Bye Wilko

[SueEllen]

whose next? I'm Thinking Robert Dyas.

Robert Dyas is just an expensive hardware store that randomly sells too much tulipe.

Unfortunately the owner of my local hardware store died last year and so it no longer exists. He was a funny old man as he would tell you exactly what you need and if he wasn't going to stock it he told you to go to Screwfix/Toolstation down the road.

[xoggoth]

So many stores, banks etc closed in last few years or closing soon in my local town:
Colingwood Batchellor
Bathstore
Shoezone
M&CO
Halifax
Hsbc
Barclays
unnamed convenience store
unnamed computer shop
& some other empty places - can't remember what they were

[Gibbon]

Robert Dyas is just an expensive hardware store that randomly sells too much tulipe.

Unfortunately the owner of my local hardware store died last year and so it no longer exists. He was a funny old man as he would tell you exactly what you need and if he wasn't going to stock it he told you to go to Screwfix/Toolstation down the road.

A few houses ago the local hardware store was owned by a young widow, she didn't mind you rummaging around in her drawers for as long as you wanted even if you just bought a single screw, she was also good with assorted nuts and even had a few foreign threaded ones around.

[edison]

A few houses ago the local hardware store was owned by a young widow, she didn't mind you rummaging around in her drawers for as long as you wanted even if you just bought a single screw, she was also good with assorted nuts and even had a few foreign threaded ones around.

Similar in my local small town. There was a hardware store where I could buy just one or two screws but the owner retired just before the pandemic and sold up. It's so annoying having to go to the likes of Wickes to buy a packet of 50 or 100 screws when you need just a few.

[xoggoth]

There was a hardware store where I could buy just one or two screws

You used to be able to do that in Woolworths.

[northernladuk]

Similar in my local small town. There was a hardware store where I could buy just one or two screws but the owner retired just before the pandemic and sold up. It's so annoying having to go to the likes of Wickes to buy a packet of 50 or 100 screws when you need just a few.

You take one in as a sample, you walk out with the 5 you brought as samples. Easy.

[Mordac]

The entire point of Wilko is that you in there for one item you need now and come out with loads of other items you think you need.

Never happened to me, and the last couple of times I went in there they didn't even have the thing I was after.

[SueEllen]

Never happened to me, and the last couple of times I went in there they didn't even have the thing I was after.

That's why they are in trouble - they don't have any stock.

[xoggoth]

Being a mean old sod I like cheap places. Went to Poundstretcher the other day for some walking glasses, having lost yet another pair on me walk the day before, and they were 90p. Couldn't believe it. How come glasses in Boots etc. costs hundreds?

[vetran]

That's why they are in trouble - they don't have any stock.

two years ago they regularly had more staff than customers. That ratio seems to have changed somewhat.

This sadly has been a while coming.

Pity really as they occasionally had some cool stuff on sale.

Despite my sarcasm about the staff's skills some were quite nice especially up north.