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…

This makes me feel better. I eyed up a pearl bracelet for AGES from there. Monitoring the price in the sales etc but could never justify the cost.

I'm glad that I didn’t spend big on cracker quality shite. I work for part of my day in a school dining room and was worried an expensive bracelet would get ruined. Maybe the quality wouldn’t have stood up to it anyway.

I feel like asda is going downhill fast! Maybe they will start closing some stores.

There's so much variation between branches that it's hard to call. I'd have said ASDA as the one a 5 min walk from me looks like a shop straight out of the USSR in lean times but another one a few miles away is amazing. Also Boots. Nearest looks like they're regrouping from a flood or fire, the one on the main High Street is an emporium, always heaving. I've never been in amazing PoundStretcher though.

Fenwick's don't even try with their Christmas shop any more. It used to be like a grotto on the second floor and now it's just a sad jumble sale in the basement. They still sell some fab decorations but you're no longer spending 15 minutes in a queue waiting to pay for them.

Asda has suffered from years of mismanagement, sadly.

Oh those muppets mugs are great 😂

Poundland

The products are not priced cheap! I can assure you!!

New look. Branches closing all over the place and when you do go in one it’s dead with moody staff, no music etc. the quality of their stuff is shocking, worse than primark. And their sale items are exchange only which to me reeks of a company that can’t afford to lose a penny.

Why, what’s wrong with halfords? Where will people get their wipers/bulbs etc changed and roof racks fitted?

I agree about HC. I went in before Christmas and their prices have gone up hugely IMO. I walked out not buying anything.

New Look. Really seems to be struggling and always sending emails about reductions. Boots are often low in stock and the website is awful. I think they may close some stores but have the more profitable ones open especially airports and the like.

Coop opening 75 new stores this year. New Argos in my nearest town.

Our local Asda is such a filthy dump, I don’t think it’s had so much as a lick of paint in about 25 years. When you compare it to the local Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Aldi who have all refurbed the stores and made them more modern it looks and feels like somewhere that’s dying a death.

@VegTrug Poundland is having to make changes.
They have recently started a campaign about having more £1 items as people kept complaining that "nothing here costs a quid anymore".
Most of their "own brand" stuff says Pepco on it - which is the name of the company that owns them and what they are called in some other countries.
Why they don't just change their name to Pepco I don't know?
Some of the Pepco stuff is good ordinary household things and will cost - for example -a fiver because it needs to cost a fiver.
But people are so hung up on the "only a pound" concept.

Never good to see any store disappear.
it means job losses and empty units.
And as per pp where will be get our bits and bobs for the car and many people buy their bikes and bike stuff from them too.

If you can find a good independent. You seem determined to want a lot of places closed down. Why?

Yes, I have read your responses, but I still don't know why you think it is a good idea for so many retail outlets to close and people to lose their jobs.

@VegTrug oh god yes Claire's is so bloody expensive.
I wish instead of their confusing "Buy 3 Get 3 Free but not including random products for random reasons" they would just lower their prices.
I want to buy ONE thing.....not six 😂

Or just get someone in the shop I bought it from to fit it correctly rather than a random. What have you got against halfords?

You can hope

I didn't know half of these brands still existed anyway! I think the last Comet I saw was in the 90's!!

And Debenhams- the ones near us shut down ages ago..

For my money - Waterstones. I don't understand how it's still going. And the White Stuff - the only one I know of in a holiday destination we visit is terrible - the designs haven't changed in 15 years.