Buried away in the pro Brexit Mail coverage - Brexit was one of the ingredients that has lead to the probable firing of 12,000 staff. It will get worse. There will be more. Why did so many fall for the stupid Brexit hype? Not that it matters much but the change OUT OF the EU was disastrous and simply not needed. But try telling Brexiteers that - even those who work for Wilko.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239272...ement-no-choice.html

All the high streets are decimated, it started years before Brexit. Debenhams was dire and it didn't cater clothes for men like it did for women.

However Bradbeers will take over the old Debenhams in Salisbury, it's a lot of real estate Bradbeers they have taken over.

Beales in Bournemouth was like Grace Bros.

I liked Wilko it was good for garden bits, pet food and wild-bird feed. Before you ask Wyot, yes I do feed the ducks and swans!

However Wilko was still stuck in the 1990's and their house paint was very watery. I hate The Range, I find them very claustrophobic and stuffy stores.

The council's have also killed the high street with expensive parking fees. Online giants can charge what they like soon.

In 10 years time the UK high streets will be full of bedsits and flats and coffee bars...just like Marseille.

Wilko did employ people with disabilities which is a rarity.

To be fair, the shop was a bit crap and struggling long before Brexit.

Honey wrote:
To be fair, the shop was a bit crap and struggling long before Brexit.

I will miss if it goes.

I love to know how it got so mismanaged despite my local stores being packed? It needed some tweaking and some flare but that could of been done with a good team. If they kept the stores open the ones that are in the black and home delivery. At least some people be in a job.

The Andover branch is in a good location however the building is too big and things were out spaced out too much. Who is going to feed the ducks now?

Woolies didn't pay their suppliers and were tied in with Zavvi.

Green Man wrote:
Honey wrote:
To be fair, the shop was a bit crap and struggling long before Brexit.

I will miss if it goes.

I love to know how it got so mismanaged despite my local stores being packed? It needed some tweaking and some flare but that could of been done with a good team. If they kept the stores open the ones that are in the black and home delivery. At least some people be in a job.

The Andover branch is in a good location however the building is too big and things were out spaced out too much. Who is going to feed the ducks now?

Woolies didn't pay their suppliers and were tied in with Zavvi.

Are you in Andover?
If so, I wish I had known, because I could have done with a hand there last week for something.
Can I book you for next year?

I dont know how they got it so wrong with Wilko either, seen as they had the ex-Woolworths customers.

I think the problem was that everything was hit and miss. You might need an air fryer and think you saw one in Wilko's but you get there and there is none, but six different slow cookers.
Nothing was nice enough to cost more than B&M.

Honey wrote:
Green Man wrote:
Honey wrote:
To be fair, the shop was a bit crap and struggling long before Brexit.

I will miss if it goes.

I love to know how it got so mismanaged despite my local stores being packed? It needed some tweaking and some flare but that could of been done with a good team. If they kept the stores open the ones that are in the black and home delivery. At least some people be in a job.

The Andover branch is in a good location however the building is too big and things were out spaced out too much. Who is going to feed the ducks now?

Woolies didn't pay their suppliers and were tied in with Zavvi.

Are you in Andover?
If so, I wish I had known, because I could have done with a hand there last week for something.
Can I book you for next year?

I dont know how they got it so wrong with Wilko either, seen as they had the ex-Woolworths customers.

I think the problem was that everything was hit and miss. You might need an air fryer and think you saw one in Wilko's but you get there and there is none, but six different slow cookers.
Nothing was nice enough to cost more than B&M.

I live near there Honey, I could never live there.

What was it you needed in Andover Vape, coffee or a charity shop?

My partner is a bargain hunter, she noticed that prices differed online for the same items in store. If I go to Wilko later to stock up on pet feed, I stock up on gardening bits and tools. I might get an air-fryer for my partner.

Aren't all slow-cookers the same apart from the sizes?

Green Man wrote:
Honey wrote:
Green Man wrote:
Honey wrote:
To be fair, the shop was a bit crap and struggling long before Brexit.

I will miss if it goes.

I love to know how it got so mismanaged despite my local stores being packed? It needed some tweaking and some flare but that could of been done with a good team. If they kept the stores open the ones that are in the black and home delivery. At least some people be in a job.

The Andover branch is in a good location however the building is too big and things were out spaced out too much. Who is going to feed the ducks now?

Woolies didn't pay their suppliers and were tied in with Zavvi.

Are you in Andover?
If so, I wish I had known, because I could have done with a hand there last week for something.
Can I book you for next year?

I dont know how they got it so wrong with Wilko either, seen as they had the ex-Woolworths customers.

I think the problem was that everything was hit and miss. You might need an air fryer and think you saw one in Wilko's but you get there and there is none, but six different slow cookers.
Nothing was nice enough to cost more than B&M.

I live near there Honey, I could never live there.

What was it you needed in Andover Vape, coffee or a charity shop?

My partner is a bargain hunter, she noticed that prices differed online for the same items in store. If I go to Wilko later to stock up on pet feed, I stock up on gardening bits and tools. I might get an air-fryer for my partner.

Aren't all slow-cookers the same apart from the sizes?

No they are very much not. The modern ones are hotter, which is unwanted, and the modern glass lid lets the heat out, which is also unwanted.
They are of course much quicker, which might well be wanted but really not the idea of slow cooking.
This is the type you need.www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126040761229?chn=ps&a...cgLAcKYaAmRCEALw_wcB

The Le Creuset warehouse sale is in Andover.
Everything is about half price, and they stock the ranges and colours that you cant get here, such as plummy pink, in my case. Sixty quid gets you in, and also a mystery box which contains usually one or two cast iron pieces, plus some stoneware, and you can swap them in the car park.

I had more tickets than people due to the palaver that comes with having an intact male and bitch unexpectedly in season, so you and your wife could have had one, if I had realised.

This is a mystery box from USA, but they are pretty much the same everywhere

www.youtube.com/shorts/kBMK9cbNPxc

My partner would of loved that, we had no idea about it.

She loves going to Basingstoke so she can go in to ProCook.

I really like Wilko, we don't have one locally, but if I'm in another town with one then I will usually have a look in. I bought my wallpaper from there and it was much cheaper than Homebase. It sold much the same things as Woolworths, except media. The prices were cheap and their outlets were usually massive, covering a number of floors. Hopefully, they will be saved and the jobs will continue. I fear that the high streets will be a thing of the past and we will all become reclusive unsociable people stuck in our homes on our own or in our own bubbles ordering everything online and having no social life or exercise.

Yes Robbie; friends, these days, are often people you've never met!

robbiex wrote:


I fear that the high streets will be a thing of the past and we will all become reclusive unsociable people stuck in our homes on our own or in our own bubbles ordering everything online and having no social life or exercise.

Yes and the lockdowns showed just how many relish the empty simplicity of such a life...scary...

robbiex wrote:
I really like Wilko, we don't have one locally, but if I'm in another town with one then I will usually have a look in. I bought my wallpaper from there and it was much cheaper than Homebase. It sold much the same things as Woolworths, except media. The prices were cheap and their outlets were usually massive, covering a number of floors. Hopefully, they will be saved and the jobs will continue. I fear that the high streets will be a thing of the past and we will all become reclusive unsociable people stuck in our homes on our own or in our own bubbles ordering everything online and having no social life or exercise.

I overheard a conversation yesterday, that the Andover branch is business as usual. So fingers crossed that many shops are. In Boscombe they need one there still or that area would be even more dead and Wilko is busy there often.

It was nice to pick up pet food and a single tiny screwdriver in Wilko yesterday without buying sets of screwdrivers.

Green Man wrote:
It was nice to pick up pet food and a single tiny screwdriver in Wilko yesterday

Glad you enjoyed that GM.

Honey wrote:
Green Man wrote:
It was nice to pick up pet food and a single tiny screwdriver in Wilko yesterday

Glad you enjoyed that GM.

I do like my tools and pottering about in the garden.

Honey wrote:
Green Man wrote:
It was nice to pick up pet food and a single tiny screwdriver in Wilko yesterday

Glad you enjoyed that GM.

This was the psychopath, Barney, up to his nonsense again.

Why did so many fall for the stupid Brexit hype?

chance to give Johnny Foreigner a bloody nose.

GM is correct..the tragic demise of High Streets has gone on unchecked for decades now

In Newbury - or his proxy was!