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.

Athena - the best posters

Oh yes, Gap - not gone yet, probably singlehandedly being kept afloat by moi and my penchant for jailhouse stripes, but how much longer can it survive?

I loved Athena as a teenager, looking at the stationary and being able to get posters of my favourite films, was really sad then that closed. Looking at stationary online isn't the same

BHS

Last time I went there was still an Athena in Yeovil.

For me probably Richard Shops, I bought loads of lovely clothes there.

Had a random chat with a woman about where to buy school lunch boxes and my first thought was Woolworths.
Also BHS Home. need a new bedroom light fitting and my only option now is IKEA.

Woolworths, Richard Shops, BHS.
I always have a wee in House of Fraser on Oxford Street as there is never a queue!

Woolworths.
The M&S in the high street.
BHS.
I also liked Kew.

C&A is very much alive, just not in the UK.

M&S is going the way of BHS. Our local branch is just as dull as ditchwater - lazy merchandising, hideous products that don't fit and certainly don't flatter. Agree WHS is doomed - what a ripoff. Like a pound shop where everything costs £10!

I don't like to see a dying high street, but I am not going to miss any given chain store. I would rather see smaller shops.

Woolworths for me too - and Spoils kitchen reject shops - I still have the Bistro cutlery I bought one piece a week when I was a student - ooh and C&A

ODDBINS

Mark One - teenage me loved it
Snob - ditto
Chelsea Girl
John Menzies
Lunn Poly (get away)
Etam
Fosters
Dolcis

I also liked The Pier.
Body Shop stuff is great, but it has lost the 'cheap and cheerful eco' vibe of the 1980s.
Not a shop but I loved Cosmetics-to-go but rarely venture into Lush.

BHS, I loved the kids clothes from there esp he girls party dresses. I know they still have a website but don't have kids clothes on it.

C&A, will have to go to some European country to c if it is still any good.

Adams used to have the cutest kids clothes.

Toys R Us.

Etam

Bay Trading

If Debenhams, Mothercare and New Look and a whole load of others will not survive, what are we going to be left with?

I already struggle to find kids clothes.

Maplins! I used to get loads of xmas pressies there.

Allders, thier bedding was IMO nicer than M&S and House of Fraser.

Also the Pier although I'm not sure I'd still like it now, I've gone all Marie Kondo and minimalistic.

BHS and our price.

I also miss those adverts you used to get in the newspaper or magazines where you could order a book/cd and choose a few more for 1p each.

Richard Shops where we used to get going out dresses in the 1980s. They used to sell Biba makeup and had a lovely cafe where I used to eat chicken curry and sip Earl Grey tea thinking I was dead sophisticated

I used to work for Tammy Girl, I was gutted when we merged with Etam!

There was a shop called Past Times where I used to get Christmas presents for the ex-PILs too.

Bay trading!

@ButchyRestingFace Benetton is fantastically good in Germany and France. Think of it like Top shop meets House of Fraser, the style plus the quality. I'm pleasantly surprised on every visit.

Ahh Benetton, just a shop full of folded up jumpers !

C&A - their labels were so useful when trying to work out if your pants were on the right way round.

I miss Borders -- I could easily spend hours and hours in there.

Woolworths.

It was my favourite shop as a kid and teenager. Definitely gutted when it closed. That shop got about 90% of my birthday and pocket money.