To ask for your most missed shops?

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This year my heart was broken by Toys "R" Us closing, just wondered what other shops that have closed do you miss?
This year we've had maplins, BHS I believe was this year, Mothercare will all be gone by next year summer too.
As a teen I used to love Bay Trading, and a shop called Tammy Girl.

Woolworths.

Dolcis! And Woolworths.

I still feel sad that all the Chelsea Girls turned into River Islands in the late 1980s.

Woolworths

Woolworths - you could get everything you needed there.
I wouldn't say that my heart was broken though, generally speaking (though not in the case of Woollies I believe, that was the banks) it's because people don't shop there. I have no idea how WHS is still trading.

Principles!

C&A & Chelsea Girl, happy days!

Ah shit I forgot about woolies I used to love the pick & mix their.
Forgot to say what other shops do you think won't be here in 5 years time? I don't think Debenhams will be at all

Racing Green, I got a lot of clothes there when I first started work.
Kew

whs is a weird one I think it survives by selling everything now lightbulbs, chocolates, umbrellas, insurance

Definitely Woolworths.

Our Price.

Bhs.

Record shops in general.

Video rental shops.

Awwww, good times.

Woolworths and Tammy girl!

I think WHS survives on convinience, at train stations and airports.

Definitely Woolworths - you could pop in for anything.
Cosmetics to Go - I used to get their wonderful mail order catalogue as a teen and loved it. (Lush just isn’t the same)

I also think Debenhams will go and possibly chains like Waterstones will either go or scale back massively. One I used to go to has relocated to a much smaller store that is tucked away on a side road rather than the old slot on the high street and is now even quieter than it was before because a lot of people seem not to know where it is - I only found out several months after it moved.

Homebase has gone/is going isn't it? I can't see much of a future for Argos either.

Missed the Toys r us Christmas advert

Few struggling at the moment. Jack Wills has just been bailed out with a new investor, Mothercare, New Look, Debenhams struggling.

Glad I'm not the first to say Kew - the poor woman's Jigsaw!

Fopp

Woolworths
BHS used to get dressing gowns and all kids PJ's there
Most of all miss local bank have to traipse into town to pay in cash. Used to have one in our village

Toys R U was terrible on every level not least because of their appalling customer service. It should have gone years earlier

I worked for Woolworths and was made redundant, still devastated!

Principles and Richards
Woolies
Debenhams in their better days

Yes Woolworths too. I would have loved it if my ds could have gone in with a 5.00 voucher and just walked around . So much choice

I miss Kew too - I still have a few pieces I wear regularly.

Goldbergs and Wrygges. Goldbergs was always fantastic at Christmas.