Remembering the wonder of Woolies
Monday 14th December 2009, 8:00PM GMT.
The final days of the Woolworths store in Oswestry. It is now a branch of Home Bargains.
How many of us have uttered these words in the last 12 months: “Where’s a Woolworths when you need one?”
A high street icon, the Woolies store was the only place where you’d be guaranteed to pick up a frying pan, clothes dye, a CD, Ladybird school shirts and a bag of pick ‘n’ mix all under the same roof.
Not to mention the last-minute dash for a Christmas present, a birthday card or something as simple as a bottle of water and a packet of crisps.
Perhaps it’s only now, a year after the demise of the company’s high street empire, that we truly appreciate what the big stores with the red frontages in our market towns and shopping centres meant to us, as we have to travel to six different shops just to pick up the odds and ends that no-one else had all under one roof.
But more important than making us travel further to shop for the stuff which always ends up in a kitchen bottom drawer for when we next need it, is that Shropshire and Mid Wales saw 11 stores shut, leaving gaping holes in the high streets and shopping centres.
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Nope. Haven’t missed Woolworths at all. Can’t remember the last time I bought anything in there before it closed. Woolworths tried to be everything and ended up being nothing.
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I agree with my namesake, above. Couldn’t put it better – their business model failed to adapt and it was inevitable that they would close. Sad, but true. And I have not needed one at all in the last 12 months!
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