General Chat

I will miss the memories of the pick and mix and the hot salted peanuts.

But, to be honest, our local store was complete rubbish - hated going in there. Nothing interesting to buy. Anything you wanted you could get elsewhere ... never used it.

Jill

Our Woolworths {wooden floors, high counters,} was next to the cinema and as kids we bought a bag of hot peanuts to eat at the pictures.

Probably their add. The Wonder of dear old Woolies.**M**.

We still have Woolworths here in Western Australia and all over Oz
Woolworths Supermarkets are huge here
Most of the larger Shopping Centres also Have Big W which is owned by Woolworths it is a large Departmental Store that sells nearly everything.
They really do dominate here

Jackie

Went to hounslow shopping centre today, and its was like looking at a big black hole where woolworth was.

I went in there every time i went down there, didnt buy anything very time, but use to get bits like pens,pads etc, kids clothes and pick and mix.

Will miss it as like everyone it always been there in the high street anywhere you go.

we also had big W over here to Jacks

Big W Is all we had here, but it wasn't in the city centre unfortunately. The City centre Woolies closed down a few years ago to make way for the new shopping mall. Big W sort of grew from that,although in truth it was already there, but unless you were prepared for a long walk, queues for car parking, already there for Morrisons or two bus rides...it wasn't worth the effort of going, and closure of Big W was threatened a couple of years ago.

I had a Saturday job at woolies in 1975, and my then future MIL worked there until she retired. One cousin worked there as a supervisor in one of the Kent branches, and another worked in the Bracknell one. Both are now redundant.

shoplifting

Taking a short cut through the store unto the High Street.:}}

Come on I was only 4 and I did get a good hiding

I'll miss the wooden floors, the high double sided counters and......oh, they got rid of them years ago didn't they.

Ok, then I'm going to miss the Pic n Mix.

Good ol' Woolies, the High streets won't be the same without them.

K

I bought my first record in Plymouth Woolies back in the early 60's.I think it was Dusty Springfield.

I bought a Roxy Music LP in Woolies back in the 80's but when I got it home it was the wrong one...so I recorded it, took it back and exchanged it for the one I wanted...and recorded that too. I had a brilliant 2-album tape then hehe

I used to but my childrens clothes from ladybird they were a very make...

I heard they are selling everything off even the shevles and rumour has it the floor tiles are being ripped up..

WHY WOULD ANYBODY WANT THE FLOOR TILES ????

Morning All

Everything had to be sold off,lots of our local shops bought the shelves,fittings etc.
My Daughter,who'd worked at our Woolies for 8 years, thankfully found another job before redundants were started. She has told me workers who have been awarded redundancy are still waiting for their money,but in the meantime cannot seek another job or claim any benefits at all. What are they expected to live on?
Their unions are also fighting for their pension fund contributions,they will lose a % of that money too.

Look on Ebay to see Woolies' items that could become collections in years to come........workers name badges,price cards and even pic&mix adverts Col ;O)

when I left school in 1976 I worked in Lincoln Woolies, it was a very busy shop where you could get everything from bread to paint.
The counters were the old ones where the assistant stood in the middle. There was a refit and the shops old cafe was pulled out replaced by a more modern one, and a bright paint job. All fixtures were changed to shelving, and the food department taken out. We used to get bomb scares (really) and have to get the customers out, those in the cafe were reluctant to leave their paid for meals! The staff had to search the store for a bomb, while the bomb squad were waited for. (Days of IRA). Then years later our Woolies closed down, everything went. A new Woolies opened in a new building but it was never the same, and it also closed. The nearest was Big W 16 miles away but I never found the need to go there for anything. It's sad though, all the jobs lost. And an icon of the British High St gone.

I BET THE JOB CENTRES BUSY THIS MORNING

but if made redundant Joy they cannot,for a good few weeks, look for another job....
Maux

Have an old School mate on Friends that started at Woolies when he left school at 15 in 1972 and has never worked anywhere else poor sod will probably never work again unless he has a local B & Q!!!!!!!

tony