So Woolies closing down before the end of the month. Terrible news for the staff at the worst time of the year! I guess some of the staff in Hartlepool will have been there for years too ;(

Now the Hartlepool branch will probably turn into another pound shop, sheesh, another empty unit or discount store, our town centre is becoming useless.

Still it would be churlish not to visit and see if you can pick up some cheap toys for xmas pressies or a kettle for £2

I spent about £50 at the Portrack one last weekend- loads of stuff reduced that we'd been meaning to buy for ages so no buying for the sake of it either.

I wonder if I can get some cheap as pic n mix?

Anyone remember that old old old geezer who used to be the security guard on pic n mix?

He was like 90 and the skinniest man ever, I actually think he was dead and he was just the ghost of pic n mix past.

It's hardly a shock that Woolies are going bust. The layout of their stores has barely changed since the seventies. It's a dinosaur, hasn't moved with the times and has been badly managed for years.

Hopefully someone else will take over the stores and the staff will get kept on.

Woolies will not survive in it's current format for 2 reasons...


1. The internet, you can get everything you could want in woolies for less price and less hassle.

2. Asda, Tesco, Morrions have just got bigger and bigger.

You can get tv's, cd's, sweets, clothes etc, whilst you get your shopping, you don't need woolies anymore it's all under 1 roof.

Woolies would have more success being a specialist bondage store at the moment as at least the asda don't sell all that... yet.

I normally pop in a couple of times a week to get a drink or some sweets or summit, solely cos you can pay on your card so it saves me getting a tenner out, a sneaky 50p here n there i wont miss.

I will miss it for that, but it can't stay open just for me doing that I guess.

A once-a-week pump on the pick n mix would do for me.

When poundland is doing charlie horn for a quid woolies just cant compete

they should do Frankie Vaughan instead then!!!
Apart from owt else, at least half that pick n mix got nicked or just plain eaten in full view by loads of 4/5 year olds, left next to the sweets while their chav parents went shoplifting.
I'm gonna miss doing that with our lass and the bairn.

When I'm out shopping with the youngun she always just picks stuff up n walks out with it, i never say owt like, especially when it's a tele

Im sure some of the supermarkets do pick and mix these days

Woolies is/was a poor shop and it wont be missed. As a kid it was brilliant as it was about the only place to get toys in the town.

I just hope it gets taken over by a decent company, not pound universe, pound planet, 99.9p shitstores et al.

Oh and no more friggin chemists, womens fashion shops etc. How about a decent clothes shop for blokes instead of officers club and burtons (both of which are shiit) Friggin Greenwoods is not far behind either of them

The rent on that size shop alone will be massive.

I can't see anyone being able to afford that.

Think of shops out of town, there isn't many as big as that, maybe that one in boro, over the road from kfc, bhs is it i dunno?

Could pools not build a new stadium there? We could then get greggs pasties at half time or pick and mix from wilkos!

jackpot!

Combine the 2....

Gregg n mix!

Didnt he become an international icon on Home Alone 2? you know where kevin nicks a toothbrush or something?

thats not actually a bad shout, something like boarders at teesside park? Book SHop, Music Store, decent coffee shop or restaurant. but then again, with the amount of smack heads in the town (which is why many people dont go down) i doubt if anything will actuallly take off in MIddleton Grange.

Hasnt that big store at the bottom near primark closed down also?

Westgates is reopening as a homeware store

Are you thinking about Westgates, I think that is just getting revamped and going to reopen once it has been finished

they spent all that money sprucing up the centre, and the shops are crap!!!!! Where else but Hartlepool would that happen?
I must admit when you look at the punters walking about in there, I wouldn't set my business up in Hartlepool either.

Spot on Parmo!

I live away from the town so havent been to Middleton Grange for ages, It seems everytime I go the "characters" in there look more and more ropey!

Although similar comparisons, Is that where I live the shops are open till 8pm most evenings, Yet theres no bugger about as they've all gone to Metro Centre instead, That may also be a factor why our town lacks decent shops

I have heard that is closing for a revamp, dunno it is true though, either a revamp or a homeware store.

Sigh

We had, The Works and Music Zone, I used both when I had the spare dosh. The shoppers of Hartlepool didn't put enough money in the till to keep these sort of stores viable.
We're lucky we've still got Smiths and Greenwoods .
And how the fook is Holland & Barrett staying open,

Well i went into woolies today and it was just the same as normal.

Canny few people in mulling about, no mad dashes and fights over toys, prices pretty much still look the same to me.

In protest i went to wilko's for my pic n mix.

Glad to hear you are protesting yubep. Someone has to make a stand.

Any idea what the protest is about?!

Not sure yet, i'm working on it.

I may protest against you, that'll teach em!

That's the one I went to at the weekend- there wasn't loads left then!

Ive got to get this off my chest
















I was nicked for shoplifting there as a kid ..

same old darlo

fcuking useless at everything

At least we get our clothes from shops and not jumble sales ...

And where do you get your managers?

Bring and fooking buy sales?


PS

Notice the correct use of 'your', thick damned bounder