Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008
close all 807 Woolworths stores in the UK by January 5 with the loss of 27,000 jobs.
yahoo: All Woolies Stores To Be Closed
Administrators are to close all 807 Woolworths stores in the UK by January 5 with the loss of 27,000 jobs.
Some 207 are to close on December 27 followed by another 200 on December 30.
Posted by mark @ 02:24 PM (519 views) Add Comment
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1. paul said...
Thats awful. This is so emblematic of the failure of this goervnment.
There won't be much festive spirit in your local woolies.
If I were a line manager there I'd make it interim company policy for all employees to come to work drunk.
2. mark said...
yes browns lot should have stopped the growth of Tescos etc the big supermarkets have killed woolies off
3. paul said...
Mind you, reading back through the archives, woollies have been "beleaguered" for years ...
4. mark said...
i suspect you will see a lot of forced house sales early next year.....
5. fjcruiser said...
Wollies should have gone bust years ago, at least a few years back staff would have had a chance to find new jobs. What is their hope today in this job market ?
6. little professor said...
Ouch! Now that's a story worth posting. What a horrible Christmas for everyone involved - couldn't have come at a worse time :(
7. str 2007 said...
I suspect alot of retailers will cut their losses in the New Year.
If they struggled this year it will only be worse over the next 2 years.
I remeber an article a while back showing an American Shopping Mall with 150 odd units, only 5 were still occupied.