID lockdowns did hit everyone hard.

This was both a trip down memory lane and upsetting at the same time, nice job!

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

😞

@minkgin3370

2 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know about Thorntons….they’re my favourite chocolate.😩

@adamwebbartistwriterwebb7760

2 жыл бұрын

Woolworths should come back on the streets

@PrinceYamiUchihaCosplay

2 жыл бұрын

@@minkgin3370 I remember going past there constantly when I was in town, sadly never went inside

With B & M, Home Bargains, Wilkinsons etc there's obviously a customer base for a store like Woolworths. I still miss them.

@DEAN_23

7 ай бұрын

Not anymore, in case of Wilkersons....

@coolperson962

7 ай бұрын

This comment aged absolutely terribly 🤣

Here's a few I can remember from my dim and distant past that got missed off the list: Rumbelows, Timothy Whites, Littlewoods, C&A, Fine Fare, International Stores, Safeway, Somerfield, Freeman Hardy and Willis, Wimpey burger bars.......

@benwheeler8456

2 жыл бұрын

Wimpy still exists

@martynbush

2 жыл бұрын

@@benwheeler8456 I just googled and you're right. There's one about 15 miles from me. I shall take my daughter there next week during half term holiday. Thanks

@dawnfinch8232

2 жыл бұрын

I remember them all

@denisesaunders3067

2 жыл бұрын

I remember walter willson's hinton's and presto.

@eattherich9215

Жыл бұрын

I remember Bata shoes, Radio rentals and Tandy electronics.

Does anyone remember the children’s clothes shop Adams? I think they were around more in the 90s, they used to shine strobe lights of apples across the floor and me and my sisters would chase them while our mum shopped! 🍎😂

@petercdowney

2 жыл бұрын

They were around in the 2000s too. There was an Adams in the Ashley Centre in Epsom once. That obviously permanently closed a very long time ago.

@infjgirl3850

2 жыл бұрын

I used to do the same 😂

@cx620

2 жыл бұрын

I was born in 2001 and I remember going to Adams for my clothes as a kid, it’s a vague memory though 😁

@nina5562

2 жыл бұрын

Woah that just unlocked a memory in the back of my brain ! I’m 21 but I swear I have shopped with my mum in Adams before !

@aberdarecat2830

2 жыл бұрын

The labels had a picture of a red apple 🍎 on them!

I used to love going to Woolworths, I'd get paid on a Saturday from my weekend job, cash in hand, and head straight to Woolies to buy videos or dvds

I wish that Woolworths would come back, that store was my favorite place to go to growing up, everything under one roof

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you have to use several shops to get the same sort of stuff.

@murphycreationsvideos

2 жыл бұрын

So true, that and Lewis'es

@reddungeoneer2187

2 жыл бұрын

I miss the CDs games and the pick n mix!

@oliverstemp9132

2 жыл бұрын

Just go to Wilko

@murphycreationsvideos

2 жыл бұрын

@@oliverstemp9132 Good old wilko, where Woolworths fell, Wilko grew.

People like Amazon, the cost of liking Amazon is the high street turns in to a ghost street and an economic impact is felt in every single town.

@andyrob3259

2 жыл бұрын

I hate Amazon. I just have never warmed to buying on it. I’d rather go direct to the stores website.

@boomshine87

2 жыл бұрын

I no longer buy anything from Amazon. Jeff Bezos is a clown.

@HUYI1

2 жыл бұрын

it's like amazon has sucked the life out of British culture! 🤬🤬

@SRParsonage

2 жыл бұрын

In one of life's ironies. Amazon is now entering the highstreet. Building stores on the ashes of businesses they broke. The evil brilliance of capitalism. Grind the margins of the highstreet into dust. Then pickup the desolate real estate at a discount and expand everywhere else.

Can't believe you did not mention Somerfield. Years after being bought by co-op you would still see Somerfield lorry trailers in use.

@evi6199

Ай бұрын

Weirdly you still saw Kwik Save trollies being used in Somerfield and the odd shop here and there before Kwik Save finally went off the grid

I miss Woolworths. You could get anything and everything in Woolies, but the best thing about Woolworths was the Pick & Mix.

Lots of these shops where closed due to greedy council rents and lack of parking hence online shopping

I miss Woolworths. It had literally everything under one roof.

@715michala

2 жыл бұрын

Yup you could always buy a decent cheap gift.Also the famous or infamous pick n mix!!!

@theshakter

2 жыл бұрын

Now we have BNM. But its not the same

Growing up as a child and teenager in NYC, I loved Virgin Megastore, Toys R' Us, Borders, Blockbuster Video, and Woolworths. One thing I loved about Woolworths was their Layaway service. If you wanted to buy something, but couldn't afford to buy it in one payment, you could pay for it in installments, and receive it once you paid for it in full. Low-income families loved Woolworths. That's where my mother bought my brother, and I our Sega Genesis.

What about C&A? A very popular clothing store. When me and my wife go on holiday to a European destination and she sees one, we have to visit :)

Thorntons was going down and closing down stores for years, it wasn't Covid. It was them selling in supermarkets that did them in really as people saw how cheap the quality was and how overpriced the same things were in store.

@gabriellaj.o.6180

2 жыл бұрын

Thorntons having been closing for years. Canterbury went years ago in 2013 and was re-let to a charity shop and only just re-let since then. Lots of ghosts from the High Street now. We live in sad times. I quite like C and A who still exist in France and Belgium and Netherlands and wish they would come back to the UK.

@joannesaltfleet2071

2 жыл бұрын

Thornton's had been closing for years but covid was the final blow! I used to like c and a as well.

@eattherich9215

Жыл бұрын

@OcramGlobal: wasn't Thornton's a franchise operation just like Valerie Patisserie of which there are still a smattering of shops?

Im still deverstated that Woolworths is gone still miss it to this day

I miss Woolworths so much.

I miss BHS and Woolworths the most. The heart has been ripped out of the British high street. 😔 Also liked C&A and always like to have a peek if I see one abroad.🌈

I miss Woolworths, the amount of money I sent on CD’s and Pick’n’Mix probably kept them going for years

I miss woolworths,I remember one day I was craving sweets really bad,I was in my local shopping centre and all the stores had closed,then I noticed woolworths was still open so I got a pick and mix bag,just as I was paying 'a whole new world' by katie price and Peter Andre was playing on the speakers,I don't think I will ever have a moment of pure joy like that again in my life.

@ThatChrissyGirl

2 жыл бұрын

I swear Woolworths pick and mix tasted so much different to other shops pick and mix! its weird xD

Woolworths is the sort of store that could actually still be useful today, despite online retail.

I miss nearly all of these. The High Street will never be the same again.

There are still Woolworth stores in Germany, and I bought an umbrella in the one in Bayreuth, Bavaria, a couple of years ago. I didn't really need it, but I was so pleased to see a "Woolies" store that I thought I'd get a souvenir!

Littlewoods, Fosters, Freeman Hardy Willis, Ethel Austin, Toy and Hobby.

I miss shopping at Woolworths at Christmas :((

I still sing the Toys R Us theme tune every now and then

@Stacey16......

2 жыл бұрын

How magical was it, walking into a toys R us as a child 😍

@WGOWeekdayGamersOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

Can I now cry please toys r us was amazing Smyths is not some of the staff can be bit off at times not all staff

When i saw Woolworths, immediately clicked, it’s still crazy that they are gone 😊

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

So sad, I still miss them. 😞

@vincentmafiri552

2 жыл бұрын

Come to South Africa and you'll see them

Wish we could pop into woolies for a Pick n' Mix right now... 😥

@murphycreationsvideos

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, they also had the biggest selection of rope lace liquorice, the good old days.

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

For my thirty fifth birthday I brought two of everything I liked from their pick and mix. I ended up with 64 sweets. 😆😋❤️

@johnmitchell2269

2 жыл бұрын

Most of the main Tesco supermarkets do pick n mix

Can anyone else still remember the smell in some of these shops? Omg how life is short

You forgot Littlewoods and C&A (who still have stores in mainland Europe but not the UK).

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

Littlewoods are now an online catalogue. I have loads of C&A stuff that still fits me and is better made than the high street clothes you get now, so I buy mail order clothes.

@joannesaltfleet2071

2 жыл бұрын

@@julianaylor4351 It was a shame when the little woods shops shut. Years ago when I was 20 I got offered a temporary job there over Christmas and I had got offered a full time permanent job somewhere else so I had gone to the littlewoods shop in Cardiff to see the manager in person to thank her for having offered me the job but I had decided not to take it as I had been offered a full time permanent job somewhere else and she had thanked me for my courtesy. Common courtesy nowadays isn't common anymore!

@neilburns8869

2 жыл бұрын

In all fairness, both Littlewoods and C&A have been away from the UK High street for quite a while compared to most of the names mentioned. C&A were in fact Dutch (the Netherlands), not sure if people were aware of this. I often remember that Littlewoods would have a cafe/ as many older people would meet there for a weekly chat with friends and enjoy a hot meal.

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

@@neilburns8869 The Littlewoods in Oxford Street had one, in my late twenties and early thirties I are a warm lunch in the winter, surrounding by people having cakes and tea, who were around the age I am now. I knew C&A were Dutch, they went back to Europe because they couldn't cater for the more fashion trend conscious British public, ironically the supermarkets took their place, because older people never went in shops, like Top Shop. But I switched to mail order clothes in my forties after I found that what some of the shops, I had used like Evans were selling dull work clothes and boring unstylish items. I'm not someone who wears jeans or black/ dull coloured clothes. But even Littlewoods and C&A started selling boring stuff. Littlewoods now sells fast fashion online clothes. Again I don't buy stuff that dies after its first wash, having brought a top from Primark, that did that. I still have clothes from C&A, Littlewoods, Evans, M&S, BHS and Debenhams that are still wearable decades later. The general quality outside of supermarket and expensive department store clothes has declined on the high street. That's why I've got mail order clothes.

@joannesaltfleet2071

2 жыл бұрын

@@neilburns8869 same as debenhams and the house of Fraser cafes were like friends meeting places as well!

Also there was a catalogue store simular to Argos called Index. A gadget store called Tandy.

@pedanticradiator1491

2 жыл бұрын

Index was part of Littlewoods

@eattherich9215

Жыл бұрын

@@pedanticradiator1491: I also remember the Littlewoods stores. There was one in each of my local town centres. Tandy also had a branch where I used to live. If I close my eyes and concentrate, I can see the shop.

@lizhumphries9100

2 ай бұрын

I remember Index catalogue shop

Our Price anyone? Of course everyone knew that C&A stood for Coats & Ats.

@gemmalyons7744

2 жыл бұрын

I just thought of our price

@leeriches8841

2 жыл бұрын

There was Coda Music too.

The biggest mistake Woolworths made was putting the pic n mix right next to the door...as many kids did in the 80s. I would always grab a slack handful on me way out.

Yep, in my town we still have an Adams Kids store thats been closed like 15 years if not more.

@thatitguy4453

2 жыл бұрын

Kidderminster by any chance?

@lenmarfox2947

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatitguy4453 yes, how'd you know, you're local?

I'm surprised that C&A aren't in this list since the Dutch clothes store, which predates H&M, used to have stores in the UK. They're still around in Europe but not in the UK.

Of course it has to be Woolies. Looking around my flat there is so much stuff from Woolworths, just shows the quality. Even my cheap Woolworths DVD player is still working.

It's just not Xmas without the Toys R Us adverts :'( As a kid I got taken to Toys R Us on my birthday. When a store opened closer to home I was taken there around the time of it's opening. Years later, in 1999, I got a job at that same store during a time when they had a big refurbishment happen and stayed on to work on the shop floor over Xmas that year. I even went back the following September and worked a second Xmas.

I’m surprised MVC didn’t get a mention. The one we had in Gloucester was massive and definitely the go-to place for music and films…

JJB, Woolworths and BHS were SO memorable and nostalgic for me (I am 25) most of the rest of them are not so nostalgic since they either closed very recently or were stores I hardly ever frequented or ever went to as a matter of fact. Never went to Thomas Cook (since I have never left my house whenever my family ever went to get flight tickets to go abroad and they never went to places like Thomas Cook since most of the times we have been abroad was at Pakistan my family's home country and a couple of other places which we only went to as connecting to Pakistan and stayed there for a bit before going Pakistan) Never been to Phones 4U since I got my first phone in 2014 and Phones 4U was kinda dead at that point ALSO my first phone contract was bought DIRECTLY from a carrier's physical store (My first phone was on 3 Network and I still have a sim contract with them) and not a store like Phones 4U/Carphone Warehouse ALSO never been to Thorntons since the nearest one to me was like 5 miles away in a place I hardly ever frequent and I don't shop for chocolate at chocolatiers but just get them at grocery stores. ALSO I hate the way BHS went down I used to get clothes and school uniform from there all the time and my nearest branch is still there (It did briefly get used as a Poundland store but since its a huge department store Poundland were literally only using the ground floor as retail even though there is a basement and a first floor and at the start of the pandemic the store closed but besides the fact that the BHS logo is missing from the building it looks like the BHS I remember it to be but as a closed store) the fact that it was sold to a guy for £1 who is known for bankruptcy and the poor management ruined the company so hard

Childhood memories? Very much so as my dad was a Woolworths store manager for about 25 years

So many great memories from growing-up, especially Woolworths!😩

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

I've got tons of Woolworths stuff. ❤️

Remember oh so Many of these stores. Also remember electronics bootique, C&A, Do it all DIY Store, Model Zone, and unfortunately many more!! Ring back our British high streets!!

First I've heard about Thorntons, what a shame. Was an amazing chain 😩

A lot of the shops suffered with image issues from the next generation of shoppers. Often kids of the 90's were more interested in brands that these shop did not stock. No wonder as these people started working or became parents, that they would not go shopping in these old fashioned stores. I found the quality of the goods very questionable.

British Ex-Pat here. In Canada, the reverse happened to HMV (I worked at 2 different locations). The company became insolvent. Sunrise Records bought and subsequently rebranded the old locations as its own.

I MISS WOOLWORTHS USE TO LOVE THEIR PICK N MIX

I miss Menzies, I could spend hours in there. I loved Woolworths, it was very sad when they closed.

@pedanticradiator1491

2 жыл бұрын

John Menzies sold their stores to WH Smith in 1998 at the same time taking over Smith's wholesale operation. The company is now involved in Air freight

Our local Woolworths stood empty for years until Primark, which was next door extended their store into it. Primark had taken over from Littlewoods.

@joannesaltfleet2071

2 жыл бұрын

Primark bought out the old little woods shops and the bhs ones as well.

@eattherich9215

Жыл бұрын

@@joannesaltfleet2071: the Primark store in my local town centre was once a C&A whose stock was vastly superior.

I miss Virgin Megastore! The one in my town was awesome! It was on two floors and always had knowledgeable staff. As for people moving away from physical record shops, I will always buy from HMV first and Amazon second!

Dixons never went out of business. They BOUGHT Currys as Currys was struggling. They kept the name Currys as it was more well known. Dixons basically bought their competition. Like Hornby and Tri-ang. Tri-ang bought out Hornby but as Hornby was more well known, they kept the name

We have Woolworths in South Africa and it's bloody expensive. It operate mainly in clothing and has a supermarket.

Another company that went in 2000s is C&A if anyone remembers that store

@steveath

2 жыл бұрын

We have C&A in Tenerife. Brilliant!

I bought my prom dress from BHS. Oh the memories

Gamestation and Woolworths, miss them!!

miss Woolworths had a Saturday job there best times, miss the fact that you could find everything under one foof

Today Paperchase went out of business and their shops will be no more. I miss Woolworths, Allders (got thrown out of one in the late 90s!), Virgin Megastore, old PC World, Our Price, the travel agent Holiday Hypermarket, Comet, Debenhams, Gamleys Toys, Children's World (there was one in Croydon and it had a huge slide at the entrance), Savacentre in Colliers Wood, Electronics Boutique, MK One, Safeway, Tammy Girl, Etam, Hawkin's Bazaar, Toys R Us and many more. The internet and big supermarkets have killed off all the good shops

The thing I used to enjoy about Woolworths was their music and records department often at the very front of the store. Definitely missed. Phil Green aka Sir Shifty is now a notorious name within British retail culture and not for the good reasons either. Currently Sir Philip Green but I am sure that many people around the UK feel as if he no longer deserves the knighthood. I certainly don't believe that he merits the title of Sir so a very pure and simple Phil Green will suffice. Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher and David Mitchell have all been involved in making a movie entitled "GREED" but is loosely based on the vile, retail entrepreneur.

@eattherich9215

Жыл бұрын

All of the Arcadia group stores have disappeared from the high street, not just BhS. Some brands have been absorbed into online only Asos and Boohoo.

So many fond memories of BHS, Toys R Us, Woolworths, Blockbuster and Virgin Megastore.

If you think about it since Coroni pandemic it's been Top Shop / Man, Miss Selfridge, Wallis, Evans, Burton and DP, and Debenhams, Oasis and Warehouse, Cath Kidston ( although in fairness they now have 6 stores in mainly outlet centres and a flagship in Piccadilly again) and Laura Ashley , Brighthouse and I am sure there are more but it's an awful lot that have gone pop including many non renewal of leases by the likes of Ernest Jones and H Samuel and others. COVID was the final nail in the coffin of the UK High Street. Only 79 department stores left in this country and it was 500 before. Sad. 239 are currently vacant awaiting a new use.

Oh, recordshops. That was my favourite hangout spot.

Woolworth UK was spawned by F.W. Woolworth, an American company founded in Pennsylvania, USA. The Woolworth building in New York City used to be the tallest building in the world till the Empire State came along. When I moved from Wakefield, Yorks. to Pittsburgh PA in the eighties I was amazed to find a Woolies in downtown Pittsburgh. It's one of those companies you think is British but isn't. It's the same with Monopoly, an American game that you think is British as it is/was made by Waddington's in Leeds but the original was made by Parker Brothers, USA and was set in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

I miss Woolworths the most, it was a big part of my childhood. I used to always go there to look at the toys (specifically dolls) when I was a child. Still can't believe it went.

"Many of their stores still stand empty" well yeah... Debenham only collapsed a couple of months ago....

I can't believe all of these are shut! I didn't even notice half of these disappear!

Thank you very much for the upload other names have dissapeared most recently carphone warehouse.

To get what Woolies had, you have to go to Wilko's, Poundland, most discount stores and the non food parts of supermarkets. It's a shame. I think most of us still miss it. 😞 My local Woolworths is now a Poundland. The last manager of my town's branch ended up as the chief security officer in a local underground car park. I've got so many Woolworths things, most of it novelty stationery. Very few shops have good novelty stationery, which I like to collect.

@joannesaltfleet2071

2 жыл бұрын

I think Home Bargains bought Woolies out as well!

@waynegray2284

2 жыл бұрын

My Woolworths is now primark

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

@@waynegray2284 Our Primark was a BHS about twenty years ago.

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone remember the 99p Store who were brought out by Poundland, who had my town's old Woolies, before Poundland?

@waynegray2284

2 жыл бұрын

@@julianaylor4351yep and poundWorld right

What about Index? Or Fine Fare? Or Gateway? Kwik Save?

@dannyboydoh

2 жыл бұрын

Kwik Save made a come back and operates a few shops mainly in the north of England.

@djelalniyazi4090

2 жыл бұрын

or safe way

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

There's a Gateway some miles from my house, that's now a Llid. My local Kwik Save is now an Iceland and part of a gym. The Woolworths is a Poundland and a small phone shop. 😁

I just always liked saying Woolworths.

Woolworths was the biggest loss to the high street. You could pop in there for anything. I feel their demise was stocking mostly kids toys at the end

Comet were always pushing the extended warranty which weirdly included the manufacturers year warranty and in any event the Sale of Goods Act covered goods. As for Woolworths, yeah who doesn’t miss it.

I will never forget the toys r us advert, you knew Christmas was close when it was on the TV.

Woolworths, C&A, Wavyline, Bejams, some of my favourite childhood memory shops, from yesteryear....

I miss Woolworths so much, since it went, the town literally died. the building is still there and its never been anything else. The actually Woolworths signs are up still as well. Barely any shops on that side of the town are still open

Woolies!!! I remember there massive pick n Mix Isle, such fond memories, our old store is now a shabby BnM

Where we used to live, there was this supermarket we used to shop at, as a family - Safeway....

Grainger games was a brilliant gaming shop to visit in northern England till it went out of business

we used to have a Thorntons in our town center and its now occupied by a hotel chocolat store that does the same thing as thorntons

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

Wilko's sell Thorntons as do Sainsbury's. 😋 ❤️

You mentioned that other companies started in America but you forgot to mention that about Woolworths, apparently there also still open in Mexico amongst other countries

Sad about BHS. Back in the day while still at school, I had a Saturday job at BHS in Southsea, Portsmouth. It was more "upmarket" than Woolies but cheaper than Debenhams. And they treated their staff very well even us Saturday kids. Nice managers and a great staff canteen. I also worked in Littlewoods on the same shopping strip. I guess that's long gone too (I moved to Australia in 1988). This oldie loves my smartphone, my laptop and 24/7 access to the internet, but I bloody don't like shopping online. I miss the old department stores.

I really miss Woolies, Toys 'R' Us and Borders the most :(

Some of these companies had such memorable TV adverts. The Toys R Us and Gamestation ones really ring a bell.

I miss Maplin

my first job in 1959, trainee manager at Woolworth. Working in the stockroom, bringing down the produce to the main floor sweeping up and keeping the coal fired boilers working in these days. You really did start at the bottom, but it was wonderful it’s the one store I really miss, ah! nostalgia; it’s not what it used to be

I remember Index,MK one ,BHS,Tradex but I think that was only a thing here in leeds and same goes for Kwiksave😅😅, JJB Sports,Internationalle, Miss Selfridges, Summerfield and the early learning center 😍 the UK was such a happier place back then 😭🥺

I shop in woolies every day in Australia 😂🦘

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

It's not the same shop as the UK Woolies was.

Comet closed down in 2008 I’m sure???? There’s no way it was 2012🥴🥴 I literally remember it so well , it was the year my auntie passed away... perhaps it was just all my local stores???

Always remember the toys r us adverts as a kid especially around Christmas and loved going in blockbuster and woolworths to have a look around

Loved Woolworths as a child. Would go in for CDs and videos, toys, sweets, stationary, clothes and then my mum would be able to get general homeware items and gifts. Still remember my favourite striped top with a matching bracelet from there 😂

Amazon beware!! If the only place I can get a product is online, I most likely didn't need it in the first place. Love old school shopping, viewing and touching the item before I purchase plus the one on one interaction. Greetings from a Brit residing in the USA.

Great video and I can think of a couple more, Maplin and Lunn Poly Travel. These days only food and clothes stores really work, the rest are doomed.

I miss Wollies, mainly for their pick n mix selection.

@ai_9959

2 жыл бұрын

U miss thiefing em dont ya?

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

@@ai_9959 😆

Woolworths was my favourite shop from my childhood memories from getting toys, games, music and videos and religiously pick n mix miss it so much. Debenhams and BHS were too