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Following on from "the stuff you used to see but doesnt exist anymore" thread what about shops, major stores, not mrs jones sweet shop on the corner.
Woolworths,
bhs,
kwik save,
littlewoods,
fine fare,
somerfield,
rumbelows,
granada tv rental,
telefusion,
C&A
Safeway
[quote=geoffj ]C&A
Still has branches in Spain!
Chelsea Girl and Conceptman
Fosters Menswear
Ciro Citterio Menswear
got all my stuff from there when there was nowhere else to get it from.
Shoppers World - a superior standard of tiny pens to nick than Argos.
Index
Yes c&a no longer in UK but still very healthy globally.
Martin's newsagents?
Phones 4 U
Beatties model shops
freeman hardy willis
C&A is a peculiar one - anyone know why they pulled out of the U.K.?
They seemed a perfect fit on the 80s British high street.
Our Price
Virgin Records
Rory Obriens bike shop in Romford, it makes the list because its a bike shop and was very big...well big if you were a little kid.
Bejam.
Martin's newsagents?
Pretty sure there's one in town.
Famous Army Stores
Army and Navy Stores
Woolworths
Gadget shop
Timothy White.
Electronics Boutique
what every woman wants
what everyone wants
Presto supermarkets.
What was the big draw of Portland Walk; Andy's Records and JJB sports.
Not seen a Millets for a while...
Mr Byrite
Presto
Caters Which became Presto, which became Safeway, which is now Morrisons)
Somerfield and Gateway
Olympus Sport
Dixons
MFI
Borders
Comet
JJB Sports
Thresher
Blockbuster
Dolcis
Ravel
Athena
Body Shop
Sock Shop
Julian Graves aswell I think.
Not seen a Millets for a while...
I get a daily email from them.
Cobblers (nothing to do with Millets)
Oswald Bailey
Lillywhites - the proper one
Beatties model shops
Had a weekend job in Beatties when I was at Uni.
Quiet Sunday mornings constructing elaborate train crashes on the enormous model railway layout. Best part time job ever.
Also worked in Safeway and Texas Homecare
Games Workshop?
Just googled them..yep they're still goingI get a daily email from them.
Smith's Newsagent.
Mr Smith retired and has gone visiting his family in Canada, it was in the paper and everything.
I used to work for Woolies head office. Even as a Grad I could see how utterly mad their retail/supply chain model was. They had something like 25 promotional periods in a year, best sellers ripped off the shelves, massive historical overstocks etc.
YHA Adventure Shops.
Lillywhites - the proper one
🙁 Used to love going there. Like the top floor of the corner shop, it had all the sport kit you'd dream of!
Games Workshop?
Still around but called Warhammer I think
JJB Sports still going as is Games Workshop.
Birketts
Madhouse
Meesons
In excess
Our price
MVC
Tower records
Boneshakers
A video game shop, the units were taken on by game I think?
Millets are still going
John Menzies
Hepworth's menswear
Hinton
Lipton
Presto
Hillards
Brown Muffs
Busby's
Mainly northern based
Body shop is still going isn't it.
Tandy - electronics on the high street
All Sports
Ratners - home of crap jewellery
Woolworth's and C&A still alive and kicking in Germany. If that's a good or bad thing is a matter of conjecture.
John Menzies (edit - beaten to it!)
Martin's newsagents?
Still a couple round here
Sweater Shop.
Brown muffs??! Shame that shop isn't around anymore!
Hintons & Radio rentals. There's a blast from the past.
Are dewhurst butchers still going?
Brown muffs??! Shame that shop isn't around anymore!
It's a fashion thing. I could wax lyrical about their failed entry in to the Brazilian market, but, while it was a close shave for them, they got caught by the short and curlies. I gather the story is being looked at in Hollywood.
My wifes clothing shop/business at the end of next month
Tie Rack
Homeworld
Virgin Megastore?
Plenty Martins still around.
Wiggle in Pompey. Yes, once upon a time it was bricks and mortar.
John Menzies still exists as a logistics and aviation services company it is listed on the FTSE, but it sold all its high street shops to WH Smith.
Eddie Bauer think they still exist in the US but long give from UK.
United Colours of Benetton.
Timothy Whites
Home & Colonial
There's still a Millets in our high street.
Used to get sale clothes from free spirit in brum.
Sony shops were good
MVC was good after Andys records went.
Three cooks
B-Wise/Be wise? can't remember how they spelt it....clothes shop, had a few around my way years ago.
Supercigs?
May have morphed into Acevape or something now
When I lived in Liverpool there was a hardware shop on Lark lane. The old bloke in there we called 'cat litter Ken' and he had 2 jokes. Every week we'd ask him to deliver a big bag of cat litter, and every week he'd say 'If you're not in i'll pour it through the letter box. The other one was 'What do you think this is- an ale house? whenever you wanted to buy nails.
Bet that's gone now.
I'm not even sure his name was Ken but I do like a bit of alliteration.
William Lowe (absorbed by Tesco)
Gateway
VG (usually small shops)
Woolco (another supermarket)
Adams (kids clothing)?
Phones 4 U
What happened there? Thought they were huge?
Dr Jives
Do It All
Focus DIY
{quote]Tower Records
really? 🙁
On a similar note: Avalanche Records, although that might just have been an Edinburgh institution?
Thurstons, which I think became Greggs.
Class, not sure were the yoof of Leeds buy their togs now.
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VC/PE funding, over-expansion and a changing market.
Lennon's supermarket
Phones4U got bought up by a private equity firm for too much money and they tore the arse out of it trying to recoup it, I think it was said at the time that the liquidation was more about asset stripping than a failed business. Most of the shops got sold to Vodafone and EE who were looking to have their own stores and some went to other brands.
Powerhouse
Borders (book store)
All days
I though 'Stolen from Ivor' was completely gone but apparently one branch is still plugging away valiantly.
Goldberg's, although that may be just Edinburgh too.
Although a quick wiki tells me they had 100+ outlets.
Allders (or All Ders as we used to call it)
Laskys (Electronics store)
There's a C+A in my street.
Besaz, Enfield. Used to sell t shirts you could have felt letters stuck onto, any words you liked.
Lewis's in Leeds which I always thought was an excellent shop and still have a belt I bought from there in 1982 ( and it still fits).
Athena
Safeway's
I miss Beatties.
Used to love it in there when I was young but had no cash and now I'm old with cash they are gone. 🙁
Never had the same nostalgia for Model Zone and they've ****ed off too.
Walter Wilsons
VG