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…

Does matter to pension funds and other shareholders.

> so Amazon is still more expensive.
Not for me
The nearest town is a £7 return bus ride away

Next is going down the line department stores took. Which in the end annoyed me.

Say I wanted a white shirt, there were white shirts in concessions across Debenhams. So I had to walk round and round hunting down a white shirt. It often defeated me. In the end I just ignored the vast women's section, only buying in beauty, children's and occasionally mens.

I don't like this type of layout. When I worked an hour for lunch just wasn't enough time.

@snowmichael where do you live?
Single bus fairs are capped at £3 (so £6 total) or you get a Dayrider (whichever is cheaper -that or two singles).
Obviously if you are paying for public transport or car costs/parking you have to add on that amount to your total spend but if you do a big shop all on one day a few times a year then it doesn't really add up that much.

They don't sell concessions in our store, I have seen Laura Ashley furniture in large stores that display furniture, maybe it just the very large stores. I like the different brands online because I can use my delivery pass for them and I don't have to order from separate places.

My local Claire's closed at the weekend!

Every time I walk by I remember the trauma of going in with DD to get a couple of things but then the offers were 'Buy 3 Get 3' or, even worse, 'Buy 5, Get 5'
We'd spend AGES in there !!

Now can't recreate this with DGD!

Claire's are in Matalan here now.

So I say:
Claire's
Hotel Chocolat
(Lush has gone from my town already)

They sell some Claire’s hair accessories in Asda. They may have sold other stuff but I didn’t look too closely.

"City snapshot: Record Christmas for supermarkets but Asda continues to struggle | News | The Grocer" https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/city-snapshot-record-christmas-for-supermarkets-but-asda-continues-to-struggle/699422.article

You can search on Argos website/app for other stores if you need it today. Have 4 Sainsburys with Argos inside plus Leicester stand alone. Think DF got the bus to pick my order up as it’s free on bus for him

Not all bus routes are covered by the national scheme and the cap is per bus trip not per end to end journey. (so a change of bus, often to a route run by a different company, will mean another fare).

The body shop
New look

WH smith have the train/airport market but they also pay extortionate rent to network rail/other owners of the space. Still, they have post office and toys r us in a lot of them now so I think they will stay.

Argos will go in house to Sainsbury's. Are there even anymore left stand alone now?

Clothing will go soon I think. Except primark. We have a new look, river island and peacocks here and it's dead nearly everyday. The times I have been in there and liked something they haven't had my size and I've had to order online. Sure people still like to go ans try things on but the market is getting small VS online and the rents, again, are crippling them.

John Lewis deserves to their customer
servIce has gone to the dogs

I think a lot of the card shops e.g. Clinton's, The Card Factory etc, as not as many people buy cards these days.

I wish it was Shein, Temu and the like. They rely on underpaying and overworking their workers, and the quality is terrible.

Older people. When MIL was alive it was the only place near us where we could get clothes that were not too expensive and I could get on and off her easily. Not fashionable, but practical for her.

Landlords have reduced rents. The council rates here North Wales are more than in an English city. Council tax is out of hand.

Clintons

Lush is always rammed in my city!

Special cards I go to a little art shop. Something for every family member, friends, events that you can think of. Otherwise ASDA do cards 3 for £3. They're pretty good. I buy half a dozen at a time.

Co-op is a convenience format.

They are generally set up in local community areas, away from large supermarkets.

So they can charge more because of the convenience for people locally. Principle being that it’s easy to pop to Co-op for top up shops than travelling 5+ miles to the nearest big supermarket. Especially if you don’t drive.

Boots is closing down near me next one I think will be Clinton’s ours is always dead.

All of them. 😫 WH Smith today - they've decimated their stock, got ToysRUs in for part of the store. Change is afoot.

Went to TheWorks the other day, all complete crap. No proper books, just cheap "pseudo-books". Nothing I wanted at all.

Only the high quality retailers are holding on to decent stock from what I can see.

I am guessing it's a combination of online shopping and then inflation/value of the pound meaning that retailers can't get cheap goods like they used to. Pressure from both sides.

Our Co-op are open for longer hours. I love their thin base pizzas, breads, wines. If I just want say bread, milk, vegetables. I'm not schlepping around a large supermarket.

I don’t think there is a clean Poundstretchers out there.