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…

Our tired M&S went into Debenhams. It's so much better. Primark moved into BHS, extending. It's huge, on two floors. It's doing very well.

Mind you both are the only ones in north Wales and people travel a long way to shop in them.

I used to love Monsoon - good quality, lovely fabrics and designs, it was good value for money. In the 2000s and early 2010s I spent a lot there. Now everything is meh and extremely overpriced, even when reduced. I haven't bought anything there for years. They have gone so far downhill I also worry they won't survive much longer. Very sad.

However I love Argos - I don't buy loads from there but like others have said, I'd far rather nip to an Argos to buy something than order from Amazon.

I also love The Co-op. I have one round the corner from me and yes it's expensive but the convenience and good quality wins out. Their Member Card is well worth getting for discounts.

Is Sayers still going? The one near us closed and it was always the place to go to in the 80/90's but I don't know how they can keep up with Greggs for that kind of food.

Also Subway, 3 within a 10 mile radius have closed within the last year, but they may have been the same franchise.

Asda cut their cleaning staff to the bone ,got rid of their janitorial shifts IE someone went round picking up packaging, wiping shelves etc and generally maintaining the shop floor so it was in good order.
The staff are having more put on them but some of their newer policies just don't work and some staff look like scarecrows in unkempt uniform's and this wouldn't have sailed a few years ago.
I know this as dw has worked at Asda for years and I've shopped there for over 20 years and seen the difference over past couple of years.

There is still a standalone Argos in Newcastle as well as smaller ones in Peterlee and Consett and that's just my area, off the top of my head.

Body Shop

Body Shop, there’s never any customers in when I walk past

@WeCanOnlyDoOurBest I thought they were in administration already?

I agree with Body Shop. It's just overpriced crap product. I think Lush finished them off with all its gimmicks.

Agree with Monsoon, I got an email from them recently asking why I didn't shop with them anymore. The answer is they don't make good quality, well designed clothing. White Stuff is similar.

None on the same scale. Lloyd's pharmacies have scaled right back. Superdrug and Coop (trading as Well) have pharmacies. The Well in town is in an odd place with tricky parking but they consistently came good when DS1 's prescription was unobtainable anywhere else, including Boots, for months on end a couple of years ago, so we've stuck with them for his prescription.

Why are we talking about which retailer is going under ? Should we not be supporting the high street so they do not end up like run down derelict towns that have nothing apart from betting and charity shops. Amazon is wiping out our beloved high street, they are clogging up the roads the airways, not paying their fair share of tax to support the infrastructure. The workers are run down to the ground, doctors complaining about Amazon workers ill health. Please support your shops not a profiteering giant who is draining existing resources and not paying anything in. Amazoff!

@justasking111 yes, the ones here cover a big area too, lots of villages etc - we do have big ones13 miles away at cribs in Bristol but the area has enough of a demographic here to be ok in its own right and people from chippengam, Trowbridge, Frome and Bradford on Avon and keynsham come to Bath as well as a lot of tourists . It may be Primark can indeed fill out the M&S here! I don't shop there so I'm not the right person to judge . I'm just greatful we've still got good shops

Aldi do a good range of cards for £1 each, I often buy a couple to keep in my stash of cards, wrapping paper and gift bags which i add to whenever i see a bargain.

@Rubyinthedust81 you are spot on we need our retailers to stay afloat big and small.
You can almost detect the glee in some posts wishing companies to collapse.

That will be the kiss of death then. I went in at Christmas to get a few bits to add to gift, I usually get those little selections of four chocolates to pop in as an extra gift. They have gone up so much in price that I did not buy them

My nearest White Company was absolutely rammed just before Christmas.

It's been in or close to administration several times I think

Yes I agree. But do you have an Amazon account? They'll get us all hooked and reliant on them for all our needs, close down all the other shops then put their prices up as no competition..

Amazing! I left Bath in 2020 and always wondered what would happen to Debenhams, It's a big store. I'm guessing the M&S food will be enormous there.

Yes, that would have made sense. It doesn't run smoothly and you seem to have to log in again at various stages. Also product information isn't consistent (or always right).

I agree with a PP about The Works. Less on books, more crafty stuff, plastic tat etc.

The Co-op has funeral directors, Travel, bank etc.

I went to one a couple of years ago for the first time in a long time and it was SO depressing. Dark, dingy… it was like they’d just sent me straight into the warehouse instead of the actual store. There were virtually no staff to be seen; not a single fill was manned. Eventually someone on the returns desk spotted me and said she’d serve me there. It was torturous.

at the very least, their high street aspect. they might make it online only. but it's not what it was.

Yes I do and sadly I use it as there was no other place where I could get what I wanted nearby- the shops have closed.