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Published Date: 03 January 2009
THE last remaining Woolworths store in Edinburgh is to stay open for an extra day in a bid to sell off extra stock.
The Big W at Milton Link had been due to close after Monday's trading but it will now trade for the last time on Tuesday.

Its other city stores at Lothian Road, Stockbridge, Leith and Corstorphine have all already been shut down.

A spokesman fo
r Woolworths' administrator Deloitte said: "There are two main reasons for delaying the closures.

"One, stock levels – there's still some stock remaining. Two, workload – it's a big logistical exercise. The remaining dates were delayed to allow time for the final arrangements to be made."

FW Woolworths first came to the UK in 1909, when the American firm opened a branch in Liverpool. Everything in the Merseyside store was sold for sixpence (2.5p), making it an instant hit and the company quickly expanded.

The chain, which outlived its US parent by more than ten years, was already foundering when the sharp downturn in consumer spending toppled it in November.

Deloitte has held talks with other retailers to take on the leases of around 300 Woolworths stores and hopes to sell off the Ladybird children's clothes and Chad Valley toys brands.



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  • Last Updated: 03 January 2009 10:16 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Woolworths
 
1

Jenny MacArthur,

03/01/2009 12:46:05
Woolies. MFI. Officers Club... etc. Spot the common denominator. Rubbish shops selling rubbish. Hopefully a lot more junk outlets preying on idiots who can't see through the advertisers' con that to be happy they have to fill their empty lives with rubbish tat will follow.

The vast majority of stuff consumer-morons fill their lives with is totally unnecessary. So there is no such thing as a low paid worker in this country. Anyone with a job earns plenty, if they didn't waste it all on stupid rubbish. Time this recession bit a lot deeper, to make people appreciate what they have and waste less, rather than moan on about not being able to afford more and more useless tat.
2

Brian from Accounts,

03/01/2009 12:59:38
I'm tired of stories about people buying stuff out of shops. It's ****ing boring.

#1 is right.
3

brandy al,

embra 03/01/2009 13:32:31
A very sad happening to lose Woolies,but life must go on.
4

Unimpressed one,

03/01/2009 17:23:21
"Spot the common denominator. Rubbish shops selling rubbish."

On that basis we can expect to see the demise of more than half the shops on the high street! Ikea would top the list - Scandinavian recycled orange boxes.
5

COLINTON.MAINS,

Oakville Ontario 03/01/2009 21:53:50
to.bad.they.didnt.get.a.bail.out.like.the.banks
6

S.M.D.,

Edinburgh 03/01/2009 23:56:05
#2
You've forgot Adams....got a point, so, there are plenty rubbish shops around.I believe, that TK MAx be next and hopefully many more, who've been ripping off their customers over the past years.
Agree with Ikea....#6
Autoglass should be next......I hate those companies, who rip off their customers and it's time, that all the rubbish is weeded out.
Big W started off no bad, but ended up as a total dive, they were sitting on lot's of dead stock, which they refused to sell off to get rid of it, which level of staff authorized this,well, perhaps, they just need to think of how many customers, they ended up putting off visiting their stores by their attitudes.
I just feel sorry for those few really nice and efficient staff, they employed.Sadly, there have been few and far between.
7

Tom Conway,

04/01/2009 14:55:07
When I was just a mere stripling, there was a Woolies on Princes Street, next to the monument of Wellington (I think) I thought it was wonderful
When I was in the US Army at Camp Drum I visited the town in N.Y. where Woolworths started up.
8

Tom Conway,

04/01/2009 14:55:09
When I was just a mere stripling, there was a Woolies on Princes Street, next to the monument of Wellington (I think) I thought it was wonderful
When I was in the US Army at Camp Drum I visited the town in N.Y. where Woolworths started up.
9

Julian.,

edinburgh 04/01/2009 23:37:37
rs,

Sounds like you really do agree with a lot of Jenny's sentiments. As you said, shops like these are just a symptom of the consumer society, churning out cr*p, most of which will end up in a landfill in a couple of years.

Maybe what's happening now is what the government should have been doing for the environment years ago...discouraging wasteful consumerism.

Let's look at this as a blessing. Our recources are now being wasted away at a much slower rate. OK it's sad that 30,000 people have lost their jobs but, considering the mess the free market's made of everything, maybe it's time to let the government put these people into slightly more useful occupations...like designing and building green cars.

Or how about this idea...let's change the tramline and employ people to make it into an underground system instead...thereby reducing congestion as well as pollution;-)
10

Newly,

Edinburgh 05/01/2009 09:51:04
You can still go to Woolworth Stores in Germany :-) They are still open and trading! Just been to one when I was over for x-mas holiday and there is no sign of closures...
Nina

 

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