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Shops that will be next to disappear

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  • JohnBoyUK said:

    Halfords hopefully useless at car servicing/repairs etc, never had such a bad experiance, never again.

    They must be doing something right as Pinarello (the manufacturer that was making Team Skys road bikes) are now using them as their official UK outlet now.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/15/halfords-pinarello-bikes-bradley-wiggins

    Strange one that! Low end of the market bikes on the racks with Pinarello's. Perhaps Evans didn't want the sale.

  • DanDavis
    DanDavis Posts: 1,131
    Is Burger King just a hunch @CAFCElite or has their been news on this?

  • Yeah why Burger King?
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,439
    BHS? They're getting worse and worse - more and more utter tat clothes, with less and less stock (always a precursor to going out of business when the stock's not replenished). They'll get replaced by M&S as their stuff hurtles downwards in price.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,439
    edited January 2013
    CAFCElite said:

    Superdrug,Burger King...They will go next....Oh and maybe Holland and Barratt

    Superdrug will survive longer than Boots. In fact, pharmacies - although not exactly recession proof - will always exist, since you can't buy a lot of what they sell online. If that ever changes, they'll be out of business quicker than you can blink. And I can't see Burger King disappearing any time soon. People always want at least the illusion of choice, so there will always be a large competitor to McDonald's. In any case, fast-food outlets are almost exclusively franchised - there's no end of idiots queueing up to work their fingers to the bone for 16 hours a day over 25 years to retire on a tiny pension whislt making the banner company & its shareholders rich.
  • Nicholas
    Nicholas Posts: 7,635
    Hopefully Burger king, Shit overpriced microwave burgers.
  • DanDavis
    DanDavis Posts: 1,131
    Nicholas said:

    Hopefully Burger king, Shit overpriced microwave burgers.

    Yeah lets hope another 5000 people lose their jobs

  • Nicholas
    Nicholas Posts: 7,635
    You know its not meant like that so do be a tart.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,769
    Burger King won't go . They are a highly profitable company.
  • Burger King is soooooooooooo much better than McDonald's,

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  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,439

    Burger King is soooooooooooo much better than McDonald's,

    Errrrr......... Nah

  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,422
    DanDavis said:

    Marks & Spencers. Living off past glories.

    Agreed - they were always good at doing good quality basic / classics like plain polo shirts and stuff like that - now they have badges and nonsense all over everything and the quality is crap as they try to compete with the chinese stuff. They need to get back to basics. They need a new motto 'We've dropped the nonsense'
    I don't agree with M&S actually, yeah their clothing range isn't exactly hipster but it certainly serves a purpose for a certain age group.

    And their food section is awesome, I think they could survive of that alone if it came to it.
    I think that's a very strong argument
  • WH Smiths have gotta be the next to go, they don't offer anything unique and what they do sell is fairly expensive. They're another retailer that is being superseded by the internet and supermarkets.
  • Argos was talked about before but I have just read the Autumn report they put out. They are with us for a long time to come.
  • Argos was talked about before but I have just read the Autumn report they put out. They are with us for a long time to come.

    Surprising though - you look through a catalogue, order and then sit and wait for the item. Just like buying it on the net only with more hassle.

  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,029
    edited January 2013

    Argos was talked about before but I have just read the Autumn report they put out. They are with us for a long time to come.

    They're scaling back the paper catalogues and are aiming for an all online experience now, arent they...whether at home or in the shop itself (think I read that somewhere, anyway!)

  • JohnBoyUK said:

    Argos was talked about before but I have just read the Autumn report they put out. They are with us for a long time to come.

    They're scaling back the paper catalogues and are aiming for an all online experience now, arent they...whether at home or in the shop itself (think I read that somewhere, anyway!)

    That is what the report says, click and collect at keen internet prices. How they can do this with so many stores and staff is a bit beyond me. I guess they have invested lots of profit over the years in the right places.
  • meldrew66
    meldrew66 Posts: 2,563
    Supa Electrics - Orpington High Street. I don't know how a small, overpriced retailer of washing machines and toasters survives in the current climate. Always empty and can't imagine anyone who would buy from there these days.
  • DanDavis
    DanDavis Posts: 1,131
    Talking of Argos....here is the complete 1986 Catalogue....some awesome nostalgia right here!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/sets/72157619081815831/with/3591019798/
  • DanDavis said:

    Talking of Argos....here is the complete 1986 Catalogue....some awesome nostalgia right here!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/sets/72157619081815831/with/3591019798/

    Where is the like button?

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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,618
    The shop that always amazes me is the gift shop just to the left of the main entrance at Bexleyheath Broadway. Think it's called Gallery Gifts and has been there since the centre opened I think. From the window it looks like it's full of cheap tat.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,378
    DanDavis said:

    Talking of Argos....here is the complete 1986 Catalogue....some awesome nostalgia right here!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/sets/72157619081815831/with/3591019798/

    nice prices
  • The shop that always amazes me is the gift shop just to the left of the main entrance at Bexleyheath Broadway. Think it's called Gallery Gifts and has been there since the centre opened I think. From the window it looks like it's full of cheap tat.

    That costs hundreds of £

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  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,962
    edited January 2013
    DanDavis said:

    Nicholas said:

    Hopefully Burger king, Shit overpriced microwave burgers.

    Yeah lets hope another 5000 people lose their jobs

    5,000 students and minimum wage youngsters.

    At present, there's bugger all else out there for most of them.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,618

    DanDavis said:

    Talking of Argos....here is the complete 1986 Catalogue....some awesome nostalgia right here!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/sets/72157619081815831/with/3591019798/

    nice prices
    The model advertising the weights is Wolf from gladiators
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,378

    DanDavis said:

    Talking of Argos....here is the complete 1986 Catalogue....some awesome nostalgia right here!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/sets/72157619081815831/with/3591019798/

    nice prices
    The model advertising the weights is Wolf from gladiators
    Howling ? ... he must be an old dog nowadays
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,378
    Off topic a wee bit .. there are a couple of shops in Cleethorpes, in an old fashioned 'resort style' parade of shops, tea rooms, cafés etc which are a marvel. One is a wool and knitters shop, the other a model toy shop. How they survive I do not know. I have been here for 7 years, people tell me the wool shop has been open, relatively unchanged with the same owner since the early 70s, a similar story for the model shop. Discounting the idea that they are covers for nefarious activity, it must be that these shop are as much a hobby as a viable business
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,439
    edited January 2013

    Off topic a wee bit .. there are a couple of shops in Cleethorpes, in an old fashioned 'resort style' parade of shops, tea rooms, cafés etc which are a marvel. One is a wool and knitters shop, the other a model toy shop. How they survive I do not know. I have been here for 7 years, people tell me the wool shop has been open, relatively unchanged with the same owner since the early 70s, a similar story for the model shop. Discounting the idea that they are covers for nefarious activity, it must be that these shop are as much a hobby as a viable business

    Don't underestimate the black market for Ginsters, Werthers and Blue Rinse.
  • you can get cornish pastys on the black market?