Currys should be ok given the volume of sales they have taken this year (DH works there) even if they had major problems with their computer system and were running out o stock to sell - DH organised an artic of TVs to arrive on Monday this week, which arrived a day early!! He reckons that they do not rely on finance, so not borrowing money rom elsewhere.
PC World is another story all together. They have been having difficulties for over a year that I know of, and they have rebranded some stores as 'destination' stores which have hands on stuff (not sure how they manage the security issue of that!). The staff are generally poor though, we went in twice while Christmas shopping in mid afternoon, and had to hunt out a member of staff who was useless - DH knew more than she did! He regularly transfers stock from the branch next door to his as PC World have failed to sell something, and Currys have been more helpful, and they get narked about that!
DH can see them being fitted inside Curry's branches - perhaps as a mezzanine level, as a lot of their stores are quite large and could fit another floor in. It would save on rent, and overheads, etc as they would only need one retail unit.
Comet I can see going, as well as BHS and the likes of Laura Ashley - who shops there?!
Our Woolies closed on Saturday and we went past yesterday - it is in a square with about 15 stores, and it was the largest - it is very sad, but I can see Tesco snapping it up for an Express store, which would be ok!