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Carphone confirms closure of its 11 UK Best Buy stores – so what went wrong?

Graham Soult November 07, 2011 Overseas, Property, Retail Parks, Specialist Retailers 4 Comments

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Best Buy, Rotherham (3 Nov 2011). Photograph by Graham Soult

Best Buy, Rotherham (3 Nov 2011)

Carphone Warehouse has this morning confirmed that it will close its 11 big-box Best Buy stores across the UK, subject to employee representative consultation, putting 1,100 jobs at risk.

The first store, in Thurrock, … Continue Reading

Has Discount UK signed up for Newcastle’s old Clayton Street Woolies?

Graham Soult September 28, 2011 Property, Variety Stores, Woolworths 8 Comments

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Former Woolworths, Newcastle (23 Aug 2011). Photograph by Graham Soult

Former Woolworths, Newcastle (23 Aug 2011)

It seems we might finally have an answer to all the work that’s been going on recently at the old Newcastle Woolworths at 73-79 Clayton Street (store #340) – though not really thanks to any clever detective work on my part.

Last month, work was taking place on site that seemed to involve air being noisily pumped out from large tubes on the ground floor (above); then, … Continue Reading

From charity shops to factory shops – the latest announcements on old Woolies sites

Graham Soult August 09, 2009 Property, Woolworths 1 Comment

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Iceland continues to pick up more Woolies stores - this one in Hexham was acquired in January

Iceland continues to pick up more Woolies stores - this one in Hexham was acquired in January

It looks like the pace of Woolworths stores finding new occupants may be picking up, with more than twenty new announcements since I … Continue Reading