Woolworths Wonderland: Pick n Mix, Toys & Shoplifting
Crap Shop Woolworths in trouble
2009 – Liverpool’s claim to be the European City of Culture coincides with the 100th anniversary of Woolworths opening their first UK shop in the City.
Famous for its shoplifting appeal to school children who quickly realised thy could stretch their pocket money further by visiting the high street shop en mass and picking up a selection of toys, pens and of course pick ‘n’ mix but failing to pay has a left Woolworths a very special place in many peoples hearts but shopping trends change and it looks like times up for Woolworth.
In a recent poll the majority of 14 – 25 year-old said they found Woolworth to be on the whole “a crap shop” but may have visited in the past six months to pick up a greetings card or even happiness.
Woolworth Closing Down But Still Recruiting
The Wonder of Woolies
Although the website www.woolworths.co.uk has been up and down like a brides nightie it was with some pity that the continued presence of the Careers at Woolworths page which announces “Your journey start here” and continues to entice Woolies Wanabees telling them that it is through thier “unique team spirit that has led us to becoming one of the UK’s market leaders”.
The news that jobs are available in Liverpool will bring some releif to those who fear redundancy elsewhere in the City. Land Rover continue to retain their staff but have further extended their closure period and it is yet to be revealed if the production of the new Freelander will commence on schedule for sales to begin in April 2009. At least the Land Rover Careers page accurately reflects the current state of their recruitment Land Rover Misc Error – We are sorry — this page was not found on LandRover.com
Woolworths are even crap at closing down.
Woolworths called in city financiers Delloitte to offer rescue solutions but with national banks and corporate treasury systems in turmoil no reasonable offers were forthcoming. The answer – a Massive Closing Down Sale.
UK shoppers have become blase to “closing down sales” but Woolworths hit the headlines when it announced that all 850 shops would be clearing their stock. Even the most sceptical couldn’t resist the chance of a bargain. Will we never learn.
“Not well worth it” – said Mr Ian Macfarlane – an exhausted Exeter shopper on returning from a lunchtime spent queuing having been lured into this unlikely retail zone by the closing down sale news reports and misleading up to 50% off signs.
Remember the old adage – one disappointed customer will complain to a hundred others.
As Brandmaster commented I know what I would be looking to buy at the fire-sale
I don’t know why woolworths don’t tell the truth on their site. The “Our site is currently undergoing essential maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.” message isn’t fooling anyone …
Merry Christmas!
agreed malcom..
funny thing is, the Zavvi website is still working, which bodex well
Haha, it’s quite funny they still have the recruiting page up! Although, I feel sorry for all of the people losing their jobs
Shame to see it go!
Shoplifting prone center? How is this? I can’t imagine children just pick what catches their fancy eyes as if nothing happens. Got to correct this thing immediately.
It is a shame to see everyone losing their jobs – there is one man who works in the woolworths in my town… and I swear he´s been there for about 20 years! I feel really sorry for him, because I don´t think he´s been to university or anything.. he must just need to find a shop which isn´t closing down!! I went in to Woolworths to see what the sale was like the other day – well, I couldn´t believe my eyes, people were buying the fixtures and fittings in the shops!!! all that was left for me to buy were some measly plastic cups!!! I did like woolworths when I was younger – it was awesome for toys!!! Shame..
I’m actually surprised it took this long. As a US visitor to England on a regular basis, I always wondered as to the appeal of that shop. Maybe it’s because I missed it in previous times…
The woolworths website according to alexa, gets around 50k visits per day, they should re-direct it using an affiliate id to Amazon or something, no wonder they closed!
Jesus Christ, 50,000 visits per day. If they got that site to convert just 1% into sales that would be 500 sales per day mulitply 365 days = 182500 sales per year. Close the store and just stay online…if not I may check if the domain is up for sale
Mr Liverpool – I’ll see you in the queue at a registrar on 1st September. That’s when the domain is up …!
I will be there Malcolm…lets keep it to ourselves though.
I’ve read that Woolworths is sitting on a mountain of XBox 360s and that Microsoft is demanding them back as they’re afraid the crap shop might sell them way below retail price as they try to get rid of stock.
“Although the website http://www.woolworths.co.uk has been up and down like a brides nightie ” i just have to say, that made me burst into laughs.
So I take it this place is a british wal-mart?
I say good riddance. I don’t need their cheap plastic junk.
Why a british Wal-Mart?
Does anyone know how the new shop Wellworths is doing? This was the shop which was opened by an ex-Woolworths manager.
karen
Being a shoplifitng shop is not a very good name to remember woolsworth. It’s better for them to just close their shop and focus n online business.
Woolsworth is not really good to start with. That is why a lot of people actually don’t care if they are closing down. At least kids will not be tempted to shoplift anymore.
I think it’s time to close Woolsworth, after what happened to their company, it’s better to just start all over again with a clean slate.
Wow. There has not been a Woolworth in Utah since the 80′s. I remember going there with my grandma as a girl. Thanks for the memory.