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Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Sun Apr 19 2020 5:27pm
by BeautifulSunshine
expressman33 wrote:
Sun Apr 19 2020 1:46pm
AAAlphaThunder wrote:
Sun Apr 12 2020 8:13am
pabenny wrote:
Sat Apr 11 2020 9:58am


Actually went into administration on 9 April.

I can't see anyone being willing to take on any of the business for that future day when the high street re-opens. The (mostly) large and prominent stores will leave significant gaps.
RIP.

Covid-19 looks like the last nail in the coffin for the High Street.
Debenhams strikes deals to rescue most stores
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52330268
Good news and I look forward to, hopefully, more good news for the High Street.

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Mon Apr 20 2020 10:50am
by planteria
Debenhams surviving all of this and continuing with 100 or more stores would be good for the nation's high streets.. but i can't help thinking it's still on the way down regardless of this news. do many folks here shop there? i bought a pillow in a department store in Dublin last Easter weekend. we haven't been in a department store in the year since.

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Mon Apr 20 2020 12:38pm
by BeautifulSunshine
planteria wrote:
Mon Apr 20 2020 10:50am
Debenhams surviving all of this and continuing with 100 or more stores would be good for the nation's high streets.. but i can't help thinking it's still on the way down regardless of this news. do many folks here shop there? i bought a pillow in a department store in Dublin last Easter weekend. we haven't been in a department store in the year since.
The prices are not competitive so I don't even go in.

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Thu Apr 23 2020 5:30pm
by BeautifulSunshine
Oasis and Warehouse go into administration - Your Rights @MSE

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/ ... istration/

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Wed May 06 2020 7:12pm
by Boro Boy
The olde household names fall away and more to come I think... https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/u ... d=msedgntp :thumbdown:

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Thu May 07 2020 8:05am
by planteria
fwiw i think they could still open one or more of those five stores.. Hammerson aren't playing ball with them, so they're putting them under pressure by announcing that they won't reopen. the landlords are in trouble with their tennants really, as those spaces will lie empty, and without their anchor tennants the centres are likely to struggle.

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Thu May 07 2020 8:20am
by BeautifulSunshine
planteria wrote:
Thu May 07 2020 8:05am
fwiw i think they could still open one or more of those five stores.. Hammerson aren't playing ball with them, so they're putting them under pressure by announcing that they won't reopen. the landlords are in trouble with their tennants really, as those spaces will lie empty, and without their anchor tennants the centres are likely to struggle.
Exactly right your are, without the deep pocket big stores the shopping centres will become economically nonviable.

In the worst case scenario, convert the whole shopping centre into posh apartments.

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Thu May 07 2020 8:36am
by planteria
i like the idea that that would be a formality..
the anchor tennants, be they department stores or major grocers, are essential to most of these shopping centres. and town centres, for that matter.

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Thu May 07 2020 1:29pm
by BeautifulSunshine
planteria wrote:
Thu May 07 2020 8:36am
i like the idea that that would be a formality..
the anchor tennants, be they department stores or major grocers, are essential to most of these shopping centres. and town centres, for that matter.
Indeed, but the flipside is that you end up with "clone towns" with the same old same old big names.

I like to travel around the old English market towns and I have a particular interest in the charity shops. I am a Man of my word:
Many a time I have stumbled upon hidden gems that are worth exigently more than I paid for them.

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Thu May 07 2020 7:25pm
by planteria
i don't think you've used your word properly AAAT.. despite your apparent proudness :)