Five years on from Woolies’ collapse, Boyes signs for the Coalville store
It’s hard to believe that it’s five years ago today – on 26 November 2008 – that Woolworths collapsed into administration after trading in the...
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Four North East stores to go in first wave of HMV closures
As you may well have seen last week, four North East locations are among the 66 loss-making HMV stores that will close within the next couple...
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Nipper on the brink: is there a future for HMV, and do we care?
If reports tonight are to be believed, it looks like the 92-year-old entertainment retailer HMV could collapse into administration tomorrow (Tuesday 15 January), putting around 235 stores and...
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Poundworld takes over Middlesbrough’s ex-Peacocks, as it opens its 30th store in 15 weeks
Middlesbrough might have lost its Pure Party store in the fallout from Clinton Cards’ collapse, but as some retailers depart the town others are arriving...
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Edinburgh Woollen Mill saves Peacocks, but ten North East stores close
Today’s announcement that Edinburgh Woollen Mill has bought fashion retailer Peacocks out of administration is very good news as far as the 6,000 saved jobs and 395 retained...
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Newcastle’s new fashion meccas take shape
The opening of St Andrew’s Way back in February – and Hollister, belatedly, in April – may have been this year’s biggest retail events in Newcastle,...
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A Woolies twist to every story
Well, that’s a surprise! I’ve only just discovered that I’ve been photographing and blogging about a former Woolworths store – here, and more recently here –...
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Peacocks lined up for Newcastle’s former Zavvi
Peacocks has submitted a planning application for new signage at the former Zavvi site in Newcastle’s Northumberland Street, confirming recent rumours that the fashion retailer was being...
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Clas Ohlson heads northwards… though not quite far enough north yet
Happy New Year to you! You may recall that back in August last year (referring to 2009 as ‘last year’ is bound to take some...
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Not what I had in mind for the old Newcastle Zavvi store…
When I remarked a couple of weeks ago that Newcastle’s “Monument Mall would surely welcome the arrival of a strong anchor store” following the closure...
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Who or what is Clas Ohlson?
With so many old Woolworths sites being taken over by familiar high street names and pound shops, it’s nice when the new arrival is something a...
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