What retailer do you think will go bust next?

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My money is on Poundstretcher. Went into my local one today. Shelves empty, looking old and dirty and prices aren’t really cheap for a discount retailer…

There's still a HC in the Scottish city near me.

Really they're coming to our town in the spring

The problem is, sometimes you do
And what you want is a local shop, with reasonable prices and good customer service
What you get is CoOp or WHSmith

Me too!

Spar is popular in Nigeria. Random fact of the day 😁

I think it was a joke

Our Boots has pivoted to have a stronger focus on makeup and less on babies and holiday stuff. I'm not convinced it's the right direction. It's not a premium environment and their staff are neither helpful nor knowledgeable. Personally, if I need advice, I'd still go to JL and if I know what I want, I'll buy online for convenience.

I'm sure mounjaro will prop them up though.

> When I start seeing things that are in my wardrobe, lining the charity shop rails… I know it’s time to move them on!

You say they are well made and comfortable ... but you won't wear them any more?

What a terrible indictment of the consumer mentality

I wish Hotel Chocolat would come to our retail park, I buy a lot of their drinking chocolate and some chocolates and the postage isn't free which curtails my purchases

I used to always wonder how Boots kept afloat until I did a project in a care home. The amount of unnecessary stuff that is ordered “on prescription” (I’m in Scotland so free) then wasted must runs into £millions every month. A very quick exam is paracetamol- when prescribed, Boots send the most expensive caplets so £1.99 compared with 49p in Tesco. Likewise high protein drinks - so much gets ordered but the residents rarely get through them but because they’re prescribed, they can’t be given to anyone else, so they just get wasted. Ditto simple emolients, high fluoride toothpaste, incontinence pads etc.

I’m convinced this sort of prescribing is keeping Boots afloat!

I think a lot of posters are just naming shops they dislike and don't care if people lose their jobs.

River Island.

I've never found anything worthwhile in there and now my teen never finds anything in there.

If my local high street is anything to go by I think Superdry, Rymans, Peacocks, and White Stuff.

Frasers always seems empty now, many of the concessions within it have gone. Shame, it used to be a lovely store when it was House of Fraser but now it seems to be full of Sports Direct stuff.

Our big Asda had one checkout out of twenty open on Friday. It was chaos apparently.

Don't know about other suppliers but I refused to sign their 150 day contract, compromised on 60 days, and fined them £70 or £100 plus interest almost every month until the end of the contract, then ditched them

Bodyshop. They were struggling last year. Nice products but overpriced in my opinion.

ASOS.

Fatface have had sales every couple of months for the last ten years or so. I don’t think the quality is as good as it was.

I like White Stuff jeans but that’s about all I buy now.

I found the Body Shop sale very disappointing this year, I usually stock up on skincare but they didn’t have any multi buys.

Whittards,

Yes, there is such a frustrating disparity between H & M stores and their website. I love their Home range, but the Home section in the store is a mess. They never seem to have items in stock,( not just sold out, but many items never seem to be in the store at all) and what they do have is all jumbled up on the shelves like in TK Maax.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-body-shop-in-administration-information-for-employees-and-creditors

But loads of people still listen to CDs and more to the point, vinyl!

I stopped shopping there when they went to store credit for refunds. I know that legally they don’t have to offer anything unless the product is defective but there is a John Lewis just up the road (walking distance) and multiple department stores 10 minutes away by train, all of which offer returns to your method of payment. I’ll shop there, thanks.

Also Waterstones.

Love their shops, great for browsing and getting a drink in the cafe but when you buy books and then see them much cheaper on Amazon, you feel ripped off!

Not Boots I don't think, they've tapped in to the Sephora/Space NK market which is very popular on SM with youngsters, I mean they always sold skincare but now they're selling the unknown brands that trend on SM, there's a huge flagship store a few miles from me and it's always busy.