Edinburgh Woollen Mill, owners of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Peacocks, Jan Norman, Bon Marche, Ponden Home and Jaeger facias, have just gone pop, putting 3,600 jobs at risk. Edit: 750 made redundant immediately.
Hull City's Public realm works seem to have a lot to answer for. Edit: Whoops, added the 'm' for real.
I'm wondering when I'll ever be able to lay my hands on a pair of brown leather 'Clarks original weaver boots' again?
Primark have decided that when they reopen in December, they're going to stay open 24 hours a day. Which is only 24 hours too many.
Driving past on lockdown eve, and the sheer length of the queues shows they're clearly doing something right, especially when you see how much other retailers are struggling.
They don’t sell online and have just issued a profit warning (in fact, they anticipate a £375m loss), the 24 hour opening is an attempt to clear all their excess stock. They do well normally because they pay **** all for the gear they buy and they sell it really cheap.
Take aways sell on line, and make a roaring profit, and unlike some of the others you listed, Primark are still going. Maybe the others should cherry pick the best bits of Primark's business plan, because they seem popular enough with the high street customer.
Primark, Sports Direct, B&M, Home Bargains, the U.K. public love a bit of pile it high, flog it cheap.
I'm not sure why you say that as though it's contemptuous, as to varying degrees, buy low sell high is pretty much the fundamental principle of any business. They're in the game to flog stuff that people want to buy, at a price they like. Seems to work quite well for all those you've just listed, especially compared to those you've listed earlier as failing.
