What shops do you miss?

[AlaskaElfForGin]

I still miss Woolies. I bloody loved that shop.

And I miss our local post office as you could buy all sorts of nonsense and have a chat at the same time.

@TheHuntingOfTheSarky
I was coming in to say Sephora too. There was one in Merry Hill.

Richards Shops - bought all my work clothing from there, OMG, the shoulder pads

Tchibo - stock changed every week and I spent a fortune in there.

BHS for lighting and knickers.

I find Wilko has filled the Woolies gap.

BHS at Xmas!...only at Xmas though

Ottakers the bookshop

Kookai

Athena

East. Only gone recently, but much missed.

Wilko's is like a current day woolies though isn't it. Homeware, gardening, pick n mix, it stocks practically everything Woolworths did.

BHS

Snowmonster my first Saturday job was also at Woolies 😊. Started on pick and mix, then the make up counter (miners and Rimmel bliss) then was promoted to Customer Service desk. Occasionally had to cover ‘glass case’ which was jewellery, watches etc.and hated that. Our supervisors were dragons and we had to call them Miss xxx, never by their first names 😅

C&A
Woolies
Mark one

Aw I loved Woolies it reminds me of being a kid. Going to get the newest Disney film on video and a pick n mix, I can remember the excitement

Ooh yes, Chelsea girl!

We had a few local shops which just sold jeans and don’t have anything like that any more?!

Woolies for me too. I could always find what I wanted. I liked their children’s clothes. I do really miss it

Principles! all my work clothes.

I miss Banana Republic and we always make a beeline for C&A whenever we're in Europe.

Bookshops.
All of them, independents and chain.

I hate it when someone starts a thread being gleeful about yet another retailer going under.

They don't care about people losing jobs and give the impression that only ever shopping online is morally superior.

There are Woolworths in Berlin. Same branding and similar stock to Wilko.

C&A in Lisbon and other European countries. Stock was similar to Primark.

Ahhh woolies! Remember queuing up with my mam before school to get the new Spice Girls album on tape! 😂

I hate it when someone starts a thread being gleeful about yet another retailer going under.

@Ginfordinner I really hope that you don't think that's why I started this thread? It's the opposite.

I miss BHS for its swimwear, tights, bedding and lighting

La Senza
Bay Trading
Past Times was lovely

Woolies. You can tell which shops were a Woolies in towns all over England.

No I don't, not at all @AlaskaElfForGin. But there are countless other threads where posters have said that they were glad that a particular retailer has closed down. It's so sad that our high streets are becoming full of struggling shops interspaced with empty units.

Our roads are becoming clogged up with delivery vans, council recycling centres are groaning under the weight of cardboard boxes, posters often complain on here about accepting their neighbours deliveries and our high streets are becoming full of cafes beauty salons and nail bars or other services that simply cannot be done online.

I still go shopping, I support local businesses, and only buy online if I can't buy from a real shop.

I was going to say that as well creamcheeseandlox - Wilkos is Woolies without the music counter or clothes. We used to get all the kids babygrows from Woolies.
I miss Past Times, and also Athena, although I don’t know what I would buy there nowadays! I didn’t know Neal St East wasn’t there anymore - I was in Covent Garden last week and had been going to go but ran out of time, obviously that would have been a wasted trip anyway.

Woolies. You can tell which shops were a Woolies in towns all over England.

What’s the distinguishing features?