OMG woolworths is going :(

[lynda66]

woolworths has today gone into liquidation ........ with a loss of 30,000 jobs and MFI have gone too ok i hate MFI but hell you don't expect it do you ...... wonders where it will stop

[Bephlam]

I can't recall the last time I was even in a Woolworths.

[BrideXIII]

LOL where were you at lunchtime?

it's the end, of one era, and the beginning of another, if they can go, where the hell is this job they want me to get??

[Bephlam]

lol - jobs are hard to come by now! And the the DSS is rubbish - thank my lucky stars I have never had the misfortune of needing their help!!

[lynda66]

i go into woolies loads ...... they have good sales lol ....... that's a point they may have a massive sale of everything now.......... Bride, of course theres jobs out there ........ apparently millions of them ..... you may not keep it for more than a week till the firm goes bust ......... but theres millions out there ........ anyway what happened at lunch time??

[lynda66]

can't see our ikea lasting long either ....... (although as a whole the company is probably fairly safe) ........ built a massive store, and no one actually goes in it ....... went the other week, and think i saw 3 people, and that was on a saturday.

[BrideXIII]

i go into woolies loads ...... they have good sales lol ....... that's a point they may have a massive sale of everything now.......... Bride, of course theres jobs out there ........ apparently millions of them ..... you may not keep it for more than a week till the firm goes bust ......... but theres millions out there ........ anyway what happened at lunch time??

LOL , lunch time was when the rescue package fell through and they announced woolies was going to the administrators.......... 1 hour later MFI announced the same thing....
basically, i know people think i dont do much, but i watch 24 hour news in the background
there will be jobs, the same jobs there were before, just less of them, been here, done this before..STILL pity the youngsters more than me

[lynda66]

oh i had to go into town, needed milk and cat food (wonders why i spent £30)

and this is why my son wasn't getting out of going to uni ........ hopefully when he's finished there will still be some engineering jobs somewhere ........ even if it's abroad.

[BrideXIII]

this is why we suffer, cos we can make it better for them, otherwise whats the point?
although.......... son2 told me tonight, 'you know what mum, xmas is a commercial con, life is what you are happy with' he is freakin 13!! he humbles me daily, i did something right, even though i corrupted them LOl

[lynda66]

seems like he's got it right ...... that's all it is to me too ....... i actually hate xmas

[kernowyon]

feel sorry for those that lose their jobs, but woolies has been relying for too long on the past, they may have been around for years on the high street but they have failed to move with the times. these are difficult times for everyone and this just shows that history is not going to save anyone.

MFI have gone the same way because they also have not moved with the times, we tried to buy a bed from them, not only were they extremely expensive for what essentialy is a flat packed bed but we would also have had to wait for two weeks, and pay them £20 for the privilege of delivering it to us as the store did not do a collection service. not the way to do business when you are in competition with the likes of IKEA

[BrideXIII]

I do it for the kids....the victorians bloomin well invented it and have been making us feel guilty about it ever since, they were good at that stuff.

we are pagans, we do not DO xmas, but if you dont do the commercial stuff for your kids, they are so isolated............and i frikkin resent that, i am so lucky that they actually see it for what it is now, and no offence to any real Christian , who knows what their xmas is, either way its not what the high street bullies us into

[BrideXIII]

feel sorry for those that lose their jobs, but woolies has been relying for too long on the past, they may have been around for years on the high street but they have failed to move with the times. these are difficult times for everyone and this just shows that history is not going to save anyone.

MFI have gone the same way because they also have not moved with the times, we tried to buy a bed from them, not only were they extremely expensive for what essentialy is a flat packed bed but we would also have had to wait for two weeks, and pay them £20 for the privilege of delivering it to us as the store did not do a collection service. not the way to do business when you are in competition with the likes of IKEA

you are so right, big stores living on their '80's' reputations , now they are gone, and rightly so, its still a knock though, thats what frightens people, that stores that have 'been there forever' can die in a recession, they expect it to be small new businesses, its all cool though, we wont die, we will come out the other end, there will be a shake up............ and nothing will change

[lynda66]

MFI have gone the same way because they also have not moved with the times, we tried to buy a bed from them, not only were they extremely expensive for what essentialy is a flat packed bed but we would also have had to wait for two weeks, and pay them £20 for the privilege of delivering it to us as the store did not do a collection service. not the way to do business when you are in competition with the likes of IKEA

we tried to buy a wardrobe when we moved into our new house, for my son ...... had the same hassles with MFI ...... came out and went next door to argos, where it was £5 dearer, but they had it in stock ........ it is a shame that woolies didn't make their 100th year next year though.

[BrideXIII]

woolies made a BIG mistake when they went all 'order it'.... i cant remember the times in the past year when i have gone in for something simple, like a kettle cos mine had blown up, only to be told, 'we dont have them in stock, but use the big red book we can order it in 48 hours'............. i needed a frikking kettle, not in two days, NOW! they tried to move too far away from what the public knew them for, as did MFI.