Which shops that are teetering on the brink of going under would you save and how?

[Izzabellasasperella]

So many high street shops are on the edge. Which ones would you save and how?
Mine would be The Body Shop. Take it back to its roots, eco-friendly, nothing tested on animals(not sure if this is still true but if so they don't shout about it) Cheaper products to entice shoppers(but not bargain basement cheap)
All products re-usable/recyclable.
I do think The Body Shop could be brought back with a clearer identity.
How would you save some shops on our high street?

Make local councils provide better car facilities - lower car park prices, more parking spaces, fewer anti-car policies, etc. Get the shoppers back and the shops will look after themselves. Councils have for too long just seen cars as either cash cows or the enemy and prioritised pedestrians and public transport without thinking/common sense. Workers have the money to spend, but are short of time, so can't spend half the day faffing around with public transport to go shopping - not rocket science.

Agree with you about the body shop.

I would like to help Pizza Express but I have heard that their problems are from massive debt. I'd like to help them by eating loads of their pizza and getting rid of dodgy hedge fund stuff.

I'm surprised Body Shop is still going tbh.

My young niece is excited as apparently all of the stock at Forever 21 will be sold at clearance prices as it's just filed for bankruptcy. I also saw online Karen Millen, Coast and Bon Marche have all gone into administration and their shops are shutting. I wouldn't fight to save any of them.

I would love to see Woolworths make a come back though. I worked there when I was 16 and loved it!

I don't think it's anything to do with cars, it's online shopping = death of the high Street. I hardly ever physically visit a shop anymore.

Body Shop without a doubt. I use their Mango Body Butter which is gorgeous. It’s £15 a pot but worth it as it lasts me months as I only ever use it for my hands and arms.

Some of their other body butters can be £25 a pot.

Elderflower eye gel....why did they stop doing that? Everyone in the 80s seemed to buy it, I loved it,

I think Marks & Spencer could save themselves by making some better clothes like they used to. Every time there's an M&S thread, lots of us say how we really want to shop there and wish we could buy stuff! We want them to do well but they just don't listen.

I wish Lush would go under, then they'd stop inflicting their nauseating smell on everyone.

I don't think it's teetering but WHSmith. That shop is so depressing, dingy and badly stocked and no I do not want to buy your special offer chocolate, if I wanted chocolate I would have chosen my own thank you. Do they still give out those strange vouchers?
Clean the stores up, re-stock with a well laid out system and for goodness sake put in better lighting😊

WHSmith is such a mess that someone's set up this Twitter account www.twitter.com/WHS_Carpet

I too would save M&S, they still do some lovely products but you have too hunt for them.
Also agree car parking is outrageous. I was faffing once in Primark on whether to buy a £3 top. That indecisiveness pushed me into the £8.50 mark for parking and I promised myself I'd never park in that town again and I haven't gone back.

Definitely sort out parking. We are free to park on the weekends - and the shops are packed every weekend. It works. Also bring down the cost of running a shop - eg business rates/rent. It’s no wonder so many empty shop premises are filled by charity shops. Nothing against them- but high streets need character and it’s provided by the sole owner type shops, not giant companies who only serve to make you forget which town you are in.

Another one here for Woolworths. Cracking shop. So sad it's gone.

I wish someone would save Laura Ashley. It got really naff in its later years, and now seems to be down to about two shops, but back in its 1980s prime it was beautiful and the quality superb.

Agree about parking. I am lucky to live in a small town which is relatively flourishing. How does it manage that, you may ask. Well, two thirds of the commercial property is owned by an aristocratic estate who also own several of the carparks, and they know which side their bread is buttered on - there is loads of free parking.

I would love to save WHSmith. First thing I would do is get rid of those bloody self service tills that nobody uses. In my local WHS we all just stand around waiting for a member of staff to come and do it for us.

Agree re body shop, I’m sure they used to have a refill your own containers bit, would love to see them bring back a zero waste section.

M&S needs to bring back quality. I no longer get my pants from them after 30 years of doing so because the cotton is so poor it wears thin in less than a year.

I agree about the Body Shop. They could be onto a good thing if they went back to their roots and original values, tapped into the growing vegan trend and scrapped plastic packaging.
I also miss Woolworths.
And yes free parking in towns. Our town is on the bones of its arse yet the council still charge through the nose for people to shop there. If you go on the very rare free parking days it's bustling with people. They just don't get it.

I think The Body Shop is owned by L’Oreal so they’re probably propping them up.

Would hate to see M&S go under. They just need to get their clothes offering right. Food is great.

Oh and I miss Virgin Vie. My DH used to buy me gorgeous smellies and make up from his local one when we were first together.

Select make my favourite dresses
Only not recently . So nothing to tempt me in now
Don’t forget the high rents in shopping centres for preventing new businesses from opening
I miss bhs
Got some lovely skirtinis there.. never seen any since anywhere. Thankfully what I have might last me.
Our whs is also a post office thank god

Our m and S should neverhave moved out of the town centre ..they should have made it food only as their clothes were rank