Reply to: Woolworths 50% sale

[Ardesco]

Woolies has gone bust because it got targetted by the joint evils Tesco and Walmart (ASDA in this country).

I bought my first album in Woollies and we used to nick marker pens (good for graffiti) and Blu-Tack from there. Happy days.......

You see you are the reason that they are now going down!!!!!

[Durbs]

Wheres the best place to monitor prices for PS3? Have decided to invest in one...

And indeed you should cause they are a thing of beauty!

Combined with a LoveFilm subscription for BluRay lovelyness (and YES you can tell the difference) you cant beat it.

[shoes]

Load of tat now half price at best.

I didn't want it before and I don't want it now, even if it were free.

If they'd pay me to take it and send it to me in the post rather than have me visit the dreadful mucky shop I'd give it some consideration.

[Ardesco]

Woolies has gone bust because it got targetted by the joint evils Tesco and Walmart (ASDA in this country).

I bought my first album in Woollies and we used to nick marker pens (good for graffiti) and Blu-Tack from there. Happy days.......

You see you are the reason that they are now going down!!!!!

[Alf W]

Woolies has gone bust because it got targetted by the joint evils Tesco and Walmart (ASDA in this country).

I bought my first album in Woollies and we used to nick marker pens (good for graffiti) and Blu-Tack from there. Happy days.......

[PAH]

All Stock 50%.

Loads of cretins on the news thinking there's bargains to be had, complaining it's rubbish. They must ignore the "up to" that sits between "All Stock" and "50%".

This is nothing different that any other sale.

If they ever did offer 50% off everything, they should only offer it to those with customer loyalty cards. Everyone else can whinge all they like, if they'd shopped there before the 'bargains', Woolies wouldn't be in the mess it is.

[Board Game Geek]

LOL Ardesco !

[Ardesco]

Can't believe woolies is closing down after all this time, you know the government should really intervene and save the company! They have done it for the banks so why not the retailers????

[OwlHoot]

From what I've heard about the supposed behaviour of some of the 'bargain hunters', they should be ashamed of themselves. ..

On another blog I read someone today mentioned having just returned from a Woolies sale, where he found most of the shelves empty and looking like the store had been sacked by Visigoths!

[AlfredJPruffock]

I went, the sale hasn't changed from last weeks disapointment

Does Woolies still have the old Pick-and-Mix sweetie counter ?

[Bagpuss]

Anyone been to Woolies today? Any real bargains or have they got rid of the good resalable stuff like PS3's, Xbox, Ipod's etc?

I went, the sale hasn't changed from last weeks disapointment

[deano]

The discounting wont be as good in high-value assets like games consoles. If there are thousands left when Woolies shuts it's doors for the last time, the administrators will show them as assets on the balance sheet, and they can be flogged off en-mass to a company like Amazon or Game for a wholesale price.

Pick'n'Mix is not an asset that is any good because it has a very short shelf-life, so they will want to get rid of it all.

Everything else will be in between these two extremes.

[Beefy198]

From what I've heard about the supposed behaviour of some of the 'bargain hunters', they should be ashamed of themselves. I think they need to remember that the people they are moaning at because "prices haven't been discounted as advertised" are going to lose their jobs.

On the other hand, if I hear one more cretin state that the government should intervene and save the company.....

[gingerjedi]

Why is Woolworths in Germany not bankrupt?

I think it's a separate company, Woolworths in the USA went bankrupt 10 years ago.

[Mich the Tester]

I order my Christmas purchases from a purveyor of luxury goods who brings them to my house. It's worrying to think that if this recession bites testers hard, I might some day end up queueing in a shop with the great unwashed.