To expect higher discounts at BHS

[margewiththebluehair]

I thought I would pop into BHS since it has big 'Closing down sale' signs plastered outside. When I went in, whilst I saw a few clothes at 30% off, I go to my favourite section (the lighting section) and go to the mens to find DH some shirts and kids section - and MEH -20% off in all three. Then there are signs saying Cds and books are not subject to any discount.

20%- 30% off hardly seems to be a closing down sale. I was expecting something more like 50-70%.

Am I the only one feeling slightly hoodwinked with the so-called closing down sale?

Wow the vultures are out in force then!

stone - you seem a tad overinvested (unless you're a BHS employee, of course). Many high street stores have closed down over the past ten years. Many people have got themselves good deals as a by product. There's a difference between gloating and feeling pleased that you've bagged a bargain. And whether people are pleased or not, it's not going to change the fact that BHS is closing down!

Am not an employee or anything to do with the store. I just find some of the comments on here exceptionally crass.

Buy buying stuff, rather than leaving it, you may help that store to stay open another couple of weeks - which will help the staff being paid.

If you buy anything online or in store you can only exchange not get a refund if u take back.

it'll all be in Home Bargains, Poundland and B&M next season!

I feel sorry for the staff more than anything, I did go in the other day for a bedsheet as I really like their homeware stuff.

The woman at the till while I was in the queue was giving the member of staff on the till the biggest load of shit - shouting at one point - just because she bought an item online, tried to exchange it in store and was annoyed because they didn't have the product she wanted in stock and you can't do exchanges online or something. The poor staff just stood there and took this huge bollocking, I wanted to step in but really didn't know what to say. The next person in front of me in the queue intervened when she started shouting and said 'it's not the staffs fault is it?' but she didn't care.

I said sorry to the staff on the till when I paid. It's not bad enough that they're losing their jobs, they also still have to put up with shit from twat head customers whose biggest problem in life is not being able to do an exchange right there and then.

Sorry - all of that was irrelevant to the OP.
But I don't really care about the sale prices. The bed sheet I bought was 20% off I think, but I would have paid full for it normally anyway.

Standard practice. Administrators can't sell off stock quick to just get shot. They have to recover as much cash as they can so that creditors INCLUDING EMPLOYEES get wages/as much cash owed as possible etc.

Slightly off topic, but is anyone else's BHS in semi darkness when you go in? Or is it just the one local to me?